The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-08-26

joining the city limits on the south
east, through A. b. Allison. Mr.. Eel
ter will move his family here next
March.
Mrs. Davis of the Skinner depart
ment store force, returned home the
latter part of the week from Chicago,
where she spent a few days visiting
friends and buying new goods for the
store. During her absence Mrs. c. f.
Poole looked after her duties in the
store.
O.. A. Brictson and Glenn Gilbert
went to Minneapolis Monday night
and will start in the ST. Paul Dis
patch tour tomorrow to advertise the
Brictson tire tread. Glen's roadster
was shipped to the city and they will
make the trip in that. The tour starts
from the capitol building tomorrow
morning at seven o'clock and the cars
go to Fargo, y. d., and return. About
thirty cars are entered for the trip.
c. w. Koenig learned last week
that a wire clothes line fastened to a
house is a dangerous thing. During
a thunder storm, a bolt of lightning
entered his house over the clothes line,
boring a hole about an inch and a
half in diameter through the wall, and
smashing some fruit jars in the pan
try. Fortunately, the bolt was a light
one, and quickly scattered, doing no
farther damage.-White Leader.
Prof. James II. Shepard left Sat
urday evening for Denver, Colo, to
attend the annual meeting of the Pure
Food association. A very interesting
meeting was expected, as there is a
lively scrap on between DR. Wiley,
the government chemist, and the gov
eminent board of chemists appointed
by the president, over the use of
benzoate of soda in foods. Professor
Shepard is on the benzoate of soda and
the standards committee, the two most
important committees Of the associa-
ton.
Claude Hinman, the ~well-known con.
ductor, has been appointed special
trainmaster and will have charge OF
the trains moving the crops on the
lines between Gettysburg and Brook
ing and Doland and Groton. Claude
will nooln Good in hic nnur nocitinn &c
the company will allow him a reason
able number of train crews with plenty
Of locomotive power, for he is a good
worker himself and has a faculty of
getting others to work. There will be
no congestion on this line.-Doland
Times-Record.
Dick and Harry Fridley and John
Murphy went over to Bushnell in
Dicks auto Tuesday to- meet Roy Will
son, who arrived over the Rock Is
land from Pipestone. There were in
Bushnell that day five other citizens
of Brookings, NJ. G. Carlisle, Prof.
Forsee, G.. F. Thayer, II. G.. Fox and
A. Z. Downey, making just enough for
a base ball team and a challenge was
handed out to the Bushnell nine, but
luckily for them they We're too busy
in the harvest fields and thus escaped
a good trimming.
The funeral of S. d. Owen was held
at Brookings Friday, the 18th inst,
and was attended by c. II. Tinkham
and F. B. Daniey from this city. Sam
Owen, as he was best known in this
city, was one of the early residents
of De Smet, and this city was his home
until the death of Mrs. Owen a few
years ago, after which he made his
home at Brookings with his daughter,
Mrs. Pond, most of the time. San
Owen was an honorable and upright
citizen and during the twenty years
or more of his residence in De Smet
made a host of friends who sincerely
mourn his death, and who extend their
deepest sympathy to the bereaved
sons and daughters.-Dc Smet News.
Prof. and Mrs. b. r. Whitehead re-
turned home Monday morning from
Lead, where they spent a week in at
tendance OH the annual meeting of
the druggists Of the state. A very
good meeting is reported. Mr.. and
Mrs. c. ID. Kendall, who accompanied
tbau will cnan1 a fpw dayc vicitiup
other points in the Hills. The follow
ing officers were elected by the asso-
citation: President, julius Deetken,
Deadwood; vice-president. l.. f. High
ley, Hot Springs; second v~ice-presi-
dent, G. G. Nelson, Volga; secretary,
G.. G.. Bent, Dell Rapids; treasurer, A.
Woodward, Aberdeen; historian, /. A.
Health, Lake Preston; board of pnar-