The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-08-15
Local and Personal
JOHN L. MURPHY, City Editor


Joe swering badly bruised his right
hand Tuesday while unloading tele.
phone poles.
Frank Wilson went TO WATERFOWL
Friday morning, where ne will work
for the city electric light company.
T. L. Williams Of Lester Prairie,
Mimi, was here the first Of the week
visiting mis- brother, E. II. Williams.
Miss Anna Noonan returned to her
home at Elkton Monday morning
after a visit OF a week with her mother.
l.. G. Olson, the tailor at the Model,
returned Monday night from d couple
OF weeks visit at Marshall and Water.
town.
Do you want to know about the
Mankato Commercial College, Man
kato, Mimi? Write for their catalog.
II is free.
Mrs. J. T. Jackson arrived from st.
Paul Monday evening for a visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mcnamara.
Do you know that 75c per day pays
for an airy, cool outside room at the
Beaufort Hotel, Minneapolis, 1l2 Sd
Street South.
A SNAP-We offer for sale or rent
what is known as the Saunders pro-
perty on eth street with 5 or 10 acres
| Of land. This is one of the finest
residence properties in the city. 6.
w. Elliott.
Mr.. Walsh, the engineer OF the
ditching machine Of the eve con
tractors, arrived here from Fargo with
his family on Thursday. They expect
to be Lere about a year and have
rented the Kendall house on Third
street.
Edward Belenger, the horsethief,
had his hearing before Justice Matson
Friday morning. He waived exami-
nation and was bound over to the
next term Of court under $500 bonds.
He is unable to furnish bail and will
have to remain IN the care Of the
sheriff until the September term Of
court. Belenger says that mis- parents
live in Massachusetts and that he
came west TO work in the harvest
fields. He claims TO have a wife and
two children living in the east, and
said that ne did not want them to
know Of the trouble ne had gone into.
The fire department was called to
the home OF c. F. Erstad Monday
night about eleven o'clock by a small
blaze, which started by the catching
fire Of a can Of gasoline at the back
end Of the house. The fire originated
in a most peculiar way. Mrs. Erstad
had thrown some burning wood out OF
the door earlier in the evening and
this is believed to nave been blown by
the wind against the can Of gasoline.
The fire shot up TO the caves OF the
house and got a good start by the time
it was discovered. Inc damage was
small.
Riding as though their lives de.
pended upon it, changing horses with
hardly q moments loss Of time, and
gallopiug three times over the course
each day for four days, cowboys from
the so-called bad lands-''heroes o.
the ranges"-st the state fair at Huron
next September, from the 9th to the
18th, will depict one phase OF life or
the western plains. A number o.
these genuine" cowboys will bepres'
ent ST the fair and will race for the
$3.50 purse hung up by the fair bosrc
& for the winner OF this relay race. The
! cowboys relay race promises to be one
Of the strong entertainment features o.
the states fall exposition. Full o.
daring, and riding b%uckskins that
know no master, these men from the
~plains will doubtless be the center o.
attraction; and it is assured that the
relay race in which they will take part
will be no tame affair but that it will
be for blood"