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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

On Thursday evening of this week
a meeting will be held at the city hall
for the purpose of making plans for
the organization of a band. A mum
Der of business men of this city have
and wish to aid in getting the organi-
cation started. All boys and young
men who are interested and who
would like to join a band organization
are requested to be present.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

E. A. Grape shipped two cars of hogs
and one a of sheep Saturday.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

Howard Stillman went to Huron
Tuesday to take the night operators
examination. Howard passed muster
all right. He is budding into a light
fine agent-operator. Success to him.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

On Saturday afternoon. Jan. 20, from
100 to 500. the teacher and pupils Of
Sunny Hill school. and Miss lone Mau-
rer, were delightfully."- entertained at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gal
les, in honor of the sixth birthday an
niversary of their SOL Roman. The
hours were spent in playing games
and listening to selections on the pho
nograph.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

A. J. Smol, who lives on the Cheever
place between Volga and Brookings,
will have an auction sale of personal
property on Wednesday, February Il
Mr.. Smol has purchased some land in
Lyman county, this state, near the
home of his son-in-law, Herman Olden-
kamp, and as soon as the sale is over.
he and his family will go there to live.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
BRUCE

from the Herald:
Roy Skarloken went to Bookings
Monday on business.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
ABOUT HI COUNTY
vOLGA

From the Tribune:
Mrs. c. C. Dyball was a Brookings
visitor the first of the week. Her
father. Lawrence McGarry, recently
underwent an operation at the hospi-
tai in that city, and was able to leave
that institution last week.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08

Walter Engle returned from the
Texas border last Monday evening,
after seven months service with his
company. He has lots to tell about
that country and the blooming natives
across the line. He thinks he struck
quite a change in murcury mentions,
95 in the shade down there, and 40
below in this section.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
wHAr - 4 ~sLIzzARD,

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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Council Hall,
City of %Brookings

February 5th, 1917.
City council met in regular session
with Mayor II. B. Mathews, Aldermen
Beals, Cole, Hoy, Johnson, Olson,
Sayre and Swering present.
Minutes Of last regular meeting were
read and approved.
Committee on claims made favorable
report on the following bills:
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Cut Down The Grocery Bill

In ordinary times, Just about
two-itthS Of at thousand dollar in
come goes to pay Tor the bread
and meat consumed in the aver
age home. This year the family
pantry calls for a full three
fourth Of it.
We'y got to get busy and get
busy in a hurry.
The advice we are giving our
selves is, Get busy in a little
family garden at nome.
The home garden can cut the
grocery bill half in two, as the
common phrase has it. We've a
brisk Yankee neighbor who has
done this very thing for years.
Even with the customary care
less attention given to gardening
So average farm families in a
Carolina county in 1913 got a
fourth Of their table supplies out
of their little gardens and or
chards, or so the Washington
authorities found.
A little more affection and skill
would easily double or treble the
fraction in any family budget.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Roch der Kaiser

Der Kaiser Of dis Fatherland
Und Colt on high all dingS
command
We two ach! Don't you under.
stand?
Myself und Gott!l
Vile some men sing der power
divine,
Mein soldiers sing Der Wacht
am Rhine"
Und drink der health in Rhein-
ish wine
Of Me-und Colt.
Dere's France, she swaggers
all aroundt.
She's ausgesspielt.
To much, we think, she don't
amount
Myself-und Colt!
She will not dare to fight again,
But if she shouldt I'll show her
hlain
Dot Elsass (und in FRENCH
Lorraine
Are mein-by Colt!
Dere's grandma drinks she's
NIGHT small beer,
Midi Beers and such she inter-
feres;
She's learn none owns dis hem
isphere
But me -und Gottl
Mote: Grandma" was Queen
Victoria of England.)
She drinks, good frau, some
ships she's got
Ach! We could knock them!
Pouf! like that
Myself midi Colt!
In dimes of peace brebare for
wars,
| bear the spear and helm of
Mars,
Und care not for den tousand
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

To the Editor of the Herald:
Among the many kind acts
done by the Roanoke Mills Com
pany, for the benefit Of its en-
ployees, consider this free life
insurance to be the greatest.
At first glance one would hard
~ realize the extent of this in
surance,
500 policies, face value first
year $500, means 100000 pro-
lection the first year, which
increases 70 per cent the second
year. after which time they in
crease at the rate of $50 90 each
year until the face value Of
the policy is $500
Many Of US live up to, or be-
yond our income, and in the
event OF death would leave our
family to pay our funeral eXpen-
ses. Don't understand me to say
that this is always the case, but
in many instances it is.
This group insurance shows
much forethought on the part
of the management, also it shows
that they are interested in the
welfare OF their employees and
| believe | voice the sentiment
Of the entire group of operatives,
when | say that we highly
appreciate this act and hope that
the relations between operator
and operative may be pleasant
and profitable in the future, as it
has been in the past.
Employee.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
The Credit Association

More. benefits than at first
seem apparent are sure to follow
from the organization in this
community of the Merchants
Credit Associations. These have
been organized in both Rosemary
and Roanoke Rapids by the bust
ness and professional men of the
community, and if the organi-
cation proves permanent and
receives the support of its con-
stituent members, the. greatest
evil affecting the mercantile
business in this community will
be almost eliminated.
The system contemplateS the
rating of every individual who
buys goods on a credit according
to the way in which his payments
are met. Exchange ofexperiences
will be made promptly between
the member merchants and the
Association will also act as a
collecting agency for its members.
At first thought it looks as
though the benefits of this system
would be confined to the mer-
chants alone. This is not true.
The benefits ofprompt collections
and the reduction of losses of
accounts will be felt by the buy
ing public of this community in
lower prices. The merchants
of any community must add
enou gh profit to their
goods to pay all selling ex-
penses, all losses on account, all
wastes in operation, and also the
living expenses of themselves
and their families. They must
do this or go bankrupt. As very
few Of them do 60 into bankrupt
cy the clear inference is that the
people who pay for what they
get must also pay in the increased
profit charged for what the other
fellow has gotten and refused to
pay for.
The curtailment of credit loss
es in this community is therefore
bound TO prove a benefit for
every body concerned, except the
man who does not pay his bills.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Notice of Sale.

Under and by virtue Of an order of
the Superior Court of Halifax county,
made in the Special proceedings entitled
I'm the matter of Eva b. Whichard,
Guardian of Thomas jefferson Rock and
Leon Palmer Rock, minors, the same
being the Spe cial
Proceedings docket of said court, the un-
dersigned commissioner will, on Men
Gay the 7th day of May. 1917. at u 30
o'clock, p. NJ, at the Court House door
in Halifax, North Carolina. offer for
sale to the highest bidder for cash, that
certain tract of land lying and being in
Roanoke Rapids Township, Halifax
County, North Carolina, adjoining the
lands of Randolph Whitehead, K. W.
Brown, lvey and others, and more par
ticularly described NJ follows, to-wit:
That piece, parcel or tract of land known
as lot No. 3, and assigned to c. w. White
head in a division made the 26th day
of April, 1901, and ordered by the Clerk
of the Superior Court of Halifax County
under petition for partition proceedings,
in which the said c. W. Whitehead was
made a party. the said petition for par
tition proceedings being of record and
recorded in volume 7, folio 49l, rs case
No. 1913. under the head of special pro-
ceedings of the Clerk office of Halifax
county, State of North Carolina, and,
bounded as follows: beginning at lean
ing gum on branch on Mrs. M. +.
Morecock's line, thence N. SIS W. 27.Sl
TO pine. thence S. S.5 +. 81 poles to
lvey's line, thence S. 81 W. 36 poles to
rhompson's line, thence following the
course Of Thompson's line as laid down
on the plot in said proceedings to a
branch. thence said branch to the be-
ginning, containing forty-two (42) acres.
This 9Th day of April, A. D. 1917.
A. l.. CLARK
COMMISSIONER.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Rally TO the Flag
GOVERNOR I. W. BECKETT

GOVERNOR T. W. BECKETT
The time for difference has ex-
PRED The President, from the
day Of the sinking Of the Lusi-
tania, exercised a self-restraint
that proves him to be jealous
lover of peace. He is a quiet,
thoughtful man. whose habits of
lie have begotten natural dis
taste for the thunder of the
captains and the shoutings." 1t
/ is a sad and serious Indictment
not of the German people, but of
the autocracy that has sinned
against Germany and the world
that a President who so deeply
abhors bloodshed, has been fore
ed to appeal to the stern arbitra-
ment of the sword.
Henceforward there is but one
course for a good citizen to pur-
sue, and that is to rally to the
Flag. Hereafter
10 doubt you'd be disioyalty,
To tdlter uouid be sin.
Personally, | am reconcied to
war, because | believe that we
are fighting for the only sort of
civilization tina means an end to
all war. | am not in favor of
permanent universal military ser
vice. | am against the Imperial
German Government, because it
stands for universal military SER
vice. That government has for
30 years prepared to live by the
sword. According to Holy Writ,
it must die by the sword. When
the government that deifies blood
and iron shall perish from the
earth, then and not till then, will
the nations forget war, and in
their dealings with each other
have respect to the principles
enunciated in the Sermon on the
Mount.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Says Drink Water
If You Wish To Grow
Fat And Plump
THIN MEN AND WOMEN
Do You Want to Get Fat and Strong !

The trouble with most thin folks
who wish TO gain weight is that they
insist on dragging their stomach or
stutiing it with greasy foods: rubbing
on useless flesh creams. or following
some foolish physical culture stunt
while the real cause of thinness goes
untouched. You cannot get fat until
your digestive tract properly assimilates
the food you eat. Drink glass of cold
water four or five times day and take
the following preparation known to
reliable druggists almost everywhere,
which seemingly embodies the missing
elements needed by the digestive organs
to help them convert food into rich,
fat-laden blood This preparation is
called tonolne, and remarkable testi-
mony is given as to its successful use in
flesh building. 1onoline which comes in
the form of a small non-injurious tablet,
taken at meals and mixed with the
digestng food, tends to prepare fat,
flesh and muscle building elements so
that the blood can readily accept and
carry them to the starved portion of
the body. You can readily picture the
transformation that additional and
previously lacking flesh making material
should bring to your cheeks. filling out
hollows about your neck. shoulders and
bust disappearing, and your taking on
from Is to 80 pounds of solid healthy
flesh. Tonoline is harmless, inexpensive,
efficient. Roanoke Pharmacy Co. and
Rosemary Drug Co. have it and are
to refund your money If
weight increase is not obtained as per
the guarantee found in each large
package.
Caution: tonoline is recommended
only as flesh builder and while ex-
cellent results in cases of nervous in
digestion, etc. have been reported,
care should be taken about using it un-
less gain of weight is desired.
l3-27-m ll-25
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

And, also these might be taxed:
Rice pudding.
Brown derbies.
Derbies.
Tea wagons.
Cup custard.
Gray derbies.
Radiator ornaments.
Buttoned half shoes,
f. Z. A,
Ad. a. t. m. b. t.
Syllabub.
Pumpkin custard.
Pumpkin pie.
Buttoned shoes.
Rock.
Greensboro Daily News
A. W. n. t.?
w. J. B.
Amateur clarinetists.
Professional clarinetists.
Vegetarians.
Barber shop choirs.
Celluloid collars.
Graphophones.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Administrator Notice

Having qualified as administrator of
the estate of John NJ. Moore. deceased,
late of Halifax County, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersigned at Roa-
noke Rapids. N. c., on or before the
Both day of March, 1918, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment.
This 23rd day Of March, 1917.
JOHN l.. MOORE.
Admr. of Estate Of John M. Moore.
m30a6- l3-20-27m4
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Assurance

lQuestion and Answer in the Kansas City Starr
Sir-I was born in the State
represented in Congress by SEN
ator La Toilette. Am | a citizen
of the United States or do I have
to be naturallzed since coming to
Kansas City?
BADGER.
You are a citizen of the United
States just as you are. Fortunate
ly, the Senator's official acts affect
no one but himself.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Gardening And Cumption

The man who does not get
busy in the home garden this
year lacks what the Cracker
calls plain gumption'. No doubt
in the world about that!
We certainly cannot go on
much longer with grocery shelf
gardening and escape the bank
ruptcy court.
Town dwellers. wage-earners
and salaried people have certainly
got to climb out of tin cans this
spring and climb into old clothes
in backyard garden spaces a
little while in the mornings and
evenings and cultivate hoe
handle sense in sheer self-de-
Tense.
It's Hobson's choice, consider
inc tie wartime price Of every
blessed thing that goes on the
table nowadays.
There is grim tragedy in the
Jest of the New Yorker who said
to his green grocer the other day,
Here's a dollar bill. Send IA
potato round to my house. and
il not ody's at home, lust shove
the blame thing through the key
hole. " The plain truth is that
the pay envelope does not even
begin to cover the cost of living
in towns and cities any where in
this country, and it is less likely to
do SO the next twelve months
than ever before in half a hun
dred ears.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Selective conscription is eff
fective and democratic. The vol
unteer plan puts a premium on
selfishness and cowardice and
should not be tolerated.
We believe this country should
profit from the experience of
England and adopt CONSUMPTION
from the start.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

The time for discussion and
argument on the question of
German acts against this country
has passed. We are at war. Abuse
of free speech by unpatriotic, if
not reasonable. criticism of the
great government Of the United
States, is liable to prove dis
astrous for those guilty Of lack
of patriotism. Every patriotic
American will support his coun-
try now by word and deed and
the other kind of Americans,
who will not, are going to find
what the inside of a Jail looks
like unless they exercise great
prudence.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Editorial Correspondence
Wants Chicken Law Enforced

70 the Editor Of the Herald;
win the town daddes continue
to sit still and let the people
ignore the chicken law?
Make it lawful to kill any
chicken found of the owners
premises,
Gardener
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Cars
Myself midi Gottl
In fact, | humor efry whim,
With aspect dark and visage
grim;
G,tt pulls NIT me, uud | NIT
Him
Myself und Colt,
Capt, Coghlan, u, $. N.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Looks like the Allies are will
ing to make it warm for the Ger
mans even though they do not
give them a place in the sun
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Mr.. Kitchin may have been
both honest and sincere, but
these are only two of the quail
ties necessary for efficient rep
resentation and leadership.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Daily Thouuht.

A soul occupied with great ideas,
best performs small duties; the dlvIn-
est views of life penetrate most clear
ly Into the meanest enterprises. -Mar-
tineau.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Mount Airy needn't get stuck
up over having hired crazy man
for town manager lots Of towns
have 'em.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Looks like that victorious Ger
man retreat is going to begin
again.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

The eloquent statement Of
Governor Thomas Walter Beckett,
which we reproduce on this page
appeared in the last issue of the
State Journal. 1t offers food for
thought for those loose thinking
people who have placed them
selves in the position of doubtful
patriots by careless utterances.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Spring is now attacking along
the whole front with unparalleled
ferocity
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

If the Kitchin popularity can
survive this latest blow, we think
it will survive anything.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

1t remained for fighting old
Admiral Lodge to put the fist
in pacifst.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13
Friday, April l3, 1917

Come on in Brazil, the water
fine.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-04-13

Some Democratic leadership
that can muster all of fifty votes.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-18
NEWS REVIEW OF PAST WEEK
Continued from first page)

shipped to them. In other quarters
there Is much talk OF the great short
age Of workers In such war plants as
airplane and munltion factories. steel
mills, navy yards and mines, and II is
said that conscription Of millions Of
workmen Is being seriously considered
by the administration. Industrial ex-
pansion and the withdrawal Of about
], 100000 men from their occupations
for the aroed services are held re-
sponsible for the conditions. In the
aircraft factories thousands of women
are to be given employment.
Owing to the present demand for
gasoline, the Standard oil company
has decided to permit Unrestricted use
OF its Burton process OF refining, oy
which almost twice as much gasoline
Is obtained from crude oil as by other
processes.
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-18
ed court and cause, praying for the
establishment of plaintiffs title in fee
ni.a.la .-....A A.. cl-.- --

~ vi Ns>
establishment of plaintiffs title in fee
simple against the following adverse
claims of the defendants, in and to
the real estate and property lying and
being in Quay county, New Mexico, to-
wit: all of Lot F. of Fuqua's sub-di-
vision of Lots 9, 10, IL and IL, in
Block "a, of the Original Townsite Of
Tucumcari, New Mexico, as shown by
plat of said Fuqua's subdivision, on
file in the Office of the County Clerk
of said County; and that the defend
ants be barred and forever estopped
from having or claiming any right, or
title in and to said premises adverse
to plaintiff, and that plaintiffs title
thereto be forever quieted and set at
rest and for such other and further
relief as to the court may seem equit-
able. And you are further notified
that unless you enter or cause to be
entered your appearance in said cause
On or before the Goth day of Novem-
Der, 1917, judgment by default will
be rendered against you and the re-
lief prayed for in plaintiffs complaint,
decreed. Harry H. McElroy, Tucum-
carl, Tucumcari, New Mexico, is plain
tiff's attorney.
(Seal) T. N. LAWSON.
s-ll Clerk of the Above Styled Court
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-18
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

In the District Court of the Eighth
Judicial District of the State of New
Mexico, within and for the County Of
Quay. w. L. Crutcher, plaintiff, VS..
w. A. Jackson, ct al, defendants,
Number 1929. The defendants w. A.
Jackson, N. S. Niece, w. II. Fuqua,
Ella Fuqua, Georgia A. Lamar, George
L. Lamar, W. F. Buchanan, w. F. Blu
chanan, Trustee for the First National
Bank, Tucumcari, New Mexico; G. w.
Evans, Jr., Maud Evans, T. L. WEIGH,
Evelyn Byrd WEIGH; II. N. Porter, Mat
tie S. Porter, H. Porter, Gus FARRELL,
G. j. FARRELL, b. N. Hicks, John Reed,
and Harry r. Neal, are hereby noti-
fled that the above named plaintiff
has commenced suit in the above styl-
The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-10-18
PUERTO ITEMS

Every one Is gathering crops now,
as 1T is ripe and they are afraid il will
frost soon.
Earnest Brown has been on the sick
list the past week.
Frank Bonds Of Cameron gave a
big dance last Friday night. There
was a big attendance and everyone
enjoyed themselves. We hope he will
give another n o
The Puerto school teacher, Miss
Spruce Of Quay, is getting along with
her school nicely.
Mr.. Charley Walther is attending
school at Melrose this winter.
The boys of the Puerto school are
getting real practice as they are train
ing as osldiers. We hope they succeed.
Little Dan Craig while playing at
school one day with some wheels, ran
into Roy Griggs with some more and
mashed his finger and he missed a few
days Of school, but is coming now.
Larene Clark, and Ruby Walther,
or Soapweeds and Bill, sometime ago,
went to Sunday school in Geo. Clark's
a and they went over there real
slick but when they got ready to come
home the car wouldn't crank, and they
came by the old speckled hens nest,
on the way home about IL 80 p. m.
We all hate to see the boys leave
Albuquerque. We hope they don't
have to go abroad.
Grass is very scarce around this
neighborhood now.
We will have to get some cowboys
TO come u and roundup the COWS for
US. Don't need any cowgirls as there
are plenty out here.
The main road that leads to Puerto
school house is so sandy that every
n has TO pass right in front Of the
school TO get across the creek. The
scholars have a good time watching
them pass and the teacher says she
Is going to put linseed oil on the
windows. We think it a good idea.