The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-16

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Register Office.
Contract for Deceive have them in
stock at the Register office.
DR.. Hyde is building a $500 barn on
his farm in Argo township.
Roy Poole was here a day or two
this week visiting his mother, Mrs. A.
A. Poole.
line Friday and held services at st.
Thomas church.
Miss Ethel Meginnis of Winona, was
a guest at the home of her cousin, F. c.
Neill, a few days the first of the week.
1t was reported here yesterday that
a tramp had been run over by the
train and killed at Volga the previous
day.
Gee, Amt they rough? The Three
Astellas Americas Knockabout Conf
ques. At the Fad, Friday and Satur-
day.
Mrs. Chas. Gamble and son Charley,
left Monday evening for Lincoln, Neb.,
where they will visit their daughter
and sister, Mrs. Russell Jensen.
T. c. Akin left Sunday morning for
Milwaukee to attend the annual meet
ing of the Northwestern Life and will
go from there to eastern points.
The county commissioners are hold
ing the regular quarterly session at
the court house. They are also sitting
as a board of equalization, and the
session will be quite a lengthy one.
DR.. B. B. Bracket of the State Col
lege faculty, departed Saturday morn
ing for Pittsburg, where he will attend
the summer school of the Westing-
house Electrical Company. This
course was arranged for the benefit of
teachers of electrical engineering, and
continues for about five weeks.
This newspaper business is certainly
a gay life. The other day one of our
good friends rather heatedly informed
us that our sole mission in life seemed
to be to knock someone, and the same
day another good friend, also some
what wrought up, jumped on us for
extending some praise where he
thought it was undeserved. Can you
beat it?
We were down to the B. II. Ringle
farm south of town, the other night
and looked over his cement silO. The
beauty of these silos is that they are
fire and wind proof and will last prac-
vestment any farmer can make and
every one that is put up adds consider
ably to the prosperity of the owner and
of the county in general. Mr.. RinSle's
silo is the first one of five which are
to be erected in this immediate vicin-
ity by the company for which S. J.
Rudolph is agent.
Becoming exhausted while swim,
ming in the Jim river, Fred Andrews,
son of NJ. T. Andrews, of Huron was
drowned. He was swimming with two
companions. They had crossed the
river twice and were attempting TO
swim it for the third time, when all
three became exhausted. For several
seasons he had been a star on the
Huron college football team, being gen
o,o11, Enou-p about tho cfotn in foot.
ball circles as the Bull Moose" He
had played in Brookings a number of
times and will be remembered by local
football fans.
Prof. H. S. Coe, consulting plant
pathologist of the State College, re,
turned yesterday morning from Spear,
fish where he investigated a blight
which threatens to destroy the apple
industry in Spearish valley. He found
that the disease is caused by a form Of
bacteria which produces a canker on
the limbs and branches and is trans
mitted to the blossoms of other trees
by bees and other insects. The crab
apple trees appear TO be the Dree0lh2
places of the disease, and Prof. Coe
has recommended that all trees of this
character in the valley be destroyed.
The following officers were elected
by the South Dakota Rural Mail Car
rier's Association at the annual con
vention which came to a close at
Huron Saturday night: President, G.,
d. Sergeant, of B~eresford; v~ice-presl-
dent, Z. B. Swarthour, of Sioux Falis,
SECRETARY, F. J. Kadlac. of Scotland,
=, treasurer, James L. Boyd, of Wolsey;
sergeant at arms, E. B. Tubbs, of
Henry; delegates to the national con-
vention, n. S. Johnson of Mellette, at
large, and Fred Sutherland of LennoX,
and Fred Dragoot, of Volga, state dele
gates. Redfeld was selected as the
, place for holding the next meeting.
John L. Schrader, whose folks live
about six miles northeast of the city,
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