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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-12
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NOTICE OF OST OFFIC PRIMARY
ELECTION AT BROOKINGS, SOUTH
DAKOT

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN; That a
primary election for the purpose of indicat-
ing the choice of the Democratic patrons OF
the Brookings, South Dakota, Post Office for
the office of Postmaster to succeed the pres
ent incumbent, will be held at the G. a. r.
Hall in the City of Bookings, County of
Bookings, and State of South Dakota on the
18th day of October, 1916, between the hours
of Nine A. NJ. and Six 7. NJ. of said day, at
which election all patrons of said Post Office
who were registered as Democrats at the
June, 1916 Primary Election, whether on the
rural routes or in the City, are eligible under
rules provided by the State Committeeman
and the Chairman of the County Democratic
Committee, and consented to by the candi-
dates.
NOTICE is GIVEN; That all
persons desiring to participate in such cleo
ton as candidates shall on or before October
18th, 1916, sign a statement of candidacy
which is on file with Thomas Tinker, County
Chairman, at the Democratic Headquarters
over Gillespie & Rogers Shoe Store, in the
city of Bookings. S. D., and that no person
except those signing such statement shall be
eligible to be voted on at said %eelction.
Dated October End, 1916.
T. w. TINKER,
Chairman Democratic County Committee.
j. p. ALEXANDER,
state Committeeman Bookings County,
South Dakota.
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cifst, and the next is o~ut-shouting Col.
Roosevelt for arms and ships, who one
week is for a barren neutrality and
the next for war in behalf Of general
righteousness, who n night is for
collective wage bargaining and arbi-
tration of industrial disputes and he
next is waving the flag Of ~decreeing
wages up or down as the votes of the
larger number can be controlled
New York Globe and Commercial Adj
vertiSer.
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o

curing the Prohibition campaign In
Washington state one of the strong
est opponents of the prohibition move
mcnt was the Seattle Times. The
Times was edited by Major G.. b.
Blethen. The Times opposition to
prohibition was based on economic
grounds. The paper opposed prohibi-
ton because its editor thought that
prohibition would be a bad thing for
the state.
But since prohibition has been in
effect in Washington conditions have
so improved, the result has been so
different from what the Times editor
and publisher thought it would be,
that Major Blethen has come out
frankly with the statement that he
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-12
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
ScHooLS-FoR SECOND TERM

To the Voters of Brookings County:
Having been nominated for the Office
by the Republican Party, and owing
to the fact that l am kept constantly
employed with the duties of the office,
it will be impossible for me to make
a thorough personal canvass and inter
view each voter personally, therefore.
l take this NEAR of soliciting your
support and votes at the general cleo
ton on November 7th, 1916.
II you feel that l have served the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-12
Wabblinu Woodrow.

O%pportunism has claims that every
statesman must respect. But never
has there been an opportunist In the
White House of greater willingness
to change than the present incumbent.
The country feared it had placed pow
er In the hands Of a doctrinaire school
master incapable Of bending. 1t finds
that 1t has q man of remarkable plas-
ticity Of judgment, who one moment
stands for states rights and the next
for nationalism, who n day is a ia
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-12
TICKET

Observation-Disclosures Wilson
Vice-President-Thos. r. Marshall
Presidential Electors:
A. S. Satterly
j. w. Moore
p. L.. Randall
Lewis G. Peck
John NJ. King
Congressional:
First District-O. d. Anderson
Second District. j. Patterson
Third District-Harry l.. Candy
State Ticket
Governor-Orville V. Rinehart
Lieut.. Gov.-A. S. Anderson
Sec'y ~State-James f. Bird
Attorney Gencral-Jos. J. Conry
State Auditor-T. /. Gunderson
State Treasurer-Jacob Gergen
Com. School and Public Lands-John
Michaels
Supt. Public Instruction-Will Cham
berlain.
r. r. Commissiorer-Jogen j. Doe
Legislative and County
State SENATOR. II. Simmons
Rep. A. Silvander
Ellef J. Void
Treasurer-Alfred B. Peterson
Auditor-Joseph l.. Bairey
Sheriff-Fred Miner
Clerk of Courts-H. .. Harrison
Supt. Schools-E. Esther Pierce
Surveyor. T. Atkinson
Coroner-Dr. L. w. Forsee
Com. End District-E. G.. Sheldon
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FRED S. MINER, DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF,
SECOND TERM

We wish at this time to thank the
people of Brookings and of the entire
county for the splendid support they
have given me during my first term,
and if elected, will assure you a con
tinuance of the same policy in the con
duct of the Sheriff's office.
Fred S. MINER.
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REPUBLICAN, TICKET
National

CHARLES e. HUGHES
Nice-President-
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS
Presidential Electors
GEO. r. DOUTHIT
ALVIN WAGGONER
w. MEEHAN
II. X. GJOLME
G.. X. SNYDER
Congressional
ROYAL G. JOHNSON
Congressman. Second District
Governor
PETER NoRBEcK
Lieutenant Governor
w II. McMASTER
Secretary OF State
FRANK NJ. RIOD
Attorney General
CLARENCE c. CALDWELL
JAMES f. HANDLIN
Treasurer
G. ". HELGERsoN
Commissioned OF school and Public Lands
n. +. KNIGHT
Superintendent OF Public instruction
c. X. LUGG
Railroad Commissioned
FRED II. RUGG
Legislative
State Senator
NJ C. CARLISLE
Representatives
4. B. DALTHORP
O. y. KENNARD
NELS RlSHOI
County Auditor
JOHN II
County Treasurer
JOHN K. CULTIANE
Clerk OF Courts
JOHN 4. LUNDEN
Register OF Deeds
CONRAD O. LEE
Superintendent Of Schools
HERBERT W. BLAKELY
States Attorney
WALLACE r. PURDY
Sheriff
JOHN II. ROBERTS
County Judge
GEO. =. HALL
Coroner
b. T. RUDE
Justices
JOHN LUNG
O. ID.
Commissioner, 2nd District
c. A.
Commissioner. An District
II. c. HALVORSON
County Surveyor
]. A.. HEGEMAN
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town and college, and organized about
$50 Of the business men to assist in
carrying Amendment No. s.
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This space will be reserved for political gossip and campaign matter furnished by the
seveaI0p political parties and factions AL calls for political or facuonal meetings Will be
p non this bag n%1 and "M. everyone the right to- discuss the issues pro and con; deserving
tn right to crHbs ad express Its w opinion In Its editorial columns
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-12
TO ALL THE VOTERS OF SOUTH
DAKOTA

| am a candidate for the office Of
Judge of the Supreme Court from the
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NAA~ A@N AAOA NA1N 100000, ~S~S~ AN
:, ex DGss nc no so shf nsHots STORY toJsx sPtl Ebs f1 I"ssi oat the ' IsssSe.
defending the iaw-presents its facts to the jury of South
Dakota-the voters. The proponents of state wide Prohibi-
and defamatory. They realize the testimony of every pro-
hibition state is against their theory of control, and no alter
native exists but to abuse those who assume the right of their
own opinion.
There is a grave menace existing in South D4kota today
the question as to whether the interests of the State are to
be made secondary to an organization, and whether the super
intendent of the Anti Saloon League shall be enthroned as
political parties.
this f foste sslasn'f II Of h ts b Pssa % dsereed P 9hat thu SEa ssR9stes
for public office must be measured by the Anti Saloon yard
1t S creditable to the intelligence of the electorate that all
opposed by this organization have been marked for honor by
their constituencies.
a public organ, have been derided, condemned ard abused
law that has been the law of South Dakota, for twenty
years, and was placed on the statute books by the Prohibi-
tonists of the State who sought legislation to remedy the
disgraceful and lawless conditions that existed under pro-
hibitory control.
It has further been ds cree r d;t that no no citizen Il sr;s of the ne State Rss
Mr.. Eolsape. The men who believe in local option control. are
for committing the objectionable sin of defending the laws
of South Dakota. Is it not a deporable situation when
satisfy the demands of one individual or be subject to defama-
ton, abuse and vilihcation?
represented, mieunderstood and maIigned, yet in spite of
this type of campaign, has, and is, attracting thousands of
uUutT Us banner. ii cClOT OF the SCdlG d D
long suffered under the overwhelmingly, unfair, unchristian
and untrue representations of sppt. HasOsaple' that il is turning
culated will come back home with a tremendous majority
for Local Option on November 7th. In "The New Republic"
Sept. 1, 1916, is the following statement relative to the South
Dakota Local Option League. "The league uas not formed
by the people of South Dakota but by hired agents of foreign
liquor corporations Uho came into the State Nth carpet
bags. travelling about seeking names. ETC." The entire
fabric of the statement quoted is absolutely untrue and the
South Dakota Local Option League will donate $4,000 to any
charity the Anti-Saloon League names, if it will give the name
of any citizen in the State who has been approached by the
agent of a foreign liquor corporation" with a view of mem
bership in the Local Option League, or evidence to sustain
in trade of the Holsaple aggregation.
The activity of the Anti Saloon League the past month has
been directed in an effort to tear down the Local Option
League on the presumed premises that no men in the State
Vote mo" Tuesdo
SOUTH
Advertisement
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
PAYS $3.50 FOR COOK BOOK

One of the twenty copies published
on China paper of Les Graveurs du
Dix-hutieme Steele" by Portals and
Beraldi, in three volumes, brought the
top price yesterday at the final ses-
sion Of the sale in the Anderson gal
leries of the duplicate French books
from the Huntington library. George
ID. Smith gave $500 for this work,
which among it's $50 rare illustrations
contains specimens of most of the en-
gravers Of the eighteenth century. IL
also has three-page autograph letter
signed by Angelica Kaufman. dated
Rome, September IL, 1906.
A fine copy of Pastissier's volume on
cooking, long accepted, it is said. az
the scarces tot all Elzeviers, was sold
to J. F. Drake for $3.50, probably the
highest price ever paid for a cook
book. IL is described in the Fontaine
catalogue $500 francs bought by La
Roche Lacarelle. contains La Roche
Lacarelle's book label and that of T.
r. Halsey. Its great rarity is partly
accounted for by its having been used
and thumbed 10 pieces by cooks and
kitchen maids, instead Of being pre-
served on the shelves Of collectors, as
were other Elzeviers.
For first edition copy of Ovid, in
four volumes, J. Martini gave $780, and
the same price was paid by NJ. Sloog
for a large China paper copy OF Paul
Ct Virginie," by Saint-Pierre
Felix Chancel" copy. with his eX-
libris The fetal of the session was
sl4,64s50, and OF the entire sale,
s39,9l625.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
MRS. EMILY VI. BISHOP

Mrs. Emily Montague Bishop. widow
of Coleman Bishop. former editor of
Judge" died yesterday in New York
Hospital of intestinal trouble. She was
in her fifty-ninth year. She lived at
6l0 West 1l1th Street.
A pioneer in the fight for equal suf-
frage, Mrs. Bishop was also an author,
reader, lecturer and health culturist.
She was born in Forestville, n. Y. No
yember 3, 1858, the daughter of Asa l..
and Anne +. De Witt Mulkin. She was
educated in the Forestville High School
and later became lecturer and teacher
at the Chautauqua Assembly, Chautsu-
qua Lake. She was one of the prime
workers in the establishment Of a
physical culture course at Chsutauqua,
and was at one time Joint principal and
director Of health culture in the school
of expression. She wrote Health and
Self-Expression," Seventy Years
Young" Daily Ways to Health" and
Interpretive Forms Of Literature"
Just before she was taken i'll. Mrs.
Bishop became associated with the
Women's Democratic League, and the
day before she was removed to the hos
pital she stumped for President Wilson
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
ROBINSON-BENSON

Miss Margaret Farton Benson
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Sum
ner Benson, of Pennington Avenue
Passaic, y. j., and John Noel Robin.
son, of Sewickley, Penn. were married
In the First Presbyterian Church, OF
Passaic, last evening. The Rev. DR.
Charles r. Erdman, of Princeton Uni
yersity, and the Rev. DR.. James Dallas
Steele, of Passaic, officiated.
Miss Benson was attended by Miss
Jane Benson, her sister, as maid oil
honor, and Miss Helen B. Emerson and
Miss Lucie Emerson. of Titusvllle
Penn; Miss Marjory Woods, of Sewick-
ley, Penn; Miss Olive d. Benson.
cousin, of Passaic. \. j.; Miss Marion
Cleveland. of Princeton, y. j., and Miss
Eugene c. Hick, of Richmond, Va, as
bridesmaids. The best man was Alex
ander Robinson, brother of the bride,
groom, and the ushers were David
Robinson and Kinley J. Tenor. OF
Sewickley, Penn; Lawrence G. Moves
of ST. Paul, and Arthur H. Jackson
Robertson l.. Cleveland and Russell V
A. Plimpton. of New York City.
The father OF the bride is vice-presi-
dent Of the Tdewater Oil Company
OF New York and New Jersey, and IS
a brother of Robert Dix Benson, OF
Passaic, n. j., president Of the same
corporation. The bridegroom's father
is Alexander C. Robinson, Pittsburgh
banker. The bridegroom is a graduate
OF Princeton, class of 1915, and is now
with the National Bank Of Commerce
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
$1O,OOOinCats, But One Mouse
Could Stampede EN-, Says Jakey
The Alley Cat Looks Over the Pampered Pets at the
Atlantic Clubs Show-Admits They Are
Beautiful, but

pionship. He sleeps on green velvet
every night and they pay a doctor So
10 examine his digestion every time
he sneezes. But | bet | can outpurr
him any day in the week.
There are fifteen maids here, they
tell me, with nothing to do but mani
cure cattails and give cat hair lac
strokes nightly before retiring. Those
five cats Of Mrs. Chester Chapin's, i'm
ported from England, have maids to
clean their ears with olive oil every
morning. What | say is the country
is going to the dogs when a cat can't
wash his own ear,
These now-fangled notions are scan
dalous anyway. Do you know, they
are actually trying 20 breed lavender
cats from blue cats because lavender
is all the rage this year, and the
judges like short bodied cats because
short bodies are in vogue now like
short skirts Why, they'll be practic-
ing birth control next"
Sacred Cats Cross-Eyed
"Where are the Sacred Cats. Jakey"
he was asked
"Over there, the ones with tails like
corkscrews. There's only six in this
country and three Of them are in the
show. Look at them close and you
will see they are all cross-eyed. When
they are born, they are pure white,
but they change to biscuit color and
chocolate"
Does the high cost OF living effect
cats ?"
Jakey the Alley Cat washed couple
of inches of tail before replying. 1T
does stylish cats. They tell me it
costs 2S cents a day to feed the rich
boys raw meat, whereas it cost only
90 cents a year ago. But that's for the
millionaires like Mrs. 4. c. Benedicts
Creamery King that she refused $1,000
for. lie lives at her cattery at Green.
witch, Mass, where they have hot and
cold water and cat shower baths and
each cat his own radiator. A cat like
me now can get along on a smell and
dark night"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23

also two paintings from his hand, a
charming portrait of little girl and
an amusing head Of the late Robert
Barr. the novelist. There may also De
seen here some new etchings and dry
points by Ernest Haskell, who has been
In California drawing the wind-torn
oakg and other characterful trees. lie
has prodigious skill, the legitimate
effect of which he discounts by an ex-
cess of detail. II is odd that so thor
ough master of tree forms should
not see the disadvantage, both from a
pictorial point of view and from the
point OF view of etching rs an art, OF
giving 10 pretty nearly every bougn
and leaf its place. He carries the same
redundancy into his studies OF larger
themes, as witness the Monterey Har-
bor." That plate would be enchanting
if the clouds above and the boats below
had been subjected 20 the operations
OF that art which Whistler loved, the
art Of omission, of selection. As a
craftsman Mr.. Haskell leaves US breath
less. As an artist he is sadly disap-
pointing.
The Montross gallery presents an ex-
hibition Of early Chinese art, paintings,
potteries, bronzes ana stone sculptures
collected by Mr.. A. W. Bahr This is
accompanied by pictures by PstrieS
Henry Bruce. Floral decorations in
water color and oil by Mrs. Lawrence
Wright may be seen at the gallery Of
the Berlin Photographic Company. The
Braun gallery exhibits paintings by
Emil Holzhauer. An important collec-
ton Of old Chinese poreelains is on
view at the Dreicer gallery. In Brook
Ign. at the Ardsley Studios, there is a
loan exhibition OF early japanese
prints. At Wanamaker's paintings OF
French end Spanish landscapes and
Spanish gardens, b. Eliceo Meifren. are
on exhibition.
Circulars are out for the winter ex-
hibi.ion of the National Academy OF
Design. which will be held at the Fine
Arts Building from December Is 10
January IA. IL will be followed BY the
annual exhibition of the Architectural
League, scheduled 10 open on February
4, and to last until February %, in
elusive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
FROM AN AMBULANCE CORPS CONTRIB

the elbow box ambulance along with the cigar
brandy have been carrying George Gssngs Born
Exile The for the other for the wounded pots
hour duty yesterday at poste de seo few
hundred yards quiet poste wounded
my snugged up fireplace and let Gissing
speak In chapter III, found the following:
My experience among the lower classes don't
poorest Of much
helping them,
would only have moved unjust
who thr whose
to Only
where they dwell Don't isunderstan
charging them with what are commonly heid wees ana
with love OF everything that
impulse the habit
these the really direct the
They set the tone poHes
eHe Of influence One hears and of
with
which add 10 million
which deliberately adapted TO
Of When supreme
the Of the majority fail to lead and con'r0l'
Il isn't exactly without its measure of truth, is 1t?
Aa1 Armes u France " - ""SoN'
The chief purchasers stock school teachers and
women.-Bufslo Express
Are -? You know.
Perhap-oh man! Mr. Briggs would say-the reason
can't expan the eighthour law wife that you don't
understand it yourself
Possibly" the Evening Post commenting on the fact
that the Colonel opera Monday night the presence
Of famous x-Presdent nearby box made some people
houghtless."
His presence just about this time especially
should make people thoughtful r. r. ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23

ION, c+orkveather's exhibition at the
Toisom gallery gives well the measure
&c ne Qualities and his defects. IL IS
oalled dPortrait of Margaret Donegan'
. Studio Scrubwoman," and this hgure
Ias the central position. Suoordinated
"a her. on one side, is dim portrait
~ tho artist: on the other IS young
GIRL seated. Above, where the canvas
srcbes. the BODY Of a modern woIK-
man Is sustained by Christ and the
Madonna. The religious and the real
80 elements in the composition are
sbarnIv separated. The picture IS made
If Two unrelated parts. In other
nod Mr.. Starkweather is Ill az ease
v,;th his IDEAS and we are thrown PACK
~non his technique. That is eNceilen',
sa far as il goes. but it suffers niue
from What we can only describe as the
sar,c immaturity characteristic OF mr.
comnosition. The scrubwoman' ior
evamnle. is well done, but the otner
sarras arc not so authoritatively
e;ntod The various portraits wake
r. Same dubiety. Mr.. Starkweatner
Les ,be vigor. the solidity, and some
,hiro of the rude precision whieh
oia"er nunil Of Sorolla's ought 10 nave
natter Of course. lie needs 10 re :
Sne these admirable resources, 10 ge'
more subtlety into his modelling OF a
face more quality into his tone anu
color. In short, his art wants pui''"S
together.
Anroros of sorolla, there is presently
beId at the Brooklyn Museum
opening on December .; an eSh'o ILL.,
OF twoscore pictures py tna. s;n, 80.
recently acclaimed spanish pan -,
Ienscio Zuloags. The collection IS now
- Roston and will be shown IN various
American cities during the winter. ~
- stated that in a preface 10 the ca,a-
iorne Mr.. Sargent comments on the
IofIh;,ion as an event OF supreme
,;.,;c interest" This is reassuring'
81 course. But we earnestly nope ior
~. sske OF critical standards IN gen
10, and local sobriety In particular
,hat we NAV not have in this instance
s"1 renetition of the hysteriesl provin-
~;.Iism which did so much TO make
10Th Sorolla and Zuloags ridiculous
when they first burst upon our astouno-
"a vision. After the show IN brooklyn'
h. the way. the Zuloagas Will be ex-
SSh;,ed at the Duveen gallery, IN New
York.
The Kennedy gallery displays an IN
,s-esting collection of Whistler's etch-
~. and Autographs. familiar subjects
in beautiful impressions. There are