The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-03-18

ii. l.. HopFinS was down from CLARK
on Tuesday.
c. j. Day, who is now located at Big
Stone, was in the city the first of the
week.
Aylmer Cole departed Tuesday morn
ing for Chicago to spend a few days
on business.
Frank NJ. Ellis spent a portion of this
week in the Twin Cities in the interest
of the Ellis-Hall Co. Department Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Johnson have
moved to the city from their farm and
are living in the Deeth cottage on Will
liams street, which they purchased.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Johnson return
ed home to Montana Tuesday norm
ing, after a visit at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Johnson.
Miss Grace Rufenacht is the new
cashier at the Ellis-Hall Co. Depart
ment Store, she having taken the posi-
ton so long held by Miss Dollie Ander-
son.
The wild ducks are reported to be
coming into the country in large mum
bers and this is a pretty good indi-
cation that spring is just around the
corner.
Miss Elsie l.. Albert of st. Paul, is in
charge of the new millinery depart
ment at the Ellis-Hall Co. Department
Store. Miss Florence Hubbard, OF this
city, is her assistant.
The Watertown Public Opinion says
that Andrew Palm has been induced
to remain as agricultural agent for
Codington county, a position he has
filled very satisfactorily the past two
years. Mr.. Palm is a graduate of the
State College.
A new bill passed by congress pro-
vides that rural carriers be paid in pro-
portion to the length of their routes
alone. Formerly they were paid ac-
cording to the length of routes and
weight of mail. Yearly salary under
the new measure for routes IS to 20
miles long is 1850, for 20 to % miles,
81, $50, for % to "a mile routes $1,152
and for routes "a miles long or over
81, 200.
The Patterson automobile tax bill
passed the legislature the last day.
The law provides for a tax of SO in
stead of S6, and goes into effect Janu-
airy /, 1916. Owners of new machines
can buy a license for SO after July /,
good for the balance of this year An.
other provision is to the effect that
this license money is to be returned
to the county, less the amount neces-
sary to pay the actual expense of
handling the business in the office Of
the secretary of state.
Prof. Leslie Ausmann of Clark,
spent Monday afternoon in the city
visiting with friends and confering
with A. w. Palm and the directors Of
the Better Farming Association here.
Mr.. Ausman is a graduate of the agri-
cultural department of South Dakota
State College and is at present en-
ployed as agricultural instructor of
the Clark schools. He is greatly in
in better farming work being
carried on here and elsewhere in the
state.-Public Opinion.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington has made a number of
tests of a new bread, considered whole
some, says an exchange. 1t is made of
a mixture of potato meal and wheat
-four. A similar bread has been used in
Germany and Austria and believed to
be as good as all wheat bread. There
by law the bakers are compelled to
use 80 per cent potato meal. 1t has
a rather coarse texture but possesses
an agreeable flavor and retains mois-
ture longer than wheat bread.
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