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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22
Real Estate Transfers

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Furnished by Albert Matson. Abstracter.)
For week ending December II, 1921.
Charles E. Norton to Farmers & Mer-
chants State bank, und. " NWH
1%2-11O-49; $1.OO.
George N. McCullow to Mary A. Nc
Cullow, SWh 22-110-51, and und. n
int. NWA %27-110-51; $1.OO.
Mary Hahn to Roy J. Grattan, lot 8,
blk 9, w. T. l.. Co. LIST addn. to
Elkton; $50.
j. M. Holland to Lula c. Wiley, NWA
Is and SkNEA %16-111-50; $1,000.
Ivan L. Cobel to Celia M. Cobel, lot
1, NJ 2, blk 2, Henry's addn. to
Brookings; $1.OO.
George H. Tjaden to Fred C. B%uettner,
NEA 3~1-112-48; $1.00.
Robert B. Laban to F. M. Shuck, NEA
rs and NWA 25-111-51; $1.0O.
L. M. Sessler to Myrtle Sessler, lot 8
and VIZ 9, blk 1, Third addn. to
Brookings; $1.0O.
Nels T. Nelson to Farmers Co-opera-
tive Co., lots S and S. 10 IT. 6, blk 5,
of Warehouses; addn. to Brookings;
$1.0O.
Soren Christensen to John H. Roberts,
lots 1, 2 and 8, blk l, Dawes addn.
to Brookings; $1.O0.
Soren Christensen to John H. Roberts,
NEASEA w 25110-5O; $1.00.
Tilda Bosler to Charles Pullman, lots
Z and Sk 6, blk 3, Pleasant Hill
addn. to Brookings; s1.0O.
Charles Pullman to John H. Roberts,
Sk lot 6 and all lot Z, blk 3. Pleasant
Hill addn. to Bookings; $1.00.
George D. Cole to John H. Roberts, lots
1, 2 and 8, blk 7, Morehouse addn. to
Brookings and lots l and 2, blk 3,
Pleasant Hill addn. to Brookings;
$1.00.
Roy A. Sloan to John w. Evans ct al,
NWA and ShNEA 17-112-49 lex
cept part of said NWk); $1.00.
John Barg to Michael Langner, lots 3
and A. blk IL, Second addn. to White
$4,000.
G. J., Flittie to William H. Walters,
SWA 1-11O-4S; $1.O0.
William B. Denhart to Harrison H.
Moore. SEA "a and SW 3~5-112-4S;
$500 0
Ole G. Oyloe to E. c. Nolan, lot 4, blk
6, original plat, Bookings; $1.0O.
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COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS
FRANCIS IYNDE

ten-inch Jet OF water. The punlpS were
working all right there was no doubt
about that. / dug up enough Of my
college math to figure that two six
inch streams would just about fill a
ten-inch pipe, and here 1t was, running
full and pouring like another torrent
into the gulch. SO back we wen to
the mine buildings tospile more wood
into the furnaces and to resume our
watching Of the indicator and It's pen
cil-marked scale.
Noon caught up with US after a
while-with nothing doing save that
we were rapidly diminishing our wood
pile. For a solid week we chopped
down trees and split them up, Daddy
and /, and kept the fires roaring under
the boilers and kept those monster
pumps whirring and grinding away at
the shaft mOuth-night and day, mind
you; watch on and watch off. And,
right straight through 1t all, that little
Indicator weight / had rugged up stood
stock still /; never moved the width Of
one Of the pencil marks l had drawn
on Its gauge board.
BY this time my stubbOrnness was
yielding something to the still more
stubborn fact. If all this pumping
hadn't even started the food toward
Its ~diminutiOn, truly all the waters un-
der the earth must be backing the un-
falling well of that drowned shaft.
Toward the last / think we kept
on more from force OF habit than any
thing else, but at the end of the week
/ gave In and consented to let the
fires die down, though 1t was like pull
ing teeth to do it. Something, indeed,
i brought out Of the overtime work,
disappointing as 1t had been In the
major sense; | vas muscled up as
hard as a keg of nails: as strong as
q mule, and the fierce toll OF. wood
chopping and boiler-fring had given
me an appetite for real work that fair
ly made me ache when / thought Of
stopping. We thrashed II out that eve
ming, the three of us before the living
room fire, after Daddy and l had final
ly stopped the pumps and let the steam
u down.
II reckon you hain't no call to take
1t so hard, Stannie," Daddy said, after
! had growled and grouched like a
bear with a sore head over our fail
ure. AFTER all, you must ricollect
that 1t amt no skin off m you If the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22
OSLO SCHOOL

Argus Leader Brookings county
can boast an exceptionally good rural
school that has won the special COM
mendation Of state inspectors who
have visited it. 1t is known as the
Oslo school, a few miles from Volga.
Not only is the building a modern
n instead of the typical one-story
structure of poor type and makeshift
tendencies but it Is achieving unusual
results both from its regular studies
and in music. 1t has an orchestra and
two glee clubs. nj for boys and one
for girls, the pupils having bought a
piano from the money they earned.
Monthly parties with a program are
given. to which the people of the COM
munity come and a fine spirit OF CO
operation Is exhibited that is not al
ways found in the rural schools OF
today.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

CHAPTER 1t Under his grandfather
will, Stanford Broughton. society idler, finds
his share of the estate, valued at some
thing like s440, 900, lies in a safe reposi-
tory." latitude and longitude described. and
that il all. 1t may he identified by the
presence nearby Of a haired. blue
eyed girl, a piebald horse. and a dog with
a split face. half black and half white.
Stanford at first regards the bequest as a
Joke, but after consideration sets out to
find his legacy.
CHAPTER II.--On his way to Denver,
the city nearest the meridian described in
his grandfather's will, Stanford hears from
n fellow traveller a story having to do with
a flooded mine.
CHAPTER III.-Thinking things over, he
begins TO imagine there may be something
in his grandfather's bequest worth while,
his idea finally centering on the possibility
of a mine, as n safe repository" Recall
ing the narrative on the train, he ascertains
that his fellow traveller was a mining engi-
neer, Charles Fullerton. Fullerton refuses
him Information, but from other sources
Broughton learns enough TO make him pro-
coed to Placerville, In the Red desert.
CHAPTER IV.-On the station platform
at Atropia, just as the train pulls out,
Stanford sees what appear to be the iden-
tical horse and dog described in his grand
fathers will. Impresser, he leaves the train
at the next stop. Angels. There he finds
that Atropia was originally Placerville, his
destination. Unable to secure a conveyance
at once TO take him to Placerville, Brough-
ton seizes a construction car and escapes,
leaving the impression on the town marshal.
Beaseley. that he is slightly demented.
" Pursued, he abandons
the car, which is wrecked, and escapes on
foot. In the darkness. he is overtaken by
a girl on horseback. and THE dog. After
he explains his presence, she invites him
to her home. at the Old Cinnabar mine, to
meet her father.
p vi. Broughton's hosts are
Hiram Twombly. caretaker of the mine,
and his daughter Jeanie. Seeing the girl.
Stanford is satisfied he has located his prop
erty, but does not reveal his identity.
VII. 49, Next morning, with
Hiram, he visits the mine. Hiram asks him
to look over the machinery. and he does SO,
glad of an excuse to be near jeanne, In whom
he has become interested. and he engages In
the first real work he has ever done.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

New $125, 900 Girls Dormitory at State
College
Two Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies' Fur
nishing Store.
Good Volunteer Fire Department with
Motor Equipment.
Brookings Produce Co., Cash Market for
All Farm Products.
South Dakota State College of Agriculture
md Mechanic Arts.
Brictson Manufacturing Company, makers
of the Brictson Tire Tread.
New 5000, 600 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 c. & NV. Ry. from Chicago to Pierre.
the Capital of the State. Also Hea6quarters
for Train Crews Running North to Water
town and on to Redfeld and Gettysburg.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

square1y In the eye. vhal you can
do with this mine, another mining en-
gineer can do quite as well and the
other man will probably be willing to
do 1t without asking the fenced-in
earth for his reward"
"Humph!" he grunted; $50 that's
your play, is it?" Then, after a scowl-
ing pause: you're licked before you
begin. You're fighting without ammu-
milton, BrOughton. You haven't any
money, and you'll look a long time be-
fore you'll find an engineer able to
finance his own experiment on your
drowned proposition"
THAT may be-" / retOrted. but if
you told me the story straight that
night in the Pullman, you can't turn
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CHAPTER viii.
The Iaborinu Pumps.

F
On the third day after l had tried
to brain myself In the old boiler I was
pretty nearly as good as ever, and my
two Good Samaritans reluctantly con-
sented to my going back to work,
jeanne renewing the bandage on my
broken head, and laying many injunc-
lions upon Daddy Hiram to send me
right back to the cabin IL l didn't be-
have; behaving" In her use Of the
word, meaning that I was to take 1t
easy on the Job.
That sounded mighty good to me.
the way she said II. Most men, l fan
cy, are only overgrown children In the
ems that they like to be fused over
by their ~womankind. Don't mistake
me, please; wasn't In love with her
then. Candidly, l don't think l knew
what a real love vas But 1t was
mighty pleasant to live In the same
house with her, and to eat her deli
cious cooking; to be with her every
day, and to have those undisturbed
evening half-hours with her In front
VA ~ htC. T. 1 hou u w 6Ct OuS .
or II there had been another man 80.
but i won't anticipate.
In due time and after we had COM
pletely overhauled the rusted and
gummed-up machinery, Daddy and l
happened upon a day when we were
ready to put fire under the boilers and
we did 1t. If l should live to be a
hundred years old, / shall never forget
the tense, suppressed excitement that
gripped me as we brought the wood for
the furnaces hat bright, hot, July
morning. BY eight o'clock we had
ninety pounds Of steam pressure on
the boilers, but we held Off until 1t
had climbed to the regular working
pressure Of one hundred and twenty.
Then / started the pumps; two big
centrifugal suctions, mounted on a
platform In the shaft mouth and so
arranged that they could be lowered
to follow the water level down-if 1t
should go down; pumps that each
threw a stream six inches In diameter.
After the pumps were started ana
the indicators showed, OF seemed to
show. that they we're working up to
full capacity. l rugged up a measuring
gauge; q bit of wood for a float, with
a string tied to 1t, and the string pass
Ing owe a pulley in the %shafthouse
r0ofbeaming with a weight on the end
Of 1t. II the water level should 60 down,
the float would sink with 1t, pulling
the weight up. A smooth board, with
feet, inches and fractions penciled on
II, was stood up beside the weight to
answer for a measuring scale.
AT the end Of the hour the float
hadn't moved q hairs breadth; not q
hundredth part Of an inch. 50 far as we
could e 9
II don't believe the pumps are work
inx |" / exploded. surely they'd make
some little difference In the level un-
less that shafts got all the under
xround water in the world to back II
Us. Those Indicators must be out Of
Whdck In some way. Where does the
6lsci,aSge water empty itself7"
Daddy knew this, too.
s0ver III the left-hand gulch-intc
He creek
.show me- I directed.
we found the discharge from me
umpg ! little way below the end Of
path; i ten-inch pipe which had
~. aid underground from the shaft
upo. presumably 70 keep II from
e~1ns IL winter. The end Of the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22
! Consented to Let the Fires Die Down.

. So"se''sSo W eet S"e rtTSS ZIG OoWHs
old Cinnabar stays right where she Is
and soaks till kingdom come"
mo skin off Of mew l yelped, with
a sort of wild laugh. "Listen-both
OF you," and then l told them the en-
tire heart-breaking story of Cousin
Percy's letter and my grandfather's
joke; Of my starting out on the fam
tastic search for the girl, a horse and
a dog-a search which would doubtless
have failed before 1t had fairly begun
II ] hadn't happened to ride in a Pull
man smoker with the man, Charles
Fullerton.
l remembered afterward that I had
got just that far-to the naming Of
Bullerton-when Barney, the ple-faced
collie, got up from his corner Of the
hearth, stalked to the door and began
to growl. The next minute we heard
q horses sh-r-r-, and Daddy Hiram
rose. pushed the dog aside and opened
the door. Then Jeanie and l. still
sitting before the fire, heard him say
gruffy: "Well. hello, Charley Butler
ton! What In Sam Hill are you doin'
mp In this neck o. woods"
! turned to look at Jeanie-and
missed. In the moment when / had
glanced aside she had vanished
When Fullerton came In, which was
after Daddy Hiram had lighted the
lantern and shown him where to put
his horse, he didn't eem half az much
surprised to find me sitting before the
Twombly house IRE a. l thought he
hight have been.
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we proved that the mine was undram-
able, save, perhaps, at the enormous
cost Of driving an undermining tunnel
from a lower slope of the mountain?
Then there was Jeanne. Then, again,
there was Lisette. Fifty thousand
dollars at six per cent would buy ner
hats-but it wouldn't buy much else.
l could picture the calm and collected
way in which she would say, "Yes,
Stannie; you've succeeded nicely In
financing the hats. But you know as
well as ! do that we couldn't buy hats
and keep a a on three thousand a
year"
l had just climbed down to this bot.
tom round of the ladder of detection
when l heard a bit of noise and looked
up to see a small, trim figure darken-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

Over two hundred New Dwellings Built
during the past three years. Besides many
Business Blocks and other Substantial I'm
Beautiful trees line the streets and the
City presents a 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.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22
WHAT WE MEET

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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HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF BROOKINGs

One Florist
Two Bands
Two Hotels .
Ten churches
Four dentists
Candy kitchen
Good creamery
Steam laundry
one Ice plant
Two osteopatils
Two state banks
$25, 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
$125 600 Court House
Two Furniture Stores
Two Hamburger Joints
Four Jewelry Stores
Four Barber shops
Two Hardware stores
Tire Vulcanizing Plant
Three NJ a C h n Q Shops
Two Department stores
Four Blacksmith shops
Four Exclusive Groceries
City of Beautiful Homes
Two Shoe Repair Shops
Best Schools in the State
Good Water Near Surface
Six Miles of Paved Streets
Marble a n d Granite Works
D a k o t a Deaconess Hospital
Five Auto Livery Stations
Three Photograph Galleries
One Exclusive s hine Parlor
One Gents Furnishing Store
One Cement Block Factory
One Tea and Coffee House
$4,000 Government Bull ding
Two Electric Supply Houses
TWO Battery supply Stations
One Harness and Repair Shop
State Circuit Court held here
$4,000 Brick School Building
Three Moving Picture Theatres
$3.50 900 High s school Building
Two Exclusive Clothing stores
Gu h a n Adjustment Company
Forty-ive II d Inhabitants
Educational Center of the State
1.4Oo Students in State College
County S seat OF Brookings County
United states Experiment Station
Five Rural Free Delivery Routes
Free Delivery Service OF City Mail
High School on the Accredited List
Over 1000. 900 Invested in Education
On 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 Churches
New 100000 Armory at state College
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

Two-inch gum tape at the Register
once, 800 per voll.-Advertisement.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

MIR. Broughton-Stannie, Are You
Here2"
voice that l would have recognized in
q thousand voices all speaking at once.
said:
"Mr. BroughtOn-Stannie, are u
.ere?"
(To be continued)
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16
From Mississippi Senatorial
Dots.
TURN HIM LOOSE.

A petition for pardon of man SEN
fenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary now being published in Mis-
s'ssippl paper and addressed to Gov
ernor Russell, says in part:
81 have always supported Senator
Vardaman, for which l have no apoI-
ogies to make to any man. support
ed you in your race for governor. for
this and other reasons which / will
make known to you on the hearing
of this petition and for my action in
so voting my honest convictions, L
have been condemned by some of tha
antics, and they bounded ma at the
rial and are and will continue to
hound me. z M
How can the Governor withstand
patriotic appeal like that? Lincoln
County Times.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16

Men continually fail for lack of a
definite aim.
The man who is perpetually
hesitating which of two things he
will do first will do neither. The man
who resolves but suffers his resolution
to be changed by the first counter
suggestion of friend-who fiuctuates
from plan to plan and veers like a
weather cock to every point of COM
pass with every breath of fcaprice that
blows-can never accomplish any
thing real or useful. 1t is only the
man who first consults wisely, then
resolves firmly. and then executes
his purpose with infiexible persever-
ance, undismayed by those petty
difficulties that daunt a weaker spirit,
that can advance to eminence in any
line. William Writ.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16
NEWTON BOOMS.

A Chamber of Commerce has been
at Newton with seventy
five active members.
A young mems business has also
been organized with tbirty-tive mem
bers.
The Baptist OF Newton County
have met and organized county
association.
City officials to put on the lid in
absolute enforcement OF the Sunday
law.
At ameeting Of farmers held at the
county site Monday. one week ago,
plans were made to hold a county
fair.
The American Legion as represent
ed by the local post is to have a pic.
mic on the 4th.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16
PEACHES, FIGS, STRAWBERRIES
MISSISSIPPI MAKING PROGRESS ALONG
FRUIT LINES

w. P. James, extension fruit spe-
cialist in Mississippi, has gathered
some instructive data relative to the
gradually developing commercial
peach and general fruit industry. AS
he states during the past few months,
there have been rapid strides made
in the development of the CONNER
cial peach industry in the State of
Mississippi. Three companies have
recently been formed at Popular
vile, Picayune and Hattiesburg, and
are now being Incorporated In the
state. Each one of these companies
has put out a substantial acreage of
peaches this spring and are planning
a large increase In acreage for this
fall. One OF the largest lumber COM
panies in the state is Offering to set
aside approximately $4,000 per year
to develop the fruit industry, and 1T
will only be a question of time until
Mississippi will rank along with
Georgia as fruit producing state.
An organization was recently per-
fected at Gloster, Mississippi and
this fall two or three hundred acres
OF figs will be put out and arrange
ments have already been made for a
preserving plant to take care Of the
crop, 1t is only a question Of time
until Mississippi will be boasting of
a great OF the leading orchards in
the south.
The strawberry industry is also
advancing nicely with approximate
ly 200 acres at Sanford which has
been set. This spring an organlza-
tion was perfected at Batesville,
Miss, and approximately 200 acres
of Strawberries set at this place.
Mcneil, in the extreme southern part
OF the state, has just organized a
strawberry growing exchange and
the growers are lining up nicely with
a substantial acreage already signed
for.
The fruit industry In Mississippi
has every prospect OF developing
rapidly and will soon become one of
the leading industries of the state.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16

/ was wondering the other day
how the aeroplane acted when it
struck a storm. And then the idea
came to me that it just nosed through
it and went higher until it was out
of the storm.
Storms are surface affairs. And the
reason why so many of us are forever
fretting away good time and effort is
that we spend too much time on low
levels.
Go higher and you will be above
the storms.
It's the petty irritations that kill.
People engaged in big tasks get tired
but they do not wear out.
AS you mount your responsibility
grows greater but SO do you in
strength.
Go higher and you see more, under
stand more, and get a perspective
that no one gets from the ground
where the crowd is.
I recently walked into a great
public library. Every chair of the big
reading room was occupied.
There was concentration and silence
to impress one. From the dress and
manner of many, inferred that a
large number of those present were
from the lower class of life. But
tomorrow they will have risen higher.
For 10 him who has little, but who
seeks for more, much shall be given.
Keeping going higher, my friend.-
George Matthew Adams.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16
RESTAURANT AND
WAREHOUSE BURN.
A. ]. PATTERSONS TWO BUILDINGS NEAR
STATION BURN TO CR0URD.

The restaurant and warehouse
near the railroad station belonging
to A. j. Patterson burned to the
ground early Sunday morning. The
fire broke out about 2:30 O'Clock. By
the time the town was aroused the
buildings were past saving. The
total loss will not exceed 100000.
Neither building was insured,
The restaurant was run by Mr..
and Mrs. w. ID. Dempsey who had
gone to Louisville, their home, and
had left the place in charge OF their
son. The warehouse was occupied as
a dwelling. The cause OF the fire is
not known.
The Neshoba Democrat., 1921-06-16
BEHOLD THE MAN"
CITY THEATRE TO PRESENT UNUSUAL PICTURE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING

The City Theatre has made ar
rangments to present Behold the
man. Saturday afternoon and even
ing. The pictured is one adapted
from the life OF Christ The film is
in colors, and shows vividly the
things that man has been reading
readin about for hundreds OF years.
Leading divines have recommends
ed the picture most highly. The net
proceeds will be divided in some
charitable way.