The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-25

You get a fair and square deal all
the time at the Rising Sun Market.
Thee. Schultz, proprietor.
Mrs. H. l.. Hubbard returned home
last Friday morning after a short visit
with relatives at Castlewood and Estel-
line.
Miss Esther Billings of Raymond, S.
D., arrived last Saturday morning for
a short visit with her aunt, Mrs. E. E.
Hyde.
Mrs. G. A. Richard and little son
Elmer left last Saturday morning for a
weeks visit with relatives at Walnut
Grove, MINI.
p. F. Nolan, editor of the Plankinton
Herald, is carrying his arm in a sling
as a result of cranking his Ford car.
The people of P~lankinton are now re-
c~eiving left-handed editorials.
Mrs. Lena Hyde came down from
Arlington last Friday for a few days
visit and to attend the meeting of the
Relief Corps Saturday evening. She
was a guest at the home of Mrs. S.
Luckenbill.
Cellars in Bookings are well filled
with the winters supply of potatoes, in
addition to the thousands of bushels
that have been shipped to outside mar
kets. South Dakota enjoyed a record
potato crop this year and ours are the
best on the market.
Automobile owners undoubtedly will
be pleased to learn that the auto tax
in South Dakota will be three dollars
in 1916 instead of six. The greater
per cent of the tax fund will be spent
upon the public highways, according
to a new law which goes into effect
January /.
Kittle Kittleson traded his stock of
clothing, which he has had in the
Tamblyn building for several weeks,
last Friday to Goodfellow of Bruce for
an automobile. MI. Goodfellow ship
ped the stock over there Saturday. The
Kittlesons and Mr.. Peterson left for
Arlington the same day.-Lake Norden
Enterprise.
Charles Coughlin, foreman Of the
Briggs-Stratton Co. in Milwaukee, stop
ped off last Saturday to attend the
State Wesleyan football game and to
visit old friends. Charlie is a former
State student and was one of the best
athletes in the state during his school
days. He left Saturday evening to
visit home folks at Carthage, S.. D.
President E. c. Perisho of State Col
lege is among the delegates from South
Dakota appointed by Gov. F. NJ. Byrne
to attend the third national conference
on Marketing and Farm Credits, which
will hold a joint session with the ma
tional council of Farmers Co-Opera-
tive Associations in Chicago November
20 to December 3. South Dakota will
be represented by sixteen delegates.
Quite a crowd went to Watertown
Saturday where they enjoyed a chance
to take in the city and attend the foot
ball game. The game was a disap-
pointment to many, the Brookings boys
o~utclassing the North Dakota Aggies
from Fargo and defeating them by a
score Of 81 to 0. South Dakota State
College has an excellent team this
year and played good ball.-Bradley
Globe.
Madison is to have several blocks Of
paving on Egan avenue, according TO
the Madison papers. A sufficient num-
Der of INT have been attached to the
consent petition to lend reasonable as
surance that the venture will meet
with success. The opposition of prop
erty owners to paving the main street
has been so slight it is scarcely notice
able and the matter will be placed be
fore the city commission at the next
meeting of, that body.
A new form of up-to-date thievery ap-
pears to have developed around Aber-
deem, where a number of farmers and
elevators report thefts of grain, appar-
emily by automobile thieves. No indi-
vidual has lost a great amount Of
grain, but the aggregate stolen must
amount to thousands of bushels. One
farmer near Groton had half a wagon
box full Of grain taken during the night
while auto drivers have taken several
sacks from granaries.
Secretary of State Rood says South
Dakota automobile owners will not
only have a better and prettier num-
Der plate for 1916, but the state will
save more than $4,000 over the 1915
contract. The new plate will have a
black background with light green
numerals, with the initials S. D. and
1916 in the right hand corner. They
are 27-guage steel. two points heavier
than the 1915 plates. A total Of %, 700
auto licenses were issued this year in
fhis state an incroaso NJ g non over