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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-03
CHAPTER ~.
Humbfed by Drag Scraper.

One Of the advantages Of being
bachelor when you are building or
restoring house Is that you can spend
most Of your time In the garden.
am by nature trusting soul, anyway
(Which no woman and possibly no wise
man ever is where carpenters, builders
ard plumbers are concerned), and l
trusted Hard Cider implicitly. He told
me the plumbers were "doin' all right"
and I believed him. That he himself
was doing all right my own eyes told
me, for he had by now reached the
south rooms, removed the dividing par
tftion, revealing the old, hand hewn
oak beam at the top, and was cutting
a double door out in the center on Ell
Their side Of the great oak upright,
toward my future sundial lawn. I
stood In this new door, looking back
at my twin fireplaces, with their plain
paneled old mantels.
"Mr. Howard" said I, .'those man.
tells are about as plain as you could
make 'em, and yet they are very hand
some, somehow, dingy as they are"
tits the lines" said Hard Cider.
"Jest the right lines. Lower 'em six
inches, and wizard they be?'
Gould you build me a bookcase,
against the wall, just like them, from
one to the other, and bring 1t out at
right angles five feet into the room
from the center, making it the back of
a double settler I asked
And did It My first full furrow
looked like the track Of snake under
the influence Of liquor, but I reversed
the plOw and came back fairly
straight. l was beginning to get the
hang Of 1t. My next furrow was re-
spectacle, but not deep. On this re-
turn trip the sweat was starting from
my forehead, and the smell Of the
horses and of the warm, fresh-turned
earth was strong In my nostrils. l
didn't look at my pine. I was proud
at what l had done, and my muscles
glorfed In the toll. Again swung the
pillow around, and drove 1t across the
field, feeling the reluctant grass roots
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-03
the soil. Z"

the soil"
He looked out over his fields and we
looked mercifully into the motor. The
professor backed the car around, and
we said good-by.
"Welln' 1 cried, as we spun down
over the bridge at my brook, I've got
country estate of my own! I've got
a homei I've got freedom
You've got stuck said the pro-
fessor. He'd have taken four thou
sand dollars"
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reclaim a New England farm as
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-08-03

coldframes along the south wall OF the
kitchen, l decided to make my tenn
porary seedbeds there. Mike assented
to the plan as a good one, and l had
him dump me a load W manure. while
"Pm carpenter" Hard replied la.
conically.
took his pencil and sketched what
| wanted on a clean board
Yer got too much curve on the
base and arms o. them settles" he said
judiciaIly.
He took the pencil away from me,
and made a quick, neat, accurate
sketch Of just what I instantly saw I
did want
l shrugged my shoulders. 500
ahead" said I. what did you ask
me to draw 1t for in the first placer
Folks likes to think they hev their
own idees," he answered.
l turned away, through the new
south door, into the May sunshine. The
pergola was not commenced. In fact,
| had decided not to build it till the
following spring. Those beastly paint
ers whom had forgotten were going
to eat up too much of my slender capt.
tai. Before me stretched the $50 feet
OF plowed slope which was to be my
sundfal lawn. At the end of II was
my line Of stakes, where the ramblers
were to climb. Beyond that was the
vegetable garden, newly narrowed and
rertiltzed, where Mike and Joe were
busfly working, the one planting peas,
the other setting out a row Of beets.
The horse was not In evidence. / could
have him at last, to make my lawni
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-03
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EX-


State of South Dakota,
County of Bookings. I IS.
Alton School District No. 10.
TO WHOM 1T MAY
The following is a statement OF the re-
ceipts and expenditures of Alton School Dis
trict No. 10. Of Brookings County, South Da-
kota, for the school year beginning July lst,
tanned upon settlement with the Treasurer
of said Schol Districts:
Receipts
Balance on hand July LIST.
1919 $29.23
Amount received from dis
tlct tax .............. 1880
Amount received from ap-
portionment ...., 81, 90
Total receipts from all
sources ............... $685.
Expenditure
Amount paid for teachers
wages ................ $500
Amount paid for officers
salaries ....,.......... 1900
Amount paid for incidental
expenses ...........,... $3.50
Amount paid for redemption
OF outstanding warrants. 12t.68
Total expenditures for all
purposes during the year s653.SS
Balance on hand June
Goth. 1915. 2o1.s5
This balance on hand, s2O1. IS. is deposit
ed in First National Bank. Bank located at
Bookings, South Dakota.
Dated this rs day of July, 1916.
ROY ULLMAN,
Chairman of District School Board.
G.. b. MURFIELD,
Clerk of District School Board.
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chow ALL THE CHURCHES IN
BROOkINGS WILL UNITE"

The above is the topic that will be
discussed by Evangelist M. M. Moss
next Sunday evening at the Church of
Christ. Mr.. Moss believes that the
time has come for all Christian people
to unite, and that the divine basis for
that unity has been provided.
The revival meeting has been con
tinuing successfully throughout the
week. This week the evangelist has
been discussing the general theme
What Things Are Concerned in Saliva.
tion," devoting five sermons to differ
ent divisions of this topic.
Thus far ten have responded to the
invitation. The meeting will continue
throughout next week.
The evangelist's themes for the com
ing week are:
Friday-"The Heart; What 1t Is
What 1t Does; How It Is Changed"
Sunday a. m.-"The Beginning"
Sunday p. inflow All the
Churches in Brookings Will Unite"
Monday-"Pardon," (frst sermon.)
Tuesday-"Pardon," (second ser
mon.)
Wednesday-"Conversion."
Thursday-"The New Birth and the
Christian Life"
Every evening Mr.. Moss sings one c.
his fine solos. Sunday evening he will
sing, "The Holy City" All are invited
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SOCIETY NEWS

. .
This department is edited by Mrs. Ria L.
Ziegler and anyone having social news OF
interest will confer a favor on the Register
by 'phonlng Mrs. Ziegler, 316.
Complimentary-On Friday after
noon, July 21st, Mrs. A. II. Stoll enter
tanned q number of young ladies on
her lawn in compliment to the niece,
Miss Florence Bailey, a house guest.
Social chatting was enjoyed and later
dainty refreshments were served.
Friendship Club-Mrs. S. H. McCarl
was the pleasant hostess for this hap
by crowd, The Friendship Club, on
Thursday afternoon. Fancy work
over lively visiting whiled the early
hours away, and were followed by a
fine supper served in buffet style.
CompIimentary-Miss Mary Thorn
by, of Rapid City, a guest at the Lee
home, was the honoree at a pretty
little affair on Thursday. This was in
the nature of a one o'clock luncheon.
The delicious repast was served in
three courses.
T. c. Club-On Monday afternoon
this lively company, the T. C. Club,
enjoyed a very pleasant time with
Mrs. Shepard. Fancy work with ami
mated converse and a delicious two
course luncheon filled the time most
admirably.
Picnic-A few young ladies enjoyed
a pleasant picnic supper at the col
lege grove on Saturday in honor of
Miss Vivian Donavan, of Sioux Falls,
a guest at the Chappell home.
Camp Fire Girls-On Monday after
noon of last week the Camp Fire Girls
had a very pleasant time in the col
lege grove, about twenty girls partici-
pating. Games with business, and a
fine lunch were the pastimes.
r. N. "A royal time was given
the Past Noble Grand Association on
Tuesday evening by Mesdames Rhu-
tassel and Lien at the home of the
former. A most delicious four-course
dinner vas served at seven o'clock
a veritable feast with fried chicken,
mashed potatoes and all the good
things that go with them.
Picnic-A very pleasant outing was
enjoyed at Lake Campbell by Mes
danes McCarl, Gullick, Bacon, Omodt
and Miss Minnie Omodt on Friday,
Miss Minnie taking the company out
in her car.
COMPLEMENTARY Saturday after
noon Mrs. M. E. Bacon entertained a
few ladies in compliment to Mrs.
Omodt and Miss Minnie, of Sioux
Falls. After a pleasant season Of
fancy work and visiting a fine three
course supper was served.
Dinner-Mrs. Leland Cornell gave
a nice dinner party Thursday evening
complimentary to Miss Zama Cornell,
sister Of Mr.. Cornell, of Baraboo.
Wis, who is spending her vacation
here. The dinner was served in three
courses.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-03
STATE FAIR SIP

Cash prizes amounting to $500 and
the Ford championship cup are offered
in the first annual Ford championship
races which will be run at the South
Dakota State fair, Thursday and Fri
day, September IA and Is. Prelimin-
aries will be held on Thursday and
finals on Friday. The races will be
run under the sanction of the Inter.
national Motor Contest association
and will be managed by the South Da-
kota State Board of Agriculture.
Cars will be racing for money in
trials as well as in finals, since the
rules provide for trial purses. Dis
lance of preliminaries nay be deter
mined by the number of cars entered
and the rules provide for a possible
entry of than sixty cars. The
South Dakota champion will be eligi-
BILE to represent this state in the big
Ford trophy contest at the Michigan
State fair on October Is
South Dakota Ford owners and driv-
ers who desire to enter this champion
ship contest should write to Secretary
c. N. McIlvane, Huron, for entry blank
and complete instructions. Rules
cover car specifications, entry fee,
races, heats, driving, etc.
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READY TO STRIKE

The strike vote among the 800 900
members of the four train service
brotherhoods on the eight hour day
and time and one-half for overtime was
completed last Thursday. Confidential
advance reports from various sections
of the country indicate the vote will be
overwhelmingly in favor of giving the
leaders the power to call a nationwide
strike.
The engineers, fremen, conductors,
and trainmen are involved in the de-
| mands. The vote in most sections is
said to have been as high as 80 per
cent in favor of giving the officers OF
the ~brotherhoods the right to refuse
arbitration. The ballots will be count
ed in Now York, beginning August 9Th.
Business Man Explains
AS outlined by one of the represen-
tatives of the business interest of the
country that are working for arbitra-
ton, the counting of the ballots will be
followed by another fruitleSs confer
ence with the railroad managers. The
men, he said, would then decline fed
eral arbitration under the Newlands
act and the railroads would face the
alternative of a strike or a one-sided
arbitration involving only the demands
made by the men.
In this event, he said, the men would
go before the board with nothing to
lose and everything to gain, just as
they did in the 1910 and the 1913 arbi-
t~rations.
With the railroads facing a 500 ,000,-
900 increase in case of an adverse find
ing by the board, which would result
in higher freight rates, the business in
~terests are demanding that congress
take some action insuring arbitration
and a thorough-going investigation
into all phases of the wage question.
May Mean 10 Per Cent Increase
Ultimately, il is charged, victory by
men would result in increases in rates
amounting to 10 per cent. The atti-
tude of the commercial organizations,
it was explained, is that if their in
creases are warranted it should be
proved through an arbitration award
including an investigation into all
questions either side wishes to submit.
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Local and Personal
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Vern Kelley went to Lake Benton
Tuesday on business matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherman Ladd and
son Orville left Monday for Montana
to be gone for some time.
Mrs. VIM. Davis went to Aurora the
first of the week to care for her sister,
Mrs. Chas. Wilson, who is sick.
j. p. Cheever and wife left Monday
for Isle Royal for their annual outing
and expect to be gone about a month.
Miss Elsie Killing was operated on
Tuesday at the hospital for an abcess
in the side and is reported to be doing
nicely.
e. j. Ray arrived home Thursday
from Minneapolis where he had been
to seek medical aid. He is improving
since his return.
Mrs. Mary Smith, of Poplar, Wis,
has been spending a few days this
week at the home of her sister, Mrs.
o. e. Steen and family.
Mrs. Phoebe O'Neil, a cousin of
Mrs. Frank Sherwin, arrived Friday
from Wirdom, Mimi, for an extended
visit at the Sherwin home.
School township t%reasurors are not
responding very prolntly to the law
governing the publication of their an
nual statement by August LIST.
Mrs. o. B. Crawford and daughter,
of Humphry, Neb., arrived Monday for
a visit with old friends. They were at
one time residents of Bookings.
j. L. Jarvis, accompanied by his
daughter Ruth, Mary Champion and
Mrs. Sanford left Tuesday morning
for Minneapolis to visit his wife and
other relatives.
f. A. Korte, of Cole Harbor, N. D.,
writes the Register that re greatly en-
joys the paper on account NJ so much
news about people here whom he
knows. He also says they are having
fine weather there and the crops look
fine.
B. Jacobson, who has been confined
to his bed since last April and has
been under the doctors care for about
two years, was recently presented
with nearly 5000 by friends who took
this way of expressing their sympathy
for him. He desires to express thanks
to his friends and neighbors for their
kindness and consideration.
In a letter to the Register w. l.
blSSdT, CdSuleT OI the bdHk VI SOf
vile, Wash, says:s Mrs. Biggar and
l returned the first of tho week from
an eighteen days auto trip to the
coast. We were in Corvallis and
while there called on Prof. r. A.
butcher, Of the college, and had a
nice visit with him. We also visited
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hughson in Cor
Wallis, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Sage and
Mrs. Jas. Laird at Eugene, the family
Of d. d. Sage in Dilley, Mr.. jenkins
Ira Cunningham and wife and Earnest
Pike and wife in Portland, DR.. Cul
bertson and the Allisons at Hepneri
the w. H. Skinner family In Hermis'
ton and the Boydens in Pendleton, all
former Brookings county people. We
went over the Columbia Highway that
we read so much about in the maya
zines and for about forty miles east OF
Portland it Is sure great but that Is
as far as the highway has been com
pleted.
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John Culbane. .Jr was IN ne smet

John Culhane, Jr., was in De Smet
Monday on business matters.
The c. H. Atkinson family have
gone to Lake Kampeska for a couple
of weeks outing.
Miss Edith Hubbard arrived home
lest week from a months visit at
Watertown with her sister, Mrs. V. d.
Wilcox.
The Fair Store, +. Clay Clark pre-
prietor, will open for business Satur-
day. A full line of five and ten cent
goods will be carried.
II. S. Johnson returned home Mon
day from North Dakota. He was look
ing after business at Devils Lake and
visited a brother at jamestown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Alton, of Pipe
stone, Mimi, are guests at the Thos.
Alton home. Mr.. Alton is now on the
road for a Minneapolis supply firm.
o. A. Hagen is building a Aft addi-
ton to his bakery and will also put in
a strictly up-to-date oven. John Dok-
ken and crew is doing the work for
him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Shale, of
Aurora, ILL.,, are here visiting the
formers aunt, Mrs. j. l.. Tree. They
are on their way to Watertown where
Mr.. Shale will be the new coach of the
high school.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Neighbor, OF
WATERFOWL, stopped here a few days
this week for a visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
]. l.. Tree. They were on their way
home from Huron where they visited
their daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Smith and son
Duane and daughter Byrne returned
Sunday from Pennsylvania and other
eastern states where they spent two
months visiting relatives. They had a
delightful trip and visit.
Anyone wishing to take sewing les
ons call or write me within a week.
You will have a thorough training in
drafting patterns, cutting and fitting.
| will give a six weeks course in
Brookings. Eva Pease, r. S city.
o. A. Burman and family left here
Wednesday by auto for a trip through
Iowa. They will visit friends and rel
atives at Waverly and vicinity, and
will be gone ten days or more. Mr..
Burman is taking his vacation from
his duties as rural mail carrier.
A. d. Maxwell passed away at his
home in Arlington Tuesday, August
1st. Mr.. Maxwell was one of the
Oldest and most respected citizens of
Arlington and had many friends in
Bookings. He was a member Of
Brookings ~Commandery No. IA. The
funeral will be held at the home on
Friday at 10 o'clock.
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A GOOD JUDGE OF MEATS

and provisions will surely appre-
ciate the ~choiceness of those sold
at this market. And even the
least experienced cannot fail to
appreciate their fine flavor and
tenderness. We want you to try
them. II you think our prices
must be as high as the quality,
you are mistaken.
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CHURCH NOTES

. .
(The items in this column are furnished
the Register BY the press correspondents
OF the various churches and societies. All
churches and societies have the same
privileges In the use Of this coiumn.)
The Salvation Army officers Adju-
tant and Mrs. Palmkrona will, during
this week. conduct meetings Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday at 1880
q. m. and 8 o'clock in the evening.
Saturday night there will be an open
air meeting at the bank corner In city.
All indoor meetings will be held In the
Mission church In the Scandinavian
language.
First Prssbyterian Church-Next
Sabbath morning the pastor will speak
on: The Greed that Counts" This
will be Z study Of I practical phase of
Christianity. In the evening the union
services will be held In this church. A
cordial invitation h extended. Let u
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BIcGAR-ScHLo6oHM

Mr.. Morris p. Biggar and Miss
Matte Schlobohm were united in mar
riage Wednesday evening at eight
o'clock at the Presbyterian Manse.
Rev. William A. Mast used the ring
service.
Mr.. Biggar is a prosperous farmer
of Trenton township, and Is a young
man Of good habits.
Mrs. Biggar for a time made her
home in Brookings and is favorably
known to q great many Of our people.
She Is q daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herman Schlobohm. Of Trenton town.
ship.
Trenton township.
MI. and Mrs. Biggar will make their
home on the farm In Trenton where
they will BE- at home to their many
friends who unita In wishing them q
long and prosperous life.
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Sherman Laid left Monday ror
Glendive, Mont, to file on a piece of
good land he has In view.
Mrs. w. Fl. Leighty and daugf ters
and her mother, Mrs. Price, left Fri
day night for Hot Springs for a visit
and outing.
Miss Mary Thornby, who had been
visiting friends in Bookings, returned
to her home at Deadwood Sunday
evening.
The Ralph Hawkinson auto polo
team with a car load Of cars went
through here Tuesday morning for
Wisconsin where they have several
dates to fill.
Mrs. Chas. Isom and children left
Tuesday for Elkton where they will
make their future home. Mr.. Isom
has been there for about three weeks
and has a house ready for the family.
Mrs. Isom's mother, Mrs. Fairness,
went down with her to assist her for
a day or two.
w. B. Lanphier, who sold out to the
Bookings Hardware Co., several
years ago and moved to Milbank
where he since continued a hardware
store, has rented the Chappell house
on 9Th street and Medary avenue and
will move his family back to Brook
ings. He recently sold out at Milbank
ard is now on the road travelling.
AS a reward for gallant service in
tie fourth punitive expedition into
Mexico, Lieutenant Oscar Foley has
been promoted to captain. He was in
command Of the machine gun troop,
Third cavalry, stationed at Fort
Brown. The newly made captain will
command a new troop in the recently
organized Sixteenth cavalry. He was
Commandant at s.. ID. S. G. two years
ago having charge of the cadets be-
fore Lieutenant Ditto came.
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remember the Sabbath school i'm
mediately at the close of the morning
service.
The annual meeting of the Book
home of Mrs. G. w. Sanders, 20s Will
liams street, Bookings, August 10th,
1916, at three o'clock sharp, as there
is important business to transact, also
the election of officers. ,
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Sunday services at II o'clock a. m.
Subject, Spirit" Wednesday even
ing meeting at s o'clock. Reading
room open Wednesday and Saturday
from 2 to 4 O'Clock. Everyone well
ONE.
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FOUND HIS WIFE

John Johnson, of Volga, who asked
the Madison police to assist in locat-
ing his wife and a Swear old child, ar
rived in that city late last Thursday,
having gone over from Volga by auto-
mobile. Upon arrival he was direcled
to his wife's place of residence, but
persons acquainted with Mrs. Johnson
said that she declined to return to the
man.
Mrs. Johnson had been working in
restaurants there two or three weeks,
under an assumed name. She is said
to have told people with whom she
worked that her husband had mistreat-
ed her.
MI. and Mrs. Johnson formerly were
engaged in the hotel business in Volga.
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NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
City Engineer of the City of Bookings has
prepared and filed in his Office and in the
office of the City Auditor of said City, plans
and Specifications showing the location, ar
rangement, form and size and the materials
to be used in the construction of a lateral
sewer to be constructed along the center of
Main street in said City of Brookings, from
a point nifty five feet south of the intersec-
ton of Front street and Main street In said
City to the Trunk Sewer in the Intersection
OF Main street and Sixth street in said City,
which Plans and Specifications may be ex-
ahmed by all parties interested and the
City Council of said City Will be in session
at the Council Chambers in said City on the
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18th day of August, 1916 at eight o'clock.
+. M. to consider said Plans and Specihca-
lions for adoption and will adopt or reject
or amend and adopt the same.
Dated August 1st. 1916.
(SealD II. B.
Attest: Mayor.
G.. H. Stoddart,
City Auditor.
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY

FOR SALE-Three dwelling houses,
all close in-prices $2,4OO to $4,000
e.ch, for prompt sale. Terms given.
Philo Hall.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-11-23
MEMS BIB OVERALLS.

Abount dozen pairs, sizes mostly sc and 80 waists
and today worth $3 per pair These go out Satur
day morning in this sale at special per pair 95c while they
last