The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-20

Vail up tAe oouln SIDE Dairy Tor
milk and Phone, II.
Mrs. Frank Dull returned home Sat.
urday evening from a visit at points
III Iowa.
Mrs. Atkinson went TO Hetland Mon
day evening for a visit with her sister.
Mrs. Grove.
Mrs. Mary Boyd went to Aurora
Saturday morning for a short visit
with friends.
Mrs. j. L. Jarvis and Ruth went to
Winona Saturday morning for a visit
with relatives.
Mrs. Holt of W~oonsocket. was a
guest at the home of her uncle, f. II.
Williams, Monday.
Mrs. W. H. Roddle went to volga
Saturday evening for a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Alton.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Beatty went to
Blooming Prairie. Mimi, for a visit
with relatives yesterday.
Mrs. NJ. O. Hill left Saturday morn
ing for ViroQua, Wis, where she will
visit relatives for some time.
Mrs. J.. w. Heston returned to her
home at Madison Thursday after a
few days visit with Mrs. II. H. Reeves.
Miss Alice French returned to her
home at Huron Saturday evening after
a visit with her uncle, VIM. Allison
and other relatives in this county.
Guy Roth, who formerly lived here
with his parents, arrived from Min
~neapolis the last of the week and
visited over Sunday at the home of
his uncle, VIM. Paul.
Geo. A. Poe returned home Thurs
day night from a weeks trip to points
in the the western part of the state
in the interests of the Day & Poe
monument works. He says that the
western part of the state will harvest
one of the biggest crops in its history.
Fred L. Villas, the druggist, return
ed Thursday night from WATERFOWL,
where he attended the annual meet
ing of the South Dakota Pharmaceuti-
cal association. At this meeting Mr..
Villas was honored by being elected
vice-president of the association.
He reports that this years meeting
was a very good one.
The electric line crew is now work
ing north, just the other side of the
Sioux river in Moody county and as
soon as they complete the work across
the river they will have fifteen miles
President Stewart states that they eX-
pect to start the work of grading in
the city in a few day and the laying of
steel will be taken up in a short time.
P. c. Johnson, who returned last
he had been with a party of land men,
says the thermometer down there did
not record as high a temperature dur
ing the time he was there as it did
in this country. He was in Texas dur
ing the hot spell of July and while it
was around 100 for some days the cool
breezes off the Gulf of Mxico made it
very comfortable.
Street Commissioner Sponsler has
had his entire force of six men and
teams at work on the fair ground
track the past week and the result Of
his labors has put it in fine shape.
The depressions just east and west of
the grandstand have been filled in and
the bank along the east side graded up.
The ground there is Of the kind to
make a hard, fast track, and Monday
it vas dry as a bone after a two days
rain.
At the annual meeting Of the South
Dakota Pharmaceutical association at
WATERFOWL last week Henry T. Sasse
of Henry, was elected president of
the association for the coming year.
Mr.. Sasse is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G.. Sasse and brother of Mrs. E. A.
Wing of this city and was formerly a
student at the State college. He has
been a successful druggist at Henry
for some years. At this meeting Fred
L. Villas of this city, was elected first
vice-president of the association.
James Revel suffered a peculiar ac-
cident this week and one which will
lay him up for several days. He YVES
stacking hay and while on the stack
a blade of sword grass ran in the
ieshy part of his leg just above the
knee. MI. Revel did not feel any pain
until evening when he examined the
wound and extracted a piece of grass
about three inches long. He came
to town to have DR.. Hyde dress the
wound and the doctor found two inches