Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-11-02
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Editor Harden and family spent
Sunday in Brookings.
A whist club has been organized
here and will meet once a week this
winter.
J. W. Shadewald was looking after
business affairs here last Friday and
Saturday.
A brother OF II. A. Parsons, from
Wisconsin, is visiting is visiting here
AT present.
Gel Hess, Of Flandreau was visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hess,
last Friday.
Mrs. E. b. Lincoln was looking after
business affairs in Clear Lake the
first of the week.
The writer has a good business
block in this city which he will trade
for residence property.
c. W. Williams has just returned
from Sioux City, where he went with
several carloads Of live stock.
U. d. Palmer and wife and H. G..
Fox and wife. Of Brookings, were Wis.,
iting in this city on Sunday last.
Elmer Phillips and wife, of Clear
Lake, were guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. B. G. Phillips over Sunday.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. w.
A. Burgess this week. According to
the best authority he weighs 164
pounds.
Sheriff Oium was in town one night
last week. He was in this part of the
county serving notices on the judges
of election.
Sergt. f. E. Stevens left for St.
Louis last Monday, where he will re-
sumo the medical studies interrupted
by his enlistment in the lst South
Dakota.
The indications are that great
many collectors will be out of job
next year, especially If old notes and
mortgages have been cleaned up all
over the state the way they have been
in this vicinity.
We are pleased to note that Attor-
ney Dricken is building up a good
practice again and hope that this
time he may be left with the field to
himself There is enough here for
one attorney, but not enough for two.
AS soon as we get little time we
have bone or two to pick with the
county commissioners, the clerk Of
court and one or two others, and we
can promise your readers that they
will get some warm reading for a
time.
Isn't it about time that the COM
missioners were making stab toward
collecting the amount due the county
from Nelson's bondsmen. They have
been telling what they were going to
do and now we would like to see them
do it.
Frank Phillips visited his family at
Brookings on Sunday last, at least we
suppose that was where he had been
from the fact that both Of his ears
were badly demolished when he re-
turned and the prints Of several small
teeth were distinctly visible on each
one Of them.
For Sale Cheap-One large hole in
tended for a wholesale house. Our
citizens have no use for the same and
Il seems to have been abandoned by
the owner, so the best use that can be
made of it would be to sell it and ap-
ply the proceeds to the fund for max
ing up the Nelson deficiency.
Although work is still in progress
on the new line of railroad from Lake
Benton to Lake Hendricks, yet it is
hardly possible that the road will be
In shape to do any business this year.
They will probably be in shape to
handle the crop next year, and that
will be plenty soon enough to suit the
citizens Of this town.
d. johnson and family expect to
leave for Canada in the course Of a
month or two. Mr.. Johnson has
large property interests there and in
tends to make his home there in the
future. We are sorry to see them
leave. Mr.. Johnson has been identi-
fed with Rrookings county for years
and has become landmark here.
The volga Tribune is mistaken In
the statement that Mont Henry, Of
Co, Z, 1st S. D., V. participated In
more battles than any other man in
the regiment. +. w. Dricken, OF this
place, was in every battle in which
the South Dakota troops took part;
30 was Capt. Hegsman, and also Will