The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-11-11
Personal and Local

Mrs. VIM. Cutler visited friends at
Watertown a few days the LIST of the
week.
Ben Meyer has resumed his old posi-
ton at the block in Orhans' meat
market.
Mrs. c. f. Hutchinson and Mrs. Mer-
rill were over from White Thursday
and spent the day.
DR.. E. c. Miller left Sunday morn
ing for n visit with relatives at Mason
City and Waukon, Iowa.
Chas. Gamble returned home Friday
evening from a few days trip to his
former home at Springfield MINI.
Register of Deeds Utigard went up
to Argo township Saturday to spend a
day OF two looking after his farm.
Miss Alvira Johnson departed Mon
day morning for lie Mars, Iowa for a
visit with her sister, Mrs. C. b. Mill
ham.
Mrs. l.. o. O. Rice and Mrs. ChaG.
Thompson came down from Estelline
Thursday night for a few days visit
with friends.
Mrs. Swartzbach and Mrs. Berg
hofer of Elkton, were the guests of
Mrs. F.. Walter over Sunday, returning
home Monday mOrpinu
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Paige we're pas
sengers to the Twin Cities the last
of the week, their visit being a com
bined business and pleasure trip.
The Register this week is starting
a new department, Nineteen Years
AGo," which we believe will interest
our rea ,ers, whether they were resi-
dents Of Bookings at that time or not.
Roy MILFORD was up from Aurora
Saturday and spent the day. That
night he left for Chicago with a
couple Of cars of stock for Glen
Cheatham of Aurora, for whom he is
working.
The Fridley Auto company's garage,
opposite the Register Office, is practic-
ally completed and will be ready for
use in a few days. The company is
expecting a large shipment of Hudson
and Chalmers-D Detroit machines in a
few days.
DR.. Bradbury has a crew of men at
work adding another story 10 his office
building on Williams street which he
built this summer. He has not yet de-
cided whether he will rem the rooms
~ occupy them with his family for
the winter.
Walter Paul, Harvey Jensen and
Leslie Wilson went to Sioux Falls Sat
urday afternoon in the latter's auto
to take in the football game between
Brookings and Sioux. Going down
they made the trip of sixty-five miles
in a little owe two hours.
A carload of Minnesota cabbage was
on the track here one day the last of
the week and were sold out in short
order. The cabbage was trimmed,
with the stumps cut off and we are in
formed that the only good way to
keep it in this condition is to wrap
each heed in a newspaper and place
them in a barrel in the cellar. In this
way they will keep for several months.
Bookings friends have received an
ncuncements of the marriage of Mrs.
Effie NJ. Williams and Mr.. Eugene c.
Clark, which occurred at Memphis,
Neb., October 81. Mrs. Williams was
a resident of Bookings for several
years while her husba, Prof. Thos.
A. Williams, was head of the botany
department Oi the college. They went
from here to Washington, d. c., where
Prof. Williams died o after.
Albert Johnson, a former student OF
the college and wei. known as a ham
mer thrower and football player, is
now PRESIDENT of an agric' ltural school
at Onalska, Wis. There are a number
of these schools in Wisconsin, estab-
lished by the state, and the one at
Onalaska was recently opened. After
leaving here Mr.. Johnson graduated
from the University of Wisconsin, and
late was professor of agriculture il
a school in the south.