The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-11-07
Local and Personal

Mrs. NJ. T. Wimsey was confined to
her home by illness the last of the
week
c. II. Atkinson went to Huron Mon
day evening to spend day or two on
cement business.
Mrs. Fred Baker and daughter were
up from Aurora visiting at the Stone
home the last of the week.
Mrs. Lillian Aiken was over from
Volga Saturday and spent the day
with Miss Margaret Madden.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Culhane went to
Elkton Saturday night and spent Sun
day and Monday with relatives.
Miss Bessie Chappell came up from
Elkton Friday evening and spent Sat
urday and Sunday with her parents.
Mrs. John p. Johnson went to Wa
tertown Thursday morning for visit
at the home of her uncle, Robert Lock
hart.
DR.. E. II. Grove came down from
Hetland Thursday morning and spent
the day on business and visiting his
relatives.
ANY PERSON wishing to purchase a
first-class Restaurant and Bakery talk
with A. p. Nord or the Farmers
National Bank.
Vermillion got beautifully trimmed
by the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege at Fargo last Saturday, the score
being SO to 0.
The first of the club dances this sea-
son was given at Apolla hall Friday
evening. The music was furnished by
the Model orchestra.
A message was received from Oliver
w. Stewart, the great Prohibition
speaker, saying that he would be un-
able to keep his date here tomorrow
evening.
Ernest Anderson and Harvey King,
two Brook.ngs boys who have been
working at Bismark, n. d., the past
summer, returned home the first of
the week.
Fred Villas has installed a public
telephone in the front window of his
drugstore, which will be exclusively
for the benefit of his customers. This
is a piece of enterprise which should
be greatly appreciated by visitors to
the store.
Miss Jesse Cole entertained the
Sophomore class of the college at a
Halloween party at her home thurs
day evening. About forty were pres
ent, and the evening was pleasantly
spent at whist. Nice refreshments
were served
l. e. Lees has rented the grounds
of the tennis club at the corner of
Eighth street and Seventh avenue and
will put in a skating rink during the
cold months. The grounds are cen
trally located, and are very well adapt
ed for the purpose.
The local railroad yards are entirely
too small for the rush of the fall sea-
son, and the train crews have consider
able trouble in switching these days.
Monday evening the passenger from
the east had to be held at the top Of
the hill until a freight on the main
track could be sent west to the juno
ton.
Chas. Lynch of Alton township, has
purchased the Carpenter house in east
Brookings, and will move his family to
this city some time this fall. Mr..
Lynch is one of the best known and
most prosperous farmers of the east
part of the county, and is president
of the Farmers and Merchants bank
of Bushnell.
Arthur Dillman, a graduate of the
college last year, arrived from Mitch
ell and visited friends here until Mon
day evening. Mr. Dillman is working
for the Mitchell seed house, of which
Prof w. A. Wheeler, formerly connect
ed with the college, is the manager.
He says the seed company is making
very good progress.
John Gullick was here a few days
the last of the week visiting his moth
er and brothers and sister. John has
spent the past few months of Winnie
peg, Canada, where he has been in
charge of an office for G. w Pope of
Watertown, who manufacters Mr.. Gull
lick's patent spark-arrester. He re-
ports that the sale on the arresters
was very good in Canada, and would
have been better had the crop been a
good one. He states that it rained
there almost continuously the past