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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
Chinese Carry Stoves.

Chinese women wear practically the
same clothes in winter as in summer.
In the most severe weather, however,
they wear heating baskets under their
cloaks.
These baskets are plain wicker ones,
such as we use for trash. Inside the
baskets charcoal warmers are placed.
They will radiate heat for hours. The
charcoal is mixed with chemicals that
generate oxygen, and thus the char
coal will burn constantly even though
II Is sealed In the containers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04

pronounced. Even the trees seemed
larger and more majestic, and the
glimpses of the wild people were
more frequent. The birds stopped
their rattle-brained conversation and
stared at him with frank curiosity.
The grouse let him get closer before
they took to cover
The hours passed. The trail grew
DINNER. Now ii was just a brown
serpent In the pine needles, coiling
this way and that-but he loved every
foot of 1t. 1t dipped down to a little
stream, Of which the blasting sun of
summer had made only a succession
OF shallow pools. Yet the water was
cold to his lips. And he knew that
little brook trout-waiting until the
fall rains should make a torrent Of
their tiny stream and thus deliver
them-were gazing at him while he
drank.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
STARRING MAKES REPORT

: For every dollar South Dakota mem
bers have put into the Farm Bureau
they have received at least fifty dol
lars value in return, either directly or
indirectly, asserted Geo. A. Starring,
secretary, in his annual report at the
South Dakota Farm Bureau federation
convention at Huron yesterday morn
ing.
Mr.. Starring supported this state
ment by outlining the work of the
state office in making surveys owe
ing supply and demand for South Da-
helping to create a demand for them
in other states; covering supply and
demand of farm laborers and helping
to standardize wages; civering infor-
nation needed by the state and nation
al offices and railway commission for
hearings; in assisting with the estab-
lishment of cooperative marketing; in
its car service work for grain and live
stock shippers; in it's claims depart
ment; in it's elaborate information ser
vice for members and community chair
men, and other services which are un-
der way to help put agriculture on its
feet as a going business concern.
The work Of many county farm bu-
reaus was praised by Mr.. Starring as
being of the highest type. BY local
organization and through the services
of county agents, livestock diseases
have been either prevented or brought
under control; formers had been in
duced to experiment with improved
crop varieties and to use pure seeds
and pure bred breeding stock to their
greater profit; destructive plant dis
eases had been studied and checked,
and a new impetus in agriculture for
the coming generation had been in
stilled into the youth Of the country
through boys and girls clubs. These
local programs of work to gether with
the keen interest in home demonstra-
ton work Omang women and the or
ganization of township and community
farm bureaus has been breathing a new
spirit of encouragement and self help
into rural districts, he said, and are
impossible to measure in dollars and
cents.
Mr.. Starring reviewed the finances
Of the organization for the year and
: showed that it is now out of debt and
with a 60 per cent greater paid up
membership to thu 'Inerican Farm Blu
eau federation than in 1921. He said
that this record was made possible
by reducing operating expenses to the
extreme limit and at the same time
continuing the necessary features of
the work. He recommended increasing
the fee to the state office so that the
state could enlarge the cooperative
marketing program in line with that
adopted at the recent national conven-
ton.
In commenting upon the excellent
accorded to the Farm Bureau by the
press, Mr.. Starrink asserted that this
resulted from the Farm Bureau policy
of giving the press news, not propa-
ganda, and of playing fair with the
public and other farm organizations.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04

Il can imagine the rest" said James
worthy. you don't need TO hand out
the sickening details. A gang of old
beldames will come to our place, for
instance, and pull about five cents
worth Of dandelions and then sit and
have a photographer make a large pic
ture of them; after which they'll eat
two dollars and eighty cents worth Of
ice cream, and a lot of sponge cake
and anything you happen to have in
the refrigerator. One of the beldameS
will be appointed a committee to write
up the affair for the newspapers, and
Mrs. Sidewinder will see that she gets
most of the glory as the originator Of
the scheme, and next spring her hus-
band will be running for alderman On
the strength of it.
Nowadays the women never get
down to brass tacks and do real work.
They must make a society function out
Of every little chOre they 10. They
won't carry a dead cat out of the front
yard unless there's a photographer on
hand to make a group picture Of it.
If work can be reorganized SO it looks
like a game they will be Industrious
enough, otherwise they strike and send
communications to the newspapers ex-
planning that no woman should permit
herself to be a drudge.
zone able-bodied man will destroy
more dandelions in half a day than IS
WOine will in three weeks. The man
takes off his coat and gets down on his
marrOwbOnes and pulls dandelions. The
IS women lean against trees and fan
themselves with japanese fans, and
try to look like so many Mar Ander-
sons, and wish there was somebody
around to set them to music.
women are becoming more and
more an expensive luxury since they
organized themselves into clubs. | nave
nothing to say against the club idea in
itself, Mrs. Jamesworthy. l want to
see the females have as good a time
as they can, within reasonable limits.
The men belong TO clubs and lodges,
too, but they have halls in which to
hold their meetings.
The women wouldn't enjoy holding
a meeting in a hall. They have to as
Semble in the home of one of their suf-
fering sisters, so they can size up the
furniture and fittings, and be able to
say, when they go away, that they
never saw such eXecrable taste. And
the suffering sister sees that her home
is q frost, and she makes up her mind
to give her heart-Sick husband no rest
until he has chartered d string Of
painters and paper-hangers, decorators
and GLACIERS.
Tut this isn't the worst of it. The
suffering sister who entertains the club
is expected to set up refreshments, and
she feels it her duty, as a good sport,
to furnish the best the market affords
The last time the ladies of the Busy
Bunch club met at this house you
bought all the strawberries in town,
and at that period strawberries were
shipped in from points 5000 miles
away, and when the bill came in, at
the end of the month, l had a stroke OF
paralysis and III attack of paresiS. III
you get up a dandelion party you will
want to buy Out the leading confec-
tiouer. So I'll advertise for a man to
come and do the job"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER AT the death Of his foster
father, Bruce Duncan, In an eastern city,
receiver a mysterious message, sent by a
Mrs. Ross. summOning him peremptorily to
southern Oregon-tO meet Linda.
CHAPTER II-Bruce has vivid but baf-
fling recolectlons OF his childhood in an or
phanage, before his adoption by Newton
Duncan. with the girl Linda.
III.-At his destination, Trails
End, news that a message has been sent
TO Bruce Is received with merked displeasure
by a man introduced to the reader as
simon"
CHAPTER IN.-LeavIng the train, Bruce
Is astonished at his apperent familiarity
with the surroundings. though to his know
ledge he has never been there.
CHAPTER V-Obedient to the message.
Bruce makes his way to Martins cross
Ross cabin.
CHAPTER VI.-On the way, simon"
sternly warns him to give up his quest and
return East. Bruce refuses.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
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 Educs.
ion
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04

worked together
at them. Things
that are tedious
when one does
them alone, are
interesting when
done by a crowd.
She pointed out
that the dande-
lions are becoln-
ing a terrible
pest, running most
of the lawns in
towns, and sug-
gested that the
women hold dan
deliOn PARTIES"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
K WORK EASY

GGNE RS. SIDEWINDER made a
1v1 sensible talk at our club meet
ing yesterday" explained Mrs. James
worthy. "She said there are many
disagreeable tasks which might be
made easy and pleasant If women
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04
BIRDS y VIEW OF BROOKINGs

One Florist
Two Bands
Two Hotels
Ten churches
Five dentists
Candy kitchen
Good creamery
Steam laundry
one ice plant
Two oSteopatns
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
rive 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
Sl25, 600 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 line Shops
Two Department stores
Four Blacksmith S shops
Four Exclusive Groceries
city of Beautiful Homes
Two Shoe Repair Shops
Best Schools In the State
Good Water n a Surface
Six Miles OF Paved Streets
Marble n d Granite Works
ID a k o a Deaconess Hospital
Five Auto Livery Stations
1 hree Photograph Galleries
One Exclusive s shine Pariot
one Gents Furnishing Store
One Cement BLOCK Factory
one Tea and Coffee House
$4,000 Government Bull d n
TWO Electric Supply Houses
TWO Battery supply Stations
one Harness and Repair Shop
state Circuit Court held here
$4,000 Brick SchL) Building
three MoTing Picture Theatres
s250,OOO High s c h o o Building
Two Exclusive Clothing store
I IL n "A n Adjustment Company
Forty-ftve II hundred Inhabitants
EDUCATIONAL Center OF the State
1.4OO students in state College
county S seat of Bookings County
United states Experiment Station
rive Rural Free Delivery Routes
Free Delivery Service OF City Mail
High School on the Accredited List
over $1,000. 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 Churches
New 100000 Armory at state College
Exclusive Ladies' Furnishing Store
New s~l25,O0o Girls DormitoTy at state
'ollege
Two Exclusive Dry Goods and Ladies' Fur.
fishing Store.
Good Volunteer Fire Department with
iotor Equipment.
Bookings Produce Co, Cash Market for
All Farm Products.
South Dakota State College Of Agriculture
nd Mechanic Arts.
Brictson Manufacturing Company. makers
f the Brictson Tire Tread.
New, 5000. 900 administration Building at
'outh Dakota state College.
surrounded by the Best Farming Land in
he state, Where Crops are Sure and Bonn
ifuI.
Municipality owned Telephone. Electric
1lght, Heating and Water Works Plants.
strong Commercial Club with 200 Mem
in Good Standing. Fine Club Rooms.
Brookings is Located on the Main Line OF
he G, X NV. Ry. from Chicago to Pierre,
he Capital OF the State. Also Hea6uuarters
or Train Crews Running North to Warer
own and on to RedfeId and Gettysburg.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1923-01-04

over two hundred New Dwellings Built
during the past three years. Besides many
Business Blocks and other Substantial I'm
Beautiful trees q line the streets and the
City presents a fine appearance, matted an
it is in the midst of a fine growth of shade
and ornamental trees. Her citizens are will
ing and ready 10 encourage and assist every
helpful industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
PRISON CONDITIONS OF SOUTH CAROLINA IS ATTACKED IN REPORT

COLUMBIA, $. C., March 2.-(By Associated ress.)-Assertions that practically the entire plant of the South Carolina state prison should be rebuilt, that the riot of May, 1922 was caused by unnecessarily harsh punishments and demand that cor poral punishment at the prison be stopped immediately, featured the re- port to the South Carolina general assembly today at the joint legisla tive committee appointed to inquire into conditions at the prison.
 The report declared that testimony taken at it's hearings showed that men and negro women are flogged at the prison, that in spite of the asser- tions that the floggings were not se- were there was testimony that one woman spit blood after being flcgged and was still unable to work and that men lost consciousness under the lash.
 The riot of last May in which one prisoner was killed and a number wounded when guards fired into crowd of men at the prison here "un- der properly disciplined force," could have been handled without promiscuous firing into crowd of, for the most part, unarmed prison ers," the investigators declared in their report
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
N HT%SSaIaGI occuPI66 sEc71oH =c7T9S
 RECALLS DAYS OF WAR

ESSEN. March 2.-tBy Associated Press .)-Ingenious tricks to camou- flage wire tapping. night raids and other schemes designed to deceive the enemy" have been resorted to by one side or the other in the Ruhr struggle. recalling the experiences of the World war.
 serious case of telegraph wire tapping was reported today with the arrest of Brigadier General Rock of the security police force in Essen. The French authorities accuse the general of having arranged 'llsten- ing in' apparatus and which con nected with the military lines. Of lenses of this kind are classified under the heading of espionage, con viction being punishable with death. Koch will be tried by court martial.
 <Early morning raids" by French troops to gain possession of German rolling stock are bringing excellent results in many instances. In rail- road yards at Hamborn. west of Els sen, French soldiers have seized so cars of coke, 15 of coal, 10 of metal products. and two locomotives. When seized the cars were made into two trains. The locomotives were get ting up steam while the trainmen were preparing to make dash to run the French blockade into un- occupied Germany, but the plan was frustrated by the French.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
TWELVE ARMY PLANES ARE READY FOR TRIP

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March D. Twelve army aviators are ready to leave Kelly field at z o'clock to- morrow on a trip of 2,S50 miles for Porto Rico. Unsettled weather late today threatened to spoil their plans, as rain during the night would make the field so heavy that the six Dehaviland planes would be unable to take the air.
 Should this condition arise or a fog settle on the field the hop-off would be postponed. officials said tonight. The weather bureau has forecast good weather but the un- settled weather of the past three weeks has, the officials say, made a forecast rather difficult.
 Each plane will take the air sepa- rately, and headed by Captain Thom- as G. Lanphier of Post field. Fort Sill, Okla, will spread out in the shape of huge "V." A stop will be made at Houston, after which the planes will go to New Orleans. where the night will be spent.
 Trial flights were taken today and little trouble Is expected. According to Captain Lanphier, every precau- ton has been taken to meet any emergency. The planes will carry parts of equipment which will enable them to make repairs should the oc- casion arise. Gasoline and oil for the ships have been provided at each station along the route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
COTTON MILLS RULES IS CHIEF QUESTION BEFORE CONFERENCE


 NEW ORLEANS. March 2.-Sug- gested revision of the rules of Caro- lima mills and handling of cotton and their relations with the sellers and -ecision where practical to make the regulations of the two organiza- tions uniform formed the principal subjects before the final session of the national cotton conference here today.
 It was decided at the closing meet ing to leave all questions discussed at the conference in the hands of q committee to be appointed by E. s. Butler, president of the New Or leans Cotton Exchange who was selected yesterday as president of the committee. The committee will con- duct negotiations of the two organ izations and take up other questions brought before' the conference.
 It was also decided to hold another conference of the various interests in New York at date to be an- nounced later.
 A resolution declares the ravages of the pest had cost the south bil- lion dollars in the last three years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
RESIDENCE BUILDING.
 PERMITS TO TOTAL OF. $39, 500 ARE ISSUED

Residence and building permits took a jump in the building inspec- tors department Friday when one building costing s12,oO0 was author ized and permits were granted for Is residences aggregating s39.500. Two or the residence permits were for apartment houses. one costing $S,o0o, to be erected between Ninth and Tenth avenues and Twenty fourth street, north. and tho other for $S, 900 to be erected at 1922 Twenty first street, south.
 The permits issued during the day were: Mrs. Henry B. Gray, 1922 Twenty-first street, south, apartment, sS,00o; c. H. Rector, Beech street and Bradley avenue, residence, $1,200; Isaac Sarote. Walker street and Lucy avenue, six permits for residences, costing $700 each; J. A. Brown Cherry street and Bessemer boule- 1707 Second avenue, residence, $3 3,000; J. W. Bailey, Ninth avenue and Forty-second street. residence, s2,000; F. L, Clarke, Burgin and Oak street, residence. S1,S00; F. l.. Clarke, 331 Kennilworth avenue. residence, S1,600; w. D. Langston, Twenty enth street and Avenue G, residence, S2,700; Dairymen's corporation, creamery, Twenty eighth street and Seventh avenue. $12,000; c. M. Cra- vella, Ninth avenue and Twenty fourth street, apartment, S8,000, and Birming ham Realty company, Eff teenth avenue and Twenty ninth street, residence, S4,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
ID SEEK FREEDOM
 IF TALLADEG MAN HELD FUR KILLING
Habeas Corpus Writ to Be Asked by Attorney Unless Fincher Is Arraigned
 Before Court

Unless Gordon Tincher, Tallladega county farmer, charged with staying Maybelle Mccullough, 16-5ear-old girl of Lincoln, Ala, is given pre- liminary hearing immediately, a peti- tion for writ of habeas corpus will be invoked in an effort to release Finche- from custody on bond, his attorney, Ross Blackmon of Anniston. announced Friday, following a con- ference with the accused man in the county Jail, where he is being held for safekeeping. Blackmon came to Birmingham Friday with Finchers father, j. B. Fincher.
 Mir. Blackmon was closeted with his client at the county jail most of the day. At the close of the consulra ton he declared that F'incher would not enter plea of insanity, but would plead not guilty. The indifferent and incomprehen sive deneanor maintained by Fincher since his arrest was missing Friday as he conferred with his attorney and his father. He appeared calm. talked coherently and answered questions intelligcntly.
 T am not guilty" he asserted. q had known Maybelle all her life and was in the searching party that found her body. l was the first one to tell where she might be found by telling of the last time l had seen here. The crime was committed on the most public part of the road. and 1 surely would not have chosen such a place. Explains Blood Stains.
 Fincher explained blood stains on leggings found at his home after the crime was committed. These leg gings are considered an important clue by officers working on the case. Fincher said he had been cutting wood with his father a few days be- fore the Mccullough girl was killed and that while doing this hurt his hand. Blood from his hand dripped on the leggings, he said.
 It is expected that efforts will be made o give Fincher preliminary hearing at an early date. Judge Ma rion Sims of Talladega will be as- sociated with MT. Blackmon in the defense.
 The crime with which Fincher is charged was committed early in Feb- ruary. The Mccullough girl was assaulted. killed and her body thrown ill a stump hole in woods near her home Tt Lincoln. Fincher was ar rested in connection with the staying several days later. At the time of his arrest le admitted having talked with the girl on the day of her dis appearance, but denied all knowledge of the killing.
 Fineher was first placed In the TalladeSa county jail. but feeling ran high, mob violence was threatened, and he was removed to the Jefferson county jail for safekeeping. Since being in jail in Birmingham he has made statements to Solicitor Jim Davis. ceiterating his assertion that he is innocent These statements however are rambling and weird and officers do not place credence in them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-03
CORONER REPORTS TRA|NMEN KILLED 5 ACClD [ N I
RusSum Announces Findings After Exhaustive InveStiqa- ton of Frisco Freight
 Wreck

E. P. Andrews and c. A. Mccoy, trainmen. who were killed when an engine crashed into a caboose at Pratt City on the Frisco lines Mon day, and J. A. Tanner. conductor. who died Friday of injuries sus- tained in the crash, met death as the result of an unavoidable acci- dent, Coroner J. D. Russum found Friday following an exhaustive in vestigation. The wreck occurred when an engine pulled loose, thereby cutting the air and setting the brakes on the train so that 1t stopped suddenly, permitting a following sec tion to crash into 1t.
 According to Coroner Russum, the first section of train No. 964 left Birmingham for Besscmer and had reached Pratt City, where 1t was the second section of train No. ee4 pulled into Pratt City with long string of cars. The second section set two cars out at Pratt City for the Thomas furnace, ran around the IlfSl section and started on it's way, It was, however. too heavily laden to pull hill at Pratt City and the first section backed out on the main line and ran up behind the second section to push 1t over the hill.
 The trains started and had gone approximately 80 car lengths when the engine on the second section, which was In front. pulled loose from the car behind it. This action cut the air line and set all brakes. The train came to sudden stop. The first section. having brakes and an section, did not and could not stop imm ediately. Consequently. the en- zinc crashed through the caboose on the second section.
 The foregoing, according to Mr. Russum, is the story of how two men lost their lives and two more were injured. The coroner's inyesti- gation was completed Friday Fed eral authorities have completed their investigation and forwarded their findings to Washington.
 J. A. Tanner. conductor on tho sec cnd section of the train, who was injured in the wreck. died at St. Vim cents hospital Friday. Little hope was held for his recovery at the time of the accident. but subsequent de- ve1opments gave rise to the belief that he had a chance to recover
 Coroner Russum will make no fur ther investigat tion IS result of Tan ner's death. he stated Friday night Every possible factor contributing to the wreck was discovered in the first investigation, he said.