The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02

Prof. H.. S. Coe left last evening for
a trip to the Black Hills.
This is the hammock season. A fine
line of them at Kendall's from 50 up.
A big line of fireworks at Kendalls.
Let us make you III an assortment at
from 81 to S. for the Fourth.
DR.. Hill, the eye, ear, nose and throat
specialist of Waterfront, will be in
Brookings at the Leon Hotel Friday,
July 10th.
A patriotic pageant Will be held on
July 4 on the college campus under
the auspices of the Woman's Civic
League of Bookings.
The Register has about so of those
$1.O0 wall maps of South Dakota left
and the first fifty people paying $3.50
in advance on their paper can have
one.
We have just put in a supply of
mower repairs, such as sickle heads,
pitmans. straps, sections, springs,
DOllS, anu We are ItduS ~ w SOul
work right at the big shop. John Mat
son.
Miss Anna Moe met three of her
Brookings college mates, the Misses
Alice. Elsie and Marguerite Wicks, at
the station on Wednesday evening as
they were on their way from Brook
~ " Ill, 800, 81 Do ylyar
and entertained them until the time of
the Parker train.-Canton Leader.
J. T. Nelson of Pierre, formerly of
B%rookings, had a chicken which was
Matched with two perfectly formed
sets of legs. He managed to keep the
little fellow alive for a week, but 1t
refused to eat, and his desire to see
a real chicken scratching with four
legs will not be realized. The chicken
appeared to be perfectly formed out
side its surplussage of legs, and in
moving it hobbled on all Of them.
Deciding hat the court house which
has done service since early pioneer
days has become inadequate for the
growing needs of the county, residents
of Deuel. county are circulating petit
ton asking the board of county com
missioners to submit to the voters OF
the county at the general election in
November the proposition of issuing
bonds of 500, 900 for the erection of a
new county court house at Clear Lake.
A material reduction of the mini
mum charge of toll messages over the
Dakota Central telephone lines in this
state is to go into effect July /, under
the new rate schedule which has been
filed with the state railway commits
sion, says an exchange. Up to the
present the minimum charge was 20
cents for a message, but under the new
schedule the minimum will be Is cents,
which for most of the business calls
will be a heavy saving in the aggregate
to the public.
Last week B. F. Packenham, who
lives a few miles southwest of Toronto,
in Argo township, sold his 2OO-acre
farm to B. Barnard, of Little Rock, la.
Mr.. Packenham received a record
breaking price for his land, $50 per
acre. Mr.. Packenham came here from
Illinois about five years ago and invest
ed in South Dakota land. and he built
I'D one of the incest farm homes in the
community. We do not know what Mr..
~Packenham's intentions are, but we
have heard that be will retire from
farming and probably move to White
or Brookings.-Toronto Herald.
No investment pays better than a
purchase of space in a live newspaper.
This is another fact which has not
been disputed up-to-date. These hard
facts ought to count with sensible peo-
pie. Choose a real newspaper that is
wide awake, progressive, up-to-date'
has a healthy circulation and enjoys
the confidence of the people. Prudent
buyers are constantly on the lookout
for enterprising merchants. Enter
prising merchants are the ones who ad-
vertise. The ones who advertise are
the ones who sell the goods. NO one
now on earth will dispute this fact.