The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-02-17

Miss Stuvered. ne of the teachers
in tha Volga schools, spent Saturday
with friends in this city.
Clerk OF Courts Hanson has not is
sued a marriage license in about ten
days and says that he will probably
have to do some spring advertising.
Will accept ISL per acre, easy
terms. for the n. w. II OF 5-l11-4S, two
miles northeast of White. until March
1. If not sold before. s T. Bunday.
Arlington, S. ID.
Unitarian services at the Pleasant
Hour theatre SUNDAY evening at 7:3O
O'Clock. Subject, "A Plea for the
Higher Ownership" The public is
cordially invited.
A. r, Chamberlain left the last of
the week for Garretson, where the in
stitu:e corps resumed the institute
work which was abandoned during the
bad weather in January.
G.. +. Hepner. one of the well known
farmers living in Aurora township east
of the city. has sold his farm and
will move to this city to make his
home. He will have an auction sale
February "a.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. C. Olson returned
home on the belated train yesterday
from Chicago and other points, where
Mr.. Olson spent a couple of weeks
buying new goods. They report better
weather down east than our South
Dakota brand.
The icy walks have been a terror
to pedestrians the past week or ten
days and ii is a wonder that there Is
are more accidents. Miss Laura Babb,
one of the operators at the telephone
plant, fell on Wednesday evening and
broke a bone in her arm, but this is
the most serious fall reported.
The college basket ball team went
II Mitchell Thursday evening, and FRI
day evening met and were defeated
by Dakota Wesleyan by a close score.
The ext evening they played the city
Y. NJ. G. a. team and were the victors.
The city team has been defeating
Mitchell college all season in their
practice games. and the Brookings
teams feels that ii would have won
both games had they not been tired
out after the journey
A. J. Katz Of st. Paul, and Frank +.
HacGunke OF New Ulm, spent a few
days here this week assisting in the
woIk of taking inventory at the Col
ulnbia clothing store, in which they
are interested. The company has a num-
Der of improvements in view in the
store for the coming spring and expect
t. increase their stock. as they are
well pleased with their years bust
ness in Brookings and the work of the
local manager, G.. O. Quail.
The dramatic club of the South Da.
kota State college will present the
Shakesperian comedy Twelfth Night"
next Monday evening. February u, at
the Grand opera house. The cast is
comprised entirely Of students who
have shown marked talent in the in
]terpretation Of their different parts.
The preparation for this play has been
long and active and the members of
the club will appreciate the support
Of the student body.
His hearers sit spellbound under
the power Of the fervent u~tterances OF
the man. who delivers his message
with ~invincible logic. Mr.. Dixon speaks
with a very rapid utterance, but so
distinct is his enunciatioD that he is
not at all difficult to follow. Although
he spoke for nearly two hours, instead
Of the usual mad rush for wraps and
the door, the audience waited, seem
ing 10 hope he would return and con.
tinue TO pour forth his matchless elo-
uuelte.- III TlIt u a. I'hliN Ihi'7
AT the opera house February "a
Hon. Philo Hall Of BroOkings, pro.
poses to test the rulings Of Judge Mar.
Guis IN a recent case tried in the
B~rookings county term Of circuit court.
A little ffteen-year-old girl refused to
testify against her father in a crimi-
nal charge, claiming that she should
be excused from answering on claim
of fear Of discrimination. Judge Mar
quis ruled that the girl could not in
criminate herself and ordered her to
testify. He remanded her TO jail for
contempt OF court. The girl was the
states principal witness and the case
was brought by tho girls mother
against the father but now both the