The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-12-24

Chance Sale at Hauff Dry Goods Co.
Mrs. J.. G. Hutton and children de-
parted Saturday morning for Clinton,
Iowa, to visit over the holidays.
If you have board or rooms for short
course students, January / to IL,
phone Secretary Larson's office, 29O.
Mrs. Matchelder returned to her
home near Toronto Saturday morning
after spending a couple of weeks at
the o. B. Utigard home.
Mrs. NJ. B. Hendricks, who is now
at Elmwood. Wis, writes to have the
address of her son Clair's Register
changed from Long Beach, Cal, to
Tucson, Arizona. Mrs. Hendricks adds
that Clair has been there about a
month and his health is much improv-
ed, although he does not like that
country as well as California.
Two farmer boys, brothers on the
same farm near Wentworth, went to
different towns last week and each
purchased an automobile. Neither
knew that the other intended to buy
and of course was surprised when
they both came home with cars. The
Wentworth Enterprise say that two
automobiles on one farm prove the
prosperity the farmers are enjoying.
When the frost is on the punkin'
and the war tax comes to bat, you'd
better mind your p's and as and find
where you are at. And if you have
a tax, you'd better get in line and do
within a week or two the things to
dodge a fine, for though you love your
neighbors and your country fond and
dear, it doesn't do a bit of good to try
to dodge this here, for the government
II git her eff yer don't watch out.-Ex.
E. H. Klock of Hot Springs, sem in
a radish to the State College, which he
pulled on Thanksgiving day. He states
that it was grown from seed raised
this year from a first crop of radishes.
ne says luIIutl Inc ldCI 10, VIC
have the most delightful climate in
South Dakota right here in this sec.
ton of the Black Hills in the world.
We can raise most anything in the
garden line if we have a fair amount
of moisture"
The farm women of South Dakota
will be specially entertained and in
structed during the farm and home
course at the State College, January
l to II. The kitchen laboratories of
the home economics department will
be turned over to them, for practical
demonstrations in cookery-with a
separate gas stove for each woman.
The course includes also demonstra-
tons in sewing, dressmaking, care
and feeding of children, home SANTA
ton, home decoration, care of milk,
butter making, poultry culture, etc.
The course is free. Farm women are
urged to bring their husbands. The
farm and home course includes a
| special series of demonstrations for
men in hog cholera, livestock, soils
and crops, horticulture, good roads,
farm dairying and poultry culture.
This is an exceptionally fine oppor-
tunity for those residing in Brookings
county.
Day before yesterday a perfectly
nice lady called us up and with tears
in her voice reproved us for not men
tioning the fact that she had had a
friend visiting her last week. We told
it and that therefore, we did not know
that she had a visitor. Then she said
well you should have known. /
thought o were running a news
paper" Wouldn't that rattle your
Stats? Some people think that an
editor ought to be a cross between
Argus and Anna Eva Fay. They seem
to think hat our five sense are aug
mented by a sixth that lets us know
every LulUS IudI even IL VIZ
see, hear, feel, taste or smell it not.
Dear lady. editors are only human or
at least, almost human. If you have a
friend visiting you, if you are going
away, or have returned from a visit
out of town, if Johnnie falls and
breaks his arm, if your husband chops
his toe instead of a stick of wood, if
anything happens that makes you glad
or sad, happy, or mad, call us up. Tell
us about it. That's the way to get it
in the paper.-Wihk.
The following from the Sioux Falls
Journal may interest Brookings auto
owners: "P. J. Rogde's tragic death
last week when he was overcome by
the fumes of gasoline while WORKING
ii his closed garage o%verhauling the
lighting apparatus on his auto, again
reminds auto owners of the dangers
which they are always up against. One
may suggest that when he found he