The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-01-20

The Bruce Implement company can
supply your wants in seven-foot box
sleds.
Guy Abbott was down from Huron
visiting friends a couple of days the
first of the week.
Mrs. J. w. Catlett went to Estel-
line the last of the week and spent
few days with her former neighbors.
Mrs. T. A. Mutt departed Tuesday
morning for Zinesvil,e, Indiana, be.
ing called there by the serious illness
of her mother.
Miss Anna Nolan left Tuesday morn
ing for Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she
has accepted position in a large
wholesale millinery house.
Superintendent of Institutes Cham
berlain was home visiting his family
over Sunday, leaving Monday morning
for Mitchell to attend the corn show.
Have you heard George NJ. Cohan's
latest march. entitled "Popularity?'
1t has the real Cohan swing and will
be popular with lovers of terpsichor-
can art this winter.
The Ladies Aid society Of the Pres
byterian church will be entertained at
dali, assisted by Mesdames b. w.
Thompson, John Alton and Harry Ri
ley
The ice that J. A. Farrenkop is
having hauled from south of town, is
the thlckest and best quality harvest
ed in years. this condition being due
to the unusually cold weather early in
the winter.
The minstrel performance to be
given at the opera house on the 26th
Is for the stockmen's entertainment
but seats for the balcony only may
be had at Kendall's. Admission, thir-
ty-flve cents. Curtain goes up at
eight sharp. Don't miss 1t.
Brookings friends have received an.
nouncements of the marriage OF OH
yer Grace and Miss Gladys Davies,
former college students, which occurr-
December q. They will make their
home at Philbrook, Montana, whore
Mr. Grace is special agent for the De-
partment of Agriculture.
The two weeks course in corn iudg-
ing at the college closed on Saturday,
and the twenty-eight students enrolled
in that course left for their homes.
Many of the students were middle
aged farmers and even older and
while only here a couple of weeks
they secured many valuable pointers
that will be of use to them in their
work on the farm.
A friend of the Register at Washing
ton, d. c., writes us as follows: ANY
one from Brookings who might have
strayed into the Belasco theatre last
Friday night, to witness Julia Mar
lowe and f. II. Sothern in Hamlet,
would have felt quite at home. Seat
ed in various parts of the house were:
Mr.. and Mrs Arthur Dillman, Frances
and Harry Dawson, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Kennard, Oscar Mathews and
Cecil Salmon, while South Dakota was
represented by Senator Gamble and
wife who occupied one of the boxes"
A railroad man tells us that The
late trains are due not so much to
the snow as the poor engines used
on this division. During the month OF
December 100 dead" engine reports
were made on this division alone,
which gives a pretty good idea of the
way the railroad company has been
up against it. In ordinary winters
these engines would do fairly we'll
but the intense and continued cold
weather of The past few weeks has
been tough on them. The cold makes
the steel more brittle and with the
read bed frozen hard as rock the
engines soon develop a leakage in the
boilers and flues and that puts them