The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
Local and Personal

The Cole Land Co. sold a half see
ton of land in Haakon county the past
week.
The county commissioners We're in
session Tuesday and Wednesday and
handled a lot of county business.
II You Want to Buy, Sell, Rent, lo-
cate or Get information, Write or Call
at the Office of the Hrookines Register.
Word has been received here that
O. =. Sites. who went to Sioux City a
couple Of weeks age to enlist has been
accepted in the radio-wireless depart
ment and will be sent to Mare Island,
U. S. Navy Yard near San Francisco.
DR.. J. r. Jackson leaves tonight for
ter, Mrs. Mum, back to her home at
Waterloo, Iowa. She spent the win
ter there for rheumatism and a change
is now necessary for her to entirely
recover.
Word reached here this week that
Ralph Gould. a State College graduate
in the class of '16, was accidently shot
at Williamsburg, Pa, last Friday and
was not expected to live. He was a
chum of Jas. Shepard of this city and
well known to many here. He was
with the Westinghouse Electric Co. in
the east.
A. II. Norvold. cashier of the First
National Bank. Robt. Henry, cashier of
the First State Bank, and julius Mar.
tinson were over from Volga Tuesday
to meet with the county commissioners
on the matter of designating the Black
and Yellow auto trail through the
country as the official state road. The
board has had the matter under con
s%ideration, and nc doubt will. by reso-
luton, designate this route as the
official road.
Reports from many parts of the state
indicate that auto drivers are going to
force better roads in many sections
The drivers who get stuck in the mud
and have to pay for being hauled out
take receipts for payment and then
present them for allowance to the
township boards. And they are be-
ing paid. too, by the boards rather
than face damage suits. There is no
excuse for bad spots in any road. and
township officers can be held respon-
sible for allowing them.
President E. C. Perlsho of State Col
lege is being called upon for a num-
Der of special addresses relative to the
crop and food emergency since his re-
turn from the recent national confer
ence at st. Louis. This week he was
listed for addresses at Watertown. Nit
chell, Sioux Falls and Sioux City. The
Sioux City conference on Friday in
cludes governors of states adjoining
Iowa, agricultural college presidents,
farm paper editors, packers. and others
interested in greater food production.
A burglar entered the Frank Far
rankop residence about nine o'clock
Wednesday evening. He entered
through the outside cellar door, came
up into the kitchen and flashed the
electric light on in the dining room
near where Mr.. and Mrs. Farrankop
had retired for the night in their bed
room. Mr.. Farrankop sprang out Of
bed and the burglar made a hasty get
away and ran toward the business &C.
ton Of the city. 1t is thought the
burglar was a local party who thought
the ~Farrankops had gone to the show.
People at many of the towns west
Of here or the Black and Yellow auto
trail have the idea that Brookings Is
holding back on the improvement Of
this trail. A great deal of federal and
state money will be expended on state
roads this year. and It is the desire of
those along the trail to have part of
this money spent OF it. The Register
wishes to say that after careful investi-
cation we have found that more money
was spent by this supervisor district
last year on the trail than by any other
six miles Of territory in the state per-
haps. 1t 10 expected that the county
commissioners will designate this lire
as the state ofhcial route today. and
that then the Commercial Club can