The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-05-27

Mrs. C. E. Palmer returned Monday
evening from a weeks visit with her
daughter at Algona, Iowa.
Miles Swering went over to Flan-
dreau Friday morning to take a posi-
ton with the electric light company.
Thursday to deliver the commence
ment address to the graduating class
of the high school.
Editor B. f. Lloyd, of the Arlington
Sun, was down Friday to take in the
high school meet. He informed us
that at least 200 people from his town
would have been here had the weather
been favorable.
The Collegian, the college paper,
showed considerable enterprise by get
ting out a special edition Friday after
noon, the paper being on sale on the
close of the high school meet.
While breakink up a box at his home
Thursday, Frank Crabtree was hit on
the head and sustained quite a serious
injury. He was stunned for a time.
He says at the time he was struck he
was laying a board aside. The injury
was not unlikely caused by a stray bull
let. There has been considerable
shooting along and near the river, and
| GaNapal rnnnrtG haNn haG1 roaIa ~ the
Enterprise recently of stray bullets
passing through peoples yards in town.
The law prohibits shooting anywhere
in the city limits.-Flandreau Enter
prise.
A man who believes in the old say
ing, See a pin and pick it up. and all
the day you'll have good luck" saw a
pin in front of the p~ostotiice the other
day. Bending down to get it, his hat
tumbled off and rolled into the gutter,
his eyeglasses fell and broke on the
walk, his s%uspenders gave way, he
bursted the b%uttonhole on the back of
his shirt collar, but he got the pin.
An exchange says that potato grow
ers should remember that if a hill of
beans is planted between the hills of
potatoes the potato bugs will shun the
patch and no Paris green or picking
bugs is necessary. Another method is
to plant flax seed in each hill of pota-
toes and there will be no trouble with
bugs where the seeds grow. This
seems a very simple remedy, and it is
worth trying.
1t is about time for some one to start
an investigation to learn the reason
why so many silos are falling down.
Anyone who has occasion to read the
various country weekly newspapers is
astoniShed at the number of wood and
concrete silos that are reported as fall.
ing over. 1t would be found, perhaps
that the reason in most cases embraced
the old causes-cheap labor and cheap
materials. The farmer should know
that he can not get good work and
good goods unles he pays for them
If he intends to invest in a silo let him
get the best that money can buy and
let it be erected by the most response
J BILE men in the business. In such a
I case the farmer will never be sorry
The best is the cheapest, in the Ions
run.-Ex.
From the Pasadena, Cal, Star OF
May 10 we get the following report of
. the death of T. M. Way, a former resi-.
v dent of Brookings: Thomas Man.
: ming Way, 62 years old, of Indiana,
died at his residence, Alameda street
[ and Lake venue. He had been in
Pasadena nine and one half years. He
is survived by a widow and six sons
: James G.. and Ivan 7. Way, of Pasa-
dena, c. j. Way, of Phoenix, Ariz. +;
C. NJ. Way, of Fallon, New; Alfred T.
Way, of Gardnerville, New; and A. d.
: Way, of Elks, MINI. He also is sur
: vived by eight grandchildren. The
, funeral will be held from the parlors
= of the Turner e Stevens Co, at =
with Rev. William G.. Hull officiating.
The body will be placed in the Ingle-
wood mausoleum."
The personnel of Richards & Prin-
giles famous Georgia Ministries this
season includes such well-known
names as Clarence Powell, Mamie
Campbell, Jerry Mills, Benny Jones,
Dave Smith, Chicken Reel BeamOn,
Sidney Kirkpatrick, VIM. De Acklen,
j. A. Watts, and twenty others. The
coming of this company is heralded
with delight by that portion of amuse-
ment-going people who enjoy a first
class minstrel show. For thirty years
this sterling band of dusky fun max
ers has been appearing in all the
principal cities and town from coast to
coast, and elephantine adjectives would
be a waste of time and space. Sufi-
cient to pack the house is the an