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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
GREAT STOCK SALE

p. j. Haggard's sale of pure bred
Shorthorns at the stock pavilion Tues
day afternoon was the greatest stock
sale ever held in Brookings county,
Thirty-one head of pure bloods and
one grade, with five small calves
which went with the mothers, brought
$4,272.50, an average of Sis for the
th~irty-seven head. And the best part
of it is that practically all of this good
stuff remained right here in Bookings
county. Fifteen of the pure bloods, in
Guiding the five calves, sold for 200,
an average of $3.50 each. This would
indicate that ii pays and pays mighty
well to raise good stock.
Mr.. Haggard bought about a dozen
pure bred COWS about three years ago
and besides the bunch that he sold
at this sale he has disposed of a num-
Der of others, and still has a nice
bunch of young heifers with which to
build up another bure bred herd.
Following is a complete report of
the sale, with the price that each ami
NAL brought:
Bull l year old, $4,000; bull l year
old, $205.00; bull 3 years old, $225.00;
bull l year old, $500; bull l year old,
$115.00; bull 10 months old, $1,000;
COW 5 years old, with calf at feet, l
month, $4,000; Gov 6 years old,
$155.00; cow, 9 years old, with calf at
feet, 4 months $4,000; cow 8 years old
with calf at feet, 2 months, $1S0.00;
heifer, l year old $165.00; heifer 2
years old, $165.00 heifer Z months old,
$500; heifer IL months old, $500;
heifer 2 years old, $127.50; heifer 2
years old, $127.50; heifer 2 years old,
$4,000 COW 5 years old, $4,000; heifer
/ year old, $135.00; heifer l year old,
$175.00; COW 2 years old, with calf at
feet, $165.00; cow 4 years old, $155.00;
cow 5 years old, $125.OO heifer l year
old, $1,000; cow IL years old, $500;
heifer l year old, $1,000 heifer 8
months old, $500; cow 8 years old,
with calf at feet, l week old, $500;
COW, grade $3.50; bull 10 months old,
$1,000; heifer Z months old, $45.00;
cow 4 years old, $4,000.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
ON ON JACK

Jack Vrenegor, the popular pro-
prietor of the basement barber shop,
was the victim of a good joke this
week. While in Tidball's Pharmacy he
figured out that it would be a good
M to swipe a bottle of fruit syrup,
take it over to the shop and when Mr..
Tidball came over for a shave to spring
it on him as a new hair tonic. The
first part of it worked fine, but Jack
was rather surprised later in the day
be served with a warrant of arrest.
He thought it was a good joke when
the cop took him to a lawyers office
where he found MI. Tidball, but when
the latter expressed a desire to send
him to Sioux Falls things began to
assume a different hue. Jack insisted
that 1t was all a joke, but Mr.. Tidball
said that stealing was nc joke and he
believed crimes like that should be
punished to the full extent of the law.
At this stage of the case Jack began
to get nervous and begged for a set
Element and it was finally agreed that
by the payment of ten dollars the case
would be dropped. He paid gladly
and departed, but as he got to the bot
tom of the stairs he was called back
and found the room full of fellows who
had been viewing the proceedings with
great glee from an adjoining room.
Jack has promised to buy.
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M. e. CHURCH IMPROVES

Last week the Register mentioned
the improvements the M. E. church
was contemplating, and at a meeting
this week these improvements we're
authorized. An addition will be built
on the north side of the church, 30x60,
and of the same material and in con
formity with the rest of the building.
The basement, which will have a four
teen foot ceiling, will be devoted to a
gymnasium. In the northwest corner
of the old basement shower baths will
be put in, with connecting door with
the gymnasium. On the first story will
be four rooms, which will be used for
class rooms and social purposes, such
as reading oom and game room. The
second story will house sever class
rooms. On the first floor the ceiling
will be nine feet in the clear and On
the second floor eight foot. A pipe
organ that will cost between $4,000
and $4,000 will be installed in the
choir loft of the church. The entire
building will be heated by a new steam
plant, which will be located in the old
basement, and a ladies kitchen and
other minor Improvements will be made
there. The new parsonage will be
30x30, two story and basement and
thoroughly modern. 1t will be located
twenty feet west and twenty feet south
of the present parsonage. The i'm
~provements will mean an outlay OF
twelve or fifteen thousand dollars.
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LADIES

The plans for the Commercial Club
reception to the men students and
faculty members of the college have
been enlarged and the ladies will be
included. The Civic League will enter
tain the goods, the lady members OF
the faculty and the wives of the faculty
members at the Commercial Club
rooms on the same evening that the
Commercial Club entertains the men
of the college at the opera house. This
will be one week from tomorrow. The
league Is making plans to give the col
lege ladies g splendid entertainment,
with program, refreshments, etc. The
rooms will be handsomely decorated
for the occasion. The club members
who do not go to the affair at the
opera house will, of course, remain
away from the club rooms that Eve
ing. The arrangements for the re-
ception at the opera house are being
completed and everything is favorable
for giving the college men the time OF
their lives. The two affairs promise to
be the greatest get-together meetings
ever held in Brookings and will go a
long ways in further cementing the
already close ties between college and
city.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
COLLEGE SUMMER SCHOOL

The State College will conduct it's
first siX-weeks summer school this
year, June Is to July 81. In addition
20 the usual review work for teachers,
strong courses will be offered in agri-
culture, manual training, home col
omics and domestic art.
These courses will be conducted by
professors from the regular college
departments in agronomy, animal hus-
bandry, veterinary, dairy husbandry,
home economics, chemistry and shop
practice. College credit will be allow
ed for certain courses where work OF
collegiate standing is accomplished.
During the school session there will
be conducted a state rural life confer
ence under the auspices of the college.
The Brookings ChautauQua will also
hold it's annual meeting at this time.
Speakers of national standing will APP
pea before the summer school and
rural life conference. In addition to
the college faculty, the OUTSIDE speak
ers and teachers who are already en-
gagged are:
DR.. Henry S. Curtis, formerly secre-
tary of the National Playground Asso-
citation, nov supervisor of the Wash
ington, d. c. Fairgrounds; one weeks
lectures on PLAY and Fairgrounds"
Lectures by C.. H. Henson and j. G..
Mcdowell, of the U. S. Department of
Farm Management.
Lectures by Warren H. Wilson,
chairman of the Presbyterian Board of
Home Missions.
Lectures on Primary Work" by
Mrs. Hattie Moore Mitchell, of Drake
University, and on Public School
Music" by Mrs. Myra X. Peters Of
Lead, S. d.
Supt. H. c. Johnson Of Aberdeen,
will handle Literature and Review
Practice, Prof. F. E. Brown of Drake
University will teach Reading, and F.
F. Won Cort of Cedar Rapids will give
courses in penmanship.
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DISCUSS HOG CHOLERA

The following dispatch from Chicago
in the dailies gives a report of the con.
ference on hog cholera. at which DR..
c. c. Lipp of the State College was
present:
Uniform methods for fighting hog
cholera were adopted at a meeting at
tended by A. ID. Melvin, chief of the
bureau of animal industry, and officials
from twenty-six states. 1t was the
opinion of authoritative speakers that
the disease was increasing.
The heaviest toll from hog cholera
was in 1887 when the death rate was
120 per 1000, and in 1897, when the
rate was $50 per 1000. The death rate
in 1913 was 100 per 1000.
II fear we are passing through an
other period of increase of the dis
ease" asserted President Raymond A.
Pearson, of the Iowa State Agricul-
tural college. Our effort now must
be to control the disease. Eventually
we must endeavor to eradicate it. but
this will be years hence.
our success depends largely upon
our ability to educate farmers to COM
bat the disease and on cooperation be-
tween federal and state officials"
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that farmers can safely administer
cholera serum without virus, but ad-
vised the testing of all serum by state
colleges or government laboratories.
Simultaneous treatment with virus and
serum should be given only by those
who had special training. Competent
veterinarians should be posted in all
infected districts, it was agreed.
1t was asserted the closest possible
cooperation between federal and state
authorities was necessary, and where
differences of opinions arse the state
should bow to the government. A re-
port of the meeting will be widely dis
tributed among farmers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
FROM FLORIDA

V. L. Mccoy writes us from Delray,
Florida, that he and the family are
enjoying life and that the weather Is
like June in South Dakota. He Is set
ting out about fifteen acres Of grape
fruit and 1t keeps him pretty busy sit
ting around and making his negro
crew work. He sends us a picture of a
Florida razor back hog that looks as
though he had the anorexia or some
other disease, and If the other things
they raise down there are on a par
with this animal it must be a poor
country.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
GOSSIP

The work of taking subscriptions on
the proposed line between here and
Madison is progressing favorably, and
the farmers south of here are taking
much interest in the new line. Mr..
Ough, the Luce Line field manager,
has been busy the past week and re-
ports splendid success. A meeting was
held at the Vinegar school house
south of here, on Friday evening and
the building was hardly large enough
to hold the crowd. Col. Luce was pres
ent and outlined the plans for the ex-
tension. President Hyde of the Com.
mercial Club and Philo Hall accom-
panied Col. Luce from here. Another
good meeting was held at Rutland Sat
urday. It looks as though the Madi-
son extension was a certainty.
Word was received here this week
that the subscriptions on the east line
to Brookings had been accepted by the
Luces, and this us both the
north and east lines.
The people of Madison sent a dele
CATION to Minneapolis to investigate
the Electric Short Line Company, and
the Madison Daily Leader has the fol
LOVING to say of their trip:
1.-THE Commercial Club railroad COM
mittee to Minneapolis in the interest
of the Short Line enterprise, returned
home this afternoon. They found
everything just as represented by Col.
Luce on his recent visit here. In con-
sideration of coming to Madison with
their road, the company will require
the purchase of $4,000 worth of stock
in the company by Madison citizens.
A full report of the committee will be
made to the Commercial Club"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
TO n VOTERS

If you have moved from one pre-
cinct to another since you have re-
gistered and expect to vote at the
coming primaries it will be necessary
for you to notify the county auditor of
the change of your residence If you do
not wish to be disfranchised. Section
81 of the new primary act provides
for notification Of such change to the
county auditor, and he is required to
certify such notification to the pre-
cinct officers concerned. Any failure
to III this change on the part of
the voter leaves him outside the legal
voting list. section 149 of the same
act provides a penalty of fine or i'm
prisonment for any voter offering to
vote In a precinct in which he is not
legally entitled to vote. These two
sections make the proposition more
or less serious to the voter who neg
lects to properly register his change of
residence.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
DROPS DEAD

John Rode, one of the old pioneers
and solid citizens of Blom township,
dropped dead at his room in the Ar
cade hotel at Watertown last Tues
day night. He and a party of friends
went to Watertown to see the wrest-
ling match and early in the evening
Mr.. Rode complained of not feeling
well and retired to his roon, His
companions thought nothing Of the
matter and did not return to the hotel
until after the match and when they
entered the room they found Rode
dead on the floor. An inquest was
held at Watertown yesterday and
heart disease was given as the cause
Clear Lake Courier.
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s. D.. RURAL LIFE
CONFERENCE HERE
FIRST MEETING OF ITS KIND IN
STATE TO BE HELD AT
STATE COLLEGE
SPEAKERS Of NATIONAL REPUTATION
Will Be on the Program, Which Will
Be Held June 1s, 10 and 20-Pre-
Iiminary Program Given Out.

The first South Dakota Rural Life
conference will be held at the State
College on June Is, 10 and 20. Speak
ers of state and national repute will be
engaged to take charge of various
topics to be considered during the con-
ference. The six weeks summer
school will also be in session at the
State College at that time, giving many
teachers an opportunity of attending
the conference meetings.
DR.. G.. l.. Brown, acting president of
the college is preparing the program
for the conference, and although full
arrangements are not completed, he
presents the following as essential fea-
lures of what will be offered in the
way of addresses and discussions:
Address by Gov. F. M. Byrne.
Address-"Organized Husbandry
and Organized Religion" by DR.. War
rem H. Wilson, Supt. Department OF
Church and Country Life, Presbyterian
Board of Home Missions.
Address-"Purpose of Conference"
by Regent A. E. Hitchcock, Mitchell.
Addresses on Cooperation" by DR..
H. H. Hubbard of University of Wis
consin.
Short papers on Rural Organizations
The Grange, Farmers Clubs, Co
operative Associations. Discussion.
Papers on Social Agencies in the
Rural Community" The Farm Home,
Hygiene, Beautifying the Home and
Home Grounds.
school Consolidation or the Needs
of the Schools Of the State by War
rem H.. Wilson.
Address-Regent T. W. Dwight,
Sioux Falls.
"Bettering the Conditions in the
Rural Schools" by Miss Grace B. Sher-
wood, Director Normal Training De-
partment, School of Agriculture,
Crookston, MINI.
Short papers on Rural School Top
les.
"The Rural Church" by Rev. Rich.
mond A. Smith, Secretary, Iowa Bap-
list ConuIry Church Commission, and
by President j. A. Aasgaard, Concor-
dia College, Moorhead, MINI.
Several short papers on Rural
Church Topics and discussion.
On Sunday, the last day: Sermons
in the churches by the visiting clergy.
On Sunday afternoon, address by
Fred M. Hansen, Cecretary Country
Department, Y. NJ. G. A. of Iowa.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
KILLED BY TRAIN

A cloud of sorrow was cast over our
city Sunday when it was reported that
Franklin Hanks, one of our townsmen,
had been run down and instantly kill
ed by a Great Northern freight near
Russell early Saturday evening. Hav-
ing a holiday on account of Washing
toms birthday, he left here on the
afternoon train for Burchard and from
there he started to walk to his aged
fathers place lear Florence, where he
spent his vacation. Striking the Great
Northern track after leaving Burch-
ard about a mile and one-half, he Is
supposed to have walked north on the
track to within a mile or more of Flor
ence and about the same distance
from his old home when he was run
down by a freight engine and caboose-
death being instant. The head "a
severed from the body, a leg and arm
cut off, besides other injuries.-Tracy
Headlight.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
DID YOU ~REGISTER?

That a voter who refused or neglect
ed to register has no rights under the
primary law is the holding of the attor-
ney general in a query from the states
attorney of Kingsbury county in a
case where a voter refused TO register,
but appeared as a democratic proposal
committeeman for the county and
made a demand upon the county audi
tor for his mileage. This demand was
refused on the ground of failure to
register, and the attorney general
holds that such refusal was the proper
procedure under the law, or the ground
that failure or neglect to register
leaves the voter without the right to
act as a proposal committeeman or to
draw pay for such acts, as they were
illegal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
A BRIDGE TRUST?

The Public Opinion at Watertown
asks If it is possible that a bridge
trust exists, and if the territory Is not
divided between the different con-
struction companies. The Public
Opinion then goes on to publish the
records of Codington and Deuel. coun-
ties and shows by such comparison
that Codington county is paying the
Security Bridge Company from IL to
25 per cent more for it's bridges than
Deuel. county is paying the same com.
pany. There is little doubt about the
existence of a bridge trust, but it is
another matter to get the proof that
would be accepted in court. About
the only way to escape Is to turn to
concrete bridges, which can usually be
constructed by local contractors.-De
Smet Independent.
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power, mineral and other great

water power, mineral and other great
natural resources.
One of the important propositions
brought before the congress was the
urging of the enactment of a law offer,
ing an inducement to every school dis
trict in South Dakota to conduct at
least ten public meetings a year at
which the people themselves should
discuss all sorts of problems involving
the interests and welfare of the home,
the school, the farm, the store and the
factory.
One of the interesting papers of the
session was by George r. Grant, of
the Isabel mines in northwestern
South Dakota, on Our Ignite Sup
ply"
THE question of the fuel supply"
said Mr.. Grant, lis vital to the state.
The fact that the supply has been con-
sidered as limited has kept many
u%facturers out of the state, retarded
the building of railroads, caused mil
lions to be expended annually in the
purchase of fuel from neighboring
states, and their fuel is no better than
much of that to be found within the
confines of South Dakota" He called
attention to a government bulletin
which set forth that there are 5000
square miles of Ignite deposits in
South Dakota, and estimated the con-
tents at 100000 900 short tons. These
the speaker pointed out, are practic-
ally untouched.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
RICHARDS SPEAKS

R. o. Richards, the well known
Huron politician and candidate on the
independent ticket for governor, spent
Tuesday in the city and in the even
ing gave an address at the opera
house. Dick spent most of his time
on the tax question and dealt out a
mess of figures, a la Joe Murphy. He
tried to show that the taxes had in.
creased enormously in the past few
years and of course blamed Byrne for
it. He didn't devote anywhere near as
much time to his primary law as he
did two years ago, simply dismissing
it with the statement that the voters
could change it If they didn't like it.
Dick is a good earnest speaker and a
hard worker and willing to spend his
money, and he may make Byrne and
Anderson go some on the oath of the
present month and year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
HERMAN NAGEl MARRIES

Wilhelm Nagel departed Tuesday
morning for Chicago to attend the
wedding of his brother Herman, who
marries a wealthy Chicago girl to-
morrow. Herman will be well remem.
bered in ~Brookings, al he spent four
years at the State College, graduating
with the class of 1910. Herman was
sent to America by ais father, who Is
at the head of a department in the
University of Berlin, to escape SER
vice in the German army, and the
other son was sent here last fall for
the same reason. Herman was sup
posed to learn agriculture. but the
farmers life was not for him, rs he
had a burning ambition 20 be an actor,
and since leaving college he has spent
some time on the stage.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
CONSERVATION CONGRESS

The South Dakota Conservation con-
gress, at a business session held at
Sioux Falls before final adjournment
elected the following officers for the
coming year: President, EIwood G..
Persho, Vermillion; vice-president,
Mark G. Rich, Belle Fourche; secre-
tary, Charles McCaffree, Pierre.
Mr.. Perisho served as president dur
ing the past year. The new secretary
is the state immigration commissioner
of South Dakota.
The executive committee as selected
is made up of the following: Prof. N.
e. Hansen, Bookings; ]. A. Whiting,
Yankton; State Engineer Derr, Pierre;
State Statistician Doane Robinson,
Pierre.
The congress adopted a resolution
favor'ng a national prohibition law,
and urging the passage Of additional
legislation for the conservation of
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A GOOD VARIETY

Sixty-day and Swedish select oats
give best yields of any variety at
Brookings, Highmore, Cottonwood and
Eureka, according to experiments On.
Quoted by the agronomy department
of the State College, and reported in
experiment station bulletin number
149, shortly ready for distribution.
This bulletin is plainly written, and
readable by the average man. 1t
states that to sow Sixty-day for early
oats, and Swedish Select for medium,
would apparently increase the oat
yield of South Dakota farms. Various
oats are described and classified in
the bulletin with a view to clearing
up some confusion that exists concern
ing the naming Of the different oats.
1t is well illustrated by photographs
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-12
DO YOU NEED A MAN?

DR.. A. N. Hume, Agronomist at the
State College, has received a letter
from the general agent of the Baron
de Hirsch Fund of New York stating
that he desires to obtain places on
modern farms for a few Jewish boys
ranging in age from eighteen to TWEEN
ty-fve years of age. These boys have
applied for admission in the Agricul-
tural School at Woodbine, N. j., but
lack of accommodations has prompted
the idea of finding places for these
boys on good farms where they may
obtain practical experience in agricul-
ture. Any farmer interested in this
proposition should write to DR.. Hume
for further information.
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SELLS OUT

s. F. Walters sold his cigar factory
and retail business this week to Chas.
s. Tappin, who has been his right
hand MAI for several years. Mr.. Wal
ters' health has been poorly for some
time and he will nave to seek another
climate, although he sincerely regrets
leaving Bookings. He has decided to
move to Salem, Oregon, where he has
relatives and will leave with his family
in about a month. The new proprietor
is an experienced cigar man and is
popular with the store patrons, which
should insure him success with the
business.