The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-07-21


The Misses Squirting arrived from
Billings, Mont. Saturday morning for
a visit at the home of their uncle,
E l.. Squirting.
Charles Keith went to Elkton Mon
day morning to look after the crop on
his farm.
Prof. y. f. Hansen went to Sioux
Falls Thursday to attend the sanger
fest.
Winnifred Ray returned home the
last of the week from a several weeks
visit in Illinois.
County Treasurer Van Dyke left on
Saturday night for the Pacific coast
to look after some property he owns
out there. He will probably be gone
a couple of weeks.
G. A. Mathews and family departed
Tuesday for the Yellowstone national
park, where they expect to camp for
a month and will also visit points in
Montana.
A large crowd Of out Of town peo-
pie were in the city Sunday to attend
the two chautauqua programs. They
came in by train, team and auto and
the city presented a buster appearance
than is usual on Sunday.
A. Hoover and family returned Sat
.urday from their trip to Yellowstone
park and to points in Montana. They
were much pleased with Montana and
Mr.. Hoover says that pant of the
state they visited will yield some
bumper crops this year,
Roberts & Few and the BroOkings
Construction company have completed
the new inside closets at the school
house. The old buildings have been
removed and there is a noticeable i'm
proyement in the appearance of the
grounds.
George SeXauer and Matt Wimsey
took an auto ride of about twenty miles
Monday and Mr.. Wimsey tells us that
he never saw the crops look better
since he has been in South Dakota.
Corn is especially nne, but ali small
grain looks good.
Clay, Sully and Brookings counties
are TO have new court houses this
year and they are needed badly in
each, particularly Clay, a rich old
county that conducts its business in
a frame shell that would be diGcredit-
able as a country school house.-Can-
ton News.
The North Western is using one new
steel coach on each of the passenger
trains. These coaches are of the lat
est type and are supposed to be hides
ltructible. They are not quite as hand
some as the old cars. but anyone afraid
of wrecks will not pass them up on
that account.
S. A. Simpkins is able TO get around
a little now after being laid up for
five or six weeks with a broken ankle.
Mr. Simpkins met with the accident
in a peculiar manner While working
behind a team a singletree broke,
throwing the evener back, striking his
ankle and breaking it in two places.
Only a short time ago everybody was
grumbling about the dry year, poor
crops and hard times. Today with
splendid rains during the past week
all is changed and everybody is happy
as the prospects now are that we Will
have an average good crop for small
grain and one of the finest ri crops
Y @ raised in this section, if the frost
does not set in 100 early.
Gregg, the former college baseball
pitcher, is doing great work for the
Portland, Oregon team, according 20
a card from Charley Brown. Charley
says: 81 saw Gregg pitch a one-hit
game on the Fourth and Sunday he
pitched five innings and did not allow
a hit. Today they put him in the
ninth inning with the bases full and
two out and he struck out the last
batter of the Oakland team"
The South Dakota State fair prem
ium list has been received. Liberal
premiums are offered for all kinds Of
grain grown OH farms. for horses, cat
tie. hogs, sheep, chickens, in fact on
all animals. Also for ladies needle
and fancy work. In a boys and girls
contest, which will be in charge Of
A. E. Chamberlain of this city, $50
will be paid the successful boys and
girls. There is a liberal speed pro-
gram offered. The amount offered in
the premium list aggregates $4,000.
The fair will commence Monday, Sep
TENDER IL and will close Friday, Sep