The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-01

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pie from here.
Editor C. p. Sherwood was down
from De Smet Saturday to see the ball
game between the De Smet team and
Bookings. Carter is a very enthus-
iastic fan and is doing the booking for
the club and looking after the finances.
Bookings was visited from a dele
cation of White boosters Friday who
were making a tour of the county ad-
vertising their Fourth of July celebra-
ton. They got here about noon and
had dinner. J. p. Johnson was in
the party.
Bookings has Joined the towns that
will protect the business men from
fake travelling advertising schemes. A
scheme to run the gauntlet now must
have the endorsement of a CONNER
cial club committee. This plan is in
vogue in many places and has been the
that were previously thrown away
Clear Lake Courier.
The De Smet team defeated Brook
ings here on Saturday by a score of
5 to 0. De Smet has a good team, all
salaried, and it was not to be expected
that our all home team would be able
to do much with them, SO we were not
greatly disappointed. Brookings has
three or four players who can't hit a
lick and this defect is painfully appar-
ent when they get up against a good
team. If we had some hitting strength
in the outfield and another pitcher we
would have a pretty fair ball team.
The officers of every school district
should remember that a new law re-
quires the publication of an annual
financial statement in the newspaper
nearest the geographical center of the
district. The first statement is to be
published in July, at the close of the
fiscal year. These statements must
also include the information Of how
much money is on hand and the name
of the bank in which it is deposited.
This is a good law, as the school tax
is the heaviest tax paid and the tax
payers have a right to know what is
done with the money.
Brookings merchants are emulating
the example of those of Watertown
and some Of the other cities regarding
advertising. The merchants of Water
town, so far as the Merchants associa-
ton is concerned, do not contract or
arrange for advertising, or accept ad-
vertising solicited by other than news
papers unless the advertising scheme
is first approved by a committee of the
association. This system was adopted
to head off a lot of advertising fakes,
engineered for the most part by out
side solicitors. Nothing but newspaper
advertising goes" with the associa-
ton members. All of the schemes to
get a number of advertisers on cards,
so-called time tables, programs, etc,
are given the go-by by the Watertown
Merchants association, and that's
what the Brookings merchants are
seeking to do. At a recent meeting of
the association in Watertown, after
trying the present system for two
years, it was unanimously voted to
continue this policy.-Watertown Sat
urday News.
Ever since the Courier installed a
barometer in it's office fifteen years
ago, we have met almost daily the
weather crouch. Did you ever see one
or heard of one? If you never have it
is proof positive that you have never
been around much, for he is one Of
the most prevalent persons in the
world. And isn't he a cheerful cuss?
If it rains twice in succession he
knows there will be floods, that crops
will be drowned; that miasma will
/ breed all kinds of disease, and that
SySiohCo oIu oiS opt ~
blow away what the rain does not de
stroy. But if the wet weather crouch
is dolorous the dry weather crouch is
dismal. Dry weather has a tendency
to shrink things up, and the very idea
seems to work on the mind and
speech of the dry weather man. He
looks up and sees nothing but dry
weather; he looks down and every
thing is parched and dry; he looks east
or west, or north or south, and aridity
and b~arrenness meet his gaze. To his
parched soul everything is famine and
fear. 1t will never rain! Never.
Never! No use to SOW or plant, or cul-
tivate. for nothing will grow anyway;
and SO we had just as well resign to
the whitening blasts OF drouth. This
in brief is the weather crouch. Have
you seen him? Have you heard him?
Clear Lake Courier.