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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
NEW TEACHING CORPS

The following is a partial list of the
city public school teaching corps for
next year:
High Schools. +. Hargis, Supt.
Paul S. Gillespie, principal.
Ann Wilson, English and Public
Speaking.
Ruth Titmarsh, English.
Margaret Hendricks, History.
Gratia Kjerland, Latin.
Georgia Burgett, German.
Ada st. Clair. Algebra.
Lewis Nelson, Coach and Science.
Esther ~Bloomquist, Music.
Eva Gregory, Domestic Science.
r. f. Nesseth, Manual Training.
Junior High School-Stella Julian,
Principal.
Ada Lawrence.
Ethel Campbell.
Fourth place not filled.
Grade-May Button. Bertha Titmarsh
and Bessie Bryant, First.
Ella Swanson and Selma Karlstad,
Second.
Josephine Thayer and Laura STERN
err, Third.
Hazel Mears and Stella Ulrick,
Fourth.
Clara Countermaine and Julia En-
steners, Fifth.
Mabel Swenson and Mayme Hol
brook, Sixth.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
ATTENDED SHRINE CEREMONIAL

Among those from here who went to
Sioux Falls Wednesday to attend the
Shrine Ceremonial put on by Ell Rad
Temple were Messrs. w. P.
Innis, II. l. Stearns, f. l.. Squirting, +.
d. Stivers, NJ. G.. Carlisle, L. G. Hyde,
Paul butcher, Adam ROyhl, NJ. F. Bun
day, A. B. Peterson, John D. Gill, F. +.
Ribstein, F. w. Schultz and Wallace
E. Purdy. Ell Rad temple conferred
this degree on Sc candidates from v e
the northwest.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
COMMUNITY TALK
WAS A GOOD ONE
ST. PAUL MAN OUTLINED WORK
OF COMMUNITY BUILDING
HERE FRIDAY NIGHT
COMMERCIAL CLUB MUST TAKE LEAD
The Ideal of This Age is Equity for All
Control Idea In a DEM
ocracy

The lecture given by f. NJ, Mcmahon
Friday evening, under the auspices Of
the Commercial Club, was a very able
presentation of cooperative and com
munity building.
In the absence of President Culhane
Of the club Prof. c.. Larsen of State
College presided and introduced the
speaker.
The lecturer went at once to his sub
ject. He pointed out that the nation
as a whole is a large cooperative con-
cern-a democracy. This democracy
is made up of units beginning with the
individual. If here and there an indi-
vidual in each generation startles the
world by some great achievement it is
because his moral, mental and physical
parts are in perfect harmony and he
goes forward to his work with less
thought of self than Of success in the
task at hand. The family comes next
and here enlightened selfishness must
predominant or there will be friction
and loss. The community is made up
of families more or less dependent on
each other and the same principles of
enlightened se%lfshness, the view of the
community as a whole rather than the
lone individual, must obtain if the
community is to be made the best place
in which to live.
There must be leadership, the speak
er pointed out, if our form Of govern
ment is to succeed in the nation, state
and community. A few or even many
men may succeed in business On a
grand scale, but if it is at the expense
of other people the success will be
only temporary. The enlightened
thought of this age is to see equity es-
tablished everywhere, that no man
suffers at the hand of another, that a
fair opportunity be given all and that
proper and pleasant living conditions
be the portion of everybody. 1t is to
bring about these ideals of a Republic
that thoughtful leadership must be in
charge. Here is where the commercial
club in communities like ours has it's
place. In large cities and even in the
nation large organizations such as the
Wheat Exchange, Farmers Equity
Lumbermen's Association, etc, take
care of the interests Of the men engag-
ed in the same line Of work, but the
commercial club takes care of the CON-
munity interests and works to get all
in that community to take a broder
view OF life and work together for the
community as a whole.
The speaker advocated a club Of
1000 members for Brookings. Men and
women of every walk of life should be
members Of this club, and take an
active part in everything that will
make the city a better and more pleas
ant place in which to live.
A fair sized crowd greeted the speak
er and listened attentively to his able
address. Cards were sem out by the
secretary but for some u~naccountable
reason some of the members did not
get their cards until the day after the
speaker left.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
WIlSON-H ENDRlCkS

A quiet wedding took place at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Eich-
berg Saturday evening at $3.50 when
Mr.. VIM. J. Wilson and Mrs. Ollie f,
Hendricks took the vows which united
them for life. Rev. NJ. B. Milne of the
Baptist church performed The cere-
mony which vas witnessed by a few
intimate friends.
The groom holds a position 1T State
College and the bride has been a resi-.
dent of the city for some time. They
will make their home in this city.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
AFTER STATE BANNER

Five new members we're iniated by
the local Workmen lodge last Thurs
day and the iniatory work was follow
ed by a nice banquet. Next Friday
evening a special meeting will be held
and from six to eight new members
will be inflated. A banquet will fol
low. The local lodge is after the state
banner for the largest gain in the
state this year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
WILL HELP PRODUCERS

In an interview with the officers of
the Bank of Brookings it was stated to
the Register that Ine bank stands
ready to help all worthy people to
finance crop production in this terri.
tory. The officers believe that not one
acre should go to waste this year, and
if money is needed the bank is ready
to do it's part in a financial way.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
BAND TAX CARRIED

The tax to raise money for the
band carried at the recent election by
a vote of 479 to 279, a majority Of just
200. The council can now appropriate
any sum up to a mill for the use of the
band. Brookings has a good band and
a little money from the council will
help greatly in encouraging the boys
in their weekly concert work.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
MRS. JOHN JOHNSON DEAD

Volga Tribune:-Mrs. John Johnson,
of Oslo township, passed away Monday
morning. About two weeks ago she
had stoppage of the intestines and a
week ago last Saturday she was
brought to the local hospital. An ex-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
SECURED PATENT

Harry Wiley has secured a patent
on a spark intensifier for the Ford car
and so successful is this auxiliary that
he has already sold about 1000 OF
them. He is planning on having them
manufactured here in Brookings. Ur
to the present time they have been
made for him at Sioux Falls.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26

Up to April 18th County Treasurer
Culhane had as many auto licenses
issued as there were in the county all
of last year. This would indicate that
there has been a big increase in the
number of cars owned in the county
the past year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26

The little daughter of Mrs. Martha
Stevens fell last Friday and broke her
collar bone.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26

Fred Heppner has been confined to
his bed the past week with bronchitis.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26

Dan Berry went to Flandreau Friday
business matters.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
To Make Book Plates.

One way to make effective book
plates is to have a stencil, through
which you can work up the slips in
water-colors. Stencils are cut from
oiled stencil paper or board, but if
you are going to make very many,
it might be we'll to have a metal stem
Gil cut, as the paper or cardboard will
soon wear out. Look through the maya
zines for some appropriate design or
group and trace it to your stencil pa
per. Cut it up into little portions, as
you would jigsaw puzzle, so that all
the design is in parts, all joined by
small bridges" to each other. Cut
out the design, leaving the bridges
firm, with a sharp knife, holding the
stencil over glass or marble as you cut.
When complete proceed to color
through the stencil onto thin cardboard
or water-color paper. A dozen or so Of
these book plates at time will not be a
strenuous task and the result will
easily repay labor.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

brio in 1t and q dresSmaker's name.
quin-the raw materials for her magic
Rose couldn't draw a bit. She
hadn't the faintest impulse to make a
beginning by putting picture down
on paper and making dress from it
afterward. She couldn't have told just
why she had bought those three shades
Of paper cambria.
What she had felt, Of course, at the
very outset, was the need Of something
to indicate, roughly, the darks and
lights in her design. And, short Of the
wild extravaganza Of slashing into the
fabrics themselves and making her
mistakes at their expense, she could
think of nothing better than the
scheme she chose.
Rehearsal was dismissed a little
early that night, and she was back In
her room by eleven. Arrived there,
she took Oft her outer clothes, sat
down cross-legged on the floor, and
went to work.
When at last. with little sigh, and
tremulously smiling acknowledge
ment Of fatigue, she got up and looked
at her watch, it was four o'clock In
the morning. She'd had one Of those
experiences Of which every artist can
remember a few in his life, when It Is
impossible for anything to go wrong !;
when the vision miraculously betters
itself in the execution; when the only
difficulty is that which the hands have
in the purely mechanical operation Of
keeping up.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

Rose, "the Poiret model you showed
me before the others came in? I'll
try it on"
The saleSwOman'S manner was diff
ferent now, and she grumbled some
thing about it's being closing time.
ssFheH, II you'll bring it at once
said Rose. And the saleswoman went
on the errand.
Five minutes later, Galbraith, from
staring gloomily at the mournful heaI
of trouble Mrs. Goldsmith had left or
his hands, looked up to confront 8
vision that made him gasp.
Il wanted you to see if you liked
this" said Rose.
eff I like it," he echoed. "Look
here! If you knew enough to pick
out things like that, why did you let
that woman waste everybody's time
with junk like this? Why didn't you
help her out?"
Il couldn't have done much" Rose
said, "even if my offering to do any
thing hadn't made her angry-and
think it would have. You see, she's
got lots Of taste, only it's bad. She
wasn't bewildered bit. She knew
just what she wanted, and she got it.
It's the badness of these things she
likes. And I thought ;" She
hesitated a little over this 81
thought that it would be easier to
throw them all out and get fresh
start"
He stared at her with a frown OF
curiosity. 'That's good sense" he
said. But why should you bother to
think of it?"
Her color came up perceptibly as she
answered. "Why-I want the piece to
succeed, of course ~ Rose turned
rather suddenly to the saleswoman. q
wish you'd get that little Empire frock
in maize and cornflower," she said
I'D like Mr.. Galbraith to see that
too" And the saleswoman, now pla-
Gated, hustled away.
'This thing that I've got on" said
Rose swiftly, "costs a hundred and
fifty dollars, but I know 1 can copy it
for twenty. I can't get the materials
exactly, Of course, but I can come
near enough"
"Will you try this one on, miss?''
asked the saleswoman, coming on the
scene again with the frock she had
been sent for.
"No," said Rose. "Just hold it up
Galbraith admitted it was beautiful,
but wasn't overwhelmed at all as he
had been by the other.
Its not quite so much your style,
is it? Not drive enough?"
1T isn't for me-" said Rose. cts
for Edna Larson to wear in that All
Alone number for the sextette."
Galbraith stared at her a moment.
Then, "Put on your street things" he
said brusquely. "Tll wait"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
Business Man Succeeded in Keeping
Out canvassers But He Also
Kept Out His Wife.

'I'll call in a day or two's time, and
perhaps you will by then have altered
your mind" said the lady as she was
being shown out.
Mr.. Oldboy was annoyed. He had
just been pestered by canvasser
and resolved it would be the last
time. Calling in the Office boy, he
gave him instructions accordingly
"Look here, my lad!" he said, impress.
sively, eff a lady calls again to see
me say I'm out, or, if you like, that
I won't see her. Do you hear?"
eyes, sir"
eff she refuses to go tell her I'll
give her in charge. won't have any
thing to do with her!"
eyes, SIR" the lad replied, and with
drew.
The next day, as chance would have
it, Mrs. Oldboy, who was on q shop
ping expedition, found herself in the
vicinity of her husbands Office, and
decided to call in.
'Can I see Mr.. Oldboy, please?"
"YOu can't. ma'am!" defiantly an
swered the lad, remembering his in
structions.
"But I W"
'He said he didn't want to see you
any more" Interrupting her with this
sharp retort, the lad folded his arms
and stood ready for the next.
"But I ca"
'Look ere, ma'am, if you don't go
I'll fetch policeman. He don't want
to ave anything to do with you.
That's what he told me, so I should
go if I was you"
Mrs. Oldboy, highly indignant, left
without attempting to say another
word.
That night it took Mr.. Oldboy ex-
actly an hour and forty minutes to ex.
plain matters.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
Luminous Eyes.

Cats among mammals. and owls
among birds, says w. H. Hudson in his
book idle Days in Patagonia" are the
most highly favored Of any creatures
in the matter Of luminous eyes. "The
feline eyes, as Of a puma or wildcat,
blazing with wrath, sometimes affect
one like an electric shock; but for in
tense brilliance the yellow globes Of
the owl are unparalleled" Mr.. Hud-
son asserts that nature has done COM
paratively little for the human eye
either in these terrifying splendors or
in beauty. He says that In Brazil he
was greatly impressed with the mag
ni6cent appearance Of many Of the ne
gro women; but that If they had only
possessed the golden irides" Of GER
tain intensely black tropical birds
their unique loneliness" would have
been complete.-OutlOOk.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
CHAPTER XVIII.
A Business Proposition.

Buzzing around in the back of John
Galbraith's mind was an unworded
protest against the way Rose had just
killed her own beauty, with a thick
white veil, so nearly opaque that all 1t
let him see of her face was an inter-
mittent CLEAN of her eyes. The bust
ness between them was over, and
all she was waiting for was word
Of dismissal, to nod him fare
well and 60 swinging away down the
avenue. Still he didn't speak, and she
moved little restlessly. At last:
do you mind crossing the street?'
he asked abruptly. "Then we can talk
as we walk along" She must have
hesitated, because he added, "It's too
cold to stand here"
"Of course" she said then. All that
had made her hesitate was her sur
prise over his having made request
instead of giving an order.
do you think you'll be able to con-
vince Mrs. Goldsmith" she asked,
as they walked down the east side of
the avenue together, ''that her gowns
don't look well on the stage?"
Probably not" he said. mo, she
won't be convinced, and If I know
Goldsmith, he'll say his wife's taste is
good enough for him. So If we want a
change, we've a fight on our hands,"
The way he had unconsciously
phrased that sentence startled him a
little.
''The question u.s." he went on,
whether they're worth making a fight
about. Are they as bad as I think
they are?"
"Oh, yes" said Rose. They're dow
dy and fourth-class and ridiculous. OF
course don't know how many people
in the audience would know that"
"And l don't care" said John Gal
braith, with a flash of intensity that
made her look around at him. THAT'S
not a consideration I'll give any weight
to. When put production under my
name, it's the best 1 can make with
what I've got. When I have to take
cynical view and try to get by with
bad work because most of the people
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

out In front won't know the difference,
I'll go out to my little farm on Long
Island and raise garden truck"
There was another momentary ST.
lence, for the girl made no comment
at all on this statement of his credo.
But he felt sure, somehow, that she
understood it, and presently he went
on speaking.
"Would 1t be possible, do you think,
to get better gowns that would also
be cheaper? That argument would
bring Goldsmith around in hurry. It's
ridiculous, Of course, but that's the
trouble with making a production for
amateurs. You spend more time fight
ing them than you do producing the
show"
II don't believe" said Rose, "that
you could get better ready-made cos
tunes lot cheaper; the two or three
we might be able to find wouldn't help
us much"
"And I suppose" he said obviously,
'ft's out of the question getting them
any other way than ready made; that
is, and cheaper. too"
The only sign of excitement there
was in the girls voice when she an
swered, was sort Of exaggerated mat
| ter-Of-factness. Il could design the
costumes and pick out the materials, y
she said, "but we'd have to get good
sewing woman-perhaps more than
one-to get them DONE"
He wasn't greatly surprised. Per-
haps the notion that she might suggest
something Of the sort was responsible
for the tentative, dubious way in which
he had said he supposed it couldn't
be done.
you've had-experience in design
ing gowns, have your Galbraith
asked.
"Only for myself" she admitted.
But know 1 can do that part of it.
I'm not good at sewing, thOugh"-she
reverted to the other part Of the plan.
I'D have to have somebody awfully
good, who'd do exactly what I told
her."
ooh, that can be managed" he said
little absently, and at the end of a
silence which lasted while they walked
a whole block: 81 was just figuring out
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

way to work it." he said, explaining
his silence. 81 shall tell Goldsmith and
Block (Block was the junior partner
in the enterprise) that I've got hold
of costumer who agrees to deliver
twelve costumes satisfactory to me, al
an average of, say, twenty per cent
less than the ones Mrs. Goldsmith
picked out. If they aren't satisfactory
it's the costumer's loss and we can
buy those that Mrs. Goldsmith picked
out, or others that will do as well, at
Lessing's. I think that saving will be
decisive with them"
''But do you know a costumer?
Rose asked.
you're the costumer," said Gal
braith. 'YOu design the costumes, buy
the fabrics, superintend the making of
them. As for the woman you speak
Of, we'll, get the wardrobe mistress
at the Globe. happen to know she's
competent, and she's at loose end
just now. because her show is closing
when ours opens. You'll buy the fab.
RIGS and you'll pay her. And what profit
you can make out of the deal, you're
entitled to. I'll finance you myself. If
they won't take what we show them,
why, you'll be out your time and
trouble, and I'll be out the price of
materials and the wOman's labor"
II don't think it would be fair" she
said, and she found difficulty in speak.
ing at all because Of a sudden dispo-
sitiOn Of her teeth to chatter-'I don't
think 1t would be fair for me to take
all the profit and you take all the
risk"
"Well, 1 can't take any profit, that's
clear enough he said; and she no.
ticed now a tinge of amusement in his
voice. "You see I'm retained-body
and soul-to put this production over.
I can't make money out of those fell
lows on the side. But you're not re-
tanned. You're employed as a member
Of the chorus. And, so far, you're not
even paid for the work you're doing.
So long as you work to my Subtraction
there on the stage, nothing more can
be asked Of you. AS for the risk, /
don't believe it's serious. I don't think
you'll fall down on the job, and don't
believe Goldsmith and Block will
throw away a chance to save some
money"
And then he pressed her for an ips-
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

Woman Landscape Gardener Succeeds.
Miss Mabel Reyes Babcock, for four
years in charge of the department of
horticulture and landscape architec.
ture at Wellesley college, has been
chosen to design the great formal gar
den which is to be feature of the
new residence Of the president Of the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology
at Boston, and which is to be an i'm
pressive detail of the magnificent new
installation of that institution. Miss
Babcock is one Of the most distin-
guished landscape gardeners Of her sex
in the country, and she has done no
table work in landscape effects <9s the
Wellesley grounds, for several great
estates in Chicago and also in greater
Boston.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

After II years of married life and
one month as an elevator boy at the
Biltmore in New York, Charlie Phil
lips turned up his nose at his wife's
pork chops, and was left grass wild
over in consequence.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

On an average day food is brought
to the robins nest every Is minutes.
Each young robin requires daily two
or three times its weight in bugs and
worms. When food is offered these
ever-hungry little creatures open their
large, yellow mouths wide and jostle
each other.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

Great fog penetrating power is claim
ed for a new French incandescent light
with grDenish-yellow glass in front and
backed by & reflector that rejects
enough heat to prevent moisture COL.
lect ne. on thu glass. -ta...5
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

During the last cold snap of the sea-
son the water consumption of Louis
Vile, KY, rose from 24.O00,0OO gallons
in "a hours tc 72,OOO,OOO gallons, there
being few houses in the city equipped
with meters, and the average resident
merely turned on his faucets to pre-
vent freezing.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23

Rand gold production in 1875 was
$685. 3S ounces, against 9O63,e7a
ounces in 1914.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
GOVERNOR POINTS
OUT NEEDS OF HOUR
None But War Measures Should
Be Considered Now.
NO TINE FOR POLITICS
Defends His Stand On Question OF
Handling $1,000, 900 Loan = Bill
Would Give Army Camp Site In
Maryland Free OF Rental.
Annapolis

Annapolis
Faithful to one of it's most cherished
traditions-that of always being a lit
tie behind time-it was almost l
o'clock instead of II when the State
Senate convened Tuesday and-the
House having met and organized near
ly an hour earlier-completed the
opening Of the special session.
Beforehand the Senators decided
that President Campbell and the desk
officers held over, and, therefore, that
the customary procedure of organic
ing could be dispensed with So the
President took his chair just as though
it were the end of a general session
instead Of the beginning of a special
one, raped his gavel, announced that
the body was in session and called
upon the chaplain to invoke Divine
blessing upon its deliberations.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-23
There comes into Roses life
a new crisis which means more
hard work and much worry. The
next installment covers import
ant developments In the story.
OFFICE BOY OBEYED ORDERS

(TO BE CONTINUED