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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-01-23

Of a bird-I do not remember what
bird 1t was-and then she whispered:
"Will you love me always and for
ever?"
"Yes," I answered in the careless
way of youth.
She stopped and looked into my eyes
and I looked into hers.
"May I kiss your" I asked, and
afraid, with cheeks burning.
She turned away and answered: IL
guess you can If you want to-"
Now l seem to be In Aladdin's tower
and to see her standing so red and
graceful and innocent in the sunlight.
and that strange fire kindled by our
kisses warns my blood again.
That night I heard a whispered con-
ference below after I had gone up
stairs. I knew that something was
coming and wondered what it might
be. Soon Uncle Peabody came up to
our little room looking highly serious.
l sat, half undressed and rather fear
| full, looking into his face. AS l think
Of the immaculate soul Of the boy, I
feel a touch Of pathos in that scene.
/ think that he felt it. for l remember
J that his whisper trembled a little as he
began to tell me why men are strong
and women are beautiful and given In
marriage.
you'll be falling in love one o.
these days." he said. 'It's natural We
should. You remember Rovin' Kate?'
ne asked by and by.
EYES," / answered.
"Some day when you're o little older
I'll tell We her story an you'l see
what happens when men an women
break the law o. God. Here's Mr..
Wright's letter. Aunt Deel asked me
to give 1t to you to keep. You're old
enough now an you'n be goin' away to
school before long, l guess"
i took the letter and read again the
superscription on It's envelope:
-ro Master Barton Baynes:
(To be opened when he leaves home
to go to SCHOOL,"
put 1t away In the pine box with
leather hinges on its v which
Uncle Peabody had made for me and
wondered again what 1t was all about
and again that night I broke camp
and moved further into the world over
the silent trails of knowledge.
Uncle Peabody went away for a few
days after the harvesting. He had
gone afoot. / knew not where. He
returned one afternoon In a buggy
with the great Michael Hacket Of the
Canton academy. Hacket was a big
brawny, red-haired, kindly Irishman
with a merry heart and tongue, the
latter having a touch Of the brogue OF
the green isle which he had never seen
for he had been born In Massachusetts,
and had got his education In Harvard
He was then . man Of forty.
"You're coming to ME this fall" he
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Seven Brick Business Blocks Erected IN
1914.
New s125.OOO Girls Dormitory at state
College
One Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies' Fur
nishing Store.
Good Volunteer Fire Department With
Electric Apparatus
south Dakota State College Of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts.
Brookings Produce Co., Cash Market. for
All Farm Products.
Two Billiard Halls and Bowling Alley as
Places Of Amusement.
Brictson Manufacturing Company. makers
of the Brictson Tire Tread
New 5000, 900 administration Building at
South Dakota State College
surrounded by the Best Farming Land In
the State. Where Crops are Sure and Boun-
tiful
Municipality Owned Telephone, Electric
Light, Heating and Water Works Plants.
Strong Commercial Club with 200 Mem
eers In Good Standing, Fine Club Rooms,
Brookings Is Located on the Main Line of
the C. & N. w. Ry. from Chicago to Pierre,
the Capital Of the State. Also Headquarters
for Train Crews Running North to Water
town and on to RedheId ard Gettysburg.
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CHAPTER VII.
MN Third Peril.
ATHo on
6BEN HOLDEN, DRl AND l. DARaEl or THE BLESSED lslEA
KEEPING UP VIII LizZlE. ETC, ETC

"Mr. Purvis" took his pay In salts
and stayed with us until my first great
adventure cut him off. 1t came one
July day when | was in my sixteenth
year. He behaved badly, and j, as any
normal boy would have done who had
had my schooling In the candle light.
We had kept Grimshaw from our door
by paying interest and the sum of $50
on the principal. 1t had been hard
work to live comfortably and carry the
burden Of debt. Again Grimshaw had
begun to press us. My uncle wanted
10 get his paper and learn, If possible,
when the senator was expected In
Canton.
So he gave me permission to ride
with Purvis to the post office-a dis
lance of three miles-tO get the mail.
Purvis rode In our only saddle and 1
bareback, en- q handsome white FLY
which my uncle had given me soon
after she was foaled. l had fed and
petted and broken and groOmed her
and she had grown so fOpd of me that
my whistled call would bring her gal
looping from the remotest reaches of
the pasture. / had named her Sally
because that was the only name which
seemed to express my fondness.
"Mr. Purvis" was not an experienced
rider. My filly led him at a swift gal
lop over the hills, and l heard many
. muttered complaint behind me, but
she liked a free head when we took
the road together, and l let her have
her way.
Coming back we fel! in with another
rider who had been resting at Sewers
little tavern through the heat of the
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the neighborlng villages to see and talk
with me, and among them were the
Dunkelbergs. Unfounded tales Of my
bravery had gone abroad.
Sally seemed to be very glad to see
me. We walked down to the brook
and up into the maple grove and back
through the meadows.
The beauty Of that perfect day was
upon her. / remember that her dress
was like the color of it's fireweed bios
SONS and that the blue of It's sky was
in her eyes and the yellow of the sun
light in her hair and the red Of it's
clover in her cheeks. ] remember how
the August breezes played with her
hair, fiinging its golden curving strands
about her neck and shoulders so that
1t touched my face, now and then, as
we walked! Somehow the rustic Of
her dress started a strange vibration
in my spirit. / put my arm around her
waist and she put her arm around
mine as we ran along. A curious feel
ing came over me. / stopped and
lOosed my arm.
"It's very warm" I said as / picked
a stalk of fireweed.
What was there about the girl which
so thrilled me with happiness?
She turned away and felt the rib
bon by which her hair vas gathered
at the back Of her head.
After a moment of silence I ven-
tured:
II guess you've never fallen in love-"
eyes, l have"
"Who with?"
81 don't think I dare tell you," she
answered, slowly, looking down as she
walked.
"Ill tell you who l love If you WISH"
/ said.
"Who?"
"You." l whispered the word and
was afraid she would laugh at me, but
she didn't.
We stopped and listened TO the song
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WHAT WE NEED
A Gas Plant
Canning Factory
More Business Enterprises
More Manufacturing Enterprises
More Young People Who Want an Educa-
ton.
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~ You Want 20 Buy. Sell, Rent. 10
cate or Get Information. Write OF Call
at the once Of the erookinps Register
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From the Sun:
Mrs. E. H. Grove is reported i'll with
the influenza.
Mrs. F. B. Olson went to Bookings
Wednesday morning to visit for a few
days with friends.
Robert Plumb is home on a fur
Tough. He is on the U. S. S. Texas
and made four trips across the Allan
tic with transports.
Mrs. Woodward and Mrs. Kingman
of Bookings, visited the latter part
of last week with Mrs. F. B. Olson.
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"H0iu up yer hea0, my brave laO,
he went on. "Ye've a perfect right to
like Sally If we've a heart to.
"a lad In his teens
| viii, never know beans
II he hasn't an eye for the girls"
It was a merry supper, and when It
ended Mr.. Hacket rose and took the
green chair from the table, exclaim
ing:
michael Henry, God bless your
Then he kissed his wife and said:
maggie, you wild rose of Erin! I've
been all day in the study. I must take
men. One is badly beaten In the race
o. life when his abdomen gets ahead
of his toes. Children, keep our Young
friend happy here until l come back,
and mind you, don't forget the good
fellow in the green chair"
Mary helped her mother with the
dishes, while / sat with q book by the
Preside. Soon Mrs. Hacket and the
children came and sat down with me.
Lets play backgammon" Mary pro-
posed.
81 don't want to-" said John.
Don't forget Michael Henry" she
reminded.
"Who is Michael Henry?" l asked.
"Sure, he's the boy that has never
been born" said Mrs. Hacket. she
was to be the biggest and noblest Of
them-kind an helpful an CHEEKY
hearted an beloved O. God above all
the others. We try to live up to him."
He seemed to me a very strange and
wonderful creature-this invisible Oc-
cupant of the green chair.
l know now what / knew not then
that Michael Henry was the spirit of
their home-an ideal of which the
empty green chair was a constant re-
hinder.
We played backgammon and "Old
maid" and Everlasting" until MI.
Hacket returned.
The sealed envelope which MI.
Wright had left at our home, a long
time before that day, was in my pocket.
At last the hour had come when l
could open it and read the message
of which l had thought much and
with a growing interest.
1 rose and said that 1 should like to
go to my room. Mr.. Hacket lighted
a candle and took me upstairs to a
little room where my chest had been
deposited. There were in the room a
bed, a chair, a portrait of Napoleon
B%Onaparte and a small table on which
were a dictionary, a Bible and a num-
Der Of SchOOlbookS.
"These were Mary's books" said Mr..
Hacket. 81 told your uncle that We
could use them an welcome"
l sat down and opened the sealed
envelope with trembling hands and
found in it this brief note:
Dear Partner: 1 want you to ask
the wisest man you know to explain
these words to you. l suggest that
you commit them to memory and think
often of their meaning. They are from
Job:
Ellis bones are full of the sins Of
his youth, which shall lie down with
him.in the DUST
81 believe that they are the most
impressive in all the literature l have
read.
"Yours truly,
"SILAS WRIGHT, JR."
CTO BE CONTINUED
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Professional Cards
PHYSICIANS

DR.. A. w. HYDE-Physician and Sur
geon. Office in Hyde-Harris block.
Office hours: 10 to IL a. M, 1 to 3
p. M. Phone, office 81.
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said as he put his hand on my arm and
gave me a little shake. Lad! you've
got a pair of shoulders! Ye shall live
In ray house an help with the chores
If We wish to-"
"That'H be grand" said Uncle Pea
body, but, as to myself, just then, I
knew not what to think of 1t.
lend OF BOOK ONE.1 >
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day. He was a traveller on his way
to Canton and had missed the right
trail and wandered far aield. He mad
a bic military saddle with bags and
shiny brass trimmings and a pistol In
q holster, all Of which appealed to my
eye and interest. The filly was a little
tired and the stranger and l were rid
Ing abreast at q walk while Purvis
trailed behind us.
We heard a quick stir in the bushes
by the roadside.
"What's thatT" Purvis demanded In
half-whisper Of excitement. We
STOPPED.
Then promptly a voice-a voice
which ! did not recognize-broke the
silence with these menacing words,
sharply spoken:
"Your money or your life"
mr.. Purvis" whirled his horse and
slashed him up the hill. CHANGING
backward, / Jaw him lose a stirrup and
fall and pick himself up and run as
II his life depended on 1t. / saw the
stranger draw his pistol. A gun went
or In the edge Of the bushes close by.
The flash Of fire from its muzzle
leaped at the stranger. The horses
reared and plunged and mine threw
me In d clump Of small peoples by the
roadside and dashed down the hill.
Ny fall on the stony siding had
stunned me and I lay for three or four
seconds, as nearly as Team estimate It,
In a strange and peaceful dream. Why
did / dream Of Amos Grimshaw com
Ing to visit me again. and why, above
al, should It have seemed to me that
enough things were said and done in
That little flash Of q dream to all o
Whole day-enough Of talk and play
and going and coming. the whole end
Ing with a talk on the haym0w? Again
md again I have wondered about th9t
dream. I came to and lifted my head
ana my consciousness swung back upon
lie track Of memory and took up the
thread ~ the day. the briefest remove
fFom Whbrs 4 lad broken.
I pe1red through ne bushes. The
NH ~ unkheneed. 4 could re
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EYE VIEW OF BOOKINGS

BIRDS Y VIEW OF BOOKINGS
NJ Saloons
Two Bands
Three Hotels
Four Dentist
Ten Churches
Six Physicians
Candy Kitchen
Good Creamery
Steam Laundry
One Ice Dealer
Two Osteopaths
One State Bank
S25. 700 City Hall
Chinese Laundry
Five Restaurants
Three Drug Stores
Three Tailor Shops
Two Chiropractors
Four General Stores
Two Livery ST Sbles
Growing Every Day
Two Meat Markets
Seven Auto Garages
Four Lumber Yards
Two Cigar Factories
Four Weekly Papers
Fine Lake Near City
Two National Banks
Exclusive Shoe Store
Five Grain Elevators
1925, 900 Court House
Four Jewelry Stores
Three Barber Shops
Two Furniture Stores
Two Hardware Stores
Tire V~ulcanizing Plant
Electric Supply House
Three Machine Shops
Two Department Stores
Four Blacksmith Shops
Carnegie Public Library
City of Beautiful Homes
Two Exclusive G-oceries
Two Shoe Repair Shops
Best Schools In the State
Good Water Near Surface
Marble and Granite Works
Dakota Deaconess Hospital
Five Auto Livery Stations
One Gents Furnishing Store
Three Photograph Galleries
s75. 900 Government Building
Two Cement Block Factories
State Circuit Court held here
$40. 900 Brick School Building
Two Moving Picture Theatres
$40, 900 High School Building
Two Exclusive Clothing Stores
Culhane Adjustment Company
l,106 Students in State College
Who'll sale Photo Supply House
Forty FIVE Hundred Inhabitants
Educational Center OF the State
Three Exclusive Millinery Stores
County Seat OF Brookings County
United States Experiment Station
Five Rural Free Delivery Routes
High School on the Accredited List
Over $500, 900 Invested in Education
Free Delivery Service of City Mail
Three Plumbing and Heating Firms
finest Church Buildings in the State
Nineteen miles of cement sidewalks
Best Bakery in Eastern South Dakota
Frank Sherwin's Alfalfa Drill Factory
New Stock Pavilion at State College
$3.50. 900 Invested in Beautiful Churches
New 800. 900 Armory at State College
Willard Storage Battery Service Station
Finest County Fair Grounds in the State
First-Class Opera House and Auditorium
One Thousand Students in Grade Schools
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DR.. e. A. lENTZ-Dentist. Office:
Front rooms over First National
Bank. Phone 116.
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over one hundred New Dwellings Built
During past three years. Besides Many
business blocks and other substantial In
provements.
City presents a fine appearance, matted an
1t is in the midst Of a fine growth OF shade
and ornamental trees. Her citizens are will.
ing and ready to encourage and assist every
helpful industry
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DR.. L. G. BoRsT-Dentist. Office
Front rooms second floor Kendall
Block. Phone 9; residence, L218
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-06-05
WOLCOTT.

Mr.. and Mrs. w. WEIGH and Mr.. and
Mrs. Bernice Eastman of Groton were
guests at n. /. Randall's, Sunday.--lra
Wheeler and Perley Laird were married
Saturday by the Rev. Frank Oldridge.
Mrs. c. p. Leach was in Burlington
Sunday.--A. 3. Chapman and family of
johnson were guests at II. II. Parkers,
Sunday.-The Rev. Frank Oldridge
delivered the Memorial day address at
Crafsbury. Perkins of st. Johns
bury was a visitor in town the last Of the
week. MIR. and Mrs. e. w. Albee passed
Friday with friends in Hardwick. Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Newton of st. Adams
spent Sunday here with their daughter,
Mrs. w. e. Reed,-C. n. S. Cleveland,
who has been i'll at the home Of friends in
Morrisville returned to his home here
! Sunday. Conant. and aged
and respected citizen died Saturday of
heart. trouble. Funeral services were
held from the house Monday at two
o'clock. The Rev. George Young of the
Pentecostal Church officiated.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-06-05
Orleans County
GREENSBORO

Julian Wiley returned from three
weeks visit to his brother in Mont
pelier Saturday.-Mrs. Mary Jordan
has been quite i'll the past week.
The entertainment by dhe students
of the junior high school intended to
have been given Thursday evening,
was postponed by several cases OF
measles among those taking part in
the play. 1t is expected IT will be
given on the evening of June 9Th at
the town hall,-The dance at town
hall Tuesday May q, was attended
by about 80 couples-Fishing on the
lake has been very good the last two
weeks.-The Caspian Lake House lie
well filled with guests.-Mr. and Mrs
George Whalen of Montpelier spent
Decoration day at the lake.-Mr. and
Mrs. Willis Cummings Have been In
the Wheeler cottage for a few days
B. II. Sanborn of Wellesley. Mass.
Is at his cottage--Albert Young went
to Montpelier Monday for party at
the lake.-Herbert Terrill was here
from New York Saturday for a short
vsit.-Dr. Daley and party from
White River Junction were at his cot
tage last week and made some fine
catches of trout.
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Washington County
MONTPELIER

Memorial day exercises took place in
the usual form. being under the gen.
eral management of the Brooks Post.
G. A. r., while Fred Il. Gleason of
Montpelier was the speaker of the
morning. The allied organizations to
the G. A. r. were invited to attend the
exercises. but the attendance was very
small owing probably to the failure
of the committee to recognize the re-
turn of the boys from Europe, who did
not appear in the parade. Mr.. Gleason
gave one of the best addresses of re-
cent years. making 1t very appropriate
for the return of the veterans of the
present war. as we'll a. fitting to the
memory of those veterans who de-
Tended the nation in 1861 to '65. He
paid a fitting tribute to the honor OF
both organizations of veterans. The
usual parade took place, led by the
Montpelier Military band. Prayer was
offered by the Rev. +. b. Leach. Lin
coins Gettysburg address was read by
Miss Lucille NJ. Holmes. Vocal music
was provided by male chorus and
also by 100 children The G. A. r
veterans decorated the grave" in
memory of their deceased brothers
after which the drill and decoration
| occurred by the children. The Sons
Of Veterans also participated In the
exercises. In the evening the Sons OF
Veterans gave a patriotic and musica
entertainment in the q. A. r. hall
The Relief Corps gave dinner fol
lowing the morning exercises.
| Deputy Sheriff Edward Gill took Ear
Raymond Thursday morning to the Hous'
OF Correction to serve a sentence of a
least six months on the charge of forgery
He pleaded guilty In Barre city cour
to the charge of forging the name o
F. A. Slayton to check on q bank II
Barre. He was captured in Woodstock
week before last.
| Mrs. Fannie Burnham, who has live
In Roxbury. died at Heaton hospta
Thursday morning. following few
weeks illness as q result Of a fall. afte
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-06-05
SOUTH ROYALTON

Honor scholarships have been received
from the University of Vermont for
George w. Osborne and Doris A. Heath
who have been the winners this year
Word has been received that the certih-
cate privilege of the high school is rec
newed at the Worcester Polytechnic In
stitute and also by the n. f. board Of Col
lege Entrance Requirements. While .
comparatively small number of grad
yates attend college 1t is a satisfaction
to know that the standard here meets the
approval of college authorties.-Th chill
dren of the graded schools gave an enter
tainment in knights Opera house Mon.
day evening. which proved a great sue
cess.-Especially commendable were tho
Maypole dance by the children of the first
primary: Pochontas. by the second prt-
mary; and "Midsummers Eve" by the NTH
and sixth grades.-There was large at
tendance and the entertainment was A.
nancial success, as well.-Mrs. w. V.
Soper and family have returned to South
Royalton for the summer. 1t is possible
that they may reside here permanently.
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II. Nutting, Memorial day.--Miss Frances
Hibard came from st. Johnsbury Mem
orial day for a short stay with her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Hibard.-Prof.
Meigs motored to Burlington Thursday
and returned with Mrs. Meigs on Monday.
w. l.. Hibard accompanied Mr.. Meigs to
Burlington and returned the following day.
Mrs. Lucy Parish is entertaining her
niece. Mrs. Maud Quigiey of Boston.-Th~
Clark sisters have returned from an ex-
tended visit in Boston and have opened
their house.-Mr. and Mrs. w. F. Wash
burn. who were called to Springfield Mass.
by the serious illness of Mrs Washburn' S
sister. Grace Conant. returned Saturday.
leaving her much improved.-At the town
school meeting Saturday, A. M. Smith
was elected school director.
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SOUTH WOODBURY.

Alozo g. Summer died at his homo In
this village Monday afternoon at Gas
O'Clock after an illness extending over
q period of many months. Mr.. Sumner
was stricken last fall with Brights dis
sease, and was confined to the house
good share Of the ensuing time. He en-
listed in the Civil war belonging to a
Pennsylvania regiment and served to the
close of the war. His record was a very
creditab BILE one. He was a native Of Ca
lais and his wife was Keziah Carver OF
that town. who survive him. to gether
with one son. George. of this town and
two daughters living in Duncannon. Pa
Mr.. Sumner had lived to the advanced
age of SO years. and was respected
by all. The Count On Me" Sunday
school class with their teacher. Miss
Lucy c. Sabin, held a picnic Saturday
afternoon in J. o. Goodells grove.-Mr
and Mrs Walter Regain and two chill
dren of Springfield. who have been guests
of Mr.. and Mrs A. l.. Haskell, returned
to their home Sunday.--Mr. and Mrs.
Oscar Shepard of Hardwick were guests
! at the home of d. C. Wilbur recently
Master Byron Sabin, who has been Sc.
riously i'll for two weeks, Is improy-
| ing-George Nelson, who has been III
with grip, is able to sit up.-Pre-Memoriai
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entertainment was interesting and pleas
ing.--very interesting pre- Memorial ex-
ercises were held in the village school
yard Thursday. The speaking and sing
ing were appropriate and especially well
done.-Mr. and Mrs. r. J. Kinney and
daughters were guests Sunday Of his par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. N. n. Kinney. Mrs.
Nellie Uric has sold her village residence
to Alden Twiss for $500, possession to
be given in a month.