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The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-12-24
RENO WOMAN APPOINTED
CHAIRMAN OF HOSPITALS

Mrs. John Donnelly of Reno mas
been appointed district chairman of
American women's hospitals BY
state Chairman DR. Anna Deehene
Her territory includes Washoe. Hum
boldt, Churchill and Lander eoun-
ties.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-12-24
Asking For Bids

The post Office department is ask
ing for bids for housing facilities for
the Fallon post Office for periods of
five or ten years from next June
30th and e. L. Jackson, post Office
inspector with headquarters in
Reno will receive proposals until
January Both, 1920. There will be
needed for the purpose not less than
1900 square feet of floor space, a
central location not more than so
rods from the depot in this city and
the class of building will figure
some as well in the giving of con-
sideration to the matter. The form
of lease may be examined at the To-
cal post office.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-12-24
Elks Swell Charitf Fund

The charity funds OF The beheYo-
lent Ellis of Reno was swelled Dy
annroxima telv SO 600 at the annual
"Ifnc'e Dams Dinner" held In the
club rooms Saturday night. 1t was
estimo ted Yesterday, there being ap-
proximetel 400 lodge members
seated at the repast-Reno Journal.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-12-24

Greenwood's Cottage Store. Still
water. Nevada. Candies. Nuts and
Fruit. Varieties and Notions.
The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1919-12-24

Concluded on page FOUR
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
A HAIL INSURANCE

Total hail insurance premiums for
this. the first year of the operation
under the state insurance plan, give
promise Of making a total above the
81, 000. 600 mark. Three more coun
ties have reported, Brown with 1884,
81, Trip with s27,627 and Jackson
with $3.507. These, with four counties
already published, make the total SO
far $17O, S43.65 This makes an aver
age of $24,406, and with this average
kept up in only fifty Of the counties
there would be nearly $1,250,000 in
paid this year. Reports will
close and be complete early in August.
Any surplus left from premiums and
not paid in losses will be kept in the
state, paying back at first the FUND
loaned by the legislature to start the
plan in operation and then, when the
system is placed or it's W feet, to
cut down costs in future years.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

in the large cities are sending men
to the west for the fees they get out
of the business and leave the men
to shift for themselves when they get
to their destination. Since the gov
eminent has abandoned place-f1nding
for laborers everything is in confu'
sion. In every town Of this size
there ought to be some central place
where some one in authority could
put laborers and employers in touch
with one another and save a great
deal of confusion and uncertainty.
is work enough for all if It
could be so arranged that those who
apply for it could be speedily directed
to the persons who are in need Of
harvest or other help. Some con-
certed action shiuld be taken imme-
diately to solve this embarrassing prob
lem. II our Commercial Club is go
ing to be an effective organization
for the city ii would almost seem thai
things of this character should be
taken care of by a committee, or bet
ter still, by a paid secretary.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
ADVERTISING %BRooKINGs

The Register this week is publishing
a newspaper that is aimed to help
make our city better known. The
circulation of the paper extends into
nearly every state in the union. We
publish a group Of pictures to show
the things that are being accomplished
In the new improvements that are be-
ing developed. We want every one
who reads our little story Of the city,
the county and the state. to pass 1T
on to who will be interested
In knowing what is going ON. Give
it to a friend who wants to lind a
good place In which to live. Pass 1t
along to a farmer who wants to find
a state and county where good land
can be bought at prices that mean
profit from crops and from advance In
price. Help us to let the people know
how we'll Brookings is looking toward
the future and planning to make the
city grow to keep up with the times
and the country around us. No one
has agreed to pay for this advertise
ment of the city. The Register is
putting this u as a boost for Brook
ings and for the progressive people
of the city and county. We want
everyone to know about Bookings and
we are spending u money to give
them the views Of what we are doing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
MEN HAVE CHILD MINDS

DR.. Arthur Sweeney, a distinguished
alienist of st. Paul, made the follow
ing statement at the meeting of the
Sioux Valley Medical Association re-
Gently held in Sioux Falls:
From the examinations of 1900 900
boys in the army, a surprising degree
of low intelligence Is indicated. The
test used was a modification of the
Binet test and was applied to groups
by which their intelligence was deter
mined. 1t was shown that 5 per cent
of the soldiers reached a very superior
intellect while AZ per cent were In
trades of dull normal, border-line and
mental deficiency. These facts if APP
piled to the public at large, would
show a mental age somewhat lower
than that of the army as the soldiers
were of a selected class or more than
average mental development. 1t is
safe to say that the average citizen
of the United States is in a grade
below IL years of mental age.
1.-The causes date back to the remote
periods. Through the ages the chang
es in physical development Of man as
shown by the skulls in the neander-
tahl man to the present, are very
slight with an equal degree OF prog
ress of the intellect. Until the indus
trial revolution in England the devel.
opment of material civilization and
life was very simple. Now it is COM
pick and the brain has difficulty in
adjusting itself.
"a democracy ruled by so per cent
of the lower intellect is a misnomer.
The S per cent who think beyond their
stomachs always have and always win
rule. II they are altruistic and un-
selfish, we will have good government,
but il not, we will have tyranny.
THE remedy for this low grade of
intellect is Il publication of the blood
in the stream of immigration. We
should have still stricter immigration
laws. We should subject all immi-
grants OF a psychological examination
at the point of embarkation and Q
clude all sub normals, from which
come our paupers. criminals and men
tai defcients."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
WE SURELY HOPE 50

That the people of other parts OF
the state have their eye on Brookings
county and what 1t proposes to do
about good roads Is to be seen from
the following editorial in a late issue
OF the Argus Leader. We certainly
hope that Minnehaha county will re,
spond even better than is expected
and then we also hope that Brookings
county will get busy and follow suit
so fast that Moody county will
raise up in self-defense and join the
two systems of highway.
The Brookings Register reprints on
it's first page the article in the Argus,
Leader on the good roads meeting in
Sioux Falls, recently, for the purpose
of developing good roads sentiment
among the farmers of Brookings coun-
ty. If the Register will be patient.
we will give 1t a bigger story than
that-the election reports Of the ST.
soc, 600 bond issue which vs. hope to
put over about the first of Septem-
Der by a vote of five to one. That
election will prove what the Argus
Leader has claimed from the start,
that the farmers. at least of this coun-
ty, are progressive and that they want
as good country roads as any city in
the state has streets. Watch for the
returns.
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of the same opinion. The people are
entitled 20 know all the facts about
road costs.
Some farmers | have talked to hao
the impression that the paved roads
are only going to benefit Sioux Falls,
but | want to impress upon their
minds the fact that the whole county
will and must be constructed accord
ing to the plan adopted by the county
commissioners and approved by the
state highway commission. That paved
roads will connect ever town in Min
nehaha county, and both the country
and towns will share alike in its bene-
fits.
For instance take the taxable
value of the property in Sioux Falls
as compared with that of the country
and it will be found that the city will
pay the lions share of the tax and
since they are willing to do so, we
farmers can afford to make up the DIFF
ference since the greatest amount of
benefit will accrue to US. Our lands
will increase at least 25 per cent in
saleable value. Will save time an e
n in marketing on motor and other
vehicles.
81 think that the board of county
commissioners and every farmer and
business nan should thoroughly con-
slider the matter before the election is
called. We do not have to pay interest
on the bonds until we want to use the
money and when the bonds are author
lied we can construct roads as fast
as we can get contractors, men and
material to do the work. Nor will we
have delays while waiting for form
alities OF calling another election to
further finance the projects. Let us
make it $4,000 900 and be done with
it."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
COME EASY, GO EASY

Washington Post-James j.. Hill,
of living that worried people ten years
ago, said the trouble was really the
cost of high living. He was mostly
right, too. Now we have the genu-
inc article with as, but it is common
knowledge that it is also closely assC-
ciated with the cost of high living.
Accompanying the wall against high
prices that comes from all parts of
the world also the general corn
'ment of observers that people are pos
sessed with & desire to spend ~riotouGly.
In Paris, in Londan, in Berlin, III New
York and in Oshkosh they are spend
ing now as f~uriously as they fought
or worked in war time. The money of
the times is cheap, but it comes easily,
and there is a long period of painful
stinting to be made up. There is lit
tie doubt that the people are spending
their Liberty bonds. The world has
gone on a spree that is manifestins
itself in many ways, of which lavish
expenditure is but one. The worst
of it is that the cost of high living
increases the high cost Of living. When
spenders are free and easy, traders
make prices with a facile pencil. Those
who part lightly with their easy money
make hard buying for those who must
part sparingly with their limited
funds. He who spends on luxuries
without accounting causes himself to
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

with those who believe in the law,
and in connection with the public Of
ficials and the railroads should work
out a scheme Of cooperation which
will remove most of the suntime disa-
bilities that disturb the farmer under
the rule of clock time that does not
coincide with the solar or seasonal
facts. The adjustment Of milk train
time and Of other physical and per-
sonal incidents in relation to farm
labor to the new time ought no to
be impossible. Europe, as We all
know, has met this situation and con-
tinues daylight saving as something
practical for all, for the benefit OF the
farmer as well as the dweller in the
city. Even over here the farmers have
not been unanimous in their com
plants about the law, though their or
ganizations have acted as a unit in
agitating for repeal. But with the law
in being the ommon sense thing is
for the aggrieved to find out just what
redress .Aey can secure Surely both
r. national and the state departments
of agriculture ought to be able to work
out some scheme of cooperation which
the railroads can meet in order to
overcome the objections based on the
hardships Of adjusting suntime occu-
pations to an artificial schedule of time
that saves daylight, but leaves GER
tain nonadjLsted industries in the
lurch.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

two weeks closed last Friday when
the II. s. girls returned. During the
first week the girl reserves with Mrs.
c. d. Kendall and Misses Keith, Cald-
well and Dewing, as advisors. held
forth with a regularly planned pro-
gram of study and recreation. The
group taxed the capacity of the cot
tages to the limit. The high school
girls who spent the second week
there while few in number, spent a
most enjoyable and restful time with
Misses Keith and Jerde, as advisors.
The expense per girl for the week
amounted to about IS, al the girls
did their own cooking and dishwash-
ing in relays OF four.
Next year the girls from the country
are going to be especially urged to
come, so begin TO prepare to make
Lakeside Camp much bigger and
longer next year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
TO HELP MONTANA CATTLE

Not only is the states of Minnesota
and North Dakota coming to the res
cue Of the cattle owners Of Montana
who are hard pressed for feed on &C
count Of the burnt out conditions of
the pastures, but some counties in
South Dakota are also offering their
service. Codington. Clark and Sphinx
counties are sending their county
agents into the western state to Sc
lect stock to be brought here for pas
ture. At a recent meeting in Water
town it was decided that one thou
sand head Of stock could be taken
of in that county. and the othef
counties named will no doubt do as
well. Conditions are much worse in
the southern part Of Montana than
in the northern part, and 1t Is from
this nearer region that the cattle will
come. The price has not dropped
much there on account of the short
age Of feed. as yet. but it may in a
short time. Brookings county might
get in line on this proposition and il
is very likely that some OF u farm
ers would be glad to purchase from
the Montana herds to have feeders
to pasture and feed over the winter
This is a matter that will be inves
tigated by u farmers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
OUR VISITORS BOOST

Did you discover when the st. Paul
men visited us last week that every
last one of them was boosting st
Paul every minute of the time, even
when he was trying the hardest TO
further his W business interests
st. Paul was the burden OF their cry
and their plea for III friendship
What st. Paul could and would do for
Bookings, was the thing hat they
had to offer to us to make us inter
ested in them and their trade. That
Is the spirit hat gets a city some
where in the race for supremacy.
That is the spirit that Bookings needs
In every effort she makes TO grow and
develop. AS the st. Paul boosters
talked for their city and how trade
relations with them were for our enc
fit and prosperity, so we business peo'
pie of Brookings must talk to the
trading community around us, and
show them by the way we do bust
ness, by the way we build highways,
by the way we develop the
of the county, That we q DC Oh NaIue
To them in the matter OF commerce.
1t would be a good idea for the mer-
chants of Bookings, all those who
have something that will improve the
life of the farmer, to go out on a
boosting tour of the community,
among the people who trade / n Brook
ings and visit them in their homes,
tell them of the future good things
that are to be in store for them in
their business relations with Brook
ings. All this can be done. Some
OF II has been done, as we know OF
n merchant who makes it a prac-
tice 10 occasionally auto out in the
country and visit his farmer custom
ers. He don't go often enough and
the others don't go at all. Business
man, think this idea over and see II
you cannot put II in operation to the
benefit OF your personal business and
the great benefit of the city as a COM
mercial center.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
REMOVE LUXURY TAX

The house of congress this week
after a two hours debate and while
the thermometer stood around 100 de-
grees in the shade, voted to repeal
the tax on soda water and ice cream,
also to reduce the tax on fruit juices
as asked by the western fruit grow
ers. II the senate continues in ses-
sion this tax repeal may become a
law in time to go into effect before
the ice cream and soda water sea-
son ends with the coming of frost.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
AN INExcUsABLE BluNDER

New York World-Because OF the
refusal of congress to grant adequate
funds for the maintenance of the air
service of the army. Secretary Baker
has no choice but virtually to disband
il. There are 4.219 officers still in
the service. OF whom only 234, who
are officers Of the original army, can
be retained after September 20. This
will leave only enough TO officer three
suuadrons OF airplanes if every Of
fecr is assigned TO that duty, or only
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CONGRESS TO TAKE RECESS

On Monday the house of representa-
.tives adopted a resolution providing
for a recess for that body from Au-
gust End to September 9Th. It is
expected that the senate will continue
in session during that time working
on the consideration of the peace
treaty. There was lately manifested
an intention of the senate to adjourn
also, unless the president presented
the French treaty for the considera-
ton of the confirming power. 1t looks
now as if he would send it to the
senate before the start of his speak
ing trip.
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wv >. S..
ADJUST DAYLIGHT SAVING

Philadelphia Public L~edger-Since it
is a foregone conclusion that the sen
ate will follow the house in not pass
ing the daylight saving repeal rider
the presidents veto. the law will
unQuestionably hold its own for the
lifetime of this congress and Of the
Wilson administration. Under the cir
cumstances, those who have complain
ed of the workings OF the law should
get together In their respective states
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

enough for one squadron If the ad-
ministration of the air service is COM
mitted to an adequate number of Of
6cers. What congress has done is
deliberately to destroy an organiza-
ton built up at great pains and ex-
pense and point to its hasty action
as wise economy. 1t has never COM
mitted a more foolish blunder or one
more ~inexcusable in the light of the
facts laid before it for its guidance.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
&. &.

Pack my box with five dozen liquor
Jugs is the shortest sentence contain
ing all the letters of the alphabet.
Alas, it means nothing to US, what do
we ARE for letters that make a SEN
tence with no meaning.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

A Canadian woman has just become
a mother for the twenty-ffth time.
This reftites the. statement that United
states immigration is responsible for
the growth in population in the coun-
try north of us.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

R. D. Deacon, postofice inspector
for the Aberdeen district for the past
three years, has resigned his position,
effective August l, and will engage
in business in Aberdeen, although he
to state at this time, what the
business will be.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

nav more for n~ecessaries. To all other
mutations we now add the imitation OF
money made cheap by holding II
cheaply.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

Suicides among German officers are
reported ss increasing at an alarm
ing rate. An increase Of 100 per cent
would not alarm us, we should worry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

why kick on another hour of day
light. when as a matter of fact there
Is nothing much to do but go to BED
afterwards, since July first.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
COUNTY Y. w. G. a. CAMP cLosEs

The county camp for girls which
wcs in session at the Haugen and
Flittie cottages at Lake Campbell for
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
FARMER FAvoRS BONDS

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-09
AUTOMOBILE ST|ckES
WOMAN SPEEDS away

Alice .Woodson tcolored). forty
years old, OF I'LL North Thirty first
street, was struck by an automobile
last night about ESQ o'clock and
probably fatally injured. She was
hurried to Virginia hospital in an un-
conscious condition. Upon reaching
the institution an examination dis
closed that she was suffering from a
fractured Skull.
She had just assembled to the Mar
eshall-str~et viaduct by way OF the
Eighteen th-street elevator and was
waiting for an eastbound car when 4
westbound Chevrolet roadster, dash
ing past at considerable speed, struck
her with full force and hurled her to
the floor Of the vfaduct.
She was thrown in front Of the Ap-
preaching street car, which. fortu-
nateiy, had<alm0st come to q stop.
The motorman iammed on the brakes
and brought the car TO a fun stop
with q sudden jerk. catapaulting
those of the troliey's passengers who
were strap hanging to the front Of
The driver OF the automobile. after
striking the woman. put on additional
speed. itAwas reported. and disappear
ed In the darkness. According to the
police. the number Of the license plate
on the rear OF the automobile wAs
not ascertained Apd, II = lAta hour.
tdentity ~ the Nrtsar nox pNnesuAtp
NJ 4 ~ ~ = ~ -
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-09

likely the day will close without fur
Their bIoodsfsed
I.ater.-The situation is developing.
The Spartacides went out with a white
flag to the Schioss PTatz tfsae square
fronting the FORMER imperial palacel
and tried TO talk to government repre-
sentatives. tut the latter refused to
pariey with them.
Then the opposing sides took up po-
sitions facing one another. 100 yards
apart. and fighting was resumed with
out either side gaining any advantage
A little later the Spartacides made
an attack on the charce1lory from the
rear entrance on Buoapester Strasse,
but they did not succeed.
American l. Wounded.
Another attack was made on the
general post office. where an Aneri-
can correspondent was slightly wound
ed BY grenade,
There was further lighting witt,
grenades, machine guns, rifles and
arnlored cars
The center of the action was the cor
ner of Frsedriohstrassa and Leipzig
strasse. and yet another in Wilhelm
strasse. near the American embassy.
have purposeiy RETAINED from at
tempting To give the number of cas-
uxities III is practically impossible TO
estimate IL e ..1.y@. ~
AFshsiip5 ssehaaaentan steasiers III the
ma jority Socialists,. made speech at
the chancelior's palace. saying the
government was going TO use force,
which was taken to mean that Ebert
proposes 10 bring In troops from Pots
dam
Scheidemann announced Herr Noslge
had been appointed head of the gov
eminent troops in Berlin.
Iiebknecht made a speech in the
Siegesailoe and advised the workers
not to work in the factories until their
demands were accepted. These de
man6s" are vague. They appear to
mean the creation of q world revo'u-
ton
Iiebknecht asserted the Berlin
troops were siding with him.