The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-01

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Mrs. j. L. Jarvis went up to Mime
apolis Sunday night, where she was
joined by Mrs. A. A. Harris on Tues
day and they left for Los Angeles,
Cal, to remain several months. Mr..
Jarvis accompanied his wife as far
as Minneapolis.
The annual report of the state sta
tistical department jus. issued shows
that the assessed valuation for Brook.
ings county the past year was $685.
331. Brookings was the seventh in
rank among the counties Of the state.
Minnehaha having the highest valua-
ton.
Brookings merchants with whom we
talked tell US that they enjoyed a
splendid Christmas business this year,
two or three Of them stating that 1t
was the best holiday trade they ever
had. This looks pretty good, in view
of the reports from other northwestern
towns that the holiday business was
light.
The work on the government build.
ing is coming along in good shape and
the structure is expected to be en-
closed before a great while. The
fine weather has been a great help to
the force and they are enabled to work
practically every day. The govern
ment forbids the laying Of any stone
or brick unless the thermometer reads
% degrees above zero, but the weather
has been as warm as this nearly every
day.
Students in the school of agriculture
at the college now receive efficient
training in poultry management. Two
lecture and demonstration classes
have been organized in charge of two
Of the leading professors of the col
lege. DR.. c. C. Lipp, veterinarian.
conducts a class in THE Diseases of
Poultry" Prof. ]. W.. Wilson, head
of the animal h%usbandry department,
has a course on Types and Breeds,
and Management of Poultry"
The Christmas business at the
Brookings post Office was a very heavy
one, especially in the parcel post de-
partment, and a horse and wagon was
pressed into service to deliver the
packages. Today the new ruling went
into effect allowing packages up to
fifty pounds to be sent through the
mail and 1t looks as though the gov
eminent would have to put on a de-
livery of some kind. The city carriers
can hardly be expected to pack around
very many fifty pound packages.
Today the p~ostoffice department laid
off Harry Wornson, one Of the city
carriers, leaving the work of carrying
the mail to but two men. The ser
vice has been rather poor in the past
few months and with two men doing
the work and with the extension of
the parcel post it is likely to be rotten
from now on. The three carriers
have worked hard, but the city has not
been routed properly SO that they could
work conveniently and to the best ad-
vantage. AS a result some of the pa
irons did not get their mail until be.
tween twelve and one o'clock, but
under the new arrangement they will
be lucky If they get it at all. The new
parcel post rules allow the shipping
of fifty pound packages in the first two
zones and twenty-pound packages any
where in the country, and just how
the two carriers are going to pack
around a case of eggs, a quarter of beef
a tub of butter and other trif1es like
these and at the same time deliver
their regular mail Is beyond us. 1t
looks as though it would be a physical
impossibility for two men to do the
work, and the department will be COM
PEELED to put Mr.. Wornson on again.
The most notable event of the early
theatrical season in Bookings will be
the presentation by the famous Juven-
lie Bostonian Opera Co., at the Grand
opera house, Monday, January 5th. of
the celebrated light opera success
Princess Chic" the splendid new ad-
dition to the compny's extensive roper.
toire in which has been scored its
greatest triumph. The Juveniles
now on their 10th successful annual
tour-are well known throughout this
section of the country. They are uni
que among road attract ons in that all
are girls-there's not q representative
of the masculine sex in the cast. Earl
Ter ~ccess were won largely on the
appeal of youthful charm as all the
girls were barely in their teens; and
no very ambitious productions were at
tempted. After a few years many Of
the clever youngsters budded into
real artists and upon recognition of
this fact the management decided to
procure for them one Of the big stand
ard New York hits that would give
free for all talents. Thus 1t came
about that when producers all over the
country a few months ago were ram
bling for Princess Chic" Mnager B.