The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-07-22

from Lake Preston yesterday morning
for a few days visit at the home of
her uncle, P. O. Peterson.
w. H. Donaldson and wife left
Tuesday evening for Kansas, where
Mr.. Donaldson will spend some time
looking over the country.
The Woman's Missionary society
will serve ice cream on the park lawn
next Friday evening during the band
concert. All are invited to come.
Presbyterian aid society will
80. Mrs. Mary Boyden, Mrs. Nellie
White and Mrs. Millie Koch will as
sist. 10 So. ....
Martin Redmond, North Western
conductor, is taking a vacation. Mr..
and Mrs. Redmond are at Lake Kan,
peska, staying at the officers club
Public Opinion.
Misses Helen Peterson and Muriel
Sherwin returned Saturday evening
from st. Paul, where they were dele
gates to the national meeting of the
Epworth league.
Peter Johnson of Brandt, was In
the city on business yesterday and to
visit his old neighbor, Register of
Deeds Utigard. MI. Johnson formerly
lived e. Toronto.
DIR. f. J. Goodfellow, who has been
visiting his father and other relatives
here for the past couple of months,
left yesterday morning for his home
at Los Angeles, Cal.
Prof. C. Willis returned home from
Highmore Friday evening and when
near Wolsey the engine struck and
killed a man who was lying on the
track in an intoxicated condition.
Chas. Fl. Collins, who is entered
in the st. Paul Daily News auto con-
test, is now in the lead and wishes
all his friends to help him keep there
by sending in their coupons to him.
The city is building a new cross
ing from the Register building to the
power house rne The old cross.
ing had almost entirely disappeared
after years of service, and the new
one will be much appreciated by every
one who has occasion to walk along
this side of the street.
The weather has cooled off today
and it is a welcome relief after the
warmest week Of the season. The hot
spell began last Friday and it seemed
to gradually grow warmer, the climax
being reached Monday and Tuesday
when the thermometer hung around
the 80 mark, with a hot wind from the
south.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. p. Johnson arrived
home last evening after an absence
OF several weeks. Mr.. Johnson made
a trip to Colorado and other points in
the west, while Mrs. Johnson has been
visiting relatives at Bryant, Pierre
and other points. For the past couple
of weeks they have been visiting Mr..
Johnson's folks at Heron Lake, MINI. |
You have heard the man who says
lit don't pay to advertise" that
nobody reads the newspapers" and
so on. But let him be caught hugging
some other mans wife or chasing a
piece of calico up the street after
dark, and IL the printing Office is in
the garrett Of a twenty story building
he will climb to the top to beg the
editor not to "put it in the news
paper where everybody will read it,"
Elk.
No century can begin either a We'd
nesday, Friday or Saturday. The
months of January and October al
ways begin the same day of the week.
The same with the months Of April
and July, and September and Deem
Der. February, March and November,
all three begin the same day of the
week. May, June and August begin
on different days. Exception made
for leap years. Ordinary years always
end the same day of the week as
when they began. Every twenty years
the calendar repeats itself.
Nels Rishoi, a former we'll known
farmer of Argo township who has
made his home in Denmark for sew
eral years past, arrived here last week
and will again take up his residence
on his Bookings county farm. Mr..
Rishoi was fairly well pleased with
Denmark, but came to the conclusion
that there was a better opportunity
in America. While in that country
he was engaged in the dairying bust
ness and was president of a farmers
creamery company. The Register has
been going over to him ever since he