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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02
RACE MEET ON
FOURTH OF JULY
NATIONS BIRTHDAY WILL BE OBJ.
SERVED IN sRookINes ON
SATURDAY
CIVIC LEAGUE TO GIVE A PROGRAM
On the State College Campus in Even.
ins-Provided Weather is Good il
Will Be An Enjoyable Day

Brookings is going to observe the
Nations Birthday next Saturday by a
race meet at the fair grounds. 1t is
not going to be a celebration, and the
Register does not wish to give out that
impression, but a good program of
sports has been prepared and if the
weather is at all decent so that the
races can be pulled off we believe that
everyone who comes will be well salts.
fed. The race meet is put on by the
Brookings County Fair Association.
and not by the city, and the surplus. IL
there is any, will go toward paying off
the -four or five thousand dollars In
debtedness of the association.
The entries for the races are coming
in nicely and a number of horses are
already at the fair grounds and more
are expected today and tomorrow.
The admission to the fair grounds
Will be fifty cents. There will be no
charge for the admission of vehicles to
the grounds and there will be no
charge for the grandstand. There will.
of course, be no charge for the enter
tainment at the college.
The program of sports for the after
noon at the fair grounds is as follows:
Baseball game for purse of $50;
motorcycle race, single cylinder, SIS;
motorcycle race, twin cylinder, SIS;
slow race for horses and mules, change
riders. last one to be winner, SIS:
novelty race, half-mile and repeat. car.
ry opened umbrella, $40; PAS pace.
$3.50; 800 trot, $3.50; 2:2O pace and
free for all trot, $500; 2:15 pace, $500;
running race, $25.
The Civic League of Brookings will
put on a Patriotic Pageant at the col
lege campus in the evening, starting
at six-thirty, and the complete program
of this is given in another column.
There will be no display of fireworks.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02
YOUNG FARMERS AT COLLEGE
Fifty Codington County Boys Camping
on Campus This Week

On Monday morning nifty young
farmer boys from Codington county
came down from Watertown and are
spending this week camping on the
State College campus. These boys
were chosen by popular vote in the
different school districts of the county,
and are here for the purpose OF recrea-
ton and study. They are having the
time of their lives, and incidentally are
absorbing considerable useful know.
ledge about agricultural matters. The
boys are in charge of Andrew Palm,
agricultural agent for C%odington coun-
ty, who is a graduate of the college.
Monday afternoon the boys were
taken for an inspection trip through
the college buildings, experiment fields
and college barns, and in the evening
the boys gathered about the campfire
and listened to a talk on camping in
the mountains by Prof. Miller.
Tuesday there were athletic sports
in the morning, and an address by
Prof. Shepard on raising pigs, a sub
ject that the boys showed much inter
est in. In the afternoon they gather
ed in the auditorium and listened to
talks by President Brown and Profs.
Hume. Larsen and Wilson. In the
evening State immigration Commits
sioner McCaffree gave an illustrated
lecture for the boys in the auditorium.
Yesterday morning DR.. Lipp talked
to the boys about hog cholera, and the
afternoon was spent in the dairy and
agronomy departments, where special
demonstrations were put on for their
benefit.
Last evening about the camp fire
Secretary Phillips of the college Y. NJ.
c. A., gave the boys an interesting
talk.
Today the boys will have games and
athletics in the morning and this after,
noon will hear Profs. Stivers, Wilson
and Hansen.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02

Lectures" the observations of his wide
and varied experiences.
The striking characteristics of his
u~tterances are their sincerity and earn
estnes which beget absorbing interest
and enduring conviction. You feel
that he says things because he must
say them-because they will out. This
is the soul of true oratory.
Hon. Frank p. Sadler, ex-Judge OF
the Municipal Court of Chicago, has
presided in the Harrison Street and
Desplaines Street criminal branches of
the Municipal Court, the two branches
dealing with the most vicious criminal
He has met boys and girls taking their
first lessons in crime. He has dealt
with young men %ripening into criminal
life. He has come in contact with the
hardened criminals, committing the
most desperate crimes. He has met
face to face in the court room, the
robber, the burglar, and the murderer.
He has tried fifteen thousand criminal
cases.
You have read all about DR.. John
A. Gray, the minister who left his pull
pit in New York City in the dead of
winter to live among the $4,000 home
less men on the Bowery. Come and
hear him tell the story. 1t is thrilling
humorous, pathetic and grips you from
the first word to the last. Pile all
your small wiggly boys on the front
seats when DR.. Gray comes to tell his
story. 1t is full of interest to children
as well as older people.
Doctor Clarence w. Wassam is at
present assistant professor in the De,
partment of Political Economy and
Sociology of the State University of
Iowa. The past several years he has
beer in great demand as a lecturer
and the large majority of his lectures
have been return dates.
Rev. Robert A. George has been
pastor of a Congregational church in
Cleveland, Ohio, for over twenty years,
and has been associated with Chautau-
quas and lecture work for many sea-
sons. His lecture The Quest of Mod
ern Men" has been given with great
success in many of the best chautau-
quas in this country. Dr.. George has
been a great student of men and affairs
and m with a big, broad message
which will appeal strongly to all think
ing people.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02
HONk! HONk!!

Charlie Hall has been figuring on
buying an automobile for some time,
Ford. He has already learned how to
crank it up and expects to be able to
run it in a few days. He has promised
to take us fishing just as soon as he
has the courage to drive it out of town,
hence this excellent write-up we have
given him.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02

requested TO meet at the college. Fri
day afternoon at 4 o'clock to get their
places in the procession.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-02
COLLEGE GETS MONEY

The state land department has just
made the quarterly apportionment of
the income fund to the various state in
from the lands set aside for their use,
the amounts distributed being:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-09
WAR PLANS BEING MADE, BUT II
WILSON UNCHANGED Ii

Washington, May 9.-Department-
al preparations for war continue to
oVershadOw everything else in the
Mexican situation. Transports are
being chartered and~high officials at
the war department remained at their
desks completing plans for army
movements.
But in face of these facts, the pub
lie attitude of the administration re-
mains unchanged. The president and
Sec'y Bryan insist there will be no
change. d..
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-09

unfounded.
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS
Albany, N. Y.-Gov. GIynn and adj
jutant-generaPs Office deny that the
war department asked how long it
will take to mobilize the New York
National Guard.
Racine, Wis-MichaeI Buccieri, %,
veteran of Italian Turkish war, plead
ed guilty to robbing factory of copper
riVets. Sentenced to- years in re-
formatory
Cleveland. - Vaughn GIazer,
stock company actor, swore out war.
rant charging A. P Waters, Detroit,
with obtaining money under false
pretenses. Said Waters sold him stock
in patent sprinkler company without
authority. .....
Leeds, Eng.-LiIIian Lenton, mill
tant suffraget, convicted on charge of
having set fire to Westfield House,
Doncaster, sentenced to 1-year i'm
prisonment.
New York.-John c. Calhoun
Mayo, Democratic national commit
teeman' from Kentucky, dying of
pneumonia.
Fort Smith, Ark.-Frances Sparkle, -
16, rescued Mary Oberlee, 9, when her
foot caught between railroad ties, but
was killed herself.
Sigourney, La.-cIeVe Weigner shot =
and seriously wounded Mrs. Emma
Lamb because she refused to drink
with him. He attempted suicide by q,
cutting his throat, but viii live
Newark, N. J.-Four girls burned ,
to death, one man probably fatally
injured when fire destroyed Alpine
Apartment House.
Angelo Marine, s, testified against
alleged kidnapers. Boy failed to iden-
tify defendants.
Judge GemmilI not alarmed at de !,
vOrce increase. Claims it is good sign. :
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-09

But in face of these facts, the pub
lie attitude of the administration re-
mains unchanged. The president and
Sec'y Bryan insist there will be no
change.
CARRANzA FORCES TAKE MORE
PLACES-oTHER MEXICO" DOPE
81 Paso, Tex, May 9.-Constitu-
tionalist forces under General Maclo-
vios and General Benavides captured
portion of San Luis .Potosi, according
to report dispatches brought here
from Torreon, where Gen. Carranza
has established temporary head
quarters.
Washington, May 9.-"There are
fully 300 American women, children
and men in the territory tributary to
Tampico, whom it was impossible to
reach in time and consequently were
unable to avail themselves of a safe
refuge" was the message from sew
eraI hundred refugees on board the
Connecticut; off Galveston, to Sen.
Stone, chairman of the foreign rela-
lions committee.
Vera Cruz.-Eeared that Private
Parks, orderly of Col. Taggart of
Twenty-eighth Infantry is in hands
of Mexican federals who are main
tanning their lines in vicinity of Vera
Cruz. Parks was last. seen headed
toward the federal lines.
Washington.-In connection with
the report that German ships carry
ing munitions of war to, Huerta are
approaching Puerto Mexico, the U. S.
faces a situation exactly identical
with that which resulted in the seiz-
Ure of Vera Cruz. The U. S. has no
power to stop receipt Of arms in neu-
trail bottoms except by selling a city.
Mexico city-Rumors CIRCULATED
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-05-09

Angelo Marine, 8, testified against
alleged kidnapers. Boy failed to iden-
tify defendants.
Judge GemnilI not alarmed at de
vOrce increase. Claims it is good sign.
Fl per cent caused by cruelty.
Myrtle Priffler, II, 6615 Vernon
aV., missing. Kidnapping feared,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
CARRANZA DENIES
FALL Of TORREON
Says Reported Capture of City
Is Premature--Both Ar
mics Exhausted.

JUARIsZ. Mex, April 1.-Jaurez
waited today for definite news of
General Villas position in his attack
ON Torreon. Reports received by
General Carranza last night indicated
that fighting still was in progress.
No idea was obtained as TO when
the relative positio of the rebels and
federals would change.
General Carranza today seemed
confident that his military ehieftain
would conquer the federals under
General Refugio Nelasco. The report
that heavy reinforcements for the
federal leader We're approaching
Torreon did not shake his confidence
Both armies are said TO be SO worn
and exhausted by continued fighting
that the pf~ 7ent action lacks the
virility of the rebel conquest of
Gomez PaSeio.
! The new column reported march
ing TO the relief % General Velasco
was said TO be under tn command Of
General Joaquin Mas and to num-
her 4.500 men.
To meet him. IL was reported Cen
eral Monclovio Herrera WAS detailed
by General villa. An engagement
between these forces was expected
hourly
General Carranza today informed
American, British and German CON
slIs that reports &c the fall Of Tor
reon were premature.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

SUMMIT, April members of the
surgical staff of the Arthur Home for
Blind Children, in Pine Grove avenue
here. are planning to perform one of
the most delicate and unusual opera
tions known to surgery, in the hope
of restoring his sight to Reginald S.
Chusler two-year-old inmate of the
home
The child is totally blind, but the
doctors who have examined it say the
sight can be restored to the left eye,
the optic nerve of which is unaffected.
A defective cornea, which is the
transparent part of the coat of the
eyeball, is the cause of the blindness
in the child's left eye, and the ply
sicians say If o healthy cornea can
be placed on the eye the child prob
ably will be able to see.
Systematic search is being conduct
cd by physicians who are members
of the staff of the home for pa
tient who has a healthy cornea and
q defective optic nerve. If such a
person can be found and induced to
sc under the knife the physicians
who are interested in the case intend
transferring the cornea from this pa
tents eye to the eye of the child in
the local home. The physicians say
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
BELIEVE SUICIDE
PHONED MORGUE
BEFORE HIS ACT
BelIeviIle Man Inquiries About
Cost of Removing Body to
Death House.

When GustaVe kunz, IL. son of the
Orange morgue keeper, learned today
of the death yesterday of Henry Mel
chior. forty years old, of Belleville,
who hanged himself in his homo yes
terday, he Informed his father he had
received a telephone message which
he believed came from Melchior Just
before he took his life
Al about , o'clock ye rday the
younger kuEz said he "; called to
the telephone in the Orange morgue
ard the man at the other end Of the
wire, evidently greatly excited, told
him he was in Belleville and asked
v hat kunz would charge TO take care
On body found i'm Belleville Young
kunz asked the man to ring up again
when his father returned.
/ William = Thailer. brother-in- law
of Melchior and manager of Hillside
| Park. denied today his brother-in-
law could have sent the message to
the Orange morgne. Thaller said
! when Melchior's two sons Walter
| and Elmer. found their fathers body
| on their return from school yester-
day, il was cold and stiff and physi-
clans said it had been dead for sew
eral hours. The condition of the
! body. he said. would preclude the
! possibility of Melchior having called
UP the kunz morgue at o'clock
| yesterday.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
TWO Injured AS
ENGINE EXPLODES
Engineer and Fireman Hurt
and Traffic Blocked
at FanWood.
Especial TO the E,ening star.l

PLAINFIELD. April IAN explo-
sion of the locomotive attached to a
Philadelphia and Reading freight
train at Fanwood early today Sc
verely injured the engineer and fire.
man, tied up the early morning COM
mutation service and other traffic
and aroused the entire town from its
slumbers,
The explosion occurred about g.. m.
The engine had puffed its way up the
steep grade of the hill facing the road
way on which are located many of the
fashionable residences of the place,
when the accident occurred. The en-
gineer. Jacob Bear, Of 1900 Penns-
grove street, West Philadelphia, was
blown from his cab and scalded and
cut by flying glass. He was removed
to the Muhlenburgh Hospital, at tia $
place, where he Is IN a serious condi-
ton Livingston Houck. the fireman,
also of West Philadelphia, was SINH
larly but less severely injured and in
sisted upon returning TO his home.
Both men were attended by DIR, f. W.
Westcott, of Fanwood.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
SENTENCED FOR
CRIME NOT PROVED
A. w. Sutcliffe, Son of Nutley
Police Chief, Put on
Probation.

Alfred W. Sutcliffe. son of Chief Of
Police Wright Sutcliffe. of Nutley,
who was Jointly indicted with John
Henry and William Lemon, Clinton
Todd and Divid w Davis for conspir-
ing to defraud the Public Service
Railway Company by means of IA
fake" automobile accident in mt
ley. in August 1911 was yesterday
placed on probation by Judge Will
lam z. Martin mad ordered to make
payments of % cents weekly during
that period.
When the case was called for trial
q month ago, Sutcliffe and Davis,
rather than stand trial pleaded nom
vult and turned states evidence and
testified against the three Lemons
and Todd. Despite this fact the jury
found the four men not guilty. Davis
was placed on probation Monday by
Judge Martin, who at the same time
denied a motion made by former pro-
secntor Frederick r. Lehlbach, that
Sutclihe be allowed 10 withdraw his
lisa OF teGt.9iiit. pieSsi not eiatIty
ana stand trial.
Mr. Lehlbach based this plea on
the fact that at the time Sutcliffe
had pleaded non-vult he had been
given to understand that the state
had evidence connecting him with
the alleged conspiracy. AT the trial
this evidence had not been brought
out Assistant Prosecutor Wilbur A.
Mott opposed the granting of the
motion on the ground that as SUIT
cliffe had pleaded non-vult 1t was
not necessary for the state to bring
in any evidence against him
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
ARREST HALTS
EUROPEAN TRIP
OF BANKRUPT
Andrew Sandee, Contractor, of
Bloomfield, Jailed on Eve
of Sailing.

The arrest of a bankrupt on the
eve of his departure for Europe Gre
ated a commotion in Bankruptcy
Court today. Andrew Sandee, con-
tractor, of Is State street, Bloom
field, is the bankrupt whose trip to
Norway was interrupted by United
States Deputy Marshall Louis G..
Beekman.
Sandee was lrought before Referee
Edwin @. Adambs, in Bankruptcy
Coprt, today, and was ordered held
in the custody of the marshall until
bail of $1,000 was produced. Counsel
for Sandee had refused an offer to
parole the bankrupt in his custody
for an examination next Friday
The bankrupt had purchased a
ticket ON the steamer Oscar H., of
the anavian-American line. sail
ing tomorrow from Hoboken.
The writ of ne eXeata upon which
Sandee was arrested this morning
shortly after midnight was issued
yesterday by Judge Rellstab. of the
United States District Court. Attor-
ney e. q. Clifford, representing the
petitioning creditors. and Receiver
Barney Larlley produced the affi-
davits on which the writ was secured.
Booked Passage.
These affidavits disclosed the ad-
mitted plan of Sandee 10 sail for
Europe tomorrow. Sandee is an agent
of the steamship line on which he
engaged passage for himself. The
prisoner was represented by Howard
S. Dodd, attorney. who volunteered
himself as a witness i'm Sandee's be-
half in court today The hearing was
on the return of the writ issued yes
terday at Trenton.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
DECREE ENDS LONG
DIVORCE SEE-SAW
Court Affirms Action Brought
by f. M. Sutton, of Brook
lyn and AIlenhurst.

NEW. YORK, April with the
announcement that the Court of Err
rors and Appeals of New Jersey has
affirmed q decree of dismissal handed
down by Chancellor Walker, of Tren-
ton, in the motion for absolute di-
vorce brought by Francis NJ. Sutton
against his wife, Louise S. Sutton,
formerly OF 139 Brainbridge street.
Brooklyn, a series of suits, agree
ments and cross-suts which have
been carried on by the couple since
1912 was practically brought to end.
The trial of SUIT Tor separation
and the fixing of alimony pending
in the Brooklyn courts is all that
remains to be settled
Mrs. Sutton first sued her husband
for absolute divorce III brooklyn in
February of 1922 but almost imnle-
diately after the papers in the action
had heen drawn the case was with
drawn. Shortly after the papers
were fled Mr. sutton, who Is at the
head of large exporting hrsiness
y-tth EOllh NAIiiaa,
took trip to that country, and wilild
he was gone his wife wrote and asked
him to return.
In May of 1912 he came back and
went to the cambridge street house.
where the troubles OF the two were
temporarily settled During the short
time that he stayed in that house he
alleged in the effort he made for di-
vorce, he was subjected to insult and
harsh treatment.
II was IN this alleged treatment
that he based his appeal in the New
Jersey courts. For the purpose of
getting his case tried in the other
State, Mr.. Sutton took up his per-
manent residence in his summer
home at Allenhurst. N. j., and filed
his papers in Chancellor Walkers $
court. His affidavit in that court
charged his wife with desertion.
The findings of the advisory master,
after ne had gone into great detail
in the case. were wholly against the
plaintiff. who Immediately fled a
motion of appeal Judge Roe said
that he found the husband to be
guilty of far more cruel conduct than
the wife was, and the Court of Err
rors and Appeals upheld the motion of
dismissal on the, grounds given by the
master.
Mrs. sutton is now living at 967
Ocean avenue. Mr.. Sutton is in
South Africa. He viii continue his
residence in Allenhurst when he re-
turns.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01

TRENTON. April 1.-The proposed
New Jersey branch Of the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research, q bill
for the establishment of which yes
terday passed the Senate, will de-
vote It's experiments to the study of
biological science and the connection
between animal diseases and human
ailments. The branch in its fight
against the ravages OF epidemics
among animals which have cost the
country many millions of dollars
A brief statement of the plans as
to the organization of the new in
stjtution was made yesterday II Is
understood that 1t will be located IN
the vicinity OF the New Jersey Agfi-
cultural Experiment station, at New
Brunswick. The statement declares
that the work of construction would
be taken up immediately. 1t says:
'The loss to the country entailed by
tho animal diseases IS to be calcu-
lated not only in the number of ami
mails destroyed but with reference 10
tho 'scouraginG effects in animal
husbandry 1t has been estimated
that ip the Northwest alone the chol-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
WILL YOU SWAP YOUR CORNEA
FOR A PERFECT OPTIC NERVEp ,
If You Will, Summit Doctors Hope Make Blind Baby See
and Your Own Sight May Be Restored

they probably will succeed in gettag
someone to submit to the operation
because there is no hope of effecting
thesscure of a person whose blindness
Is due to crippled optic nerve, and
some person who is blind from that
cause will be willing to sacrifice his
useless cornea in the hope of curing
the youngster in the Arthur Home.
Under the direction of Miss Anna
Welch, superintendent. an eXamina-
tion of the forty inmates of the Ar
thur home is being conducted in the
hope of finding ont who can furnish
the healthy corna needed to restore
the sight Of the Chusler boy. DR..
Wells 2. Eagleton, of Is Lombardy
street, Newark, 1t was said today
probably viii perform the operation
on the younester If it is performed.
DR.. Eagleton, who is n surgeon on
the staff of the Eye and Ear In
flrmary of Newark, is particularly in
terested in the case, it was said Al
his home today
1t was said today the Arthur home
authorities have taken hope for the
success of the operation on the Chus-
Ter boy from the reported success of
n somewhat similar operation re-
Gently in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore In this case, however,
the cornea of a pig was transferred
to the eye of n blind child.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-01
MILLIONS IN FOOD FISH PROFIT
AT NEW JERSEYS EXPENSE
Non Residents Make Fortunes from Pound Nets Industries
the Cost of Living Remains High.

The campaign
fish being
delay and hamper the of The Star
middleman
pound hsh marketed
est
whioh
the
used as a of this argument