The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-01-16

II. G. Hauff and C. w. Smith were
catching whales at Lake Campbell on
Tuesday.
Ed. Hillestad, one of the old timers
on the west side, was over from Vol
ga Monday.
Thos. Bang, our hustling creamery
man, was doing business at Castle
wood on Tuesday.
o. A. Brictson Of Omaha, is in the
city this week attending the annual
meeting of the Brictson Mfg. Co.
Mrs. Nellie White came over from
Volga Saturday and passed the Sab
bath with her many friends in Brook
ings.
Clint and Bessie Robbins took their
company from here Sunday night for
a weeks engagement at the tsate
capital.
Mrs. John Raak went to Tracy,
Mimi, Tuesday, for a few days visit
with her brother, H. NJ. Algyer, and
family.
II. NJ. Fridley departed Tuesday
morning for Ithica, New York, where
he will take a curse at Cornell Uni
versity.
Rob. Roe came in from Highmore
Monday to visit a couple of days in
Bookings with his sister and old
friends.
J., B. Johnson, manager Of the You
mans Lumber Co, left Monday to at
tend the lumbermen's convention at
Minneapolis.
Mrs. Joe Hayes and children re-
turned Tuesday to Emmettsburg, Iowa,
after an extended visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. James Maher.
Geo. A. Mathews and family have
arrived at Los Angeles, Calf, and are
comfortably located in their old quar-
ters in the Burlington Apartments.
Hotel Dyckman is Minneapolis
newest downtown fireproof hotel. 800
rooms, each room has it's own private
bath. Rates s1.75 to $3.50 per day.
A civil service examination will be
held at the Brookings postofice on
February 10, for the position of post
master at Arlington which pays $500
a year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Fishback de-
parted for Los Angeles, Calf, on
Tuesday night where they will spend
the balance Of the winter with the
Brookings colony in and about that
city.
Mrs. Gay Wooledge, of Minot, N, D.,
who has been visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. r. Matheny, departed for
Chicago Tuesday morning where she
will visit her brother, Chester Ma
theny.
l.. +. McGary made a short visit
with his family Sunday and went to
Pierre Sunday night to present some
matters to the railroad commission.
Frou there he expected to return to
Hitchcock.
Dr.. A. n. Hume, professor of agron.
omy at State COLLEGE and superintend
ent of substations, has been elected
fellow in the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. This is
an honorary recognition of leaders in
the development of scientific projects
Ralph L. Patty of this city, and ag
riculturai engineering specialist in the
State College extension division, de
livered an address on farm drainage
demonstrations in South Dakota be
fore the recent annual meeting of the
American Society Of Agricultural En-
g~ineers in Chicago. Nearly every
state was represented, and extension
engineers were present from % states
Half q million feeces were sold from
South Dakota sheep last year, and the
number of animals was increased by
125,000. Guy E. Morrison, State Col
lege livestock specialist, asserts tina
the average clip per head might bt
increased v pounds by using ;
densely wooded ram on the flock o
ewes. Better breeding, housing anC
feed, he says, will give the farmers
of the state a quarter million dollars
more profit.
South Dakota high school boys will
be enrolled next week in the United
states Boys Working Reserve, a pa
triotic organization for helping to solv'
the farm labor situation. Home
Smith, associate federal state direc
tor, says that 1856 boys in this STATE
were enrolled, last year. In Sioul
Falls alone ia boys belonging to thu
B. w. r. spent the summer on Min
nehaha county farms and banked al
average saving of 800 each in thu
fall. Enrolment may be made
through high school principals. 4
farLi craft lesson book covering sim
pie farm tasks may be secured b!
town boys free from the extension di