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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26

man so attractive in her three years
in the school, Miss Ruth Miller, who
has made science popular during the
two years she has had charge of that
department, Miss Crystal V. Palon,
who has made domestic science so at
tractive to the girls, Mr.. Richard Mes
seth, wha has made manual arts so
wonderfully interesting to the boys
and has brought the work of the de-
partment up to such a high standing,
and Miss Maude L. Chamberlin the
efficient assistant in the english de-
partment are all experts in
their line. Their work in the school
should be as gratifying t. themselves
as it is satisfactory to the students and
patrons of the school.
Mr.. Douglas F. Smith
Principal Junior High School
Mr.. Smith who is the principal Of
the departmental school is a young
man of character and ability. After
graduating from the River Falls, Wis,
high school in 1913, he entered the
Lawrence College at Appleton, Wis,
but after pursuing his studies at Apple
ton for a year. he transferred his
credits to the State Normal at River
Falls from which institution he gradu-
ated last June. Mr.. Smith is an all
round athlete and 1t is said that he Is
a great favorite with the students. He
will make a valuable assistant to
Coach Gillespie and a man of value in
the department of which he has charge
He Is recommended by the President
Of Northern Wisconsin Normal which
is sufficient to insure hat the work in
this department will merit the COM
mendation of all. Mr.. Smith has been
dong advanced work in the River
Falls Normal this summer in further
preparation of his work in the school.
Miss Ruth Lundsten
Dept. Literature and Grammar
Miss Lundsten. after graduating
from the Delano, Mimi. high school
entered the Carleton College. North
field, Mimi. where she was honored
by being elected . member Of the
Alpha Beta Phi. After graduating
from Carleton. she taught the eighth
grade at Princeton, MINI; the last
three years she has been doing depart
mental work in the ST. Peter, Mimi,
school, teaching grammar and litera.
ture. Miss Lundsten takes great inter.
est n the musical and literary activi.
ties Of school life. The board Of educa-
tion u 70 - consratulAtsd On securing
- stront : tsaeher TOR this position.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
G AND PERSONAL

Editor Horton was over from Volga
a few hours Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H.. L. Davis returned
home Monday morning from a visit
with relatives at Clark.
G. J. Flittie and G.. F. Knappen of
the Bank Of Bookings, went to Red
field on business Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. v. l.. Mccoy expect to
leave the last of the week for Florida,
where they will make their home.
Misses Mary and Vivian Quinn of
Elkton, were guests at the G. F.
Thayer home the last of the week.
Mrs. G.. w. Pond returned Monday
morning from a ten days visit with
the Goodfellow family at lakewood.
Aldermen Conklin and Hoy and Su-
p~erintendent Morton drove over to
Marshall on an inspection trip the hrst
Of the week.
We had . light shower Sunday. but
apparently escaped the heavier rains
that fell In this general vicinity. South
Of here near Dell Rapids. the rain
was 20 heavy that Il washed out
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
CIRCIING U. S. IN FORD AUTO

The Calumet (Mich.) News says that
w. j. Brewster, representing the
Brictson Tire company of Brookings,
S.. OAK, and the A. w. Harris Oil
company of Providence, r. L., arrived
in Calumet today, completing $4,000
miles of an automobile journey
through the United States. Mr.. Brew
ster proclaims his feat with a myraid
of banners and posters attached to
radiator of his Ford Runabout which,
he declares, has weathered the mara
thon trip admirably. Among other
things, Mr.. Brewster modestly claims
that he has only used one set Of tires
since he left Detroit in 1913 and that
he neither has sustained a blowout
or a puncture on the entire journey.
The trip has taken him twice to the
Gulf Coast, along the Atlantic sea-
board and through the Mississippi val
ley, spending the winters in the south
and the in the north. The
copper country favorably impresses
him and the cool, balmy weather is so
appealing that he plans to remain here
for the greater part of a month, max
ing his headquarters.
Upper peninsula highways, he de-
clares, excepting only the strip of road
between Nestoria and Hermann, are
as good as those in any part of the
country and he predicts that this Sec
ton is destined to become the mecca
of motorists.
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CITY SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY
CONTINUED From Page One)

NAL where she has been this summer
making further preparation for her
work in the Brookings school.
In a recital given at Rock Island,
Ill, this spring. the Davenport Times.
Davenport, Iowa, had this to say COM
~plimentary to Miss Bloomquist's ac-
complishments: "The singing of Miss
Bloomquist was far beyond the ordin-
airy, and it is apparent that she has
a bright future in her line of work. Her
voice Is a clear, high and very sweet
soprano which she Use wonderfully
well. Her enunciation is clear and dis
tinct, her tones well sustained and
sweet. The songs that pleased the
large audience the most were "Orph-
Gus and His Lutte" by Sullivan, -Four
Leaved Clover by Brownell and my
Love Is Come" by Marcialo. she was
showered with many lovely flowers"
The other members of, the high
school faculty are popular and have
proved themselves efficient students
as well and the citizens of Brookings
are highly pleased to see them return.
Miss Myra r. Downs, the efficient
teacher of mathematics for the past
four years is to have charge Of the
department again this year. Miss
Wilhelmina Haase, who has made Ger
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
Miss Florence Keller

Dept. History n Geography
Miss Keller who had charge of this
department needs no introduction. her
excellent work speaks for itself.
Lack of space forbids more than the
mere mention and assignments of the
grade teachers further than to say that
no better teachers can be found any
where. All have special training for
their work and are experts In their
line. Miss China Evenson and Miss
Hazel NJ. Uppman will have charge Of
the sixth grade rooms again this year.
Miss Marie Vahle and Mrs. Clara
Countermine the 5th, Miss Mabel
Bennewies and Miss Ruby Keller the
4th, Miss Laura Stermer and Miss
Josephine Thayer the 3rd, Miss Orma
Rhorer, who is a graduate of the Man
kato State Normal and Miss Jennie
Nelson of Eveleth, MINI. Both of
whom have had successful experience
are the new teachers in the End grade
rooms. Miss May Button and Miss
Emmie S%orenson the popular and
efficient primary teachers are to have
this department again this year.
The Palmer System of penmanship
is to be introduced this year and the
company will furnish their own super
visor as long as necessary without ex-
pense to the school.
A school nurse will be provided and
the board will employ two substitute
teachers. There will be no changes in
text books and pupils will be allowed
to make exchanges of books providing
such books are in good condition.
A. +. Vinegar who has served in the
capacity of janitor for II years and
Henry Wiese who has been Johnnie
on the spot" for the last three years
have the buildings in "ship-shape" or
der which will do much in the way of
giving the school and surroundings an
air of dignity and elegance.
AS was stated last week, everything
is in readiness for the mobilization Of
an army of more than a thousand chill
dren, not for conquest by obstruction
but by a constructive conquest of de-
velopment of those finer qualities of
grace, poise and cultural growth.
superintendent Browning, who has
been in charge of the Brookings
schools for the past four years, needs
no introduction to the people of the
city. He has built our schools up until
they have a reputation for efficiency
second to none in the Northwest, and
he has accomplished the difficult task
of maintaining harmonious relations
between parents, teachers and pupils.
If B%rookings people were to select the
most valuable citizen we do not know
of anyone who would stand higher
than Mr.. Browning.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
PU BllC SALE

/ will offer for sale at public auction
at my residence just east of electric
light plant, commencing at l o'clock
p. m, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST %, 1915
The following personal property:
Small laundry stove; hard coal heat
err; Coles down draft range. nearly
new; dresser; some small stands; 8
iron beds with springs and mattresses;
folding bed; refrigerator. in good con-
dition; 2 kitchen tables; loft. dining
table: kitchen cupboard. with glass
doors: copper boiler. nearly new:
rocker and some kitchen chairs; sofa;
several picture frames; large rug; food
chopper; 8 meat platters; q number Of
pint Jars and jelly glasses; bread
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26

bridges and did other damage and
there were also heavy rains north and
east of us.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Craft returned
home to Zeering, Iowa, Monday morn
ing after a visit at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. R. C. Wyckoff.
A. B. Holm, formerly connected with
the college and now in the employ OF
the stallion registration board at
Pierre, was here this week.
l.. E. Lees and family returned home
the first of the week from their visit
to the San Francisco exposition, and
they report a very pleasant trip.
John r. Smith and family of Spring
field, Mimi, autoed up the last of the
week for a short visit with the DR..
Lentz and Chas. Gamble families.
Mrs. Frank Dull departed this week
for a visit with relatives at Shellsburg,
Wis. Mr.. Dull will join her later and
they will go to Texas to spend the win
ter.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. f. Ensberg, j.
Quickstad and family and Mrs. e. O.
Ensberg autoed over from Toronto and
spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Dokken.
Miss Mable Bacon, the efficient local
editor of the Press, will sever her cor
nection with that paper this week, and
she will resume her studies at the
college next month.
Brookings friends received word this
week that Mrs. Mokeler, who former
ly lived north of the city, was burned
to death by the explosion of a gasoline
stove at her home in Iowa.
John MacNamara returned home
Thursday from a visit of a week at his
old home at Oshkosh, Mis-. 1t is thirty
seven years since Mr.. MacNamara left
here and there was but little about the
city that looked familiar to him
James l.. Culhane departed Monday
morning for Red Lake Falls, Mimi,
where he takes up his duties as in
structor of manual training in the
high school. He graduated from the
State College last spring and is well
qualified for his new position.
L. L. Lenning brought the Register
quite a curiosity this week. 1t is a
potato vine which had potatoes grow
ing both under and above ground. The
tubers above ground were growing out
from the vine and while still small
they probably would have developed
size in time. We asked Prof. Champ
lin about the curiosity and in his opin-
ion it was probably due to excessive
moisture and is something that is very
rarely seen.
MI. and Mrs. E. l.. Squirting and
daughter Dorothy returned home Sun
day from their visit of several weeks
in the west. They spent five weeks
with their son at Boomers Ferry, Idaho
and then went on to the west coast
and the San Francisco exposition. Mr..
Squirting tells us that when they struck
South Dakota they felt as though they
were in Gods country again. Business
conditions in the west are poor and
the tourists seem to be the only WISH
BILE means of support for the people of
that section. Santa Ana, Cal, was n
place that looked good to Mr.. Squirting,
and he says hat the Bookings colony
there were prosperous and happy.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26

mixer; waffle iron; some dishes;
clock; large lamp; hand painted pic
ture; kitchen utensils; sewing ma
chine; electric iron; some story books;
Globe washing machine; Peerless ash
sitter; Richmond Champion No. Z
corn drill, new; Aermoter gas engine,
pump or belt; cross cut saw barrel
and wire bucket, 2-bu. capacity, for
treating seed potatoes, and numerous
other articles.
Terms of Sale-All sums of 5000 or
under cash. All sums over $1,000 time
will be given to November LIST, 1915, on
coed bankable paper al s per cent in
terest. No property to be removed
until settled for.
MRS. C. HECK.
S. j. Rudolph, Auctioneer.
Farmers National Bank, Clerk.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
NOTICE

To all persons operating Steam
Threshing Rigs in the County Of
Bookings:
The penalty for operating steam
threshing rigs without a compliance
with Chapter 237 of the laws of 1911,
is a fine of not less than $4,000 nor
more than 100000. Be sure you file
if you wish to avoid prosecution, as
the State Insurance Commissioner is
pushing violations of this law vigor-
ously. Wallace e. Purdy,
States Attorney.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26

And we've improved the
tires design in new ways
found to give it added
strength.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
Would You Like to Own Land
Which Would Pay for Itself

vice over IN One year
To convince you that we can
show you a great opportunity we
make the following offer: We
will pay half your car fare from
Brookings and return, anytime be-
tween now and October /, whether
you buy or not. Price, SIS to $25
per acre to qualify for this offer,
get an o. X. letter from Fred Oh
son, of the Atlas Elevator Co. You
must show you have one thousand
dollars available cash, which you
could invest if satisfied with the
country.
n. r. JONES and o. r. LEES
Real Estate Agents
Power, Montana
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
Cost $4,000

These improvements, on
this years output, will cost
US $4,000.
Yet this year we made
another big price reduction
our third in two years.
totaling As per cent.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
AN S EFT

One of the principle assets of a town
is good roads leading out in all direc-
tons. A farmer will drive three or
four times farther over good roads to
a town than go to a nearer town over
a bad road where he has to pull
through mud holes and sloughs. Dis
lance doesn't count where there are
good roads.-Bruce Herald.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-26
NOTICE OF HEARING PROOF OF WILL

State Of South Dakota,
County Of Brookings IS.
In County Court.
In the Matter of the Estate Of Peter Bin
ford. Deceased.
Pursuant to an order of this Court dated
August Goth, 1915. NOTICE is HEREBY
GIVEN that the 14th day of September, 1915,
at two o'clock in the afternoon at the office
of the County Judge at the Court House in
the City of Brookings, Brookings County.
South Dakota. has been fixed by the Judge Of
said Court as the time and place for hear
ing the proof and allowance to probate of the
last VIII and Testament OF Peter Binford,
deceased. and the petition OF I. l.. Chappell
for issuance to him of Letters Testamentary
when and wnere any person interested may
appear and contest said will and the pro-
bate thereof. and may object to granting
Letters Parliamentary to said petitioner.
Dated at Bookings, South Dakota, August
Goth. 1915.
BY the Court:
Seal of County Court FEC p. HALL,
Judge of the County Court.
Cheever & Cheever,
Attorneys for Petitioner.
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WANTED desire to get in touch
with the wne of a quarter section of
good land. Address: Carl S. Wright,
621 S. Maple ST, Watertown, S. D.
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
S. j. Rudolph, Auctioneer.
Farmers National Bank, Clerk.

FOR SALE-Two $50 acre farms in
Chippewa county, Mimi, on easy
terms. Write Willie r. Brandt, Will
mar, Mimi.
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FOR RENT-Two front rooms for
light housekeeping. Enquire at this
office.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31
New Board Upheld by Butler.

Denver.-Judge Charles C. Butler OF
the third division of the District Court
dismissed the petition of Henry Van
Kleeck to compel John e. Kramer
secretary of state, to file the petition
to refer the act passed by the Legis-
lature changing the civil service law
of this state, and with it went the con-
tention of the liquor interest which
also had a similar petition awaiting
the same place on the docket. After
counsel for both sides had presented
their argument Judge Butler decided
the case without delay.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31
Extraordinary Precautions for Safety


Denver-The discovery of plot to
abduct Joseph F. Smith, head of the
Mormon church in Salt Lake City,
carry him to the impenetrable fast
nesses of the Jackson Hole country in
Wyoming, where ransom of 100000
was to be demanded for his release by
the three daylight robbers who COM
mitted the holdup of 125 passengers
touring Yellowstone park, July 9, and
who more recently exacted $4,000 ran
som for the release of wealthy cat
tleman living near Idaho Falls, Idaho,
has caused federal authorities of the
department of justice to decide upon
extraordinary precautions for the
safety of the Mormon church head
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

elected president of the organization.
said it is now the duty of the business
men of this country to do all in their
power to restore normal conditions in
Europe, and proposed that 100000
100000 be loaned without interest to
the government for the purchase OF
Belgium He suggested that later the
government Of that country could be
turned over to It's own people.
Mr.. Wanamaker declared that the
United States had made its first mis-
take when it had failed to protest
against the violation Of the neutrality
of Belgium.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31
SUGGESTS U. s. BUY BELGIUM.
Proposition Made by John Wanna

Proposition Made by John Wanna
maker in Philadelphia Speech.
Philadelphia.-The purchase of Bel
GUM from Germany by the United
States and the imposition of high
duties on imports and exports by this
country were among the suggestions
made by John Wanamaker in an ad-
dress here at meeting at which
prominent business and professional
men formed local branch OF the Ma
tional Security league
Mr.. Wanamaker, who was later
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

Some idea of the Astounding good
will of the people of Alabama toward
the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial
institute, located in the Black belt of
Alabama, is found in the fact that
each year finds large crowds of promi-
nent white visitors from surrounding
villages and the larger cities of the
state attending the annual commence
ment exercises. This year, in addi-
ton to other visitors, the Automobile
club of the chamber of commerce of
Montgomery, Ala. came in a body to
the school.
There were more than a hundred of
these important business and profess
sional men, with their families, and it
was probably the first time in the his
tory of the South that two such impor-
tant white organizations have paid
honor to a Negro institution by at
tending the commencement exercises
In body.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

Arthur Wardwell of Skohegan, Me-.
is said to have the largest elm tree in
the country. 1t measures IS feet in
circumference. more than rs feet in
height and the branches spread nearly
so feet.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

A clinic for colored mothers was or
ganized at the Children's Homeopathic
hospital, Franklin and Thompson
streets. Philadelphia. and the initial
lecture was delivered by Mrs. Marga-
ret Simon, the superintendent of social
work at the hospital So great has
been the attendance at the weekly lee
lures for mothers on Friday afternoons
that the hospital was obliged to es-
tablish two additional clinics-one on
Wednesdays for the mothers of sick
babies and the third for colored moth
ers and babies
The attendance was larger than the
nurses had provided for. Colored
women from all parts of the city, and
even from Chester, Camden, Haddon-
field and other places, came and all
had at least one baby; some of them
as many as three. There was probably
never a brighter lot of babies at the
clinic. accordin. to the attendant
nurses, and certainly never better
dressed set of infants. The interest
of the mothers was so intent that the
physicians regard this clinic as one of
the most promising in the city.
Mrs. Simon gave the mothers an in
formal talk, telling them of the pur-
poses of the clinic and the advantage
to be derived from attending 1t regu.
larly and following the instruction
given for the care of the babies. She
explained the fundamental care of the
babies, giving them plenty of food.
easily digested food, proper exercises
and allowing them plenty of water,
and warned the mothers against
dope" remedies
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

Greece is practically without home
industries, says consular report. and
because of the outbreak of the war
any first-class article Of American
manufacture could be sold there now
if properly brought to the attention OF
the buyers.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

When writing. Confucius used a
small brush. like a camels-hair brush
for a pen, and so did his ancestors for
centuries before his time. The reed
came into use for writing in the
marshy countries of the Orient. II
was hollow and cut in short lengths
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31

AS has been often pointed out.
every man has his little distinction.
John Klopfer hasn't had the back Of
his neck shaved in 30 years.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-07-31
AER0-AMER|CAN CUL[|NCS

The presidents proclamation be-
5peking interest in the exposition at
Richmond organized under the aus
pices of the Negro Historical and In
dustrial association is an evidence in
itself of the extraordinary progress of
that race in America since the door
of opportunity was opened 1t is the
voice of all the people, white and
black. and will bear good fruit Only
a thoroughly worthy object could have
brought from the chief executive such
a deliverance.
The display at Richmond represent
ed less than half century of build
ing along the lines of intelligent sys-
tenn and study. For not until few
years after the war closed did the
Negro get fairly started on the road
to individual effort and thrift. He was
for time in the clutches of the poll
ticians, some pulling this way and
some that, but none pulling for him.
1t was in the early '70s that he finally
got his proper bearings and began to
show under friendly leadership his
capacity for good work and good citi-
zenship. Since then he has done
much; and all true men appreciate the
performance. and wish him success
in his further like course.
The Negro is in America to stay.
All the shallow outgivings of futile
dreamers and selfish schemers about
deportation have ceased. Neither the
intelligent Negro nor the intelligent
white man was misled Both could
appraise the real situation, and did
appraise 1t at its right value. America,
never more so than now, is oppor-
tunity for the man who wants to make
himself useful, qualities to that end
and applies what he learns and saves
what he earns.
The Negro should be not only in
dustrious but patient Half a century
is scarcely more than day in reckon
ing the advancement and achievements
of race. But 1t is the first steps
that count; and since his feet were
Get in the right path the Negroes steps
have been steady and assuring.
Reference, of course, is to the Ne
gro who respects himself and solicits
by his conduct the respect of his white
neighbors. When he does that he pros
pers. When he does his duty by him
self he does it by others; and here he
sees himself able to command the SYM
pathy and recognition of the highest
official of the government, speaking
for all who live under the government
and know the benefits of it's protec-
ton.