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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
HOW TO SELECT SEED WHEAT

Why not unite upon MARQUIS, and cut
out the others? Blue Stem and Fife are
very good but it is better to grow the same
kind and get a better price.
Screen your seed and fan out all trash,
immature kernels, weed seeds, wild oats,
etc., leaving the seed to be planted the
heaviest you have, with an equal amount
of plant food in each kernel, which will
cause it to mature at the same time, max.
ing less waste at harvest. 1t all ought to
get ripe at the same time.
Examine your seed closely to see whether
it contains bunt or sinking smut and treat
your seed with ~formaldehyde before sowing.
How much of your seed will grow? 1t is
easy to test it. Take an ordinary piece of
blotting paper, wet it, fold it over in the
middle, to open like a book, count 100 seeds
just as they run into the plotting paper, put
a strip of rag about ten inches long in the
fold of the blotter, wrap it up in a piece of
butter paper (greased paper), wet the whole
:hing, then hang the wick in a glass of
water like a lamp, put the test on top of the
glass, do not let it dry out or freeze. After
six or seven days, open it and count so
many kernels strong, 90 many weak, so
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

A bill will probably be introduced in
the legislature this week which if
enacted into law will compel all coun-
try school boards to put in a telephone
at the school house. 1t seems strange
that so many school boards would
wait until they were compelled to do
a thing which everybody has desired
for years.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Down in Cincinnati a judge ordered
a prisoner to obey his wife for a year.
There are many men in South Dakota
who would like to have their "life sen
fences" committed to that short period.
That Cincinnati judge can be elected
governor Of this state if he will move
here and hold court for a few weeks.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

The American tourist has suddenly
found that winter travel on the At
lantic is disagreeable and that South
America or China offer more pleas
ant entertainments anyway.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

do this he will have to serve his time.
He hopes, however, to raise the money
among his relatives in Minnesota.
Both parties have learned a lesson
and claim they will go straight in the
future.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

The governments of Europe have
nothing on the newspaper men Of
America in worrying how they are
going to meet their obligations. Euro
pean debts may be repudiated. News
paper bills must be paid. That is all
the difference.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Some of the lawyers and a~lienists
are rejoicing over the fact hat Thaw
may recover. The balance of us wish
he would take a notion to go to war
and get in the way Of a machine gun.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

many dead; then let it grow for a few DAYS
on top of the glass and see if the sprouts will
grow two inches long before they wither,
This is important this year, because wheat
is badly shriveled and contains little plant
food. Take no chances on your seed wheat.
If the seed you have is all right YOU are
fortunate. If it does not test 80 to $50
strong you are in danger; find some neigh
Dor, if you can, who has good wheat enough
to supply seed for you and sell the seed that
you intended to SOW. Ask your County
Agricultural Agent or the Agricultural
Teacher in your High School to help you
locate MARQUIS seed in your neighbor-
hood, or ask your seed man to get it for
you, but be sure he honestly tells you where
it is grown. Do not get it too far AWAY from
home. II the seed man cannot supply YOU
to your satisfaction, apply to your mill or
elevator. All of them nave agreed in this
territory to locate proper seed wheat for
their customers. If they cannot supply YOU
write to Prof. Manley Champlin, State Ex-
pertinent Station, Brookings, S. D., or
Prof. c. P. Bull, Secretary, Minnesota Crop
improvement Association. St. Anthony
Park, MINI.
II you have any good Marquis wheat to
sell advise your mill or elevator.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Monday, February -, was the birth
day Of Lincoln. one of the greatest
men of modern times. He first saw
the light of day in 1909, surrounded by
poverty and the usual priyations of
frontier life. From humble surround
ings he rose by the force of mind and
character to the presidency of this
great Republic. Coming into power at
a time when the nation was torn as
under by questions of human liberty
he undertook the hard ASK of pre-
serving the Union, and to his credit
was largely due to the success of the
greatest struggle the American people
At the moment of ultimate success
came his assassination, and from that
moment his place was fixed in history
as the universal idol of all peoples
struggling for liberty. His life was
one of service to humanity as well as
that of service to his wv country. His
high ideals and aims can the better be
grasped by reading his Gettysburg
speech, which has become a classic.
and which follows: "Fourscore and
seven years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this continent a new ma
ton, conceived in liberty and dedicat-
ed to the proposition that all men are
created equal. Now we are engaged in
a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and
so dedicated, a long endure. We are
met on a great battlefield of that wa.
We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field as a final resting place for
those who here gave their lives that
that nation might live. 1t is altogether
fitting and proper that we should do
this. But, in a larger sense, We can-
not dedicate, we cannot consecrato,
we cannot hallow, this ground. The
brave men, living and dead. who strug-
gled here have consecrated it far
above our power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long remem-
Der what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. 1t is for US,
the living. rather to be dedicated here
to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly add
vanced. 1t is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining
before us, that from these honored
dead We take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the
last full measure Of devotion; hat we
here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain; that this
nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom. and that govern
ment of the people, by the people. and
for the people shall not perish from
the earth"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Mr.. Ford may have been a molly
coddle, but his proposition to turn his
factory over to the government with
u profit stamps him as the right
sort of a patriot. Col. Roosevelt
should now stop abusing Henry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

peary and Doc Cook ought to cut out
their "lussing" and make up. This is
a good time for all Americans to be
friends, especially the "h~eadliners.'
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

The American who would now un-
der take to smuggle an olive branch
into England would be hung upon de
lection. 1t Is warclubs those fellows
over there are looking for.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Think OF the sulfraglsts using the
Silent" treatment on President VIII
son! 1t must have been an awful sac
riice" on the part of that class in the
east.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

The movie submarine entertain
ments which the American people
have been enjoying may soon be sup
%plemented by the real thing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Members of the Legislature are com
planning of the number of bills coming
before them. They probably forget
that most business men have the same
trouble the first of every month.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Boys are used in Sioux City to spot
bootleggers according to the Dubuque
Telegraph. The Telegraph perhaps
does not know that Sioux City is with
out police protection.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

The fellow who properly handles a
SNOW shovel does not need a gym
nasium in which to develope muscles
or health. These will come to him if
he stays long enough with the shovel.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

1t is commencing TO dawn on a lot
of people that the way to secure peace
is to hammer the other fellow into a
sudden notion to ask for it.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
MARQUIS WHEAT

Is the variety which has the best
milling qualities and makes more
and better flour, therefore brings
the highest price to the farmers.
The elevators and mills will pay you
more because the wheat is worth
more. AS a rule, unless we have
just such a year as last year, MAR
QUIS brings better results because:
1t natures from five to ten days
earlier than other wheat, avoiding
SO much danger from winds and
drouth. We may never have an
other year like last year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

The peace bird with the olive branch
in its bill is finding the distance longer
and lighting places fewer as time
moves on apaCe.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

Being earlier, Marquis escapes rust,
which attacks later varieties.
1t does not shell out and waste so
badly as Blue Stem, Red Fife, or
Velvet Chatf, during harvest. This
is true of it ever when over-ripe.
The straw is shorter and sitter,
hence in a dry year it suffers less
from drouth and in a wet year it
suffers less from lodging.
1t contains lots of gluten and the
gluten is much superior to that of
any other wheat, therefore is a bet
ter milling wheat.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
SHERIDAN SELIX
Office Over Bank Of Brookings
PHONE 1O3
PHONE 1O3

l | have a buyer for an so acre farm, a buyer for a
modern house and a buyer for vacant lots. Bring
in your bargains.
2 | can sell your bargains in Brookings County farms.
3 l0 acre well improved farm all in cultivation, five
miles from good town in Southern Iowa, at $3.50 per
acre to trade for Eastern South Dakota farm.
4 800 acre improved farm five miles northwest of
White-a bargain at $50 per acre.
5 800 acre improved farm with artesian well in Sphinx
County to trade for Brookings County farm.
6 1900 acre improved ranch with $4,000 worth of
good ShOrthOrn cattle, all machinery and ranch equip
ment and a money maker for the right man. Will
take a farm in B~rookings County as part payment.
7 Well improved II acres on east 9th street.
8 Exclusive agent for Gentle's Chicken ranch. Will
sell at a bargain.
9 Will pay 6 1-2% interest on conservative first mort
cages.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
MORE AND BETTER GRAIN

Safe farming is the best farming. First select the variety of wheat which is
best adapted to our soil and climate. Cut out the mOngres and breed your
wheat up to its highest yielding and milling or tarues. Wheat is badly mixed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15
HI E PRICE OF w III E A T

In spite of the highest price the world has evr known there is a deficiency of
a billion bushels in the worlds crop. The world must be fed. Now is the
opportunity for the American farmer to make money for himself and be a
patriot al the m time.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-15

BY G II. S~TODDART,
city Audito'
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
ITEMS FROM MAGNESS

Magness, May Miss Ella Snel- grove and Miss Panic Wade left this morning for Judsonia to pick berries.
 Mr. and Mrs. Vester Melton and children visited the formers sister, MT. and Mrs Henry Bird, last sun- day.
 Misses Stella Snellgrove and Essie McJunkins were the guests of Misses Virgia and Viola Owens Saturday night and Sunday.
 Miss Viola Owens spent the last of last weeek with her aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lonzo McMillan.
 Mrs. Blance Young and Bert Walk CT spent Saturday evening with Mrs. Julia Owens and children.
 A fine boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hurbie Hippo Thursday night.
 Mir and Mrs. Wesley Burlington spent Saturday night and Sunday with the lady's parents, MT. and Mrs. Tom Tate.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
NEWPORT MERCHANT
 COMMITS SUICIDE
Joe Balmaz Found Dead in Store Saturday Morning With Bullet
 Hole in Head

Joe Balmaz, prominent business man of Newport, committed suicide at his store in Newport early last Saturday morning.
 Mr Balmaz left his boarding house about 6 o'clock, as is his custom, and went to the store to open up for the days business.
 When his partner, Mr. Rushton, ar rived at the store, few minutes la ter, he found MT. Balmaz lying upon the floor dead, with a pistol wound in his head. The pistol was found nearby, indicating that MT. Balmaz had taken his own life.
 Mrs. Balmaz has been inGalifornia for some time and she arrived in Newport Wednesday in response to a message informing her of the tragic event.
 Mir. Balmaz had been in business in Newport for number of years and always enjoyed splendid busi- ness and had the confidence and es- teem of all who knew him.
 There is no known cause for the rash act.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES

''The Heart of Shamrock a play in three acts will be presented at the Auditorium tonight
 Prof. B. c. Bruce visited at Syd- ney Saturday and Sunday.
 Miss Mazillah Brown will leave for Chillicothe, Mo-, the latter part of this week where she will enter a business college.
 Spring fever is affecting many this week.
 Judge Dene H. Coleman has ac- cepted an invitation to deliver the class address on the 25th.
 The Senior Class play, "The Call of the Flag" will be given Friday May II.
 Following have been placed on chapel honor roll since last report:
 Horace Hoyt, Meryle Rodman, Juna Ration, Madge Magness, Bert Hol. derby, Ruby Hawthorne.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
PAROQUET NEWS ITEMS

Everybody in this section is busy farming.
 Quite a lot of corn and cotton has been planted in the last week. The wheat crop of this section is looking fine.
 A. N. Trent of Batesville spent Thursday here inspecting bolts. Three cars of stave bolts have been ship ped from here in the last week.
 Paroquet is still noted for it's tim Der as well as good farming land.
 Sterling Johnson transacted busi- ness at Newark Saturday.
 Mr and Mrs. K. E. Allen of New ark were visitors here Wednesday afternoon
 Mrs. Lizzie Styles is still serious ly sick at this writing.
 Miss Edna Barber spent Satur- day night and Sunday in Logan township visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Francis Barber.
 Miss Cora Linebough of Wyeough township is spending the week here visiting relatives.
 Ed Gregory transacted business at Newark Saturday.
 A. W. Anderson of Newark was a caller here Saturday night.
 Miss Estanna Boswell returned to her home at Newark Sunday night after having spent two weeks here.
 c. A. Walls, bridge foreman and his crew are here working on Black River Bridge this week.
 T. W. Stubblefield made a busi- ness trip to Newport Tuesday.
 s. B. Williams made a business trip to Newark Saturday.
 Chas. Barnes who has a position here with the bridge crew left here Tuesday for his home at Cushman to spend few days with relatives
 Reed Galloway made business trip to Newark Tuesday.
 J. P. Williams transacted business at Newark Monday.
 Mrs. Chas. Dry returned home Tuesday after spending few days at Magness with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. Hodges.
 Misses Hazel and Georgie East Walker Barnett and Mrs. J. c. Crumpton left here Tuesday morning for Judsonia to spend few days picking strawberries.
 A heavy rain fell here Monday giving the farmers another lay off.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
TAKE HEED OF THE
 MIRACLE OF THE PUMPKIN

Consider the Pumpkin.
 It hiedth itself amongst the grow ing corn.
 It is the lowliest of all things that groweth in the fields.
 The proud farmer spurneth 1t and the small boy laugheth it to scorn.
 The wise men of che Agricultural College lectureth not upon it. Never hath it caused car shortage.
 The bugs devoureth it not and the beetles and worms and moths and the weeyils and all the mighty host that preyeth upon the naughty Corn and Wheat and the spuds, give it the go- by.
 Behold, it is the goat of the Vege- table Kingdom
 } Yet there cometh a day when the wife of the husbandman cutteth the Pumpkin into golden squares and boileth it and addeth thereunto sweet spices, yea, even cinnamon and cloves and ginger.
 And Lo A miracle is wrought.
 She bringeth forth from the oven the pumpkin pie, and the odor thereof is sweeter than the breezes from Clutch.
 And the husbandman and the small boy and the hired man falleth down in adoration and watereth at the mouth.
 For it is morse1 fit for kings and princes.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
ARKANSAS HAS MOST
 CAREFUL SMOK FRS

Recent compilation of figures on causes of fires shows that Arkansas has the most careful tobacco smok- CTS of any state in the Union. Only seyen-tenths of one per cent of the fires of known origin start from this cause in Arkansas, it is shown by by figures in possession of Arkansas Actuarial Bureau In the United States in one year, however, smok- CTS were responsible for the burning up of $4,505, ,963,00 worth of prop erty. In some states the loss ratio from this cause runs as high as IS per cent, which is Nevada's figures The benighted inhabitants of that Western state would seem to be 20 times as "keerless" in this respect as those of Arkansas, according to these figures.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
Splendid interest in
 Fifth Sunday Meeting

The fifth Sunday meeting of the Missionary Baptist Association con- vened with the Baptist church at Rosie last Friday night and was greeted with a filled house to hear Elder E. C. Bryant preach on Gods love, and when he presented the sub jeet of how great Gods love was, we all had greater visions of respon- sibility than before.
 Saturday morning the meeting or ganized by electing G. L. Fink, mod orator and E. c. Bryant, Secretary. The subjects were discussed as given in the Program.
 "Will the Heather be Saved With out the Gospel ?" was discussed at length, being opened by G. L. Fink, which raised the zeal and enthusi- asm of all to make greater efforts to carry the Gospel to the heather as we'll as to the unsaved around us. At HOO a. m. Rev. J. T. Shands spoke on "The Way of Salvation" i" and in the evening the subject of "The Wedding Garment" was dis cussed at length by D. A. Allen, Jas. Purcelley and others. At night Thos. King brought us great soul stir ring sermon on "The Triumphant Believer" Sunday morning D. B. Cook conducted the Bible reading. The HOO o'clock hour brought a great service After Bro. Kings sermon two confessed faith in Christ. Rev. Jenkins preached at BOO D. m. on Heaven" and D. A. Allen at night on "The Saints Coronation. :" The fellowship in this meeting was the best throughout the entire meet ing.
 The next meeting will be with the Baptist church at Gushman, the fifth Sunday in July The attendance was good and the people at Rosie know just how to entertain a meeting of this kind under the leadership of their able and beloved pastor, Jas. Purcelley, great things are in store for them
 ONE PRESENT
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
SAYS ALL FIREBUGS
 WILL BE PROSECUTED
State Fire Marshals Office Wants Reports of Suspicious Fires
 Throughout the State

Arkansas is going to make it hot for the fire bug, paradoxically speak ing.
 1t is going to be made so hot for the fire bug that he will have to quit burning up property in this State" says Judge Felix Lindsey of State Fire Marchal's office of Little Rock. Under the law passed by the last legislature the state fire mar shal has authority to investigate any fire and if there is reason to suspect arson the state will furnish investi- gators to run down evidence and prosecutor to assist the district att torney.
 Any citizen may cause an investi- gation to be made of a suspicious fire by having local authrities, such as mayor, sheriff, county judge, or fire chief make an official request of the fire marshal, and the department is anxious to get on the trail of such offenders
 Already the office is active and while the work they are doing along this line must necessarily be done on the quiet it is said that coming grand juries in varous parts of the state are gong to have interesting testi- mony to consider in connection with suspicious fires.
The Newark journal., 1917-05-03
SUBMARINE WARFARE
 THREATENS AMERICA

The enormous inroads on the / worlds shipping made by German submarines the last few weeks has brought to American government of ficials at Washington, realization of the disaster that faces the United States and the allies if the undersea warfare is not checked.
 Secretary Lansing declares the se- riousness of the submarine situation cannot be exaggerated and that it is time the country realizes this. Reports to the State department give total of 80 vessels lost in one week, figures much higher than any contained in recent British announcements.
 A Bureau of Naviagtion report, prepared recently, estimated the worlds ship construction in 1916 at slightly less than 2,o0o,o0o tons. If the Germans keep up their present rate of destruction, officials admit that their campaign threatens to sweep clean the seas,
 The present worlds ship tonnage, is estimated at less than 50,000,000 tons In 1916 the entente loss in ton- mage, due to war, was about 162,000 tons month.At present the Germans are sinking considerably more than that each week
 It is apparent that a large portion of the American people do not re- alize the seriousness of the war si- tuation.
 Secretary Lane said in a speech be- fore the Governors Conference at Washington this week that if America did not help with all her resources in fighting this war on the other side of the Atlantic, she will have to fight it at her own doors on ths side of the Atlantic.
 The situation is so serious that our people should not indulge in at tacks upon the government. The gov ernment needs the aid and assistance of every citizen and if you cannot render assistance you should remem- Der that this is no time to knock on the government that is doing it's best to protect America and American rights and liberties.