The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-10-13
and Personal

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The high school football team goes
to Madison Saturday to meet the high
school team of that town. The trip
will be made by auto.
Manley Champlain, special agent
for the Department Of Agriculture,
came down from Highmore Tuesday
night and Will spend about six weeks
in work in the agronomy department
at the college.
G. A. Skinner and family Of Brook
ings We're visitors at the j. T. Levitt
home in Arlington Sunday, coming
over in their auto. The two families
drove up TO Lake Poinsett in the aft
ernoon.-Arlington Sun.
John ID. Wilson is the new man
ager of the Brookings County r le-
phone company. succeeding Wood
Thompson, who has removed from the
city. Frank Thompson will remain
with the company for a time.
Arthur Schmidt, son of Henry
Schmidt. from north OF town, was OPP
Grated upon for appendicitis at the
iOODlldl Dilludy dlltI NJ VII l utS-
day DR.. Jensen OF Hendricks brought
John Stensland to the hospital for
an operation.
Clerk of Courts Hanson has issued
the following marriage permits this
week: Sven Rickensrud, Arlington.
and Emma Sorenson. Bruce; Chas f..
Norton and Nellie +. Ball, Bushnell;
Emil r.. Werdiu and Tiller Hanson,
White; l.. G. LenninH and Alletta Is.
Olson, Bruce.
Rt. Rev. Thomas O'Gorman ID. D.,
bishop OF the diocese Of Sioux Falls
will administer the sacrament Of con
firmatiOn to "A class OF seventy-five at
st. Thomas Catholic church on We'd
nesday next, October 10, at 10 O'clock.
Non Catholics are cordially invited to
be present. w. r. Shean, pastor.
The Associated Players, which APP
pear here in Romeo and Juliet" Oc-
tober 81, played two lights in the
auditorium of the Northern Normal
and Industrial school under the nus
pices of the college, being the only
travelling company that has ever been
allowed to appear at the college.
The local p~ostoficc this week re-
ceiyed an automatic cancelling ma
hcine, such as is in use in the larger
offices. The machine runs by electric
motor and will cancel about six hun
dred letters a minute, handling all
letter mail and circulars, 1t practi-
Cally takes the place of one clerk
and will greatly facilitate the work
OF the office, especially at mail time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Tidball went to
Export, Ia, Thursday in response to
a message cling the serious i'll
ness of Mrs. Tidball's father, Cyrus
Miller, but before they reached there
he had passed away. Death was due
to a tsroke of paralysis, the deceased
being seventy-siX years of age. Mr..
Tidball returned Tuesday, but Mrs.
Tidball will remain at Export some
time.
The best football game of the sea
son will be played at the college grid
iron tomorrow FridayD afternoon,
when the State college team meets
Yankton. Yankton is reported to
have an unusually strong aggregation
VI llit ldtt lIdl tItN nave bttH III
training for over a month should
make them strong opponents for the
local bunch. The students will hold
their annual night shirt parade to-
night.
The fire department was called to
the home of Anton Peterson in south
Brookings Tuesday afternoon by a
blaze in the barn, which completely
destroyed that structure as well as an
old box car near which served as a
coal house. Before the department
arrived the barn was in ashes and all
that could be done was to prevent the
fire from spreading to other nearby
buildings. II is not known how the
fire originated.
Manager Charles +. Hall of the
Orange Judd Company, informs us
that the company has decided to keep
the farm paper in Brookings until the
first of the year, at least. The name
OF the publication has been changed
to the Northwestern Farmstead and ii
will be changed to a weekly, coming
out every Saturday. We are glad 10
know that the paper will remain here
for a few months at least and perhaps
arrangements can be made to retain
ii here permanently.
Robert Phelps, of the Press, Paul
butcher, of the Register. and A. +,
Horton, of the Volsa Tribune, went
over to Arlington Monday to meet
with the Kingsbury County Ben
Franklin Club. The visitors were
royalty entertained by b. +. Lloyd, OF
the Arlington Sun. and the meeting
served to thoroughly cemen the
friendly feeling already existing be
tween the brothers OF Kirgsbury and
Brookings. The discussion of costs en-
tered largely into the deliberations
but the social feature was not over