The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-08-01
Local and Personal
JOHN L. MURPHY. City Editor

to Lake Poinsett last week to spend
a couple of weeks camping out.
Miss Ella Yust arrived from Owa.
tonna. MINI. Saturday evening for
a visit at the home of Chas. Yankee.
Prot. J. S. Cole went to Highmore
Tuesday morning to spend a week
looking after the crops at the sub
station.
Minion Laird returned Monday even.
ing from ONatonna, Mimi, where
she visited her grandmother two or
three weeks.
Chas. Locke, a clerk at kendall's
drug store, returned Monday morning
from a two weeks visit with his folks
near Sioux Falls.
Mrs. Prouse and two daughters and
here niece, Miss Mabel Mann. return.
ed Monday morning from a couple of
weeks visit in the Twin Cities.
DR.. J. G. Parsons ven to Center
Chain Lake. near Fairmont, Mimi,
Monday morning to Join his family,
who are camping at the lake.
Miss Alma Lying Of Dell Rapids, has
been here the past week visiting Miss
Mable knutSOn. She went to Airing.
ton for a visit before returning home.
T. /" Chappell left Monday morn
ing for a ten days or two weeks
visit with a brother at Platteville.
Wis. He will also visit a few days
at Gelena, III.
Will Leighton came down from
Estelline Monday evening and remain
I'd over night. Will is running the
paper all by his lonesome aoW and
it keeps him hustling.
Miss Lena and Edith Yankee are
here from Aberdeen visiting their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Yankee.
They expect to remain a couple OF
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Carlisle, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. +. Carlisle and Ed Carlisle
went to Lake Benton Saturday to at.
tend the ~re-union Of thu family The
other relatives from here went down
last week.
Miss Bessie ChappeIl returned Sat.
urday evening from Cedar Falls, Iowa,
where last week she finished her
course at the Northern Iowa normal
school. She will remain here with
her parents until the first Of Septem.
Der when she takes up her duties IN
the Elkton schools.
The harvest this year is nearly
three weeks behind former years, but
in spite OF the delay there is prospects
of a fine crop. The corn is coming
along faster than any other crop. and
will do as we'll the next few weeks
Some rye has been cut, but the other
small grain will not be ready for
ten days or two weeks.
Earl Burwell, the l~eft-handed pitch.
er of last years Brookings Reds,
broke his shoulder early in the season
while pitching for the Sharon, Penn
team, and did not know Of the acct
dent until last week when it was dis.
closed by an X-ray examination. Bur.
we'll pitched seventeen games after
the accident, and his arm finally be-
me so bad that he was released by
the Sharon team. He then had his
arm examined and the X-ray photo
graph showed a crevice half an inch
deep.
Rev. S. T.. Moon of Banza Manteka,
Africa, arrived here Monday evening
to join his wife, who has been living
in the ErringtOn house in north Brook
ings. Mr. Moon is a brother.in law Of
P. S. Jensen, who lives in the Cornell
house. Mr.. Moon came here from
Boston, but has lately returned from
Africa, where he served three years
as missionary. being located about
$50 miles from the mouth of the Congo
river. He expects 70 remain here for
about a year before returning TO Al.
RIGA, and will probably remain here
most of that time and take some
studies at the college.
Geo. P. Sexauer has closed his mill
down for a couple OF weeks to install
some new machinery and make other
improvements. The old boiler will
be taken out and discarded and a
new high-pressure boiler installed in
its place. The old dynamo will be
taken out of the mill and converted
into a motor and used in the elevator
and 4 new dynamo will take it's place.
Another good feature that the pro-
prietor will put in is an arrangement
whereby at a moments notice he can
shift his load to a gasoline engine
should the dynamo break down. When
everything is fixed up the plant will be
L.. to4So~ .Layn than ~ hon nunr hAa,