The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-01-20
L. q. HILL, M. D. 5
Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat B
GLASSES FITTED.
First National Bank Building 3
WATERFOWL, 4. ID. z

| c. a Skinner left yesterday for
North Dakota points on business.
The Modern Musicians, !: t the Pres.
byterian church next Wednesday ev,
ening
A fine son arrived at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. II. o. Olson on Tuesday
OF last week.
Mrs. Hughson went to Aurora Tues
day morning for visit of day or
two with relatives
1t is predicted that the last Of the
year will be cold, because 1910 has
a zero at the end OF It,
Mrs b l.. Wilson will entertain the
ladies aid society Of the Christian
church Thursday, January 81 A large
attendance is desired.
Ed Thompson. who represents a St
Paul Wholesale grocery house, has
been in the city this week looking
after case In circuit court
DR.. J. G. Parson, occulist and aurist
Of Sioux Falls, will be at Hotel Leon
Bookings, Friday. January 2Sth
Practice limited to eye, ear, nose and
threat
The minstrel show starts at eight
O'Clock sharp on January 26. Get
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come early, as the entire parquet is
reserved for the stockmen.
Nels Rude returned home Saturday
from Sawyer, Wis, where he spent
two or three weeks with relatives.
His mother accompanied him there
and will make her home with a daugh-
| ter.
DR.. A. II. Hill, whose business re-
quires considerable driving. informs
us that the roads in the vicinity Of
| Brookings are pretty bad and the rural
! carriers going out from this city give
| the same report
KIN ERG AR r e N-Miss Ella
/ l.. Black, a graduate of Chicago Kin
dergarten college, will open a kinder
garten. AS supplies for a limited mum
ed number will be ordered please have
! YOUR child enrolled at once. 621 FIFTH
/ street q
On January % there will be a Fish
! 0ond social at the home of John Hart
rann conducted by the Epworth
| League of Trenton in honor of the
birth of VIM. Mckinley Charges for
supper will be by weight of the lady
Yartner Ladies will bring supper for
| two.
Thos. Murdoch, member of the
Wholesale grocery firm of Reid, Muir
doch & Co, Of Chicago, passed away
| recently leaving fortune of four nil
lion dollars. He gave over half of this
| to the y NJ G. A. and other worthy
causes, besides a large sum to the
employees Of the house.
A family group picture of more than
| usual interest was taken at one Of the
local galleries this week. There were
five generations In the picture, as
follows: Mrs, John Johnson Knutson,
Mrs Ole Moon, Mrs X J. Dokken
Mrs. Edna Moore and Miss Ruby
Moore Mrs Knutson is 9S years Of
III hn of
the family, Miss Ruby Moore is aged
two. Five generations in one family
is something very unusual and this
group picture will no doub be highly
priced by all the members.
The fire department was called to
south Brookings about eight o'clock
Monday morning by a blaze at the
| fire started in the second story and
| the department was able to confine
| to that part Of the house. The fire
! burned away the roof and the damage
! from the flames and water was large.
! The origin of the fire has not been
determined, as Mrs. Mathews says
| there was no fire in that part of the
house for some time before the flames
were discovered. The household goods
in the lower story were carried out and
saved, but those upstairs were de
stroyed The fire was a hard blow &c
Mrs Mathews, as she had just com
pleted the payments OH the property
and was about to take out some In
surance and a generous subscription
was taken up for her among the cit
liens.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. f. West, who live
southwest of this city, are taking Z
much needed rest among relatives
and friends in Minnesota and Wis
consn during the holidays. This
worthy couple and their children
came to this section Of North Dakot;