The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-02-16


President Slagle made a few days
visit at Pierre the last of the week.
Mrs. Frank Guerdet left yesterday
morning for a visit with relatives at
Minneapolis.
Prof. Hansen was at Huron Satur-
day, where he delivered an address
al the alfalfa show.
We have been having Pacific coast
weather the last week. That is, it
has been warm and damp.
Hear DR.. Cadman's lecture, the next
number of the lecture course, at the
opera house next Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Riley, who spent
a week with relatives and friends, de-
parted Friday to their home at Fair
bault, MINI.
On Monday Senator Miller Of this
county introduced a bill in the legis-
lature appropriating $4,000 for a dairy
building at the college.
If you want that monograph, sewing
machine, typewriter, bicycle, gun or
revolver repaired, or any lock and key
work done, see ID. Sharp.
Mrs. Nellie Allen and mother, Mrs.
Guerdet, left this morning for Den
Yer. Colo, called there by the illness
of a sister of Mrs. Guerdet.
Guy S. Abbott is packing up his
drug stock this week preparatory to
moving it to Yale, Beadle county,
where he will engage in business.
Walter J. McMath, district manager
for the Mutual Life Insurance com
pany of New York, IA here this week
and appointed Harry G. Williams local
agent for the company.
j. NJ. Mailander, who has been en-
plOyed at SINNERS department store
for several months, left yesterday for
Chicago. He expects to go on the
road for a wholesale house.
The Presbyterian Ladies' Aid So
ciety will meet at the home Of Mrs.
Rudolph Thursday, February 23. Mrs,
~Sanderson, Mrs. Koch and Mrs. Shell
don will assist in entertaining.
The following took the clerk-car-
rier examination at the postofice Sat
urday: Harry Wornson, O. O. Slocum,
Albert Hartwick, Clarence Kaprud,
Percy Gullick, Gaylord Hanson, Miss
Selma Magistad.
Chas. Delaney of Sioux Falls, was
the guest of E. C. Olson a day or two
the last Of the week. He will be as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Olson IN the new
Model store to be opened up at Sioux
Falls about the middle of March.
Miss Mildred Clark, who has been
teacher of English in the high school
for several years, has resigned her
position here and left Sunday for
Minneapolis, her home, where she
takes a position in the Southside
high school.
Mrs. Whitehead very pleasantly en-
tertained a few lady friends Monday
afternoon, February IS. Delicious re-
freshments We're served. Those present
We're Mesdames Collins. Dewing, Fish
back, Hart, Kendall, Robinson, Sher-
win, White and Wilson.
The college basketball team met
a rather bad defeat at Aberdeen on
Friday evening, when the Normal
school won out by a score of AZ to
10. The team was scheduled to meet
Huron on the trip, but the game was
not played, owning to a misunder-
standing.
w. A. Garfield has rented the Rude
building, next to the Corner grocery.
and will open a confectionery and
fruit store. He expects to have his
stock here the last of this week and
will be in running order by Saturday.
He will have a nice clean, fresh stock
and will without doubt secure his
share of the patronage.
Mrs. Z. u. Hastings received word
last week of the death of her brother,
Thos. Fitzgerald of Virginia, MINI.
He met leath under the wheels of a
passenger train, where he was thrown
while ~alighting. His family We're leav-
ing for an eastern visit and he had
on the train bidding them good
bye. On account of train connections
Mrs. Hastings was unable to get there
time for the funeral.
The college glee club and orchestra
returned home Tuesday night from
their weeks tour. They will give a
concert here tomorrow night and next
week to go to Watertown and Estelline.
They report a dandy trip and state
that their concerts were well received
in every city and in each case were
return dates. They did not
make a mint of money of course, but
they had satisfactory houses in all
but n or two towns. The tour was
a dandy advertisement for the city