The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-08-13

The directoira gown has not as yet
made its appearance in Bookings.
A daughter was born to- Mr.. and
Mrs. John Sloan, north of the city, ON
Saturday.
Charlie Allen came UP from Elkton
tuesday evening and visited over night
with his folks.
John Croft returned home thurs
day night from a several weeks stay
at his former home in Sphinx county.
Prof. H. II. Hoy and family return
ed home Saturday evening from Gary,
where they spent a couple of weeks
with relatives.
Horace Fishback and family return
ed Saturday from Spirit Lake, where
they had a very enjoyable outing of
several weeks.
Mrs. Kaestner returned to her home
in Wisconsin Saturday morning after
a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Aug
sut Evert, north of the city.
Mrs. A. f. Thornber and Miss .Jes-
sic Thornber went to Elkton Mon
Day morning for a few days visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cuckow.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Mehre of
Estherville, Iowa, returned home Mon
day morning after a visit of a week
with their neice, Mrs. o. G. Oyloe.
Prof. G. L. Brown and children and
his sister-in-law, Miss Anna Loucks,
went to Clear Lake Thursday for a
visit at the home of H. l.. Loucks.
The Dakota Central Telephone COM
pany has issued a ukase f%orbidding it's
telephone operators to chew gum while
on duty. AS they had been previously
forbidden to chew the rag the thing
has begun to assume all the proper
lions of persecution.
Prof. H. H. Loudenback departed
Saturday for Centralia, Kansas to- ioin
Mrs. Loudenback and the children
who went down two or three weeks
ago. They expect to visit there and
at bingham, Kansas, until the open
ing of the college in the fall.
College this year opens on Monday
September IA, about a week earlier
than in past years. The first two DAYS
VII NC tdhcu up WIFI Tie entrance
examinations and registration and the
work OF the semester will not begin
until Wednesday, the 10th. The work
of the new school of agriculture he,
gins Tuesday, November 8.
The summer school of music at the
college closed last Friday, after be-
ing in session several weeks. The at
tendance was good and the results
are all that could be desired. On
the last afternoon the piano pupils
of Prof. LOudenback and Miss West
colt to the number of twenty-one gave
a very enjoyable recital to a large
number of their friends in the chapel.
Roy Wilson and John Murphy spent
Friday fishing at Lake Campbell, and
like nearly everyone who makes the
trip, they succeeded In bringing back
a good string. The lake is going
down rapidly at the present time, as
the dam at the outlet has broken
away, and as a consequence the lake
is filling up with pond scum There
are a large number of ducks flying
around the lake and the hunting ought
to be good in the fall.
Inc man WIFI tuC HUG udS DCCI
much in evidence in BrOOkings this
! season and as a result many tables
have been garnished with home made
vegetables. This is a fine system.
Vegetables raised in your own back
yard and placed on the table before
they quit wiggling taste a hundred per
cent better and are better than those
shipped or hauled more or less long
distances and given time to wilt and
tougher. BY reason of having gone
out in the spring and an old suit of
clothes we last Sunday had on our
table carrots, beets, cucumbers, cab
bage and celery that had come as the
result of turning the back yard bot
tom side up and inserting some small
and embarrassing looking seeds. Every
one should have a little garden. the
work is pleasant and the fruits there
Of are not only toothsome but serve
to cut down the grocer's bill. Try it
on next spring. You'll like Il,