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Arizona state miner., 1919-10-03
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Sc
WESTERN

WESTERN
Try this on your piano: Sam Beth
of California bought his piano from
Chicago mail order house. He laid a
cigarette on one of the ivory keys
and well, they saved the house.
Mrs. Fannie Antonio, 26, was ar
rested in st. Louis on a warrant is
sued in Kansas City charging implica-
ton in the theft of $1,000,000 worth of
Liberty bonds according to secret SER
vice men making the arrest.
Seth Bullock, lifelong personal friend
of the late Theodore Roosevelt, is dead
at his home in Deadwood, S. D.. after
an illness of several weeks. He was
a pioneer of the Black Hills and was
81 years old.
Robert L. Massey of Omaha, for
thirty-five years in the service of the
Union Pacific and one of the best
known passenger conductors on the
line, was found murdered on the
streets of North Platte
The electric railway at Winnipeg is
CtShIIS II10 uIlllIISS
for temporary increase i'll fares to
meet the emergency caused by a recent
award for increased wages by which
the company's payroll will go up $780,,
900 year.
The entire milling plant of the Platte
Valley Milling Company at Gothenburg,
near Lexington, Nebr., was burned.
The buildings burned included the
power plant, office, mill and elevator,
the latter containing $4,000 bushels of
wheat. The total loss is placed at
100000.
In a peculiar accident, Mrs Haskett,
wife of L. B. HaSkett Of Tecumseh,
was seriously injured. She cranked
her automobile and the brake refused
to hold the car. It ran fOrWOrd,
knocked her down, doubled her up un-
der the vehicle and ran over her, frac-
turing her back.
Naval aviators who have been con-
Sidering plans for a seapIane flight
from San Diego, California, to the
Philippine island, have expressed
hope it might be accomplished with
the assistance of but two naval YES
sells, in contrast to the large number
detailed to assist in the translantic
flight
Mrs. J. c. Farrell of Garland Prairie,
Ariz., is being held in custody at VIII
liams, Arizona, following her admis-
sion TO the cOrOnQr'S iIIrV that Sho shot
and killed her husband with a shotgun
after they had quarreled and agreed
to separate and he had threatened to
''get them all" She claims self-de-
Tense.
Arizona state miner., 1919-10-03
To Deport Natives of India.

ington-Deportatio warrants
were issued by the Bureau of Immigra-
ton for fourteen natives of India, who
were convicted at San Francisco for
violation of American neutrality prior
to the United States entry into the
war
Arizona state miner., 1919-10-03
METAL MARKETS.
GOV0r0dO Settlement Prf0os

Bar silver, $1.18%.
Copper, pound, 22@24c.
Lead, $6.25.
Spelter, $7.18.
Tungsten, per unit, s7.5O@12.OO.
Arizona state miner., 1919-10-03
Flour and Sugar.

(WholesaIe Prices by q. S. Bureau Of
Markets.)
Wheat flour Gin quarters,
halves and 98-lb sacks),
per cwt. .................$ .$4.20@4.3O
Sugar, granulated, per cWt.. 1906
Arizona state miner., 1919-10-03
Dressed Poultry.
Live Poultry.
Eggs.

Eggs, strictly fresh, case
COUNT ........... $lZ.15 W 1919
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
~PATRIARCHS

The patriarchs of Bookings. men
over seventy years of age, held a meet
ing In the Commercial Club rooms Sat
urday afternoon at the invitation of
the club, who acted as host and served
refreshments. This organization has
not been meeting regularly for a cou-
pie of years on account of the strenu-
u times, but elected officers at this
meeting and are again n of our
i've organizations. These old gentle.
men do not intend t. be considered
out of the race of life and feel that
they can DO a little to make things
move. Il. s. Sharp was elected presi-
dent, William Slocum, vice-president.
and w. II. Cornell, secretary. After
the feast short talks were made by
several OF the elderly gentlemen and
they also had a good time talking
over "reminiscences, cigars were
passed arouid and out of the twenty.
SIX who were present only nine con-
fessed to the use of the weed in that
form. 1t is hoped that these old gen.
tlemen will keep up their organiza-
ton regularly and out of their talks
n discussions there is no doubt bu,
what the city car be helped and its
progress increased.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
NATIONAL GUARD
IS R@EORGAN|zEO
HERO REGIMENT OF STATE TO
FORM BASIS OF OUR VOL
UNTEER FORCE
PATRARcHS HOLD ANNUAL REUNION
Afternoon Spent BY Elderly Men Of
City as Guests Of the Commercial
Club Fine Occasion.

The 147th Field Artillery, the boys
who held the name of the state high
in the armies of the A. e. F., will
remain at the states share Of the
national guard Of the country. The
war department has authorized that
South Dakota may have a regiment
of field artillery instead of one of in
fantry, as was the frst plan of the
department. This will permit the old
regiment to maintain it's identity and
Adjustant General Morris is cores
pondingly happy for the sake OF the
boys who did our fighting for us hat
this is possible. The authorization
provides for a regiment of AZ officers,
81 enlisted men, making 91S in all
and to include five medical officers
and a chaplain. This will also mean
S14 horses and they will have "a of
the 75-millimeter guns used by them
In the late war. 1t means a total OF
six batteries, with a headquarters
company and a supply company. This
new order does not revoke the former
Nv 40 " lIC duudllOudI uult tIdl Lif6
state may maintain, and that will take
the shape of a motor ambulance com
pany OF three officers and s~ixty-six
men, the equipment to consist of three
motor ambulances, two trucks and
two motorcycles. The necessity for
a large warehouse and stables for the
horses Of this regiment are things that
must be considered and arranged for,
before the new regiment is formed.
The government will furnish the guns
be selected for the housing of all the
equipment. Securing the horses and
arranging for their care is one of the
first things that the adjustant general
will have to work for. Former officers
OF the regiment, including Colonel
Boyd Wales, are understood as peiI.g
delighted with the possibility OF keer
ing the old regiment intact Posi-
bilities that some of the old companies
will go into the new regiment about
as they came out of the war are be-
heved to be one of the possibilities
or this change in the states quota.
Old Company c of Brookings was d.
vided between the Sioux Falls, Pierre
and Parker companies when the regi-
ment was formed at Camp Greene,
s.. c, two years ago., and 1t will he
a question what place Brookings will
have in the formation of the new regt
ment. AS a matter of fact the county
has enough artillerymen back from
the war to form at least one battery,
n with all the men who have been
TO wal from the county we could al
most organize a regiment, or at least
a platoon.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
UNANIMOUS FOR GOOD ROADS

That the farmers of Minnehaha
county are almost unanimous in sup
port of the proposed $4,000 900 bond
issue and that they also strongly favor
the highway plan as drawn up by the
county commissioners, was shown al
a meeting of the commissioners as
reported in papers from Sioux Falls.
The discussion of the proposed S.
000, 900 bond issue for highways in the
county was lively. Although action
was purely informal and taken with a
view toward obtai-'-~ continent Ct
the farmers of the country since so
many were present, it accomplished
that object, as a resolution of indorse-
ment introduced was adopted by an
overwhelming vote, practically 20 to l.
Some present even urged that $4,000,
900 was insufficient and that $4,000, 900
should be named. The SIS, 200, 900 fig
ure, however, seemed to be the pre-
vailing idea to care for the 210 miles
of highway in the county to be con-
structed by the county. since the other
ninety miles Will be built by federal
and state aid. The principal objector
to the proposed $4,000. 900 bond issue,
declared that the people should "go
slow" in voting any such amount, but
he had almost no support from those
present.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
TO FORM LEGION

A number of service men Of the late
war, who reside in Bookings, are max
ing arrangements for a meeting of the
ex-soldiers of the county at the County
Fair on Wednesday, September Srd.
The fair management have announced
that all soldiers will be admitted free
and there is planned this meeting,
with a banquet by the ladies of the
w. r. c., at which time the question
of the American Legion will be pre-
sented aid efforts made to organize
a post for this county. A COMMITTEES
Of soldiers are having badges made
for the men to wear as a means of
identification, and while an invitation
has been sent to all soldiers whose
names are known, some may have
been missed. If any have not received
this invitation, the committee desire
the Register to say that all men who
have been in the American service
during the war are invited to attend
this meeting. John Sponsler of The
Olson-Graves store, A. E. Anderson
Of Anderson's Drug Store and A. G..
Fricke at the BroOkings Tire Works
are men who will give additional in
formation about this matter to any
and all who want to know more about
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES

We have added the following fiction
to the rental collection:
-Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
by Blasco Ibanez, the book that has
been most widely read in all parts of
the United States during the past year.
"The Roll-Call," by Arnold Bennett,
in style a real Bennett storey, but in
plot a little more thrilling.
"Shavings," another story by Joseph
c. Lincoln. 1t needs no further rec
ommendation.
"The Tin Soldier" by Temple Bailey,
the most interesting tin soldier any OF
us have ever met. A story based on
the war, but in no sense a war story.
"Patrica Brent, Spinster." The
author is unknown, but the story will
not be forgotten. In her great sorrow,
London paused to welcome Patricia and
to smile at her pranks.
1.-THE Great Hunger" by Johan Bo-
jer, another Swedish story that those
who have enjoyed Selma Lagerlof will
delight in. By a thrilling story of love
and adventure we are brought face to
face with a real problem of life and
when we have finished the book we
feel that the solution is at least nearer
than before.
By an actual survey Of the public
Libraries 1t has been found that these
books are at present the mos1 popu-
lar books in the United States.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
SCHOOLS
WILL OPEN SOON
SUPERINTENDENT ANNOUNCES
PLANS FOR COMING YEAR
ARE PREPARED
SOLDIERS. TO FORM AMERICAN LEGION
Merle jenkins Of Department Of Agri-
culture Joins Parents in Visit
To City Of His Birth.

Superintendent S. w. Johnson
makes the following announcement re-
garding the opening of school now
soon at hand:
school begins in the Brookings City
Schools Monday, September l.. Re
pairs and cleaning to make the room
as pleasant and sanitary as possible
are about completed: a few important
changes in the content Of the subject
matter have been arranged in the
course of study; the teaching force is
ready for the splendid challenge of
the new year; and, since Brookings
is to use free text books, efforts are
being made to have the new books
ready for the first day Of school.
There Is an ardent desire on the part
of the faculty and administration to
have the wholesome activities of de-
batting, defamation, and physical ed
ucation receive proper consideration
in the system of public eduaction. Elk
perienced instructors will direct each
of these activities. The football SEIZED
ule is hoped to include games with
the best high schools in the state.
In the departments of, language, his
tory, science, mathematics and Eng
lish, teachers of excellent training
have been secured. The fine art Of
music will receive emphasis in high
school, as well as the grades in chorus
and glee club organization. Brookings
high school offers exceptional oppor-
tunities in vocational education in az
r%iculture. This work is supported by
the provisions of the Smith-Hughes leg
islation. The equipment in the
ual training is ample for the modern
al drawing. The home-making fea-
ture of education is emphasized in
the courses of domestic science for
girls. II time will permit work in
millinery will be added to the course
in cooking and sewing. Bookings
must cooperate in the great national
back to the school movement. Every
boy or girl should be in some insti-
tuition of learning this year in prep
aration for the game Of right living.
Even from a standpoint of patriotism
the new generation should wish to
serve in some part of u great de-
mocracy more efficiently. In the art
and science of true living there Is
more than a job and the best success
in life should be more than an acct
dent. Young people must not only
have opportunities, but be taught how
to improve them. May we better un-
derstand that the world is so small
that we shall need every boy and girl
before we get out of it.
Parties who have rooms to rent for
teachers and high school pupils may
notify Supt. S. w. Johnson, or M. c.
White, principal of the high school.
Telephone Gag"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
STRIKE HAS ENDED

The strike of the shopmen of the
railroads has ended and they have re-
turned to work all over the country.
In some sections the strike caused a
severe delay in rail traffic and also
will make it hard to recover, owing
to the time it will require to get the
equipment back into condition. This
is not so much the case along the
C. & N. w. Railway, and especially is
it not so on this division. Some rail
road managers say that 1t will be
three weeks before the normal condi.
ton of traffic returns, while others
think that by the end of this week
they will be able to call the condition
business as usual" One thing that
was interfered with at this station,
was the receipt of gasoline, the Brook
ings Oil Company having five tank
cars on the road between here and
Kansas City, at IN time during the
past week. But as other stocks of
oil held up there was no actual
shortage in the city. The poultry mar
ket was off, on account of the refusal
of the railways to ship cars, but it
will be back in business this week.
Little trouble was experienced here
in the shipment Of eggs, meats or
other perishables, and it is expected
that fruits will now be placed on the
local markets, as the California ship.
ments will not be longer delayed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
REAL INSURANCE

Last winter a young girl Of seven
teen who was working in a laundry
at Madison had both arms caught in
a mangle and was badly crushed. The
insurance company having employers
liability insurance for the laundry took
the girl and her mother to a big hos
pital in Chicago, saved one Of the
arms and hands and started to train
the girl and educate her for the use
of this hand so that she could make
her own living. She is progressing
nicely, has become able to do most
everything with the hand and will
be an asset to the world instead of
a liability in a short time. This is
the new idea of the insurance COM
panies who write liability insurance
and promises to prove a great advance
on the old plan of paying a set sum
and turning the damaged individual
out on the world to rustic along in
any old way. Physical reconstruction
as developed during the war las
taught a new method to industrial life
which indicates that new methods OF
dealing with such cases as this will
prove as successful as they are doing
in the reconstruction of u wounded
soldiers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
AN EXAMINATION
FOR POSTMASTER
DEPARTMENT CALLS FOR cANDi.
DATES TO BE EXAMINED
SEPTEMBER is.
ARE UNANIMOUS FORBETTER HIGHWAYS
Supreme Court of South Dakota De-
cides All Constitutional Amend
ments Are Legally Adopted.

At the request of the Postmaster
General, the United States Civil Serv-
ice Commission an open
competitive examination to fill a va
cancy in the position of postmaster at
Brookings. This is not an eXamina-
ton under the Civil Service Act and
rules. but is held under an executive
order of March 81, 1917, which reads
as follows:
Hereafter when a vacancy occurs
in the position Of postmaster of any
office of the first, second, or third
class, as the result Of death, resigna-
ton, removal, or, on the recommends
ton Of the First Assistant Postmaster
General, approved by the Postmaster
General, to the effect that h efici-
ency or needs of the service requires
that a change shall be made, the Post
master General shall certify the fact
to the Civil Service Commission, which
shall forthwith hold an open competi-
tive examination to test the fitness
of applicants to fill such vacancy, and
wher such examination has been held
. lie papers in connection there
,th have been rated, the said Com
mission shall certify the result thereof
to the Postmaster General, who shall
submit to the President the name of
the highest qualified eligible for APP
pointment to fill such vacancy unless
it is established that the character
or residence of such applicant dis
qualities him for appointment. No
person who has passed his sixty-ffth
birthday shall be given the examina-
ton herein provided for"
Competitors will not be required to
report for examination at any place,
but will be rated on the following sub
jects: Education, 20 per cent; bust
ness training and experience, 80 per
cent. To be eligible for this position
an applicant must be a citizen Of the
United States, must actually reside
within the delivery of the office for
which the application is made, and
must have been such resident at the
time of the occurrence of the present
vacancy. Applicants must show that
for at least three years they have held
responsible positions in which the
principal duties involved the manage
ment of business affairs and the direc-
ton and supervision of employees, in
Guiding such position in the different
branches of the postal service.
Persons who meet the requirements
and desire this examination should at
once apply at postofice or to the U. S.
Civil Service Commission, Washing
ton, d. c.. for Form 2241. Applications
must be properly executed, and filed
with the Civil Service Commission,
Washington, d. c., prior to the. hour
of closing business on the date prior
to the examination.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
BIG lNTERcHuRcH MOVEMENT

What is known as the Interchurch
World Movement has reached South
Dakota by the coming to Bookings
of Rev. c. o. Denies, who will have
charge of the survey of the rural felo
in connection with this great endeav-
or. 1t is a plan for the cooperation
of all the evangelical churches of
North America in their entire edu-
cational and missionary program,
both at home and abroad. AS many
nations, co-operated in the war with
out losing their individual efficiency,
so the churches plan to act in their
conquest of the u~ndeveloped fields Of
the world for Christianity. The plan
is very comprehensive and calls first
for a united study of the world field.
and the work of Mr.. Denies in South
Dakota is to furnish this states part
of that survey or outline. The main
idea being to discover the needs of
the state, by visiting the communi-
ties, and therefore know the task be.
fore the united forces of Christian en-
deavor. Other portions of the main
plan call for unity in other lines, and
in 1920 a great united budget will be
prepared for the use of the different
bodies in their separate part of the
work. Mr.. Denies will make this
city his headquarters for the present
and his work will take him away from
here a large part of the time. He
has a "a record, having served as
a Y. M. c. A. secretary over in France
and his wife also there in Red Cross
work. After the armistice they were
employed until June in the educa-
tional work connected with out army
and the experience they gained there
must necessarily make them interest
ing people to know. They have two
SONS, one Of them just discharged
from service, and the boys will enter
at the beginning of the COM
ing year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
WILL HELP RURAL SCHOOLS

This week at Sioux Falls is being
the counties Of Minnehaha, Brook
ings. Yankton, Clay, Union, Lincoln,
Turner, McCook. Moody. Lake, Miner,
Kingsbury, Deuel.. Hamlin and Cooling
totn. AS far as the teachers are con
cerned this is voluntary and as they
have to pay their own expenses, those
who attend are to be warmly praised
for their progressive spirit. The idea
for intensive instruction along the
lines of vitalizing the needs of the
rural schools and instruction will be
given these teachers, the same as was
given the county superintendent at
their big meeting in Hot Springs
earlier in the summer. State. Super
intendent F. L. Shaw heads this move
ment and is assisted principally by
Prof. p. c. Holden, formerly of Ames.
Other well known educators are OF
the program and one of the principal
addresses was given on Monday by
President Johnson of State College.
Mrs. Mabel Trooien, u county super
intendent, is in attendance and was
accompanied by Misses Gertrude
Blakeslee and jamie Getty of Brook
ings and Misses Mary Ware and Olga
and Lillian Alseth of Volga. The
schools of Bookings county have al
ways been in the lead, and these teach
ers who go from here are bound not
to be behind in anything that will in
crease their efficiency. Other meet
ings for the state will be held at Aber-
deem and Mitchell.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS

Forty-two young women took the
examination for teachers certificates
at the office of the superintendent of
schools on last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. They embraced those who
desired state, first and second grade
certificates and do not any way near
supply the number that will be needed
in the county this coming year. There
are many vacancies in good schools
and in fact all of the schools of Brook
ings county are very desirable posi-
tions in this line of work. Not only
that, but the wages paid in this county
are very attractive, more SO than in
many other places. Mrs. Trooien
would be pleased 10 receive applica-
tions from. teachers who desire posi-
tons and there is no doubt but what
they could find themselves well pleased
with the places that would be offered
them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
STATE OF A

The state of trade over the country
reported by Bradstreet's for last week
SHOWS 1t active. Less tension in spec
ulative markets. Shopmen's strike
ending restores railway traffic to
more normal shape. Stocks quieter
n price changes slight. Some
marked changes in speculative mar
kets for staples nor due to crop or
exchange conditions than price agita-
tion. Weekly food index number
again slightly of. Wholesale and pri.
mary lines, especially textiles, quicter.
and some staple cottons lower. "A good
part OF the fall trade already done in
midsummer. Collections good. Slight
increase in failures. July building Of,
record Size.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-21
SUPREME COURT DECIDES

The supreme court has sustained
the validity of the suffrage amendment
to the constitution adopted at the last
general election and incidentally all
other amendments ado pied at the cleo
ton. This ruling was in the Hutchin,
SCUM county sheriff case where Karl
Schmidt was elected as sheriff, but
had never completed his citizenship.
The decision acts as an custer so far
as Schmidt acting Is sheriff is con-
cerned.