The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-07-06
Local and Personal


Sphinx county to look after his farms.
Miss Vera and Verne Pratt of Elk
ton. spent the Fourth with their sis
ter here.
Miss Clara Christie, OF Volga, is
visiting in this city at the home Of
Mrs. Jesse ~Farrankop
A +. Gose. manager Of the lyceum
bureau which furnished the chautau-
qua talent, was here Monday.
Miss Vivian Hall left Friday for
Washington state, where she will
spend several weeks with relatives.
John turnstahl arrived from Hib-
bling, Mimi, Monday evening for a
few days visit with Brookings friends.
DeAlton Whitson, of Minneapolis,
who recently purchased the Smith
confectionery store, took possession
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Grove Of Wis.
c%Onsin, are visiting at the home Of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Grove
this week.
Mrs. A. Il. Schoenwether of Lake
Preston. has been visiting at the
home Of her father, w. A Caldwell
the past week.
County Auditor Bitterness and fam
lily returned home Thursday evening
from a weeks visit in the southern
part Of the state.
DIR. Il. w. Forsee returned home
Tuesday evening from Kahoka, Mo,
where he was called last week by
the death of his father.
The college has received word from
many parts Of the state that the grass
hoppers are doing much damage to
what Is left of the crops.
Miss Elizabeth Cady, stenOgrapher
for the Culhane Adjustment company,
went TO her home at Pipestone Sat
urday to spend her vacation.
Prof. II. G. Solberg and family re
turned home Thursday evening from
Spring Valley, Mimi, where they
spent a couple OF weeks with relatives.
Nathan Hawke, who has been visit
ing at the home OF his daughter, Mrs.
ID. S. Wyckoff the past month, left
Saturday morning for his home at
Estreyille, Iowa.
The cornerstone of the new Catho-
lie church at Aurora will be laid to-
day. Seven or eight priests arrived
here last evening 20 assist Father
Shean with the ceremony.
Frank Massat of Parnell township,
was arrested the Fourth for drawing
a knife on n of his ~neighbors. He
gave bond for his appearance before
the court here mex Saturday afternoon.
Rev. William Hall Williams, who
last week resigned as pastor of the
Episcopal church, departed Monday
morning for Boston, where he will re-
main until he decides d~efinately upon
a location He was accompanied by
his ward, Louis Richards.
Jay I. Cottingham, who graduated
from the college this year, departed
Monday for a two months visit with
relatives at various places in this
state, Iowa and the west. September
Isl he will return to Erookings to
take up the study of law in the Office
Of Hall, Roddle & Purdy.
r. w. Whitmus and family left Mon
day evening for Willmar, Mimi,
where they will make their home,
after spending a week with his par
They came here from the Pa
cifc coast, where Mr.. Whitmus was
a railroad engineer, and he states that
business conditions are very unsatis-
factory along the coast.
BY the last number of the Huron
College Bulletin we notice that the
school has nearly $500, 900 toward its
half million dollar endowment fund.
Brookings citizens have contributed
llDerdlly 10 tnlS iund, considering the
fact that we have an educational in
of our own. giving $500,
twice as much as Sioux Falls and
three times as much as Waterfowl,
Pierre and one or two other larger
A bright and healthy pair of twins
were born to Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Mont
gomery of Hendricks on June %. The
girl weighed seven and a half pounds
and the boy seven pounds and they
give every evidence OF growing to
and vigorous children. This
is the second pair of twins born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Montgomery in the last
two years, which is quite an unusual