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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-10-19
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RUDE RURAL RHYMES
Plumbing

Plumbing
o brothers when | start to eat
want no flies upon my meat but when
| hear the critters humming and see
some forty 'leven coming, I'm glad
live where folks have plumbing. A
fly is never clean and neat; he may
have garbage on his feet. In country
homes cen in this new age he often
carries germs and sewage. O let US
rise and give our thanks to him who
first made septic tanks. How dear to
my heart is "A cool drink Of water,
poured by some farmers charming
daughter. While gazing on that glow
ing cheek, Of germs how can | think
or speak? (But if | drink can | avoid
the lurking dangers OF typhoid0
| fear that | must delay the draught
that | may look before and aft, survey
the landscape near and far and see
where certain buildings are; then, not
ng slope OF hill and plain, determine
where those buildings drain. And even
if a glance should show the well above,
all else below, some ~excavating should
be lone to see how straight the strata
run. Perhaps they dip, perhaps they
bend, perhaps in that old well they
end. And so. sweet Hebe, don't you
think you really ought to boil my
drink? Though dear to my heart is
the old oaken bucket, the old leather
sucker or chain on a sprocket, view
the same with grave alarm at many a
home. on many a farm. | do not like
that buildings style, let's move it back
a half a mile; or, better still, let's join
the ranks OF those who have good sep
tic tanks. BOB ADAMS
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-10-19
NO NEWSPApERS-No BUSINESS

Flandreau Enterprise 49, On Thurs
day the editors Of the Tri-State Ed
itorial Association who were guests OF
the air association visited the million
dollar stock exhibit put on by stock
men OF the three states. One OF the
young animals exhibited by the Boys
and Girls clubs Of Woodbury. county
in which Sioux City is located, was
purchased by Davidson Bros. big de-
partment store for $3.50, or soc per
pound. At the meeting held in the
evening Ben Davidson told the editors
he bought the animal for advertising
purposes. The firm spends $780, 600
every year with the two papers in
Sioux City and in his talk on advertis-
ing said: Advertising does lot cost,
it pays" why" said he, my com
petitor paid only II cents per pound
for a baby beef, but no one will know
anything about 1t. Everybody will
know hat Ben Davidson paid so cents
per pound for his baby beef. This is
supplementary advertising. My news
paper friends have made Davidson
Bros store all it is, because they are
the best boosters any business firm
can have, whether in Sioux City or In
the small country hamlet. | couldn't
think Of doing business without the
newspapers"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-10-19

Five O'clock Teas-Mrs. Carey w.
the hostesses at two delightful tea
parties given last week on Thursday
and Friday at the home OF Mrs. Smith,
715 Williams street. Twenty-four in
vited guests were entertained each
day. Pink roses and snap dragons
we're used in a decorative way
throughout the rooms and pink roses
graced the center of a large table.
Tiny lighted pink candles in crystal
sticks rested on hand painted doilies
and dainty place cards marked each
place. Mrs. Robert Henry of Volga,
was an out Of town guest on Thursday.
Miss Byrne Smith, Miss Garland Jonn-
son and Lucille Hauff assisted in the
serving.
Canned Fruit Shower-Miss Ruth
Titmarsh was the honor guest at a
delightful 5 o'clock tea on Friday Civ
en- by Mrs. w. p. Beard and Mrs. T.
Fl. Wright at the home Of Mrs. w. p.
Beard. SPA Eighth Street. There were
twenty-four invited guests. The room
were nicely decorated, the color
scheme being in yellow. Yellow can
dies in crystal sticks were artistically
displayed and in the center of a large
table was a cut glass bowl of tiny
yellow chrysanthemums, candles and
ferns. Place cards and nut cups
marked the individual places and tea
was served in three courses. Follow
ing the service, Master Powers Beard
and Thomas Wright, Jr. hauled in a
decorated wagon loaded with all kinds
of canned fruits, jells and pickles, a
present to Miss Titmarsh.
Miscellaneous Shower-Mrs. Wallace
e. Purdy and Miss Louise Leaton an.
tertained fifteen guests at the home
of Mrs. Purdy, S24 Ninth street. at s
o'clock Monday evening in honor of
Miss Ruth Titmarsh. The guests
guests spent the time In hemming
dish towels and dust cloths and during
the evening Betty Purdy. dressed as a
bride, pushed In a decorated doll car
riage to the strains of a wedding
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PRACTICAL USE OF RADIO

So important has become the tlans
telephone that the Bureau of AgriCul
tural Economics OF the Department
Of Agriculture is undertaking tc
standardize the methods Of broadcast
ing this information. 1t is felt by
governmental experts that it IL high
ly necessary to develop broadcast fea
lures for farmers hat will be exactly
suited to their needs. The present
haphazard growth while far in ad
vance OF anything heretofore known,
is see as but the beginning of the
radio telephones service to agricul
ture.
Fortunately for the farmer, stand.
ardization OF farm programs is quite
possible, as each section Of the coun.
try Is usually interested only in Ger.
tain things. The grain states, for in
stance need to got the Chicago grain
quotations as soon as possible, and
also any advice and suggestion that
can be given on the cultivation OF
wheat, oats and similar crops. The
dairy country wants to know what
milk and butter and cream are selling
for, and how to take care of cows and
increase their production OF milk.
Maine, being potato and lumber ter
ritory, wants potato prices and hints
on growing, and lumber quotations.
So it goes in the different sections.
All want weather warnings, for the
farmer, more than any other man ex-
cept the sea captain, is at the mercy
of the weather. He can be ruined in
a few hours by an unexpected storm.
Here is where radio is performing
one of it's most valuable services. for
it affords instant distribution OF storm
warnings, sometimes "a hours in adj
vance Of the mails.
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Among the strangest of all para
doxes is the fact that Brookings coun
ty, leading as it does, the rest of the
state in modern agriculture, and hav-
ing the state college Of agriculture and
extension division located within it's
borders, it still does not appropriate a
small sum annually which Is required
to obtain full benefit of this splendid
work in agricultural extension. Forty
six other counties in the state approp-
riate this money, which for
the farmers the services Of a county
agent and the cooperation of the ex-
tension division along with a good
sized fund from the government. The
county commissioners usually make
this appropriation without question:
but In this county 1t is usually put up
to the voters at election. We hope
that the proposition will be carried by
a large majority this fall so that 1t
may be known that Brookings county
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CHURCH NOTES

The items in this column are furnished
the Register by the press corresponding
o.. he various churches and societies. All
rhurches and societies have the same privi-
leses ia the use Of this column.
First Presbyterian Church - Ser
vices morning and evening Morning
service at 1870, evening service at
1.30. Rev. V. A. Woodwork will oc-
cupy the pulpit. Everybody cordially
invited to attend these services.
First Church of Christ Scientist
Corner Of 9th st. and 9Th Ave. Ser
vices are held here every Sunday at
.1l.0e q. IN. Subject for lex Sunday
is. @"Probation After Death" Sunday
school is held at 9:45 a. m. Mid
week service is held at 8 o'clock.
There is also a reading room in this
building which is open every Wednes-
day from = 10 t o'clock. Here all au-
th0rized literature may be read or
purchased. All are invited to attend
these services and to visit the reading
room. Friday, oct. 27th at Sis p. m.
there Will be a lecture delivered by
DR.. John VI. Tut, Of Kansas City, Mo.
at church ediice. All are invited.
ST. Paul's Episcopal Church-Next
Sunday, 18th after Trinity, Oct.22.
$50 a.. m. Holy Communion. 9:45 a.
m. Church school, 1O:45 a. m. Morn
ing prayer and sermon. 500 p. m,
St. Paul's Society, S. ID. S. c. 7:30
p. m. evening prayer and sermon.
LIST Lutheran Church-Services Sun
day, October %. 9:45 Sunday school
and Bible classes. 10:45 morning ser
vices Norwegian. $50 Luther league
study hour. 7:30 evening services.
You are cordially invited.
Baptist Church-The Rally services
were well attended last Sunday, speak
ing we'll for the outlook this coming
fall and winter. Let all help make
the coming Sunday as good. Morn
ing worship at 1920 with sermon by
the pastor. Bible school at noon
Prof. C~hristensen's orchestra will
play. The b. Y. =. L. which meets at
$50 is having a fine growth. The
evening sermon will be the second
in the serits on Fine Arts" the theme
being, The Fine Art Of Keeping Your
Tongue" and not gosslping and sland-
ering. A large audience was present
last Sunday for the first Of the series.
The splendid chorus choir under the
leadership Of Miss Bvrne Smith will
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Ontario now owns and operates a
hydro,electric system valued at $22O,-
100000 that has brought the cost Of
electricity down to 2 cents a kilowatt
hour. The average in South Dakota
is about - cents. The Ontario sys-
tenn has not cost the people II pen
ny in taxes. The rates are so ad-
justed that the system pays for itself
as it grows. And this is the system
that is proposed to start developing
in South Dakota by Initiated Law No.
|, at the coming election.
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A general feeling of citation over
the state Will follow the announce
ment Of the return Of Christian Larsen
to South Dakota and his appointment
as the first dean Of agriculture at
State college. Professor Larsen has
come to be one OF the leading figures
in American agriculture and he has
still the most productive years of his
life before him. South Dakota is for
tunate in having him come back to
direct the great agricultural work Of
the college.
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social time in honor Of Miss Ruth
Titmarsh. The guessing contest was
won by Mrs. Ruth Bibby and a shower
Of kitchen utensils was made upon
Miss Titmarsh. Dainty refreshments
were served during the evening. The
rooms were nicely decorated with bou-
Duets Of chrysanthemums.
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endorses the work of State college and
organized agriculture and the great
Farm Bureau movement toward prof
liable farming.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-10-19

Adding machines will be in demand
Hobo Day for two purposes; to count
up the thousands Of visitors and to add
up the score which State vii! make
against the University.
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According to the report Of the in.
ternal revenue department there were
80 persons in 1920 who had incomes of
one million dollars or more. Nineteen
OF these had incomes below $1,5OO,O 600.
the other 1t went farther up the scale,
No one from South Dakota was in this
class but there were two from Illinois
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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
CIVIC AND COMMUNITY
CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS
(ContInuen from Page One.)

(ContInuen from Page One.) Re-
under the supervision of Mrs. John
Claffy, which was given by Mes
}. F. Burke, F. S. Arnold, B. M.
Gle, K. l.. Given, E. H Denu, W.
j. Bulge and John Claffy, all parts
being exceptionally we'll taken, and
affording much enjoyment The
scene was laid at the home of the
president, Mrs. Burke, the members
arriving at different times and be-
ing received by the hostess, some Of
whom evidently came to have a
good time rather than get the good
from the lesson. The teacher had
much trouble in securing the at
tcntion of the members to the read
ing Of one of Emerson's essays,
and throughout the reading differ
ent parts were discussed and differ
cnt interpretation given. The pres
ident evidently thought her efforts
were unappreciated for after the
members had departed for their
various homes, she stated "she CUES
sed she would go to read it to her
maid for she seemed to enjoy it"
After the program, AFTERNOON tea
was served.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08

First Train Into the Ozark.

When the White River branch of the
Missouri Pacific railroad was built
down through the Ozarks, the popula-
ton had never seen a railroad train.
The platform was crowded, and many
women were there with their sun
shades.
The engineer made lot of unnec-
essary snortings with his engine and
would reverse the throttle, causing the
wheels to spin around, which terrified
the people. Then he turned on the
side valves, blowing out great jets OF
steam, and the people almost fell over
themselves to back out of the way.
Finally the engineer stuck his head
out of the cab window and sang out:
If some Of you ladies don't put down
your parasols don't believe l can
handle this critter much longer" -,
In three seconds every woman low
cred her parasol, and they seemed
much relieved when the engineer got
his train in motion without further
trouble and went numbering away
down the track.-Columbus (Kan.) Ad-
vOcate.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08

II am SO happy over what Tan
lac has done for me l can hardly
find words to express my praise"
said Miss Marguerite K. O'Leary,
who lives with her parents at 1928
Chestnut St., Reading, Pa. II
wasn't exactly what would be call
ed sick, but for year l had been
all run down and sometimes felt
so weak and miserable l could
hardly hold up my head. l was so
nervous the telephone bell or a
door closing would startle me so I
would tremble like leaf.
81 needed some thing to build me
up and give me strength and en-
ergy, and that is exactly what
Tanlac did. 1t gave me fine APP
petite and improved my digestion.
gained eight pounds, the color
came back to- my face, my nerves
became normal and l soon felt as
we'll as l ever did in my life. 1t is
simply wonderful that medicine
could make such a big change in
any one. My friends and neigh
bors are surprised when they see
me now, and no wonder, for
look like a different person. Tan
lac is grand and l never intend to
miss a chance to say a good word
about it."
Tanlac is sold by all good drug
Observation-Disclosures.
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KANGAROO A NATURAL BOXER
Youngsters Are Taught by Their Par
ents and Acquire a Really High
Degree Of Efficiency.

KangarOos are natural boxers. The
younger kangaroo is taught to de-
fend himself in this way as soon as
he is old enough to hop about. Nat
uralists who have watched the ami
mails in their native surroundings say
it is very funny to see the mother
giving the youngster his first boxing
lessons. Afterward the father takes
up the teaching, and with much gentle
ness and patience trains him to box.
When kangaroOs box they back or
and rush in and prance about very
skilfully. Each one watches for an
opportunity to strike, and at the same
time tries to prevent the other
from striking. They cleverly try to
move about so as to get the enemy
below them on the slope Of hill.
The resounding blows they give with
their hind feet can be heard far away.
The kangaroo fights like gentle
man. He is good sportsman, even
when he is fighting with his enemy.
The animals strike with the flat OF the
foot, and never use against eacl
other their terrible ripping claws.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
Violin Strings.

Each string in violin is Of a diff
erent thickness, according to the tone
and tension required. The fourth
string is covered with ane wire, either
a white, metal or real silver, hence
it is often called the "silver string
Violas, violoncellos and double-basses
have each two covered strings, the
object being to insure a sufficient
gravity Of tone without having toe
clumsy q material. The covered
strings on the guitar are upon basis
Of silk instead Of catgut. The best
gut comes from Italy, which has been
famous for centuries for this prod
uct. Strings are carefully selected and
graded as to size SO that they shall be
uniform. The larger strings for the
bigger instruments. are stretched on
frames for three or four days. The
covered strings are finished on spe'
cial lathe which covers them with
floss silk or fine silver-plated copper
wire, or even silver. 49,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
MAY IMPORT ENGLISH IDEA
American Railroads Likely to Adopt
the System Of Articulated Trains
In Use There.

Articulated railroad trains devised to
lessen the passenger rolling stock ana
increase the capacity are those IN
which the ends Of adjoining cars are
carried on a single truck. They have
been used in England for several years.
The cars are permanently coupled
together. Each train, says the Scien-
tific American, whether of two, or five,
or ten cars, forms unit, the trucks
Of which are SO disposed that the dis
tances between their centers through
out the train are all equal. Trucks
are placed under the outer ends OF
each train, the other trucks being
placed under the adjacent ends Of the
car bodies forming the system. SetA
Of five bodies on six trucks have been
running for many, years on the Great
Northern; and there Is no construc-
tional reason or any other apparent
reason why trains consisting of 10 or
Is such cars should not be built, where
the traffic calls for the use Of larger
units.
There are four principal advantages
which have been proved in the expert
ence Of the company, with these trains.
1, reduced first cost 2, reduced weight;
3, reduced running cost; A, improved
riding of. cars The last is due to the
fact that there is no overhang Of the
bodies beyond the trucks, and that the
adjacent ends of the bodies are car
wed on q common. truck center.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
HAD THE LAUGH ON TEACHER
Instructrees Called for Examples, and
Tommy Was the Boy Who
Could Furnish Them. :. ,

There has never been any love lost
between Tommy and his teacher. Tom
my thinks the teacher is a severe and
occasionally unjust person, who has
never known what it is to be young,
while the teacher considers the little
chap both stupid and mischievous.
"You are not attending to what /
say, Thomas" said the teacher one day
in the midst Of an address to her
class.
''Yes, teacher, u.s." said Tommy
with much earnestness.
:'You should never say I is" cor
rected the teacher II have told you
that hundred times. You know the
correct form. There are no excep-
tons to Its use. Give me two ex-
amples at once!"
Eyes, ma'am," said Tommy, meekly.
II am one Of the letters Of the alpha
bet. 1 am a pronoun. "-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
RainboWs Shaken.

It is usually supposed that the down
pour of rain that sometimes follows a
flash of lightning is due to the Goa.
lesence Of fine drops on losing their
electrical charge, but Finnish OBJ
server concludes that the thunder jars
the drops together. Near Vasa heavy
thunderstorm came up from the east
late one afternoon. and, as the sun
was unclouded, brilliant double rain
bow appeared in the east for half an
hour, arching from horizon to. horizon.
At each roll Of thunder the rainboWs
seemed to be much shaken; the wedge
being displaced and the colors blurred.
This could not be due to the lightning,
and it seemed that the same cause
might enlarge the raindrops and dis
turb the rainbow.
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Hard on 8ores.

"Arthur J. Balfour," said a mem
Der of the British embassy, 'is a fas-
cinating person-he fascinated every
body he met here In Washington-bur
you've got to admit that he's hard on
bOres.
"Mr. Balfour came out Of his big
yellow house in Carlton House terrace
one day, and before he could get into
his motor car bore held him up.
"The bore talked to him about Ire
land and Ulster for 20 minutes in one
blue streak and then, when, he paused
for breath, Mr.: Balfour said:
"'Yes, there are no omelets like the
omelets you get at Clarldge's.'
"'Perhaps, perhaps said the bore,
but what has that got to do with
what I've been talking aboutf
'Mr. Balfour yawned behind his
long, thin hand.
"'By the way he said, what were
you talking about?"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
Clever Mininu Method.

The increasing depth to which 1t is
necessary to 60 in following the vein
Of kaoline, or potters' clay, mined near
the Housatonic river in Connecti-
cut, sOme time ago caused the intro
duction Of a novel method OK min
ing. Wells from so to nearly 100
feet in depth are driven and two pipes,
the outer four inches and the inner
two inches in diameter, are introduced.
Water ut a pressure of 40 pounds a
square inch is forced down through the
smaller pipe and rises through the
larger one, bringing with it about 3
per cent solid matter, Of which 70 par
cent is pure ka0lin.
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Remarkable Old Beliefs.

Since the age of legend, thunder
and lightning making has always been
made the final proof of the supernat-
ural. Thor and his huge hammer,
which accounted for the thunder to
the old Norsemen, and Joye or Jupiter,
who hurled his lightning and thun-
der in anger and thus explained this
natural phenomenon to the old Greeks
and Romans, are only two of the
hundreds of instances in ancient be-
In later: times the brand of magi-
clan and eyil-doer was put upon many
alchemists, with ,rnpors that splitting
tongues Of fire and crashes Of thunder
were seen and heard in their labora-
torres. !:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
CITY BASEBALL TEAM
WINS OPENING GAME
(Continued From Page ~

enbach take rest at third:
Carlow took the mound for the
Original Americans" in the place of
Art Scarbo in the seventh and had the
boys guessing for the balance of the
game. i.
Hubbard allowed six hits, and
Scarbo allowed eight, while six er-
rors were chalked up to the Cass
Lakers and only two could be found
against the coming champions. .
Hubbard pulled off two grand
stand catches while he was working
inS7the center garden. x
Ed Bleickner for Bemidji and
"Smith" for Cass Lake umpired to
the satisfaction Of the majority Of
the fans, 49,. - .
Bleachers are to be constructed
for the benefit of those fans who
like to- stay out in the sunshine,
thereby keeping the crowd farther
away from the base lines where they
will not interfere with the players.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-05-08
The Oriuinal Feminine.

Adam came walking up the path
with his pet dinosaurs.
Hubby" said Eve, wlstfully, "shin-
ny up that tree and get me the gold
and purple leaf on the top bough.'
"Eve, for heavens sake, away up
there? Why, I'd fall and break
MY"
Never mind that, Adam, you shin
ny! I'm going over to Nod to n card
party this afternoon and I've got to
show some class to that bunch Of
stuck-up hens!'
And so. setting the example for ali
time, Adam took chance and slim
MED up.-Richmond Times Dispatch.