The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-06-10

lows and Rebekahs went to White by
auto yesterday to attend the county
meeting of the orders.
The city power plant was obliged to
give its patrons heat the past week. 1t
has been many years since the plant
has run its heating system later than
this year.
I The big mill at Arlington has closed
down on account of a shortage of
good milling wheat and will not open
again until the new crop is available.
The short crop last year and the heavy
demand from Europe has made wheat
a pretty scarce article. The market
price, however, has dropped in the
last ten days, probably due to the esti-
mates Of a big yield this season.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Commercial Club on Thursday evening
the Lake Campbell dam committee
was ~reorganized. President Carlisle
who has been a member Of the COM
mittee since it was first appointed a
couple of years ago. rendered his resig-
nation to the board and upon motion
he appointed E. ]. Ray to the vacancy.
1t is expected that Mr.. Ray will be
made chairman of the committee, and
it is the intention to go ahead at once
with the work of repairing the dam,
which was damaged by the high water
of last spring.
Evangelist Fred l.. Buck of Normal,
district of the Methodist church to
lead in a great district camp meeting
on the camp grounds at ST. Lawrence,
June 20-27. This meeting following
as it does the State Epworth League
assembly which meets there June Is,
and closes on the same day the camp
meeting opens, will afford a splendid
opportunity for people to attend both
meetings.
Every line in a newspaper costs the
proprietor something, says an ex-
change. If it is for the benefit Of the
individual 1t should be paid for. If
the grocers were asked to contribute
groceries to one ~abundantly able to
pay for them, he would refuse. The
proprietor of a newspaper must pay
for the free advertising if the bene-
ficiary does not, and yet it is n Of
the hardest things to be learned by
many that a newspaper has space in
its columns to rent, and must rent
them to live. To give away rent for
any thing less than living rates is as
fatal to a newspaper as for a landlord
to furnish rent free.
A farmer tells us that he has prac-
tically rid his farm of gophers by the
use of gasoline. He carries a bottle
and a bunch Of cotton batting with
him while working in the field and
when he sees a gopher run into a hole
he pours some gasoline OF a wad OF
cotton and places it at the mouth of
the hole and cover the opening with
dirt. The gas fumes are heavier than
air and go to the bottom of the hole
In an attempt to get air, the gopher
comes to the top of the hole and the
gas does the rest. Remove cotton in
about half an hour and Mr.. Gopher
will be dead. The plan will apply to
many other ~burrowing animals.-EX
The Commercial Club of Brookings
has been asked by the Cody Club OF
Cody, Wyoming, to spread the news in
B%rookings county Of the monster cele
bration to be held at the Wyoming
city on August 30th, in honor of the
opening of the Yellow Stone Park to
automobiles. The Black and yellow
Trail, the great transcontinental high
way, passes through Brookings county
and across the state by way of the
Black Hills to the National Park, and
it is expected that thousands of autoes
will go over this great scenic route for
the big event at Cody. The people OF
Cody are planning a big Wild West
show and a national good roads meet.
ing, and they assure the Commercial
Club that the warm hand of western
welcome awaits all Brookings county
visitors.
The famous All Nations ball team
plays here tomorrow at the fair
grounds at two-thirty against the home
team, and a fine contest can be ex.
pected. The All Nations have Japan
csc, Indian, Chinese; Negro and sew.
eral other varieties of human nature
and are a fast aggregation. This will
be one of the big games of the season
and in recognition of this fact the bus
mess men of the city have signed an
agreement to close their places of bus
mess between the hours of two-thirty
and fOur-thirty. The band will he on,