The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-12

between trains Tuesday.
Candy -four, an absolute guarantee
of cleanliness. G. w. Van Dusen & Co.
R. M. Solberg. the piano man, made
a business trip to Elkton between
trains Monday.
About two weeks more and the
Register begins that great story OF
Tarzan Of the Apes.
Attend the first annual Mill End
Snap offering at Ellis-Hall Co. Depart
ment Store. Read their ad.
Rev. Olson of Brandt, spoke in Ster-
ling Sunday and was a guest at the
L. L. Alrick home here while on his
way home.
Mayor Johnson returned home yes
terday morning from Minneapolis
where he spent a week or ten days on
business and taking in the auto show.
Marriage licenses were issued this
week to Henry Amidon and Matte
Smith Of Elkton; James Edward Bac.
chus Of Sioux City, and Ethel May
Gigg, of Mcclure. s. D.
Clifford N. Mills arrived Monday
from Bloomington, Indiana. to take
charge of the classes which DR.. Brown
was obliged to relinquish when he as
sumed the duties of president Of the
college.
Word from our old friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. c. Wikoff, tells us that they
expect to locate permanently at Eu-
gene, Oregon, and that they are in
their usual health. The Register will
keep them posted on Brookings hap
penings.
Connolly Brothers have been busy
getting things in readiness for their
opening next Saturday. They rear
ranged and fixed up the interior of the
store and have put in a new stock Of
goods throughout, and will run a first
class store in every particular.
The Athenian society of the college
presented 1.-THE Honeymoon" at the
college auditorium on Saturday even
ing. The play was put on very cleverly
and it is to be regretted that the
stormy night made the attendance
much lighter than the performance
merited.
At the Commercial Club meeting
tomorrow night there will be steropti-
con views shown of the Luce Line
and of the workings of electric roads
in general. There will be some good
music and a real lunch, something
different, so that every member should
be on the job.
1t is unlawful for any person within
this state to sell or dispose of any
cigarettes or the material for making
cigarettes. Any person under twenty.
one years of age who smokes or uses
cigarettes in any manner in any high
way, park, or public place shall be
arrested and prosecuted. 1t Is also a
crime for any person to permit minors
to smoke cigarettes upon his premises,
but this does not apply to parents or
guardians so far as their own children
or wards may smoke upon their W
premises.-Lake Preston Times.
Miss Gertrude Stedman attended
the meeting called to discuss the N
solidation of the rural schools in Dis
trict No. z last Saturday. On account
of. the storm the crowd was not large,
but the majority of them favored the
change. A petition is being circulated
in the districts interested to call a
special election to vote on the measure
Districts 1, A and 35, north of the city
and part of Aurora township, will form
one new district, provided it is decided
to consolidate, and he other district
will be Districts 7, IA, and Is, north
east of town.
The following are some of the ap-
preaching Civil Service examinations
which will be held in Bookings and
which will be of interest to college
students. Anyone desiring to take
any of these examinations should
write to the Civil Service Commits
sioner at ST. Paul Immediately, stating
the subject in which you are interest
ed. March 2-assistant chief, bureau
of chemistry, salary $4,000; March a
laboratory technician, bureau of chem
istry, 5000; March 4, 5, 6-inspector of
mechanical and electrical engineering,
5 $4,000; March Laboratory assistant
in zoology, $500; February 18-Tran-
sitman-forests service, 5000.
On inquiry from Gregory county, the
attorney general holds that under the
primary act comitteemen who attend
ed the judicial proposal meetings in
January are entitled to their mileage,
even though they did not make an in
dorsement; that the mileage provision
is for attendance; that they might
have gone to the meeting with full in
tent to make an Endorsement, but for
any Of various reasons decided, after
gathering, that an Endorsement was
not advisable; and failure on their part