The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-10-19

Go to the Pleasant Hour for a nice,
clean, cheap entertainment.
o. A. Hagen made a business trip
to Elkton between trains Tuesday.
Geo. II. Larrabee came up from
Aurora Monday evening and remained
between trains.
Mrs. l.. G. Borst left Tuesday morn
ing for a visit Of a week or ten days
at Mason City, Iowa.
Miss Florence Erb departed Sunday
evening for Los Angeles, Cal, where
she will spend the winter.
Miss Hattie Palmer went to Man.
kato Monday morning to her
studies at the commercial college.
T. Floyd Durland, went to Mankato
the other day where he will take a
course at the Mankato Commercial
College.
Miss Nina Waters, matron OF the
college dormatory, was called to Madi-
son the last Of the week by the illness
OF her mother.
Miss Carrie Haas of Arlington, a
graduate of the college last year, was
down Saturday to visit friends and
take in the football game.
A big crowd of out Of town people
were here Saturday to see the big
football game. Many Of them yer
former students Of the two colleges.
Remember the opening number Of
the lecture course next Monday ev-
ening. This is the lie Brun Grand
Opera quartet, one of the strongest
numbers Of the entire course
Iowa farm to exchange for Brook
ings county land, $50 acres well inn
proved stock and grain farm 4 miles
from good town. See the Farmers
Land Co, Office over Coles Shoe
Store.
Miss Ethel Cottingham OF Airing
ton, and Miss Lorraine Owens OF Mt.
Vernon, came down Saturday morn
ing and visited over Sunday. Miss
Cottingham is a teacher at Arlington
and is a sister of ]. T. C~ottingham.
Rev. w. M. Jennings, Of Blue Earth,
MINI, former pastor of the First
Presbyterian church here, arrived
from Minneapolis Tuesday morning
and visited his old Pensioners for a
few hours, returning home on the
morning train.
Claus Johnson, the catcher of the
famous BroOkings Reds, was in the
city Tuesday on his way to Redfield,
where he will work as a plumber. He
has been playing with the Wausau
team of the Minnesota Wisconsin
league the past season.
M. A. Dahl of Minneapolis, a former
resident Of Brookings, has been spend
ing the past week here visiting rela-
tives and on business. He is now
on the road as representative of the
T. X. Kelly Sales System, which has
branches at Minneapolis, Chicago and
Winnipeg.
Rev. James Henderson, coach of
the Vermillion football team, re-
NAMED in Brookings over Sunday,
speaking at the Episcopal church
morning and evening and at the Y.
NJ. c. A. meeting at the college in
the afternoon. While here he was
the guest of President Slagle.
Mrs. John Dokken went to the Twin
Cities the last of the week to select
a supply Of furs for the Bookings
Fur company, Of which she and her
husband are the owners. She will
also try to secure the services OF two
or three furriers, as the company has
more work on hand than the present
force a take care OF.
John Dokken is just completing
three concrete bridges Of small size
dlOuS Iue Dlllc vi hOhCl lood WOo'
Of town. These are the first concrete
bridges in the county, marking a dis
tinct advance in road building, and
it is probable that they will come
into general use on other roads. While
they are of course, lore expensive
than the wooden structures, they are
understandable and are absolutely safe
at all times.
It is not generally known, but Mrs,
Mary ]. Holmes wrote her book LENA
Rivers" which has made such a popu
lar and successful play, around scene
which she had actually visited, and
modelled her characters after people
she knew in those localities. Mrs
Holmes taught school in the South
for several years, and while there
studied the people and their manner
isms, with the result that she i'm
parted the Southern air to her book.
At tho M r conference of the state