The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-31
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

u2lS6 Auu6 uul VI DCICcAOEu, 81
rived in the city Saturday to visit for a
week with Mrs. v. L. Mccoy, sister OF
Mr.. Loomis. "Jim" Loomis has
many friends in the city who will be
glad to congratulate him and wish
him all the happiness that Father
Time has in store. The wedding oc.
CURED at Beresford Saturday.
Continuous Vaudeville as presented
by the Unique Theatre at Minneapolis
has proved very popular. People like
the idea of being able to drop in and
see a performance when they please
and to stay as long as they please. To
strangers in the city such a theatre is
often a real accommodation, enabling
them to spend an hour or so when
they may lack some place to go.
Horace Fishback and family who
spent a couple of weeks outing at
Spirit Lake, Iowa, returned home
Monday afternoon. Mr.. and Mrs. T.
L. Fishback, who were with the party,
returned to their home at Rochester,
Mimi, Tuesday morning. Misses
Myra and Blanch, who went to the Y.
w. c. A. convention at Waterloo, did
not return until yesterday.
j. G. McCleary has moved his black
smith shop into the corner building
known as Macs place. The upper
floor will be occupied by Mater as a
paint shop and Mckee will also use
part of the building as a wagon shop.
The building is being put in first class
shape and will be repainted. This
move will greatly improve this corne
that for so long has been an eye-sore
to our people.-White Leader.
Sam j. Wood returned Saturday
morning from Illinois, where he has
been travelling in the interest of the
Adjustment & Realty Co. He is we'll
pleased with the success of his trip
and is convinced that as soon as their
work will permit a large number of
farmers from the central west will be
out in Dakota looking for good farms.
The crops this year are certainly a
great inducement to land buyers.
Mrs. H. F. Holmes and daughter,
Helen, wife and daughter of the state
auditor of North Dakota, arrived Mon
day evening to visit a week or more at
the home of M. T. Wimsey. Mes
DANES Holmes and Wimsey are former
schoolmates. Matt not only went to
school with Mr.. Holmes, but also with
state auditor Iverson of Minnesota.
Matt was always on the wrong side
of politics, so he neve got to be even
path master or driver Of the street
sprinkler.
There is hardly enough threshing
done so far in this county to give a
very definite estimate of the general
yield, but enough pieces have been
threshed to give an idea of what the
probabilities are in that line. A. B.
Allison marketed the wheat from a
thirty acre tract which went IS bushels
to the acre and sold at the mill for five
cents above the market. Barley is
going from 40 to 60 bushels per acre
and oats from IS to so. Rye was never
better and corn is going to be a bum
per crop.
Guy L. Boyden has been engaged
by the Aurora school board to take
charge of the village schools for the
coming year. Mr.. Boyden graduated
from the S. D. A. c. this year with
very high standings and is fitted in
every way to give our neighboring
town we'll disciplined schools with a
high average Of efficient work. He
was one of the leading athletes at the
college and is capable of not only in
structing the mind, but of educating
the muscles of his boy pupils as we'll.
We wish him every success in his new
position.
H. c. Johnson has lately finished
building a fine farm residence for
Anton Thompson in Sterling town.
ship and is now engaged in building
one for Hans Rude, who lives south
of Arlington. This latter residence
will be, when completed, one of the
finest farm dwellings in this part of
the state and a credit both to owner
and builder. Our farmers are so pros
porous that they are satisfied only
with the best that can be obtained.
Mr.. Johnson was home over Sunday
and returned to Arlington Tuesday
morning.
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