The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-08-05

day morning from a couple of weeks
trip to %Lethbridge and other points in
Canada.
Harry G.. Williams returned home
Monday evening from a ten days visit
at st. Charles and other points In
Minnesota.
Miss Ostroot of Lake Preston, was
a guest at the home of c. A. Johnson
a couple Of days this week on her
way home from a visit at Astoria.
r. A. Storm left Monday morning
for the Pacific coast. where he will
visit several weeks at the Seattle ex-
position and other points of interest.
Miss Anna Loucks and the children
of her brother-in-law, DR.. Brown. re-
turned Monday evening from Water
town, where they visited relatives sew
eral days.
Mrs. c. A. Palmer arrived home
Tuesday evening from Estelline, where
| she visited three or four days with
her daughter, Mrs. ]. l.. Blote.
Geo. p. Sexauer and family return
ed home Saturday morning after an
enjoyable outing of ten days. They
wen from st. Paul to st. Louis and
return by boat and report n fine
trip and good time.
Mrs. Fred Ueltschi and daughter left
Tuesday morning for a few days visit
near W~atertown. They were accom-
panied by Mrs. Ueltschi's sister, Mrs.
| Chamberlain of Boulder, Colorado, who
has been visiting here.
Mrs. E. l.. Wilson and son, Roy and
Miss Eva Bacon went to Watertown
Tuesday morning and will enjoy an
outing at Lake Kampeska for a couple
of weeks. Chester and Allie Matheny
will join the party at WATERFOWL.
DR.. r. l.. Slagle returned home Mon
day morning from a weeks trip to the
various sub-stations in the state. He
reports that the crops look good at
all the stations and the experimental
work is progressing satisfactorily.
Ray Thayer, Frank Foreman, Lloyd
Hyde and Neil Donaldson left Monday
evening for Big Stone lake, where
they will camp out for a few days.
They made the trip overland and ex-
pected to drive during the night and
rest in the daytime.
The work on DR.. Bradbury's Office
building near the telephone plant is
well under way, the basement and part
Of the first story being completed.
The building is being constructed of
cement blocks and gives promise of
being a fine addition to that section
of the city.
Prof. r. F. Kerr returned from North
Dakota Friday evening. having attend.
ed the state fair at Grand Forks and
the tri-state fair at Fargo in the in
terests of the Minnesota and Dakota
Il al hiCl. lIC iIpOi thai DOIH IdIl .
were good and largely attended.
According to an exchange the way
a young man should make love to his
girl is like this: Get down before
her on his knees, look her straight in
the right eye and say: my Jose
phine, my Kerosene, my Gasoline, my
Vaseline, my BenZine, | come from
above my station, without hesitation
or preservation, to ask you to be-
come my relation, SO as to increase
the population in this great nation"
Mrs. F. E. Pond returned home Sat
urday evening from Chicago, where she
was called some time ago by a dis
tressing accident to her son, Hoyt,
who had the sight of one eye destroyed
by the explosion of a bottle of pop.
The splinter of glass cut the eye
ball so badly that it was necessary to
remove it, but when Mrs. Pond left
he was getting along fairly well.
Hoyt's many friends here will be
panied to learn Of his misfortune
The Clear Lake Courier says of a
former resident of Brookings: "Our
old friend r. p. Kelsey, who has been
in the national sanitarium at Hot
Springs the past year returned to
Clear Lake last week for a brief visit
with his old friends and neighbors.
He is looking fine and tells us that the
old soldiers are treated like princes in
the national home. He will return to
Hot Springs this week and will then
enter the state soldiers home, where
he has a job for the winter as watch
man. We were happily surprised to
find 'tim in such excellent good
health"