The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. c. f. Hoyt returned
home Monday evening from an east
ern visit.
One lady walks six blocks every day
TO get a claret freeze at Abbott's
White Fountain.
II. +. Dickinson, formerly proprietor
of the Leon hotel, has taken charge of
a hotel at Hendricks.
Prof. G.. Willis left Thursday even
ing for Eureka to spend a few days
looking after the planting of the crop
on the sub-station.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Koenig and
Misses Florence Burgess and Ruby
Walker came over from White in Mr..
Koenig's auto Thursday afternoon.
DR.. J. G. Parsons, occulist and aurist
of Sioux Falls. will be at Hotel Leon,
Brooking, Tuesday, April 18th. Eye,
ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted.
w. II. Skinner, one of the founders
of Brookings, recently disposed of 500
acres Of land at Hermiston, Oregon
for $1,000 and he still retains some
city property there.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid will be en-
~tertained at the home of Mrs. Carl
Christensen April p assisted by Mrs.
Mary Hall and Mrs. Fred Olson. Lad
les please be prompt at 3 o'clock.
The following marriage licenses
have been issued by the clerk of
courts the past week: Thos. Toberty
and Mary Bartlett, White; Oscar Won
Hagen and Catherine Wolff, Elkton;
Nick Mast, lretOn, Iowa and Mary
Meyer, White.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. ID. Shaw of Grand
Rapids, Mich, were visiting a few
days this week at the home Of Mrs.
Shaw's uncle, O. A. Sutton. leaving
for home Monday morning. They have
been doing evangelistlc work in this
state for some weeks past.
Miss Ella Drew, who has taught the
seventh grade in the city schools for
a number of years, has resigned to-
accept a position in the schools of
Newton, Iowa, her home. Miss Drew
is one Of the best teachers the city
has had and patrons and scholars will
be sorry that she is to leave.
J. II Heiser of Minneapolis, arrived
yesterday morning and remained in
the city about five hours, leaving for
home on the morning passenger. Dur
ing that time he purchased a farm
south of town through A. b. Allison.
Mr.. Heiser is the proprietor of a large
restaurant in Minneapolis and has cOn
siderable real estate in this state.
Lewis Eberlien has some corn on
exhibit at the Brookings Land e.
Trust company's Office that is about
tho hngt wa ho Na calp Tho oarr ~
large and uniform and ii looks as good
as any Iowa or Illinois corn that we
have ever seen. The corn was out in
the field all winter, but is in good
condition. The land office force has
been conducting some tests to see if
it would grow after Deing exposed to
the winter weather and SO far have
had good results.
Some members of the fire depart
ment and other citizens went out to
the Slocum farm south of town Satur-
day morning TO help subdue a prairie
fire that had come up from the south.
1t was put u without doing any
damage, but a strong wind was blow
ing at the time and if sufficient help
had not been at hand serious damage
would have resulted. People should
remember that they are responsible
for all damage done by a fire which
they set and the victims can collect
the damage in court. In these windy,
dry spring days a prairie fire may do
an immense amount of damage and
it is we'll to be careful.
Richard Czerwonky, the concert
master of the Minneapolis orchestra.
which will appear in our May Musical
Festival, was brought to America by
special permission OF the German en-
perOr. Other celebrated members Of
this orchestra are: Kock. violo, from
the Dusseldorf orchestra; Seidl, oboist.
from the Vienna opera: Won Whitman,
contra-bassist, from Leipsic; The
three Woempners, all futists. from
the Mannheim orchestral; Hynen. first
bassoon, from Brussels; Minsel, first
French horn. one of the most cele-
brated players of this instrument; VII
liams, harpist, from the Queens hall
orchestra Of London, and many Others
almost as eminent. The total number
in the orchestra will be sc.
C. y. McIlvaine stated this after
noon that today Kingsbury and Nc
Cook counties applied to him for
space in the agricultural building for
exhibits at the mex state fair. This
makes 16 counties SO far to- apply for
space of % ID feet each. There is
every reason TO believe that if the
crops are good this year the agricu.-
tural exhibits will be the largest ever
gathered in one building. There will
probably be 20 counties representa-
and besides these the Agricultural Col.
lege and three sub-stations. Highmore.
Cottonwood and Eureka, will have eX-
hibits. The following counties have
already engaged space: Butte, Clay,
Clark, Hyde, Hughes, Perkins, Pen
nington, Sphinx, Hand, Miner. Brown.
Turner, Brookings, McCook and
Observation-Disclosures.
The advertising fakir mentioned
below visited Brookings this spring
and found a few suckers here, al
though it is a mystery how a man of
ordinary business ability will bite al
such things. The Watertown Herald
says: AN advertising fakir went 70
Mitchell recently and worked the hotel