The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-07-29
Mrs. A. A. Poole spent the day
Sunday with friends at Aurora.

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| Miss Susie Bagley departed yester.
5 day morning for Zion City, Ill.
Mrs. A. Glidden left yesterday morn.
( ing for a visit at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
Father Shean was at Gary Thursday
to assist in the dedication of the new
Catholic church.
Max Meharg returned home Friday
from Huron where he has been working
since the close of college.
Mrs. F. H.. Austin and children came
down from Bruce Thursday for a visit
at the home Of r. A. Larson.
Charley Allen went to Pipestone
Monday morning, where he expected
to take a position in a drug store.
p. o. Peterson's horse took a lively
run down Main street Tuesday noon,
but stopped without doing much dam
age.
There is considerable painting being
done in the city at this time, and
white seems to be the most popular
color"
VIM. II. Smith this week purchased
a new Ford auto, which will come in
handy in making the trips between
here and the farm.
Theo. Meyer was up from Elkton
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evening. We are informed that he
will shortly move to Mitchell with his
family.
Ben Meyer went to Aberdeen Satur-
day evening, where he takes a posi-
tion in a meat market, and he will
move there as soon as he can secure
a house.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. C. Barr and daugh-
ter, Emma and Mrs. Natesta came
down from Waterfowl in Mr.. Bars
auto this morning and will spend the
day with friends.
Even Ruttum boarded the train for
B~rookings Tuesday for a brief visit
with his son, Benny, who is employed
in the college creamery at that place.
Hendricks Pioneer.
Carl Quail, manager of the Column
bia clothing store, is back on duty
after a week or ten days vacation.
Together with Mrs. Quail he visited
relatives at Sinai and Sioux Falls.
The work that Street Commissioner
Sponsler is doing on the street just
east of the Register building is worthy
of commentator and already this part
of the avenue is showing a great i'm
provement.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. C. Olson left Thurs
day morning for a visit with relatives
at Kasson and GAINESVILLE, MINI. Mr..
Olson will also visit Chicago to spend
a week or SO buying new goods for
the line of Model stores.
Prof. Robert Matheson departed
Tuesday night for Madison, Wis. He
has resigned his position as entomo-
logist at the college, which he has
held the past couple of years, and
will take advanced work at Cornell
university the coming year.
The Carlisle family has been en-
ioying a reunion and outing on the
lake the past week-camping at the
Frank Carlisle lake shore farm. Fred,
Mart and Charlie and their families
and Ed of Brookings, have all been
present.-Lake Benton News.
Geo. F. Westover of Oconomowoc,
Wis, was in the city yesterday visit
ing his cousin, Mrs. C. A. Palmer.
Mr.. Westover is making a tour of
this part of the country with his big
Rambler auto and went from here
to Sioux Falls on his way home.
Willie Johnson, the seventeen year
old son of Mrs. O. Johnson of this
city, passed away at the home of his
sister, south of Volga, last Friday
afternoon and the funeral was held
at Volga Sunday. Death was due to
tuberculosis, from which he had been
a sufferer for some months.
Out at Fort Pierre there is a gen.
eral merchant who has the right idea
in going after the catalogue houses.
He uses somewhat the same method
of ]. L. Jarvis, the hardware merchant
of this city, but he only has a quar-
ter of a page. In that space he quotes
the prices on eighty-four grocery arti
Giles and fifteen pieces of clothing and
dry goods, everyone of them in every
day use, and we would be willing to
bet that he gets the trade.
w. r. Millham is in receipt Of
word of the marriage of his son,
Charles B. Millham, at Brookings,