The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-12

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Smet on Sunday.
Try Candy -four and you will want
nc other. G.. w. Van Dusen & Co.
Miss Helen Johnson returned home
the last of the week from a buying trip
to the Twin Cities.
Don't fail to read Tarzan Of the
Apes. 1t is one of the most interesting
stories ever written.
Mrs. Patterson departed Friday for
the Twin Cities and Chicago to select
her new spring stock of millinery.
The monthly meeting of the Com.
mercial Club will be held at the as
sembly room tomorrow evening. There
is some important matters up for dis
cussion and a full attendance of men,
bers is desired.
The LADIES' Aid Society of Prairie
Home will have a supper and bazaar,
with a corn and potato show next
Thursday evening, February 10. The
ladies will be assisted by talent from
the State College. Everyone Is cor
daily invited to be present and enjoy
the good time.
The mail box at the depot is one Of
the useful institutions in the city, judg.
ing from the way 1t is %patronized. The
other day we noticed 1t so full that
late arrivals with letters could not
get their mail into the box. Brookings
Is n Of the two or three towns be-
tween here and Chicago that have
boxes where the mail clerk on tho
train is obliged to get off and take IN
the mail, and credit for getting it is
due to c. F. Allen, who while he was
postmaster went after and got things
from the department.
The business men of Watertown are
up in arms over the change in the
train service between here and Red
field and the Commercial Club of that
city has taken the matter up with
Superintendent Dickinson. They have
been able to get but little satisfaction
out of Mr.. Dickinson, however, except
that the road will put Of another pas
senger train to come down from Red
field in the morning when the business
demands it. Watertown claims that
the train which used to come down in
the morning and go back in the even
ing brought many shoppers to that
city, and Brookings certainly has the
same grievance. Watertown got the
shoppers from between there and Red
field, while Bookings got those from
Watertown down to this city.
A visit to 200 farms of a certain
region revealed that less than 25 per
cent of the machinery was housed in
winter. OF course, there are persons
who claim that painting is better than
housing only, but then do they paint?
1t is figured that a good machinery
house will cost about $500. In six
years, with interest this would be
about $400. 1t is claimed hat in this
time 81, 900 worth of machinery left in
the field would be worthless, but if
shielded would be valued as having de-
preciated only one-third. Hence you
would have left the difference between
1866 and S400, the first year, and still
have your shed left free for later per-
iods. Besides this, the sheds may be
used for other purposes. It's loft makes
excellent storage for hay, ETC., and
supplements the barn.-Ex.
This will be a poor campaign for
cigars, ETC., says an exchange, because
Chapter 203 of the laws passed by the
1913 legislature, provides that it shall
be unlawful for any candidate for any
office in the state or county to lend or
give away money or other valuable
things, or hire anyone to work at the
polls on any election day, or promise
anything of value to any person., or
distribute, or give away any intoxicat-
ing liquors or promise to do same at
any future period or give or promise
anything of value to induce voters to
support him or his friends who may
be candidates on any ticket with him,
or pay for anything of value for dis
tribution by others, and anyone who
may be nominated or elected, and, who
on complaint, shall be convicted of do
ing any of these things, shall forfeit
the office to which he may re nominal
ed and elected.
That James J. Hill has decided that
unless the saloons are voted out OF
Garretson he will move the division
headquarters of the Great Northern
railroad from Garretson to Jasper,
Mimi, a point eleven miles northeast
of Garretson, is the report which is
in circulation, apparently on good au-
thority. In fact, an official of the rail-
way company Is authority for the
statement that his company will make
no more improvements in Garretson
until the saloons are voted out and
voted out for good. This is taken to
mean that the railway company Is in
reality contemplating the removal Of