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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-20
HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF BROoKINGs

BIRDS EYE VIEW OF BROOKINGS
One Florist
Two Bands
Two Hotels
Ten churches
Four dentists
. Candy kitchen
Good
Steam laundry
One ice plant
Two osteopatns
Two state banks
S25, 600 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
1925. 600 Court House
Two Furniture stores
TWO Hamburger Joints
Four Jewelry stores
Four Barber shops
Two Hardware stores
Tire Nulcanizing Plant
Three VI a e h G Shops
Two Department s torres
Four Blacksmith 6 shops
Four Exclusive Groceries
City of Beautiful Homes
Two Shoe r shops
Best Schools in the State
Good Water y e a r Surface
Six Miles OF Paved Streets
Marble d Granite Works
d a k o I a D~eaconess 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 d ing
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
$3.50 600 High school Building
Two Exclusive Clothing stores
ulhan ne Adjustment Company
Forty-fve II u d r g d Inhabitants
Educational Center OF the State
LOO Students in state College
County Seat of Bookings County
United states Experiment Station
Five RuSal Free Delivery Routes
Free Delivery Service OF City Mail
High School or 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
$4,000 Invested in Beautiful Churche,
New 800, 600 Armory at state Colles
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-20
STATS DIARY

Friday-Ma & pa was tawking about
new & etc & they got onto the sub
jock of Wimmen Suffrage q ma
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-20
WHAT WE NEED

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
tion.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-20
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

ed1tor1aI page and fill from three to
five columns each week When the
business manager is busy or absent
wait on patrons who come in to pay
subscriptions or engage advertising. I
also occasionally stand off aggrieved
readers who want to see the Teller
who writ that piece #
Mr. Beck says he knows of no Kan
sas editor who is older than himself or
who has served SO many years. nearly
forty-six, on the same. paper in the
sames town.
Asked for his recipe for longevity,
Mr.. Beck acquiesced:
Il am believer in the benefits of
fresh air and exercise. can walk
five miles without feeling very tired.
also attribute my good health and
activity to maintaining an interest in
community, state and national affairs;
to regularity of habits of eating and
sleeping. I have carefully experiment.
ed in what kind of food agrees with
me and how much of it 1 can safely
eat. I never INDUCED in alcoholic bev-
erages; have smoked moderately all
my adult life.
Another thing that has helped, I
have been enabled to exercise faith
faith in God and in my fellow men
and consequently have been something
of an optimist. disposed to look on the
bright side and discern the silver lining
of every dark cloud"
For sixty-six years Mr.. Beck has
been active in politics. He dates this
activity back to the birthday" of the
Republican party, in 1856. He still is
a Republican, and the sound policies
enunciated in his editorials have been
a sort OF beacon light of Kansas Re-
publicanism for nearly half a century
For First Years Work SIS.
Mr. Beck was born on a farm in
Wayne county, Indiana, November p,
1898. His education consisted of COM
mon school branches, a term or two in
high school and course in a COM
mercial college. Wien IS he left the
farm to work in a country store, re-
ceiving for his first years work SIS,
his board and room. When the Civil
war broke out he enlisted, April IS,
1861, as a private in Company K. Six
teenth Indiana infantry. He served
turnout the war, being promoted
meanwhile to captain. Then he tried
his hand at running a store.
II managed to conduct it four years
before losing what I had previously
saved in clerking and from my army
pay" he related as to this enterprise.
"In 1869 came to Jackson county,
Kansas, my total assets being a wife
and baby"
Then he added with a just glow of
pride in his eyes. THAT baby is now
managing editor OF the Chicago Trib-
une." He is Edward c. Beck, whose
remarkable success in the newspaper
world is well known to the newspaper
fraternity of Kansas.
Mr.. Beck started a drug store in
Holton in 1870, three years later be-
came postmaster and embarked in the
newspaper business March 2. 1875
Four years later he was again ap-
pointed postmaster and served until
1886. He received the postmastership
from President Mckinley in 1898 and
held the office four years. In 1897
Will T. Beck became his fathers part
ner and later became business mana
ger and managing editor which posi-
ton he now holds. The Recorder is
recognized as one of the best weekly
newspapers in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20
Grand Old Man of State.
Editorial Reputation Is
Golfer at the Age of IS
NJ NJ Beck of HoIton Recorder Euates John D. Rookie
Teller in Game, But Not Avenue of Longevity
Believes in Outdoors and Confidence in Mankind.

Having "hit the BALI regularly for
the past forty-six years with his pen
and typewriter. NJ. NJ. Beck. veteran
editor of the Holton Recorder, has
turned to the driver brassie and
mashie. He is a charter member of
the golf club being organized in Hol-
ton. However, Mr.: Beck, now in his
eighty-third year, and the oldest active
newspaper man in the state, declares
he has no IMMEDIATE intention of de-
serting his editorial duties ANY more
than necessary for his latest afffilia-
ton.
But I expect to do my share in
knocking the ball into the hazards"
smilingly asserted the octogenarian.
Suggesting that he was emulating
the example of John D. Rockefeller in
taking up golf as, an avenue to
longevity-the latter also being in his
eighty-third year-Mr Beck denied
that he has set the century mark as
his goal.
Unlike Rockefeller, I am not plan
ming to live to be a hundred" he
said. "altho I expect to enjoy living
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

Rees pasture in an endeavor to learn
how the game is played. Then comes
Dicks dad, Charley, who believes that
golf is a bum game, absolutely without
value, interest, etc, and he decides to
put an end to Dicks golf game. So he
takes Dicks pet driver and all the golf
balls he could find out to the pasture
where he lams them hard with the in
tention of forever losing them. But
right there is where Charley made his
big mistake for he made such good
drives with each ball and had so much
fun watching them sail thru space for
about three hundred yards that he has
ordered a complete golf equipment for
himself, knickerbocke included. and
says that he intends to have the finest
golf course in the country. none
barred.
Albert Patten was playing with Mrs
Patten recently and from the sand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

just as long as the Lord gives me good
health and I am able to keep busy and
can keep from becoming grouchy and
a, nuisance to my family and friends,
but no longer.
Perhaps might covet long life like
John D. il were a Millionaire instead
of a hukdredaire," he added in his
characteristic vein of humor.
Mr.. Beck is g. firm believer in the
theory that a person is just as old as
he feels-so, in keeping with this, he
still is quite young. He is at his desk
in the Recorder office daily. In fact
he has missed less than a,sdozen days
work when in town, in the last five
years. He maintains his office hours
regularly, 9 to ~ a. m. and from 2 to
5 p. m, and in addition to keeping up
his end of the editorial page, he does
more or less other writing for the
paper.
In Charge of Editorial Page.
Some years ago Gin 1870 to rid
myself of work and responsibility I
transferred the ownership of the Re-
corder to my son, Will tn and my
daughter, Martha NJ. Beck Mr.. Beck
related. II remain in charge of the one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

trap on No. he lifted a beautiful ball
to within eight feet of the pin. 1t
was a SHOT that onyone would boast of,
and the street railway official climbed
out of the pit with inflated chest.
Mrs. Patten looked at him with dis
gust after her husband had walked
several yards in this bloated manner
and then:
Don't get so chesty. I have taken
several lessons from Mr.. Howard and,
he said the greatest weakness in golf
was the tendency to loft the ball too
high
MORAL: If your wife must take
lessons, give 'em yourself.
Morris Tallman. golf instructor at
the White Marsh Valley Country club.
Philadelphia, was operated on recently
to remove splinters of bone from a
broken nose as result of a blow from
a fair pupils mashie. Tallman was
teaching the young woman to operate
a mashie and he stood too close. She
swung hard, missed the ball, whirled
all the way around by the force she
her instructor on the bridge of the
nose. It never pays to stand too close
lin golf or anything else.
A step that may lead to the entrance
of scores of young golfers to the cham
pionships Of the United States Golf
association has been taken in admit
ting to membership the Lincoln Park
Golf club of Chicago, the first public
links club to be admitted. The West
ern Golf association has long had
many public course clubs as members
and some of the public players have
made excellent showing in champion
ships. Richard Dockenkamp of st.
Louis, for example, having been run
nerup two years ago to Harry Legg for
the western amateur title.
It was largely thru Robert Gardner
of Chicago, a director of the U. S. G.
A, that the Lincoln Park club, which
boasts only a e-hole course, was taken
as a member. Gardner, who has twice
won the national title, has worked for
seme time to obtain the entrance into
championship of some of the clever
players produced on park courses.
t"Chick" Evans, present national
champion, played his first tournament
golf on the public course at Jackson
park, Chicago.
| Nearly all of the many excellent
players of St. Louis have been devei-
oped on the links in Forest park, a
| free course. while championships of
no mean caliber have been held on the
public links of New York, San Fran
| cisco, Chicago and other cities.
The revival of ladies' day at the
| Country club this week brought out a
| large number of the enthusiastic wom-
en- golfers. For several weeks the at
! tendance dropped due to hot weather
and vacations and also due to the APP
parent appropriately of the Scotch q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20
Country club recently but he found his
ball and won the hole.

Country cluD recently Out ne IOuilQ LAS
ball and won the hole.
With a record of twenty victories
out OF the twenty-three matches
played against various combinations
Of American professional and amateur
golfers since their arrival here, George
Duncan and Abe Mitchell. the two
British stars. who have been attract
ing large galleries in the metropolitan
area during the last week, are now on
their way on a trip which viii take
them as far west as Kansas City.
Plans will be made in a few days
for the 1921 Topeka city golf cham
pionShip.
The tournament will be held on the
Shawnee course and all golfers in To-
peka, including persons not belonging
to one of the two private clubsss are
invited to participate.
A joint committee of the Shawnee
and Country clubs will make the ar
rangements under the leadership OF
Chairman Anderson of the Shawnee
club and Chairman Felix of the Coun-
try club. Several prizes and trophies
will be donated by the merchants Of
the city for the events
1t is hoped to have the qualifying
rounds completed by the end of the
first week in September.
DR.. W. K. Hobart of the Country
pionship tournament held at Shawnee
last year.
The city championship is the out
growth of plans made last year by
C. A. Anderson. tourney chairman of
Shawnee.
The Shawnee rough has been cut
following the heavy rains of the last
two weeks and the course is in the
best condition of the season. The
Shawnee fairway this year has been
better than ever before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

ball mixed feuEsemes scheduled for
Monday evenings. With the return to
Tuesday mornings it appears that
ssgolf as she is played" will be wit
messed by many events.
Stanley Copeland, the Country clubs
most brilliant junior golfer. and his
father, E. L. Copeland, the clubs most
consistent senior golfer. have been
matched against each other in several
tight games this week. Each claims
he has the edge on the other-exeept
on "off' days.
"Fudging on his club is getting
great results for J. R. Koontz of the
Country club this season. Koontz is
holds his putter down within ten
inches OF the head.
Erwin Nelson. Country club pro, left
Friday for Cleveland where with his
five professional brothers he will enter
the Western Open championship. Mel
son is the last of the Topeka repre-
sentatives to enter big golf events and
his shooting will be the city's last
chance to bring home some honor
worth while. 1t has been an unfor-
tunate year for the local sweet stick
ers who have given their time and
money to enter championship tourna-
record. If he loses he has an alibi-
he left on a Friday
What has become of the interclub
Scotch 2-ball mixed foursone tourna-
ment? The Shawnee's have their
teams in readiness but the Country
club seems to have weakened.
+ Unfortunate has been the golfer who
has depended upon his roll to carry
him to the green this week. The
soggy fairways have necessitated a
clean carry on all shots-jnst as golf
should be played. The never up,
never in theory has been proven.
There have been many occasions
where brides have earned their per-
petrators no better than halves in golf
matches, but it seldom happens that
they lose holes. But at Minneapolis
recently E. G. Schultz, playing on the
links of the 1nterlachen club, had a
real birdie and yet lost the hole.
Half way down the course his ball
struck and killed a sparrow. He
found the bird but could not locate
his ball, and as result lost the hole
on which the match depended. Gov
ernor Allen killed blac kbird at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

seemed to uncover the Infamous pollen
that floats around this time each sea-
son and irritates the hay fever pa
tients. Several claims can be made for
golf, but it must be admitted that it is
the poorest sport in the world for the
hay victims.
Ed Curry. Shawnee greens chair
man, is playing golf on the Broadmoor
course in Colorado Springs. He writes
Scotch pros here Sunday. They hit
'em mile and Chew about whose
honor just the same as the dubs."
The golf germ is a peculiar acting
bug, says the Minneapolis (Kan.)
Messenger. For example: Young
Dick Rees decided that he would like
to learn the game so he buys a golf
club or two and a few balls and pro-
ceeds to knock the balls around the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20
Has His Father as Partner at
Golf, and Then His Son

Boston, Aug. "a feature Of
father and SON. golf tournament
held at the winchester Country
club recently was the playing of
three generations OF the North fam
lily of wellesley. In the morning
round Howard NJ. North played
with his .es-year-old father, while
in the afternoon flight he had as a
partner his 15-year-old sons The
afternoon round of the North fam
lily was the better by II strokes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20
THE SUPREME TEST

The sultor warmly pressed his suit;
(You know the suit / meanl;
The father listened patiently
His daughter was queen
"How do you know you love my girI7"
Then asked the cautious dad.
The sutton said: I've golfed with her,
And love her still, by Gad"'
1--WE seen it, too" her father cried,
Then meekly bowed his head.
Her one best hole was seventeen
"She's yoursF' the old man said.
Lyrics Of the Links.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

joining the Shawnee course last Sun
day afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20
SHAWNEE COLE CLUE

Location-DIEectly south Highland
Park Take Highland Park street car.
40 acres, 8 holes in use, laid out for IL.
Parse BOgey-42 3,14o Yards
D. W. STUDDARD, Sec. Club phone
& Tel. Blue 2191 us
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

Country club players who complain
because they never receive lost balls
that are found by caddies or players,
NAV place a fire under their anger by
reading this: In the last week Charles
Flanders, Shawnee caretaker, has re-
turned to players 211 lost balls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

DR.. Jimmy Stewart, former Wash
burn football star and previous to the
war a Country club sweet sticker, is
getting back into his game again this
month. His golf is improving weekly,
and by the end of the season he will
be accepting a much lower handicap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

zone thing I will say for Charlie
Mitchell" said Governor Allen the
other day, as he signed up for a
coup1a Spalding SOS, "he is the most
good natured winner I ever saw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

However, there has been a decided
Improvement in the lost and found"
column at the Country club. In the
last two weeks a big increase has been
shown in returned balls. The players,
also, should bear their share of the
blame because they are not observing
etiquette in playing found balls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

The rains of the last tho weeks have
softened the sod on the Shawnee and
Country club courses and new players
especially are asked by the green's
committees to observe more rigidly the
rules concerning the replacement of
torn turf. A cut turf in wet weather
will leave q bad scar in the fairway
when the sun dries the ground again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

Apparently most Topeka golfers are
"hot weather pitchers" Last Sunday
was decidedly cool and the worst
scores in weeks were made at the
Shawnee and Country clubs. Players
turned in SOS who never shoot worse
than As. 1t takes Old Sol to make a
golfer put away his clutches.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

Despite the wave of poor scores the
first two cool days of the week. Fred
Alderman of the Country club Inn
proved his ringer score on two holess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

Pro Nelson, of the Country club,
apparently was exhausted from
hard afternoon one evening this week
and before he drove he simply
dropped his ball on the tee Then,
without a visible effort, he laced it
out across the fairway 225 and $50
yards. 1t was a beautiful exhibition
Of what man can do when he has
confidence in his swing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

What has become of the interclub
Scotch 2-bai1 mixed foursome tourna-
ment? The Shawnee's have their
teams in readiness but the Country
club seems to have weakened.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

"Fudging on his club is getting
great results for J. R. Koontz of the
Country club this season. Koontz is
down on all his sticks. He
holds his putter down within ten
inches OF the head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

There is a movement on foot in
American golf to build fairways in
such a. manner that long distance
players who are inclined to slice will
be penalized for their efforts in
pressing. 1t Is claimed that most
Americans slice because they aspire
distance rather than direction and
trapped fairways catching slices will
cure this pull habit. If this penal
izing hazard plan keeps up golfers
will begin putting their way down the
fairways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

On the tee; Laugh and the world
scowls at you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

The game is getting under the hides
Of the summer tourists. Two cars
from Oklahoma, one from Illinois,
one from Iowa and one from Miami,
Fla. were parked along the roads ad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

In speaking of intercollegiate golf.
James Convention says: "Gone were
the majority of those youths who
went back like streaked lightning and
wound the club around their necks
and finished in much the same way,
rarely knowing where the ball was
going when they hit it,, This depic-
ton of youth in golf should be les
son to older players who seem to
think that their troubles in golf are
due to the fact that they cannot wind
UP like a contortionist when they
swing at the ball. "A controlled club
means a controlled ball.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

A certain unfortunate percentage of
the golf colony of Topeka quit the
game this week until after the initial
frost. Sunday and Monday brought in
several golfers with bleery eyes and
shifting nostrils. The two days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-20

A golfer sat on the Country club
veranda watching a ladies' threesone
coming up on No. g. His wife made
a beautiful approach to the green.
My Gawds she's bettin'" he said.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-03-12

The shooting match between the
Perth Amboy Gun Club and the
Hazlet Gun Club will take place on
the local gun clubs range on upper
Smith street, starting at 1870 this
afternoon.
Adam Shrimpf. the worlds cham
pion indoor trapshooter, VIII shoot
under the colors of the local CLUB,
while Albert L. Wins, of Red Bank.
will shoot for the Hazlet Gun Club.
WINS is the present American out
door handicap champion, and has
twice captured the title.
There will be representatives from
Asbury Park. Red Bank. Keyport.
Freehold, Marlboro and Atlantic
Highlands at the match this after
noon. and the Hazlet Club VIII place
their strongest team in the field.
The match today will decide the
winners of the Chamber of COM
merce Cup, the high score cup and
the club cup among the members OF
the local organization. The contest
for these cups has been going on dur
ing 1920, and it was decided to have
the final shoot for the cups today.
The average attained by the local
members today will be added to the
scores they have on record at pres
ent.
The match today is the first leg of
the meeting between the two teams,
and on next Saturday the Perth AM
boy Gun Club will travel to Hazlet'