The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-01-27

Mrs. T. c. Connolly went to Elkton
Friday morning for a visit of a day
or two with relatives.
A horse blanket was found on Main
street and the owner may recover
same by calling at this office
w. j. Gentle arrived home yesterday
from a trip to points west ana he
states that Tuesdays storm was very
severe west and north of here.
Jacob Wickre of Webster, a gradu-
ate of the college last year, arrived
Tuesday morning to attend the stock
mems convention and visit friends.
Prof. y f. Hansen and Prof. II. c.
SEVERN returned home Friday from
YanEton, where they attended the an
nual meeting of the State Horticultu-
raj society.
Or. Stevenson the we'll known eye,
cor nose and throat specialist of Sioux
Falls will be in Brookings. Friday, Feb
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also fitted correctly.
Mrs. Anna Murphy left Monday for
a visit with friends and relatives at
Arlington and other points. She cX-
poets to leave the first of next week
for her home at Tacoma, Wash.
II. b. Potter, corn specialist in the
agronomy department Of the college,
has resigned and will leave the first
of the month for Ames, Iowa. to accept
a position in the Iowa agricultural
college.
j. w. Brooks was busy several days
last week improving the looks OF the
second story of the Register plant
with paint and paper. He did a first
class job and the upstairs bunch
now feel more like working.
Prof. C. Willis, agronomist at the
college, and his assistants, j. V. Bopp
and II. ID. Potter, returned Friday
morning from the corr show at Mitch
ell. Prof. Willis was elected secre-
tary of the show for the coming year.
The Degree Of Honor gave a social
dance at the opera house on Thursday
evening, which was a very enjoyable
event and largely attended, there be-
ing about fifty couples present. The
ladies Of the lodge served a very sub
stantial supper in the dining o
The Huron basket ball team came
down Friday morning and in the even
ing battled with the college team at
the armory. From all accounts it was
real battle, the game being marked
by rough work by both teams, the
visitors being the aggressors. The
game was won by Brookings by a
score of u to 8.
f.. c. Olson returned Saturday morn
ing from a trip to the Model store
at Rapid City. He states that the big
Homestake mine which has been clos
ed down for weeks on ccoun Of the
trouble with union labor, resumed op-
crations on Friday, employing nothing
but non-union men. The Western
Miners federation which has been re.
sponsible for most of the trouble in
the Hills has been driven cut and
hereafter all the mines will employ
only non-union labor.
|. d. Aldrich of the Big Stone Head
light, who is also secretary of the
board Of regents, was a passenger on
the train delayed here Saturday and
Sunday. The writer acknowledges a
pleasant call from Mr.. Aldrich and
also from Mr.. Anderson, n member of
the board, whose home is at Sturgis.
Mr.. Aldrich and the writer became &C
quainted while attending Bookings
college in 1888. and naturally we en-
JOY a visit of a few hours when we
happen to meet.-De Smet Indepen-
dent.
The date for the first inter-society
debate between the Miltonian and
Athcnian literary societies has been
fixed as February 26 and the Milton
ians have chosen the affirmative of
the following question which has been
submitted by the Athenians: Resoly-
ed, that the United States should es-
tablish a parcel post. This is the first
of five contests, consisting of three
joint debates and two joint programs,
that will be held between the two
societies during the year, for the pur-
pose of deciding the temporary pos
session of a trophy. offered by the
faculty, and which is now in posses
sion Of the Athenian society.
A home talent minstrel show was
given at the opera house last even
ing under the direction of Teddy Akin,
and in our opinion and in the opinion
Of most everyone there it was the best