The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-08

those who autoed to Big Stone to at
tend the chautauqua the 5th.
There will be no band concert this
evening, many of the players being at
Redfield as members of the college
band at the annual guard encampment.
their first real military experience by
musicians from Redfeld. Prof. Chris
Jensen will be director, however.
Talk about farm life in South Da-
kota! Well, it amt what it used to be.
1t is quite a common occurrence in
Bookings to see an automobile from
the country drive up beside the curb
and two ladies alight, one with a babe
in arms, and unfold a callapseable
baby cab, place the child within and
sail off up Main street just as though
they had just come down town. A pic
ture of their farm home reveals the
same ideal conditions, nice house, bath,
electric lights, telephone and rural de-
livery. Big barns filled with stock,
plenty of fresh eggs. fresh cream and
butter not to mention the thousand
and n other good things raised in
the garden. Is it any wonder that peo-
pie want to get back to the soil?"
The destruction of old buildings
which are fire traps is one of the
movements for the state which has
been launched by the state insurance
department. In this work the depart
ment will act with local authorities,
and attempt so far as possible to ac-
complish this end without court action
The first move in this direction was at
Deadwood and Lead, where Insurance
Commissioner Stablein looked over
the situation the first of the week.
Fourteen buildings in Deadwood were
condemned, and ordered torn down,
most of these being in chinatown"
and at Lead four buildings were con-
demned. A campaign along such lines
will be carried out in all the cities of
the state, and by this means a lot of
fire risks are expected to be removed.
A farmer from near Lake lakewood
brought some bullheads which he had
caught out of that lake to the college
and had them examined by Prof. Mil
Ter of the zoology department the lat
ter part of last week. They were
found to be infested with a species of
fat worm. The worm is small but a
trace of it can he seen with the naked
eye but under the microscope it is seen
in all its wriggling life. The party
who brought in the fish stated that
he has seen perch affected with the
same worms. This will tend to serious
ly affect angling at that lake, for peo-
pie do not ordinarily relish the idea
of eating such fish, even though
thorough cooking would kill the worm.
Prof. Miller expects to go up to Oak
wood soon and make a more careful
study of the conditions there.
The B~rookings band had quite an
outing this year in assisting other
communities in celebrating the natal
day. Saturday they stopped at Gary
and introduced themselves to the peo-
pie of that city by furnishing the music
: for their celebration. Sunday they con-
tinued on their journey, stopping at
Milbank for a concert n a view OF
the city. They then continued on to
Big Stone, where they appeared in a
concert before the c~hautauqua, it being
State College day. The band reports
a fine trip, lots of good times and many
new friends, for this is the first time
that the band has ventured so far
north in the state and the northerners
had to be shown what Brookings
musicians were capable of. They
made the entire trip by automobile, re-
turning home Wednesday morning.
Four farmers near Candy, Mimi,
pooled their efforts and built a fou
mile transmission line to bring cleo
tricity from the village to their re-
spective farms, where it is used for
lighting the farm homes and farm
buildings and for power service. Since
the line has been constructed the aver
age bill per customer per month has
been about $3.50. In the contracts
which the customers have signed it is
agreed that they will pay the company
a minimum of s36 a rear for service,
in addition to 81 per month per horse
power of motor rating. The energy
rate is 1875 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Each customer reads his own meter
and reports the reading to the central
station company by post card. Inspec-
tons of the line, which is TO- the
property of the company, are made at
irregular intervals, and the inspector
checks the meter records.
The program that will be followed