The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-04-13
Local and Personal

rived the last OF the week Tor an eX-
tended visit with her sister, Mrs. NJ.
+. Culhane.
w. II. Payne, of Nebraska City. Neb.,
spent several days here the last week
looking over the city with a view of
moving here with his family.
Fred ~Stoltenberg, florist at the col
lege, returned home Friday from Min
neapolis and Chicago, where he pur-
chased a quantity OF plants for the
greenhouse.
The Woodman county convention
held here on Wednesday of last week
elected v. II. Welch, OF White, dele
gate and ]. l.. Pratt, of Elkton, alter
nate, to the state convention. The next
county convention will be held in
Volga in 1914.
Mable Erickson was operated upon
at the hospital Monday and Irma Kop-
ping OF Bushnell, was operated upon
for appendicitis Tuesday. Yesterday
morning DIR. e. l.. Moore's little daugh-
ter underwent an operation. All three
patients are getting along nicely.
Philo Hall, who is in charge of
Castlewood's interests in the county
seat fight with Hayti. now being tried
before a referee at the former city,
was home over Sunday, returning to
Castlewood Tuesday morning. He re-
ports that the contest will likely last
another week, as each side has a
large number of witnesses and the case
is progressing slowly. Castlewood
was successful in securing a ecoun of
the BALLOTS, which showed an increase
OF fifteen or twenty votes in their IA
vor.
Geo. F. Thayer received a letter
from r. ]. White from Santa Ana,
Cal, this week in which he says: I'VE
are eating garden sass right nov and
strawberries are getting plentiful
again. A bunch of twenty-eight
Brookings county folks went out to the
county park for a picnic last Tuesday,
There were the Lambs, McCombs,
Drickens, Cunninghams, Dineharts,
two Palmer families, two Meyer fami-
lies, the Reeves. Mr.. Seaton and the
Whites. We had a big time a big din
ner."
We hope no one will forget the dis
trict convention OF the Missionary
society for May 4th and 5th, mention
ed two weeks ago. It is hoped that all
who can find II possible to attend,
will do so. II Is not often that we
have the great pleasure OF listening to
n so well prepared to tell US OF the
conditions in China, and of the work
of the missionaries there, as is Miss
Hughes. who has spent several years
there, and who will be present at the
convention. and who will speak on
the evening of the 9Th.
When j.. C. Rockwell's Sunny
South company appears in the Grand
Opera House, Bookings. Thursday
evening. April Goth, local theatre
goers will have an opportunity of
judging for themselves just what a
first class colored organization really
is. This is a colored company through
out, being composed of twenty-five
people, including some of the cleverest
and most versatile performers in their
respective lines at present before the
public. 1t is recognized from coast
TO coast as being one Of the strongest
and most capable of it's class. Com
edy Is all that Is aimed at and nothing
else reached, bar some very clever
singing. dancing and thrilling special
ties, which will make the audience sit
up and take notice.
The presentation by the United
Play Co. (Inc) of Charles Klein's lat
est play, The Third Degree" at the
Grand on tomorrow evening with q
cast Of sterling players of acknowl-
edged reputation which includes Sar-
ah Padden, Ralph Ramsey, Raymond
Wells. Arda La Croix. Harry Farm.
nam, Grace Lord. Joseph Garry,
florence Pendleton and others Of
note, should attract unusual atten-
ion. Mr.. Klein has in this play writ
en- an even more virile and vital con.
ribution to dramatic literature than
assa IN "The Lion and The Mouse"
are laid in New York and
|eal with q certain condition Of so
ial life in which society leaders, both
,ale and female. are the central
cures. working ont the story. the
nth0v attacks the method used to