The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-07-27
Albert ort. a recent graduate OF

q fellow snip IN HHuia"hN N"S
ing AZ the University OF Wisconsin.
The quality Of his scholarship as a
studeu, last ear was responsible
for this mark OF honor.
W ! Gentle and family returned
home Saturday morning from Mt.
Clemens. Mich where Mr.. Gentle took
treatment for rheumatism for some
weeks. They also visited relatives at
por. Huron Mr.. Gentle is consider
ably improved in health.
Roberts x Few Of this city, this
week secured the contract for the in
staIlation O: a complete waterworks
system At Ipswich, the cost OF which
will he about twenty thousand dollars.
This will keep the firm pretty busy
until cold weather comes.
We had a fine rain Saturday, near
~ an inch of moisture falling. n 1t
was without doubt the saving OF our
corn crop. as we'll as a big help 10
potatoes and other stuff. The past
week has been very cool and Monday
seemed more like October than July.
C. r Allen arrived from Tacoma
Sunday morning and will spend a
month or six weeks in Brookings. He
has sold out his interests in the
glazed tile business and with others
has purchased a thousand acres OF
fruit land, which they will plant to
trees and sell in five or ten acre plats.
Jack Balmat spent Monday in the
city one his way home to Yankton
from Watertown. He informed us that
he had secured a commission as sec
ond lieutenant in the regular army,
but has not been given an assignment,
although he has requested to be as
signed to Major Chrisman's regiment.
There will be a ball game at the
fair grounds tomorrow afternoon at
three o'clock between Aurora and
Brookings. This will be a rafting
good game, as it is the deciding one
of a series of three. BrOokings has
a good team, all local boys and they
should receive the encouragement of a
good attendance.
Services at the Baptist church next
Sunday morning at the usual hour,
1915. Subject, What an increase of
Faith Means" This is the last SER
mon DR.. Tilden will preach in the
church before his summer vacation.
During the month of August there
will be no preaching service. Sunday
school will be held at the usual hour.
T. L. Chappell has torn down the
old Clevenger house and is using the
lumber in the construction of two new
cottages. The old building was one
of the landmarks of the city and in
an early day it served the town as
a school house. Mr.. Chappell had in
tended building four houses, but has
decided TO put up only two this year.
II l.. Hopkins came down from
Watertown Monday morning for a few
days stay. He returned Saturday from
a two or three weeks trip through
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa and states that while the poor
crops are not so general as in South
Dakota those states have been dry and
in many places the crops are no
better than in this state.
Losey Williams spent a couple of
days in the city this week visiting
old friends. He has been in the
Philippines the last three years, as
first lieutenant of the Philippine con-
stabulary, a branch of the regular
army. which helps to maintain peace
in Il distant possessions. He is
home on a vacation and is visiting
his parents at WATERFOWL.
Tomorrow evening at the NJ. E.
church, commencing at SIS, Miss
Alvira Johnson, soprano, and Miss
Hannah Jacobson, reader, will give an
entertainment. Miss Johnson recent
ly returned from Chicago, where she
has been Attending the Chicago Musi.
cal college. and Miss Jacobson has
been attending the Columbia School OF
Expression in the same city.
DR.. Jensen autoed TO Brookings
early Friday morning after Peter
Christianson whom he had taken tc
the hospital there just a week pre-
vious and operated on for appendi
citis. Mr.. Christianson was feeling
good when he arrived here, in fact
he did not look like he had under
gone an operation but a week before
which can only be taken as a compli
ment for the surgical work-Hen-
bricks Pioneer.
Union services were held at the
Presbyterian church last Sunday ev
ening and the meeting was addressed