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

" II II. Phillips and j. IT, Bush
uoIl departed on The bclated train
Yesterday afternoon Tor Winnie. Tex
where they win look over the country
Col z. G orr received a telegram
from "a friend at Selby, west Of Al
crdccn. Tuesday afternoon saying that
the storm raging there was the worst
that section had experienced since
the memorial blizzard Of 1855.
Mr. ana Mrs. F. G Paige we're in
the city n day or two the last OF the
week visiting at the home Of her par
ents, MIR and Mrs. Rufus Ames. Mr..
Paige left Saturday morning for Violin,
where he viii have charge of a drug
store. and Mrs. Paige left Monday
m%orG:as TO join him.
Prof II. II. ~LOudenback, head OF
the music department Of the college,
win give a recital at the VI. + church
February IS, and will be assisted by
Christensen's Quartette The recital
will be under the auspices Of I'VE
Girls" and the proceeds viii go to
the pipe organ fund.
Ole Seyaidsou arrived from ST. Pet
or. MINI, Saturday evening 10 take a
position as foreman OF the B~rookings
Marble and Granite works. Mr.. Sev-
aldsou has been at the business for
years and comes highly recommended
as a first class workman. His family
will Join him in a short time.
The best basket ball game Of the
eason will be pulled off in the college
gymnasium tomorrow night. when the
college team meets the strong bunch
from Dakota Wesleyan university at
Mitchell. Brookings was defeated at
Mitchell last week and they propose
to turn the tables tomorrow evening.
The next number OF the college lee
ture course will be Frank Dixon
at the opera house next Thursday,
February "a. w. II. Lippold, Y. NJ. c.
A. secretary at Fort Dodge, Iowa, says
OF Mr.. Dixon: "A masterful presen-
tation, not OF a wild enthusiast, but
OF a scholar. Clear, definite. logical,
vigorous and brilliant throughout Mr..
Dixon has the rare genius Of present
ing a weighty theme in a popular fash
ion, thus at once entertaining and in
structing his audience. His oratory,
his logic, his analysis, his satire, are
splendid. superb"
A special Lincoln Day program was
held at the M. +. church Sunday even
ing, there being a number of good
papers on the life OF the greatest Of
Americans. There were present at the
meeting seven men who voted for Lin
coin, az follows: l.. ]. Tisdaie, w. p.
Slocum, John Spilde, James Smith, r.
s. Dancer, o. A Sutton and II. II.
Avery. A Z. Vinegar was away in
New York City with his regi
ment at the time Of Lincoln's
election, and did net get a chance to
cast his ballot for him, although he
wanted TO badly enough.
That the st. Louis railroad is ser
iously thinking over the proposition of
acquiring the South Dakota Central
line out of this city to Sioux Falls is
and the deal may go through
before many weeks have passed. The
officials Of the road, several of whom
were In the city this week neither con-
firm or deny the report which Is every
evidence that the plan as outlined in
this latest railroad story and published
exclusively in the Herald last week
will be carried through. In the event
that 1t does Watertown can look for
ward to another extension out OF the
city, this one being to Fargo in North
Dakota. 1t has been known for some
time that the Dakota Central has been
contemplating such an extension just
as soon as the deal could be financed
and it is a foregene conclusion that it
could be put through If the change
as contemplated in the ownership OF
the road was made.-Watertown Her
aid.
The Arlington Sun would have Am
orleans bark back to the good old days
when, the Sun editor says, his an
cestors started the day by consuming
"a stack OF bdckwheat pancakes half
a foot high, spread thick with pork
gravy and deluged with molasses. They
added three or four eggs and a few
slices of ham and bacon; and they
were ready to begin the days work.
At noon they got away with a plate
of boiled potatoes and a half dozen
slices of salt pork, or a chunk OF roast