The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-01-20

Wanted-Good clean cotton rags a,
the Register office.
Miss Florence Keller visited friends
and attended to business matters in
Watertown last Saturday.
Get the Neidich Process ribbon. IN.
best that's made for typewriter pnr,
poses, at the Register office.
y number of entries from Brook
lngs were made in the third ar.
nual exhibit of the Northwest Poultry
Association at Waterfowl last week.
Among those from this city who won
ribbons were A. w. Morton, Mrs. w. J.
Gentle and DR., B. II. Sayre. Rev. +. j.
Hoffman of White also won a good
many prizes. Mrs. Gentle purchased a
White Rock pullet for a sum that, so
lar as is known, established a record
Tor a high priced chicken in South Da-
kota. She paid $4,000 for the pullet
owned by II. A. Holden of Watertown
that was given a score which has never
before been eQualed by a chicken any
where in the world except in three in
stances. The bird graded 81, only
three points below perfect. The bird
was a center of attraction among the
five hundred entered in the show and
occupied a cage placed c~onspicuously
before the door. Eggs laid by the pull
let We're sold for S1.0O each and the
new Bookings owner can be congratu-
lated upon bringing the bird to this
city.
IF the boy corn growers of South
Dakota continue the progress they
have made in the last year this state
soon will be in the front rank as a pro
Queer of juvenile agriculturists," ac-
cording to Prof. r. A. Moore of the
University of Wisconsin who last week
finished judging the boys exhibits at
the First National Corn Show held in
the mammoth Hill Railway Building,
at st. Paul. Trophy cup awards vaIu-
ed at $4,000 We're given by the First
National Bank and the Northwestern
Trust Company. An exceptionally fine
quality of corn was raised by the boys
Of Montana, Washington, Oregon.
Idaho, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and
Minnesota for exhibition in this show.
These future greats" in the corn rails
ing field are rapidly putting the North.
western states on the mar as a new
and wonderful corn belt. "Why the
corn laid down here for me to judge
has proved the most surprising in quail
ity that | have examined in the long
years of my association with the
grain" said Prof. Moore. Considering
Prof. Moore's great reputation through
out the United States as a corn judge,
thi statement by him spells the high
est tribute that could be paid to boy
hood effort in this country.
What is the matter with the leap
year girls in Brookings? Such is the
query that is being made with daily in
creasing anxiety among officers and
deputies at the county court house.
For since the time for proposals from
the fairer sex opened just 20 days ago,
only four couples have entered the
doors of the court house on matrimony
bent. The conclusion at which those
who keep track Of the results of
Cupid's arrows are arriving is that
leap year girls are far fewer than sup
posed, or the still more terrible sus-
picion, that they are bashful. 1t is
evident that the men are playing their
part of the leap year game strictly ac-
cording to rules and are leaving ad-
to the opposite sex Not only
in the marriage license office is the
off in the marriage rate noticed.
Since January /, 1916, not a single
couple has been united in wedlock by
County Judge Geo. p. Hall. This is
the longest period since he has taken
Office perhaps that Judge Hall has not
been called upon to officiate at a mar
riage ceremony. However, some take
a more hopeful view. They explain
that twenty days is scarcely long
enough for a courtship and proposal
and urge hat the girls be given more
time.
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