The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-05-28

Mrs. c. A. Palmer visited with rela.
tives and friends at Estelline the last
Of the week.
Mrs. H. E. Riley left the last of the
week for a months visit at her old
home in Michigan.
Mrs. A. Mears left Monday for Ban
croft, where she will spend the sum-
mer with Mr.. Mears on their ranch.
Rev. r. A. Bruce delivered the COM
mencement address before the gradual
ing class of the Gettysburg schools on
Thursday.
The work of tearing down the old
Patriot building was completed the
last Of the week and the work of ex.
cavating for the basement is now in
progress.
The pupils of Lydia F. Keck will
give a piano ensemble recital in the
NJ. E. church Monday evening, June
1st. The public is cordially invited.
Admission free.
E. A. Hanson and family left yester-
day morning for Story City, Iowa. Mr..
Hanson will return the last of the
week. but the family will remain for a
six weeks visit with relatives.
Mrs. R. l.. Slagle arrived Friday
evening and is the guest of Brookings
friends this week. She is on her way
home to Vermillion from Rochester,
where she was operated upon, and is
gaining in health.
Bookings city receives $265.99 as
premium fund. Every town with an
organized fire department gets it's
share of this fund according to the
amount of insurance business done
there, the money coming from a tax
or the business of the companies.
c. O. Quail went 10 hawarden, Iowa,
Saturday evening to view the body OF
a mar named Quail, a stranger in
that town, who had been accidently
killed there. The man proved to be
his uncle whom he had not seen for
seventeen years, but he was able to
positively identify him. The remains
were buried there.
H. F. Haroldson and DR.. Forsee went
up to the |. O. o. F. meeting at Water
town Thursday over the Rock Island
and they report that the big rain to
the north of us washed out a railroad
bridge near Brandt. The rain came
very near to being a cloudburst, and
the Sioux river is now higher than it
has been since the flood two years ago.
Horace Fishback, Jr., the Bookings
is again the collegiate tennis cham.
pion of Minnesota. At the state tour
nament at st. Paul this week he easily
won the singles, and he and his part
ner took the championship in the
doubles. The st. Paul Pioneer Press
had a couple of pictures of Horace,
n of them in action, and it said that
he was the star of the tournament.
In lastt weeks Volga Tribune
Geo. Henry of Platte, deputy state
fire marshal, handed Volga and Brook
ings the following deserved compli-
ment: 1--WE were in Brookings the
other day and when looking around
that beautiful city we could not help
notice the large trees that are to be
seen on every hand, for Brookings is a
city of trees. Yet when we celebrated
the fourth of July in that town in 1880
there was not a tree to be seen. 1t
was the first celebration Brookings
had. as the place was only about a
year old. Now it is one of the hand
soonest cities in the state and noted
everywhere for it's trees and lawns.
Another town that we can remember
as being only prairie sod about that
time was Volga, which also has a lot
of fine homes with large trees and
uedutllul avis. Inc SlTeeIS are SlIU-
ply lined with trees that give it a very
pretty appearance. And this too, all
in our short life time, and we don't
feel SO very old either"
The State College offers the follow
ing method of getting rid of the dande-
lion nuisance, which is bothering
Brookings property owners just now:
Probably the most common method in
vogue at the present time is that of
hand digging. This is an efficient way
provided that the plants are small and
that the roots are cut off -four or five
inches below the surface of the ground.
However, with larger plants, if some
substance is not added to kill the
rootstocks remaining in the ground,
they will, in several weeks, start to
grow again. For this purpose it is a
good plan to pour a small quantity,
about a tablespoonful, of a 90 to 80
per cent solution of sulphuric acid
upon the surface of the cut rootstalks.
Kerosene has also given equally good
results. These solutions will kill the
remaining roots and If care is used
in their application the lawn will in no