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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28

by blight. Velvet chaff suffered more
severely than other varieties of spring
wheat. Samples Of new spring wheat
have shown a number two grade, of
good color and high quality. Some
previously abandoned fields of wheat
are being harvested. In one instance,
this wheat showed a test Of 81 pounds
to the bushel, but the yield was light.
Rye threshing has started in the
southern part of this territory, but
very little has been marketed. Most
of it grades No. 2 rye. The general
yield is not as heavy as anticipated
earlier, due to the extreme hot wealth.
er during the filling period. Oats and
barley are both disappointing. These
crops have been greatly reduced by
the adverse weather. Many fields OF
early oats have threshed from 20 to 80
bushels per acre. Some early barley
in South Dakota showed 20 bushels to
the acre of No. 2 grade.
Recent rains have helped the corn.
With favorable weather, this crop
should be the largest in many years.
There are very few spots in the en-
tire territory where corn is not fine.
Potatoes have been damaged by the
heat, and will be a light crop. The
fax crop is quite uncertain. 1t has
beer considerably affected by heat, and
Is very spotted. IN places where it
received moisture, the condition is
good. In the dry districts, much of it
1t brown and even at the best, will
show a very light yield.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28
SYNOPSIS

PROLOGUE-In December. 1918, four men
gathered in a hotel in Berne and heard
one of the quartet outline a plan TO paraiyze
Great Britain and at the same time seize
world power. The other three, Hooking
American, and Steineman and Won Graft
Germans, all millionaires, agree 10 the
scheme, providing another man. hiram
Potts, an American, is taken in. The In
stigator of the plot gives his name as
Comte de Guy, but when he leaves for
England with his daughter he decides to
use the name Carl Peterson.
CHAPTER Il Capt. Hugh (Bulldog)
Drummond, a retired officer, advertises Tor
work that will give him excitement, sign
ing "Xl0." AS a result he meets Phyllis
Benton. a young woman who answered his
ad. She tells him of strange murders ana
robberies of which she SUSPECTS a oahu
headed by Carl Peterson and Henry Laking-
ton of being the leaders.
CHAPTER U-Drummond decides TO go
to The Larches, Miss Benton's home. An
attempt is made on the road TO wreck his
machine when another, occupied by Peter
son, Lexington and a strange man, blocks
the road. While dining with Phyllis Benton
and her father hears a terrible
shrek at The Elms. During the night
Drummond leaves The Larches and explores
The Elms. lie discovers Lexington ana
Peterson using a thumbscrew on an Ameri-
can who signs a paper. Drummond rescues
the American after a struggle and takes
him to his home. The man Is Hiram g.
Potts.
CHAPTER uI.-Peterson visits Drummond
the next day, departing with a threat 10
return later and recover Potts and also a
torn paper which seized the
night Of the fight. With the aid OF Peter
Darrell. an old army friend, Drummond ar
ranges to hide Potts, and substitute in his
place one Mullings, a demobilized soldier,
who is seized by Peterson and his gang
and taken TO The Elms, along with Drum
mond. O.,
CHAPTER IV.-When Peterson discovers
the hoax Drummond is escorted by lrma TO
"A room where he is to stay Tor the night.
During the night is exploring
the house when he gets in a strange room
in which is a cobra. He escapes, but on the
stairs has a fall in the dark.
CHAPTER N.-Drummond enlists the aid
of Algy ~Longworth, Toby Sinclair, TED
birmingham and Jerry Seymour, the latter
an aviator. D~rummond, after an encounter
with the pseudo Potts, meets 1rma talking
10 the marquis of Laidley and suspects the
gang Is plotting for the Laidley jewels,
Drummond and his friends are gassed as
they sit in his apartment. Lakington car
ries off Potts.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28

New 1?5,OOo Girls Dormitory at State
College
Two Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies' Fur
nishing Store.
Good Volunteer Fire Department with
Motor Equipment.
Bookings Produce Co., Cash Market for
All Farm Products.
South Dakota State College of Agriculture
and Mechanic Arts.
Brictson Manufacturing Company, makers
of the Brictson Tire Tread.
New $500, 900 administrator 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
bers in Good Standing. Fine Club Rooms.
Brookings is Located on the Main Line of
the G. e. NV. sRy. from Chicago to Pierre,
the Capital of the state. Also Headquarters
for Train Crews Running North to Water
town and on to Redfeld and Gettysburg.
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THREE E.

Hugh stopped his car at Guildford
station and. lighting q cigarette,
strolled restlessly up and down. He
looked at his watch a dozen times in
two minutes; he threw away his
smoke before 1t was half finished. In
short he manifested every symptom
usually displayed by the male of the
species when awaiting the arrival Of
the opposite sex. Over the telephone
he had arranged that she should come
by train from Godalming to confer
with him on a matter OF great import
ance; she had said she would. but
what was IT? He. having no suitable
answer ready had made q loud buzz
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TWO.

HAS 1t struck you fellows" re-
marked Hugh, at the conclusion OF
lunch, shat seated around this table
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WEEKLY CROP REPORT
ITO be c%ontinued)

The northwestern grain crops show
a very spotted condition. Many fields
are good, while others nearby are very
poor. The past days have been more
favorable for wheat. Cooler weather
and good breezes have probably held
back the development of black rust.
The crops have been damaged to orr
extent by rust. We believe, however,
it is not as serious as reported in
NAM instances. 1t is developing
slowly, and wheat is much earlier
than usual. For these reasons, it will
no doubt escape a large mou Of
damage.
There have been some very destruc-
tive hail and wind storms the past
week. The greatest damage was in
eastern Montana and northwestern
North Dakota. There have also been
storms both in Minnesota and South
Dakota. Damage by gra%sshoppers Is
also indicated in eastern Montana.
Some estimate this as high as 80 per
cent. Spring wheat will probably
vary greatly in quality this season.
Much Of it will be shrunken, and Of
light weight, but should be strong in
gluten, and of good milling quality,
unless there are rains during harvest.
Durum wheat has withstood the heat
and rust much better than bread
wheat. although it has been effected
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28

Over two hundred New Dwellings Built
during the past three years. Besides many
Business Blocks and other Substantial Inn
provements.
Beautiful trees line the streets and the
City presents p fine appearance, matted as
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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CHAPTER SIX.
In Which a Very Old Game Takes
Place on tho Hogs Back.
ONE.

A thick grey mist lay over the
Thames. 1t covered the water and the
low fields to the west like a thick
white carpet; 1t driftad sluggishly
under the old bridge which spans the
river between GOring and Streatley.
1t was the hour before dawn, and
sleepy passengers, rubbing the win
dows of their carriages as the Ply
mouth boat express rushed on toward
London, shivered and drew their rugs
closer around them. 1t looked cold
. .. cold and dead.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, the
vapor rose, and spread outwards up
the wooded hills by Basildon. 1t
drifted through the shrubs and rose
bushes of a little garden, which
stretched from a bungalow down to
the waters edge, until at length wisps
of it brushed gently round the bunga-
low itself. Suddenly the window of
one of the dOwnStair rooms was flung
open, and a man with a white hag-
gard face leaned out drawing great
gulps Of fresh air into his lungs.
Three other men lay sprawling I'M
couthly in chairs, and two dogs lay
motionless on the hearthrug.
After a moment or two the nan
withdrew, only to appear again with
lie of the others in his arms. And
then, having dropped his burden
through the window on to the lawn
outside, he repeated his performance
with the remaining two. Finally he
pitched the two dogs after them, and
then, with his hand to his forehead,
he staggered down to the waters
edge.
"Holy smoke" he muttered to him.
self, as he plunged his head into the
cold water, talk about the morning
afterv'
After a while, with the water still
dripping down his face, he returned
to the bungalow and found the other
three in various stages Of partial in
sensibility.
"Wake up, my heroes" he remarked,
anu 90 anu put youI SicdI ldI hOoNo
In the river. We were all Of us
drugged or doped somehow. And
now" he added bitterly, we've all
got heads, and We have not got Potts"
81 don't remember anything" said
Toby Sinclair, Except falling asleep,
Have they taken himT"
"Of course they have" said Hugh.
"Just before I went off / saw 'em
all In the garden, and that swine
darlington was with them. However,
while you go and put your nuts in the
river, I'll go up and make certain"
With a grim smile he watched the
three men lurch down to the water;
then he turned and went upstairs to
the room which had been occupied
by the American millionaire. 1t was
empty, as he had known 1t would be,
and with a smOthered curse he made
his way downstairs again.
TWO.
HAS 1t struck you fellows" re-
marked Hugh, at the conclusion OF
lunch, shat seated around this table
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING


One Florist
Two Bands
Two Hotels
Ten churches
Four dentists
Candy kitchen
Good creamery
Steam laundry
One ice plant
Two osteopatus
Two state banks
S25, 900 City Hall
Chinese laundry
Five restaurants
Seven physicians
Three drug stores
Three tailor shops
one general store
Three chiroprators
Two Tobacconists
Growing every day
One Cigar Factory
Five Auto Garages
Four Billiard Halls
Two good Bakeries
Four Lumber Yards
Four Weekly Papers
Fine Lake near City
Two National Banks
Exclusive Shoe Store
Three Grain Elevators
$l25,000 Court House
Two Furniture Stores
Two Hamburger Joints
Four Jewelry Stores
Four Barber shops
Two Hardware stores
Tire Nulcanizing Plant
Three NJ a C h Shops
Two Department S stores
Four Blacksmith S h o
Four Exclusive Groceries
City of Beautiful Homes
Two Shoe r epai Shops
Best Schools in the State
Good Water n e a Surface
Six Miles Of Paved Streets
Marble a n d Granite Works
d a k a Deaconess Hospital
Five Auto Livery Stations
Three Photograph Galleries
One Exclusive s h Parlor
One Gents Furnishing Store
One Cement Block Factory
One Tea and Coffee House
SIS, 900 Government Bull d n
Two Electric Supply Houses
Two Battery supply Stations
One Harness and Repair Shop
State Circuit Court held here
4 5000 Brick school Building
Three Moving Picture Theatres
$3.50, 900 High S Building
Two Exclusive Clothing S stores
u h a Adjustment Company
Forty-fve II andre Inhabitants
Educational Center OF the State
400 Students in state College
County seat eff Bookings County
United S a Experiment Station
Five Rural Free Delivery Routes
Free Delivery Service Of City Mail
High School on the Accredited List
over 81, 600, 900 Invested in Education
One Exclusive Tin and Repair Shop
One Variety Store and China Shop
Three Exclusive Oil Service Stations
Eye, Ear, Throat and Nose Specialist
Nineteen Miles of Cement Sidewalks
Three Plumbing and Heating Firms
Finest Church Buildings in the State
New Stock Pavilion at State College
$3.50 600 Invested in Beautiful Churche
New $4,000 Armory at state COLES
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28
WHAT WE NEED

A Gas Plant
Canning Factory
More Business Enterprises
Another good Meat Market
More Manufacturing Enterprises
More Young People Who Want an Educa
ton.
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A COUPLE O.
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Copyright, 1920
"FISHERMAN'S LUCK

BY Riley Ryck.
He's off to bed before it dark
He's up to greet the sun,
This is the day, he tells himself,
He'll get some fishing done.
With care assemblies he his kit
OF rods and lines and lures
Designed to win approval from
Fish that are connoisseurs.
Away he trudges light Of heart
His breakfast too is light,
For in his haste he just takes time
To eat a hurried bite.
Once in his boat and on the lake
His spirits higher rise,
So does the sun as forth it shines
From out the cloudless skies.
He thinks he'll cast a while as past
The lily pads he rows,
So tries his arm and patience, too,
Attempting lures he throws,
Decides that this is not the place
And tries it farther down;
But soon is casting longing looks
Toward the distant town.
And thus the morning wears away
His temper too is worn,
He yearns toward the man who said
Each minute one is born.
But mark you he's a fisherman
If he can keep his pluck
And say, well, this is not so good,
But next time better luck"
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tell me, don't you care n
little?"
whats the user" She still strug-
gled, but, even to her, it wasn't very
convincing. We've got other things
to do. We can't think OF. . . "
And then this very determined
young man settled matters in his
usual straightforward fashion. She
felt herself lifted bodily out of the
car as if she had been a child: she
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-07-28

The mud tax is the heaviest tax we
pay.
Life is a preface until We have had
children.
Every revolution was once a thought
in one mans mind.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
O|L MEN TAKE l. RAP AT FIRE UNDERWRITERS

KANSAS CITY, March 23.-A reso- lution condemning the reported acti- witty of certain old line fire insurance companies in seeking to drive out Of business reciprocal insurance com panies was adopted by the annual National Petroleum congress today. The congress pledged itself to combat such activity by insurance companies.
 Oil jobbers and retailers were ad- vised by l.. " Nicholas of Omaha, Neb., to carry side lines of merchant disc. He predicted that in the future the successful filling station would have a show window comparable to that of corner drug store.
 The possibility of perfecting brands of gasoline and oil to be advartised and sold nationally by independent oil dealers was discussed informally. In discussing the future of the rail roads," Clifford Thorne of Chicago general counsel for the American In dependent Petroleum association, said so per cent of the oil and gasoline used in the United States east of the ! Rocky mountains was produced 1T Kansas, Oklahoma. Texas and Louis jana. He arrested that higher rail road rates had worked a hardship tC the independent dealer and urged that the independents organize to op i pose eXorbitant rates.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
Allies Reply To German Statement
 Refusing To Pay

PARIS March 23 CBy The As sociated Press.D - The separations committee has considered the Ger man statement regarding non-pay- ment or the 1000. .00O,O gold marks today. the date fixed by the allies for payment. and is forwarding a communication to the German gov ernment : according to official an nOuncement
 The action of the allies. provided satisfaction is no given by the Ger man government, is expected to be an extension of the penalties applied by the occupation of further terri tory east of Rhine. or of some Ger man port It is not thought likely that the allies will take into consid eration the German proposals refer ring to estimated value of the pay ments already made by them in kind
 The incident is regarded here as not changing the situation between the Germans and allies, as violations of the treaty in other respects are regarded as iustifying the applica ton of all penalties provided for un der the treaty. This. however, Is the first specific refusal of the Ger mans to execute a provision Of th' treaty within the time limit fixed.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
MINING co. ENGINEER
 NEVER so SURPRISED

spells and an awful ringing in my head. l had lost so much strength and energy it just seemed like It was impossible for me to regain my usual health and I was just about played out.
 'fI never was so surprised at the way Tanlac began to help from the very first, and now l never felt bet ter in my life. I am stronger than have been in years. and l am so hun gry all the time I just can't get enough 10 eat. l sleep like log and am back on the job every day. l am taking Tanlac now and then just to keep in tune.''
 Tanlac is sold in Bisbee by J. M Ball, in Lowell by Lowell Drug Co.,, in Benson by Walter Drug Co.,, in Naco by Naco Pharmacy, Mir. Michael Ohl in Dos CabeZas, Ariz., and by leading druggists in all other cities.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
Sees U. S.-Japan
 Clash Involving
 Fishery Question

TOKYO, March 23. - (By The As sociated Press) - Concerning re- ports of the transfer of part of the peninsula of Kamchatka by the Far Eastern republic in Chita to the Mos COW Soviet administration. a Vlad- vostok dispatch to the lii Shimpoo said that at the auction. of the Rus sian fisheries those at Kamchatka were excluded. It transpired, later. however. the dispatch declared. that the Far Eastern repub/c had secret ly ceded rights in Kamchatka to the Moscow administration.
 Behind the move. it is supposed. lies the alleged vanderlip conces- sion,' the dispatch added There fore, the fishery question may lead to conflict of interests between Japan and America and Japan and Russia"
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
Thornton Says It Is Wonder
 ful How Quickly Tanlac
 Rid Him Of His Troubles And Restored His Health.

Tt certainly is wonderful how quick Tanlac rid me of my troubles and built me up." said John A. Thornton, Sandy Post, R. F.. D. No. 3, well known steam and electrical engineer for the Utah Copper Mining Co.
 "A year ago this February had the flu and it left me in an awful weak and rundown condition. My stomach was so weak I could scarcely eat the lightest foods and the least eXertion completely exhausted me. l was so nervous I could scarcely sleep and the pains in the small of my back were terrible had dreadful dizzy
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24

The Book of Job is said to be the oldest book in the Bible.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24

Harding when the congregation arises to sing No. 26S.
 You sit nearby so you see his lips move, but you do not hear his voice
 He is interested in the sermon.
 When the service ends; the con gregation instinctively waits until the presidential party has passed down the aisle again closely sur rounded by sleuths. The crowd out side applauds by handclapping when the president emerges.
 He bows and smiles.
 The door of the limousine slams shut and off goes the car, shimmerine in the spring sunshine, followed by the secret service men,
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24

WASHINGTON. March 23.-When the president goes to church the se- cret service men go along. too.
 President Harding has a dozen or so of them with him Sunday mornings at Calvary Baptist church.
 Picture the scene.
 A modest red brick church before which an expectanf crowd begins gath ering at g:
 A score of policemen keep them moving.
 Dozens of amateur photographers are there.
 Along come e+eht or ten profes-
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
osMpseY IS PLEASED

CALGARY. Alberta. March 23.- Jack Dempsey. heavyweight champion of the world. who is here today ex- pressed pleasure at the new arrange ment for his fight with Georges Car pentier on a percentage basis, 1nsread of straight guarantee,
 He said he believed the fight would draw a million and half dollars The champion said there is no truth in the story that he is to get married again.
 And here is something else l have never told the world yet. said the champion. ''I will never accept a challenge from a colored man.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24

sionals and nearly as many movie men.
 Boys climb tree.
 A shiny new s15,O0o limousine with the presidential insignia on the door panel rolls up to the curb.
 Close behind it is another big clos ed car which stops abruptly and dis gorges sleuths.
 Their leader opens the door of the presidential car.
 The president helps Mrs. Harding to alight and they pass toward the church between the rows of snapping cameras.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
6 ALIENS PLEAD GUILTY

FL PAS0. March 2S Six aliens pleaded guilty before the United States commissioner today to the . charge of entering the United States without passport and were held to the grand jury under $750 bonds. Five of the defendants are from Euro pean countries and made their way into this country through Mexico.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
JOSHUA SYKES To PRISON

SAN FRANCISCO, March 23. - Joshua Sykes, self styled head of the Church of the Living God, and his secretary A. NJ. Dean, arrived today from Denver in custody. and will be started for McNeirs Island federal penitentiary tomorrow to- serve sen tences of IS months and year and a day respectively They were con victed of obstructing the draft.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
Ahead, on each side and behind are

Ahead, on each side and behind are the guards.
 The president and his wife pass down the aisle, taking seats in the ninth row from the front. reserved for them.
 The two rows immediately behind them in this section are kept vacant In one of these the chief of the secret service squad takes his posi- tion. The other six are nearby, more may be scattered in the congrega- tion. The president bows his head when the minister prays.
 He holds the hymnal with Mrs.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
EMPTY GRAvE'
 CASE LIN TRIAL
SERVICE MIXES
 EVERY TIME THE PRESIDENT AND MRS HARDING GO TO CHURCH

ASPERMONT. Texas, March 2S. = Taking of testimony was begun to- day in the trial of B. J. Cochran charged with swindling life insurance companies. His wife, now dead, col lected s10.000 insurance when Coch ran was supposed to have died. His grave later was found empty.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
MEXICAN TRADE
 MEN IN BOSTON

BOSTON. March 23.--A delegation Of Mexican business men headed by F. L. Novelo. president of the Con federate Chambers of Commerce oi Mexico arrived today for a thlee days visit They were received by a committee from the Boston chamber Of commerce. Some members began visits to commercial and industrial plants. which are the object of their tour
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24
NoTIcE scoTTIsH RlTE MAsoNs

NOTICE SCOTTISH RITE MASONS All Scottish' Rite Masons are duly bound to attend Maunday Thursday Services at the Masonic temple Thurs day eve. March 24th, 1921. at s p. m.
 B. T WATKINS.
 Secretary. G. A. BRIDGE. Master of Ceremonies.
Bisbee daily review., 1921-03-24

The Chinese are said to use mir TOTS as traps flor tigers.
 A dictionary of slang was compiled in England as far back as 17S5.