The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-22
and Personal

Prof. Kerr lett lueSudy evening lot
Chamberlain and points west OF there,
to be absent a week on business.
Remember that there will be a
matinee at the opera house Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 by the "Rosalind at
Red Gate company.
Mr., and Mrs. Frank West arrived
from Minneapolis last evening and are
visiting at the home of their daugh-
ter, Mrs. f.. l.. Van Dyke.
There will be a cantata and Christ
mas tree exercise at the Presbyterian
church Saturday evening, to which the
public is cordially invited.
Adams butcher, who is assistant in
chemistry at the University of Mis-
souri,. arrived last evening to spend a
week or ten days visiting at the home
of his parents.
James Natesta is again the posses
sor Of an auto, having purchased NJ.
l.. Loban's Buick. Mr.. Natesta has
taken the agency for the Buick for
the coming year.
II is expected that most Of the
stores and Offices, as we'll as the banks
will be closed next Monday. as it is
q legal holiday. The p~ostoffice Will
be CIeG the usual holiday hours.
Tom Johnson of Sterling, left Mon
day for Detroit, Mimi, to look over
the country. Mr.. Johnson recently
purchased the mill at Volga and he
may trade it for Minnesota land.
The Christmas exercises of the
Baptist Sunday school will be held in
the church on Saturday evening. A
cantata will be rendered by the school.
Come and see Santa in his air ship.
Miss Fleeta Rider, who has been
visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.
ID. l.. Erwin, for several months, will
leave the first of the week for Palm
Beach, Fla, where her parents are
spending the winter.
Boyd Lombard and Miss Ella Tiller,
two well known and popular young
people of the county, were married at
the home of Sheriff and Mrs. Miles
Sunday afternoon al . o'clock, Rev.
Hugh Robinson of the Presbyterian
church. officiating. Their many friends
will extend congratulations.
The weather the past week has
been beautiful and every day the
stores have been crowded with Christ
mas shoppers. Christmas buying be-
gan earlier than usual this year, but
as usual most of the shopping is done
this week and the local stores will be
busy right up to the last minute Satur-
day night. The weather has been the
warmest We have had in many years
at this season and has been quite a
factor in bringing the people out.
The Christmas exercises of the
Methodist Sunday school will be held
on Friday evening. The program will
consist of three parts. Part | will be
a brief exercise and the presentation
by the classes of Christmas gifts for
distribution by the school. Part II
will consist of a cantGta, How Santa
Once Came to Dollikin's Flat" This
little cantata will be presented
by girls of the primary department,
assisted by Genevieve Chappell and
Wiley, soloists. Part III,
Christmaastree and treat for the Sun
day school scholars.
f. G. Woodwork of Exeter, Neb.,
arrived here Thursday to take a posi-
ton with Davis e company, at the
Temple Furniture store. Mr.. Wood
worth has had a life long experience
in the undertaking business and was
with Mr.. Davis three years and a
half in Nebraska. He takes the posi-
ton made vacant by the resignation
of w. c. Winans, who goes to Lead
about the middle of January to take
a position with a large furniture es-
adjustment there. Mr.. Winans is a
most capable man as well as a good
citizen and he and his family will be
missed from the community.
On the first of the year a change
will be made on rural delivery No. 2.
leading from the Brookings ~postofice. .
Heretofore carriers No. 2 and No. 3
have travelled over the same road
for two miles north of the Agricul-
tural college, on account of impossible
roads one mile east of the college
road. The e%nterprising patrons on the
east road have this season built
bridges and road bed and the second
day of January, carrier No. 2 will go
on the quarter line, north of the col