Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1901-08-01
Notes. 5 ':' 1:

Don't forget the benefit concert at
the college chapel August 5th.
Four cars of material for the new
buildings at the Agricultural college
arrived yesterday.
The Caldwell building on Main
street, near the corner Of 5th, is being
overhauled and repainted.
The state regents will meet In Yer
million August IA and adjourn from
there to meet in Bookings.
Mrs. Cheever has purchased Mrs.
Gatchells lot and building on the west
side OF Main street, second door north
of j. H. Olberg's shoe store.
The Y. W. @. T. U. will give BEN
eft concert at the college chapel on
the evening OF Aug. 5th. An excel
lent program has been provided.
E. L. Farrankop has purchased the
lot west of the REGISTER office and It
is reported will soon make some
needed enlargement Of the laundry.
The work on the New Century block
is now being pushed vigorously, some
OF the delayed stone blocks having
arrived. The steel is also on the
ground.
Miss Florence West and Miss Muriel
Sherwin give an "at home" to about
forty of their young friends at the
home OF the latter this afternoon
from four to eight o'clock.
Frank SherwIn came near having
his barn go up in smoke yesterday. A
fire caught near the barn and was dis
covered and put out by men building
a sidewalk, when the flames were
within few feet OF the building.
Remember, fellow citizens, that
whenever you have friend visiting
| In the city the Citizens association
rooms are open to you and that your
friends, who may be strangers, will be
welcome to their quarters.
Sam Arthur came 10 from his Tren.
ton farm on Tuesday evening and said
he had just completed a house on the
place, l6x24 with l4-foot posts, and
the old house had been added TO 1t for
kitchen, making nice, commodious
farm house.
VIM. Rain s. Co. have commenced
the erection of building 24x50 on
the rear end of their business lots at
the corner OF Main and 5th streets.
The building fronts on 5th street and
is directly across the alley from the
G. A. r. hall. When completed 1t
will be used for storing machinery.
| 1t would seem as though our city,
which boasts of the finest public
school building In the state, IL not In
the Northwest, would take some little
pride in placing and keeping the
grounds in which 1t stands in az at
tractivo condition. The schoolhouse
park is really one Of the most unat-
tractive places in the city and does
not impress stranger very favOrably,
to say nothing OF being an eyesore to
at least a portion OF our people.
Even If the city had public park 1T
would not be excusable to let the
schoolhouse grounds stand in their
present condition and it would seem
as IL a little money could be spent
with profit in beautifying the place.
Nice shade trees surround 1t on every
side and 1t could be made the beauty
spot of the city, setting forth to good
advantage the architectural gem that
has been placed there by the taxpay-
ers. Why not have the old dead trees
dug out and the broken limbs Topped
off, the grounds graded up and seeded
down, make few flower beds and
lay cement walks? Why not place a
few rustic seats uuder the shade Of
that beautiful foliage which abounds
and give the people an opportunity to
spend a few idle moments In contem-
plation Of tie beauties Of nature? 1t
will do them good and produce bet
Ter impression upon strangers who
wonder that, with its other attractive
features, Brookings has no public
parks and who view with amazement
the forest of weeds now growing on
the schoolhouse grounds. Nowhere
In the east have we seen such neglect.
Other cities having public school
buildings of much smaller proportions
and far inferior in point OF beauty
and architectural features, take pride
in beautifying their grounds and 10
keeping them up. A city like Brook
ings, which boasts Of its superior edu-
cational advantages and Is looking for
six thousand inhabitants in the next
five years, can well afford to spend q
little money In caring for the only
park 1t has within its borders.
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