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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
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DECORATE HEROES GRAVES

American Legion posts in South Da.
kota will contribute $940 to the nation
al fund of $4,000 being raised for the
decoration Of Yankee soldiers graves
in France Memorial day
Each of the 1873 posts in South Da-
kota has been assessed S. in accord
ance with similar assessments made
throughout the country. Payments will
be made through G. j. Harris, state
adjutant with headquarters in Sioux
Falls.
In Minneapolis, Chicago, Kansas
City and other large cities newspapers
have taken up the caring for subscrip-
tons from the general public. The
fund gathered in this manner will be
cabled to Paris correspondents Of these
newspapers who will attend TO the
decoration.
For the Legion fund a special dele
cation will have charge of the Me
mortal day services. Because of the
present discount on French exchange
the number of flowers which can be
purchased will be materially increased.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
MERCHANTS AT CONVENTION

A. +. Grimm, manager of the Hub
department store, and Fred Cole of
the Cole Mercantile company, attended
the twenty-third annual convention of
the South Dakota Retail Merchants
association which opened at Water
town Tuesday for three-day pro
gram. Mr.. Grimm, who is one of the
pioneer merchants of the state, gave
the response to the address of well
come in behalf Of the visiting mer-
chants. Otto Baarsch of Clark, presi-
dent of the association, gave the prin-
cipal address in which he said: "The
public is finding out that the retail
merchants are not endeavoring to
profiteer and rob them This is no
time to see how much we can get for
an article but to see how little we
can sell it for. / believe this is the
proper merchandising at any time
He urged the application Of the golden
rule in business as the retailers best
defense against the misleading propa
ganda that has been directed against
business. Fred Cole was on Wednes-
days program to lead the discussion
on the topic, Getting Closer to Our
Clerks"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
ROTARY ENGINE DEMONSTRATED

John A. Ulberg of Mott, N. d., in
ventor of the first successful rotary
steam engine, arrived in this city last
Friday to give a series of demonstra.
tions of his new engine. He carries
small working model with him that
he demonstrates with compressed air.
This little engine, when attached to
the air supply pipe at the Brookings
Tire Works. was so powerful that a
man could not keep the fly wheel from
turning at the start. Mr.. Ulberg says
that he can make a thousand horse
power rotary engine that will weigh
less than the fly wheel of a 200-horse
power reciprocating engine. The en-
gine is Of entirely new type, different
from all other steam engines, work
ing on new principles. Mr.. Ulberg
has been farming and contracting in
Mott, N. D., putting in all Of his spare
time on the development of this idea
which he has been studying for over
twenty years. He has been working
on the present model for four years.
He has secured patent rights in the
United States, England, Canada and
Australia. He has purchased a ma,
chine shop in Sioux Falls and will
soon commence manufacturing the en-
gines. He has organized small stock
company to aid him somewhat finan-
cially. The purpose Of the demonstra-
ton in Brookings was to give the en-.
gineering experts at State college
chance to see the machine work. The
demonstration was held Monday at the
Brookings Tire Works. H. NJ. Cornell,
whose home is Mott, n. D., is person
ally acqua nted with the inventor and
is interested in watching the success
OF the invention.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
TWO BIG STATE CONTESTS HERE

The State track and field meet of
the South Dakota high school athletic
association will be held in Brookings
on State field Friday afternoon, May
81, under the auspices of State col
lege Every high school track team
in the state of any size or quality will
be here to take part in the meet which
will officially decide the championship
of the state The college will enter
tain the visiting teams giving them
proper food and shelter. On Thurs
day evening, May 20, at the college
auditorium at 500 p. M, the state
high school declamatory and oratorical
contest will be held. District contests
have been held in all parts Of the state
and the winners come here next Thurs
day for the final contest. These two
events are the biggest of all high
school events of the state and will
draw hundreds Of visitors to Brook
ings.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
HIGH SCHOOL ExcELLs COLLEGE

Brookings high school and State col
lege held joint inter-class track and
field meet at State field last Saturday
afternoon to try out the various ath-
letes for positions on the high school
and college teams which will take part
in the important meets which COM
mence this wetk The high school
runners made better time in the dis
tances than the college. Irwin. the
phenomenal high school runner, led
the college men quarter of a<mile
at the finish of the mile race. Irwin's
time was minutes and 81 seconds,
which is four seconds faster than the
state high school record made by Van
Benthuysen of Mitchell, in 1914. Monte
Martin, another high schooler, won the
quarter mile in 55 As seconds. In the
half-mile race the three high school
boys who ran all came in ahead of the
college runners. The fastest college
man in the meet was Funk, who won
the hundred yard dash, and the high
and low hurdles In excellent time. The
most interesting event in the meet for
the most Of the spectators was a shut.
tie race between the college girls of
the freshman and sophomore classes,
The girls were rugged out in their gym
nasium suits and were able to cover
the course in fast time. The fresh
man girls won.
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TEAM OFF TO VERMiLLlON

The Brookings high school track
team left this morning for Vermillion
where they will compete in the annual
Interstate high school track and field
meet to be held there tomorrow under
the auspices of the University of South
Dakota. High schools in Minnesota
Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota will
be represented. From all Of the dope
that can be learned concerning the
principal teams entered in TIE meet,
Brookings stands an excellent chance
of carrying off first honors. Basil
Irwin will undoubtedly win the mile,
half-mile and 440-yard races, and prob
bly, break the records in some of these
events besides. The half-mile relay
will be easily won by Irwin, Martin
Ryger and Sundet Martin should
place in the 220-yard dash, the cen
tury dash and the pole vault. He will
also be entered in the high jump.
Ryger will place in the quarter mile,
has a good chance in the 100yard dash
and the low hurdles. Sundet will be
given a chance to take honors in the
shot-put and the discus.
Through lack of funds it will be inn
possible to take more than four men
to the meet. Besides Irwin, Martin,
Ryger and Sundet, Coach Wick would
like to take Halvorson, Blocker, Mears
and Blakeslee, all of whom have done
excellent work and would make good
showing at the meet. Although it is
a big task for four men to win a meet
of the size Of the one at Vermillion
tomorrow both the coach and team are
hopeful of the outcome.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
RAIN STORM HITS
RAILROADS HARD
TRAIN AND TELEPHONE SERVICE
is CRIPPLED ALL OVER
THE STATE
NO TRAINS TO RAPID CITY OR PIERRE
Need Ten Days to Repair Washed Out
Track and Bridges-Soft Road
bed Delays Traffic.

Train service and telephone service
all over the state is badly crippled on
account of the heavy downpour of
rain which started Monday night which
has washed out tracks, bridges and
has inundated hundreds of acres Of
land over the state. The railroad
tracks both east and west Of Pierre
has cut that city off from communi-
eaton with the rest of the state. Re-
ports from Canning a few miles east
road had been washed out leaving
gulch four feet deep in its place.
AT Channel bridge near Blunt, 400
feet of roadbed was taken out, the
water cutting to a depth of twelve
feet below the surface of the dump.
Trains through Brookings instead Of
going on through to Rapid City, can
go only to Huron. 1t will be ten days
before there will be any service west
of Blunt. Trains run on slow orders
west from Huron as far as Blunt
The Milwaukee railroad out of Sioux
Falls suffered on its lines running
north. All of the trains in the state
are running late on account Of soft
roadbeds. AS much as three and
half inches of rain fell during the
downpour which lasted two days.
Cloudbursts were general throughout
the state. The water at the Sioux
river has risen rapidly, and has broken
out over it banks in several places.
At Sioux Falls it was rising at the rate
of foot an hour yesterday. The wind
during the storm attained a maximum
velocity of AZ miles per hour accord
ing to the weather bureau at Huron.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
ANGLING SEASON OPENED

The angleworms have been forced
to post the usual spring notices in
their underground tunnels warning all
of the worm population to lay lower
because the fisherman's spade is once
again tearing up the dirt on the back
lot. Last Sunday, the first warm Sun
day of the fishing season which opened
May /, saw hundreds and hundreds of
devotees of Izaak Walton lining the
shores of the lakes Of the county
using the best of their skill in Turing
the willy pickerel, the wary perch and
the greedy bullhead to accept the
tempting bait with the hidden invita-
ton to decorate the family platter at
the next meal. Lake Campbell, few
miles south and west, is at present
the most popular fishing grounds for
Brookings people. Sunday afternoon
the borders of the lake were lined
with automobiles, a large number
which came from this city. The sport
was interesting and fruitful for all
nearly everyone coming home with
enough of the finny tribe to supply
both his own table and that of his
neighbors. The butcher shops must
have noticed a falling off in their
trade Monday. Perch were the most
plentiful, bullheads a good second, and
the pickerel the fewest, but many were
of an unusually large size making the
sport highly exciting for the angler
The state game and fish laws have
been revised SO that it is now lawful
for one person to use two lines. The
law specifies a limit of twenty-five
game fish for each person in one day.
This does not apply to perch The
season for bass does not open until
the first Of June, but that does not
affect greatly the anglers in this
neighhOrhoOd.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
TO UNVEIL G. A. r. PICTURE

With a large public program and a
patriotic address the unveiling OF the
Civil War Veterans picture will be
held in the G.. A. R. hall on Saturday
afternoon, May % Philo Hall, speak
ing for the committee, will make the
presentation of the picture. Command
ar Sharp and President Marvin will
deliver the speeches of acceptance for
the G. A. R. and the w. r. c.. Presi'
dent Willis f. Johnson of State col
lege, will deliver a patriotic address.
The unveiling of the picture will be
in the hands of Comrades Slocum and
woodward One of the most inter
esting features of the program will be
the recounting of Grand Army remin.
iscences by Comrade Cornell. Chris
tensen's orchestra will furnish the mu-
sical numbers of the program. The
Grand Army of the Republic and its
auxiliary. the Womans' Relief Corps,
invite the public to attend this pro-
gram, which will begin at 2:3O p. m.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
ACTION ON BAND POSTPONED

Two representatives of the Brook
ings band were called in for con-
sultation with the city commissioners
last Monday evening to state the needs
OF the band and to give the general
attitude Of the band in regard to sup
certs in this city next summer. The
band asked for So 900 and stated that
ii would be impossible to keep the
musicians in the organization with less
than that amount. When towns on
all sides are paying their bands two
or three times that amount, and then
not getting band anywhere as near
as good as the Brookings band and
smaller villages paying up to $4,000
for small inexperienced bands, the
local band feels that it is a very rea-
sonab'e request to ask for that amount
After consideration the commissioners
agree! to appropriate $4,000 and left il
up to the band if they wanted to fur
nish concerts during the summer at
thtl ~ ltS. Ht pdHu Will liOlu IL lllttl-
ing some time this week to make their
decision. In interviews with a few
of the members OF the band they
stated that there was small probability
that the band would accept the com.
missioner's proposition The sum they
ask, they feel, is the very least that
they could possibly get along with, and
if the city cannot give it to them there
will be no band here as far as they
are concerned. Many of them have
splendid opportunities to play in bands
in other towns this summer at much
more satisfactory wage. After inter
viewing representative number Of
citizens it appears that nearly every
one likes the music and would like to
have the concerts during the summer.
Some feel, however, that the band Is
holding up the city for the small
amount of service which they render
Some say that the band takes alto
gether too Independent an attitude,
playing when they please, and that
many Of the members are irregular in
for insufficient reasons.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
NEW AUTO BURNS UP

While Al Warner was starting up
a brand new BrscOe automobile in
front Of Ed. Sorenson's blacksmith
shop last Saturday evening, the car
caught fire and all efforts proved futile
to extinguish the blaze before all of
the gas and oil had burned The body
of the car was entirely destroyed. the
gas tank was blown up and one Of the
tires exploded on account of the tre?
mendous heat. 1t is said however
that the engine and the chassis are
practically as good as ever The auto
mobile was the property of Ed. Soren-
son, who runs a blacksmith shop on
Fifth avenue, and had been driven less
than 200 miles. There was no insur-
ance on the car. Ed. was out fishing
at the lake at the time of the accident
shop, stated that if he had more than
one Pyrene he could have put the fire
out with but very little damage to the
car A call was put in to the fire de-
paTlnent, Dut through mlSunQer-
standing as to the location of the fire,
they went out to the college blacksmith
shop, and by the time they had re-
turned ii was too late to do anything
for the car. A small garden hose was
pressed into service while waiting for
the fire department and it was this
homely instrument which finally sue
ceeded in putting out the fire.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
SENIORS WILL :
BUSY NEXT WEEK
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM FOR
GRADUATING CLASS STARTS
SUNDAY EVENING
As WILL RECEIVE DIPLOMAS ON FRIDAY
Glass Day Program on Thursday
Afternoon - Glass Play on
Wednesday Evening.

Commencement week for the gradu-
gin with the baccalauerate sermon
Sunday evening, May 1G which will
be delivered by the Rev. A. n. Porter,
pastor of the United Presbyterian
church at the college auditorium at
500 p. m. \ class of forty-five, twen-
ty-eight girls and seventeen boys, will
be graduated from the high school
this year. Final examinations will be
held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The senior class play will be
presented Wednesday evening at the
opera house at 500 p. m. On Thurs
day afternoon the senior class will give
their class day program at the Opera
house at 2:30 p. m. On Friday even
ing, May 21, the graduation exercises
will end the commencement week pro
gram, beginning at 500 p. m, at the
college auditorium. In all Of the pro-
grams the graduating class furnishes
all of the talent, no outside speakers
will deliver orations, the students
themselves having prepared all of the
graduation speeches.
Glass Day Program - Glass song.
Bernice Bartlett; class history, Frances
Forsee; class poem, Howard Powers; /;
class prophecy, Sarah OylOe; barber
shop Quartette, Monte Martin, Wm.
Morton. Arthur Coplin, Roger Atkin-
son; reading, Gertrude Buettner; mu-
sic, senior class; faculty meeting, Ev-
erett Anderson. leader; class will, Ger
trude Buettner; presentation of key to
knowledge, Paul Jerde; reception of
key 10 knowledge, Lewis Halvorson;
farewell song. Gertrude Buettner.
Graduation Exercises-Song, H. s.
chorus; invocation; salutatorian ora
ton. Marion Yule: grafton, Ruth Hey
wood: song, Girls glee club; grafton,
Zadia Williamson; valedictorian ora
ton, Ruby Olson; presentation Of
scholarship, NJ c. White; song, Boys
2lee club; presentation of class, Supt.
s. w. Johnson; presentation of diplo.
ma, member of school board class
song, senior class.
The following students will be pre-
sented with diplomas at the gradua-
tion exercises next Friday evening:
Esther NJ Anderson, Ethel M. Le>
Fevre, Marian Yule, Emily NJ. McGill,
Ruth Alice Haywood, Elsie Juanita
Thor. Hson, Herbert a. Cheever, Ora
L. Crosser, Roger V. Atkinson, William
D. Norton Marie V. Mortenson, Kirk
Mears. Frances l.. Forsee, Gertrude
Buettner, Bernice Paula Bartlett, Clara
Goplin Edna Jensen, Clark j. Fuller,
Henry Blocker, Everett +. Anderson,
We're NJ Hoy, Emmett B. Martin, Jean
cite L. Wick, Winifred A. Sloan, Madge
G.. Case. Marguerite f. Hart Sarah M.
Oyloe, Leo r Alton, Beulah A. Swift,
Paul T. Jerde, Ruth Dorothy Hutchen-
dorf. Ila Edythe Tiff, TheO j. Palmer,
Regina Fox. Orpha Natalie Haugen,
Zadia NJ. Williamson, Harold X. Pal
mer. Howard Adorne Powers, Roy r.
Rishoi, Arthur n. Goplin, Elsie A. Ny
man, Lucy Revell Mabel Hammond,
Ruby Beatrice Olson and Joy Y. YES
sew
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
GET SIX NEW TRUCKS

The Atkinson Paving company re-
ceived a shipment of six Ford trucks
last week which they will use to haul
sand and crushed rock for the paving
work in this city. The teams have
proven inadequate to haul material fast
enough to keep the big copcrete mixer
busy so the new trucks were pur-
chased. They have two compartments
both of which are equipped with a
dumping device. While they do not
hold as much material as wagon, the
greater speed in hauling and unloading
will more than make up for 1t.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
ANOTHER WRECK

An extra westbound freight train
running between Brookings and Tracy,
Mimi, was derailed last Saturday
morning at 500 o'clock near Aurora.
Six cars went off the track but no one
on the train was injured. All passen-
ger trains were held up on account
Of the wreck until the track was
cleared up. It was not until noon that
traffic was resumed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13
STATE OF TRADE

The state of trade over the country
as reported by Bradstreet's for last
week is quieter. Retail trade and col
lections notably so. High prices and
bad weather chief causes. Mail order
trade good. Wholesale trade slower.
Manufacturing pace slows down. Great
complaint of poor transportation from
manufacturers aud farmers. Weather
better for crops. Heavily decreased
spring wheat area. Securities dull and
weak. Building retarded by labor and
prices. Fewer failures but larger liza
bilities.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13

H. Wayenberg of Yakima. Wash, Is
visiting with his brother-n-law, John
G.. Raak and family.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-05-13

"a mar is rich according to what he
Is, not according to what he has"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-21
PASSENGER TRAVEL
INCREASES VASTLY
Figures for 1919 in Allegheny
Region, Including D. c.,
Far Exceed 1918.

A great increase in passenger traVel
in 1919, as compared with 1918, Is
shown in the annual report of L. W
Baldwin. regional director of the Al
legheny region, which includes the
District of Columbia. made public to-
day by the railroad administration.
During the year ended December 81
1919. there was 1851, 319,252 revenue
passengers carried one mile over the
railroads operating in the Allegheny
region, az compared with 7,11S.475,45a
for the year 1918. A vigorous cam
paign to insure passenger trains run
ming on time was conducted. with the
result that during last November out
of 729.386 passenger trains operated
IS per cent arrived on time and 81 pei
cent maintained schedule or made uT
time. Mr. Baldwin called attention IN
the report to the fact that the lines in
this region were called upon even dur
ing 1919 to handle a large number o!
troops returning to the United states
During the year a total OF Sic trooI
tSains were operated, handling 3,41S,-
1873 men. The peak of the troop move
ment was reached in July.
Urges Value of Courtesy.
In order to mold a better feeling on
the part of the railroads Mr.. Bald
win inaugurated campaign among
employees having relations with the
travelling public to impress on then
the value of courtesy and efficient
service. Results were reflected in con-
gratulatory letters.
Effective June 1, 1919, freight train
schedules in this region were estaD-
Tished to provide regular and reason
able fast service for all perishable
freight, including house merchandise
Due to the necessity Of having to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-21
u. s. ASKED TO BUY
PARKS AND FORTS
Board of Trade Committee
Suggests Completion of
Mcmillan Plan.

Believing that the time has now
come for the government to purchase
various parks and forts surrounding
the city to complete the so-called Nc
MILAN plan for the Identification of
the National Capital, the committee
on parks and reservations of the
Washington Board of Trade has sent
letters to four committees of Con-
greSs and to various civic asSOcia-
tons urging that action be taken on
this project. Portions of the letter
follow:
1T is now more than seventeen
years since the park commission. a Ct
ing under authority of the United
States Senate. reported a compre-
hensive project for the development
and improvement of the entire park
system of the District of Columbia,
since known as the Mcmillan plan
Based on Original Plan.
1T is by no means a new plan, but,
on the contrary. so far as it applies
to the old city, south of Florida ave-
nue., it is a development and extension
of the original plan of Washington
and Jefferson, as they communicated
it to L'Enfant for his guidance in
1890, and so far as it applies to the
suburban portion of the District it is
an adaptation of the original plan
to the topography and prospective de-
velopment of greater Washington"
The letter points out that the war
of secession left a chain of dismantled
forts skirting the city, on it's northern
and eastern sides. These forts, the
committee stated. had ended their
usefulness in the defense of the
Capital, and could serve no other pur-
pose than to mark the site of an in
decisive event in the civil war.
The committee believes that by
connecting up these forts by means
of boulevard it would add to the
picturesqueness Of the park system of
the city.
Endorsed by Organizations.
Endorsement for this project already
has been made by the Board of Trade,
Chamber of Commerce. Columbia
Heights Citizens Association. North
east Citizens Association and the
Mount Pleasant Citizens Association,
the committee states in the letter.
1t is also said that the Commits
sioners of the District are in favor
of the plan. as well as the Commission
of Fine Arts and the engineer branch
of the War Department, which has
jurisdiction over public parks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-21

If men could only have a trial fu-
neral they'd take out life insurance
National Life Insurance day. today.
National Thrift week.