The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-10
Local and Personal


wood last evening TO visit her sister
Robert Jones, of Revillo, visited
friends in the city the first Of the
week.
Miss June L%indquist OF Milwaukee
is the guest of Prof. and Mrs. Robert,
son Cook.
Fred Moore came up from Iowa last
week to visit friends and look after
business affairs.
Mrs. w. A. Black returned home
Saturday evening from a ten days
visit at Lyons, Neb.
E. c. Olson departed Thursday ev-
ening for Rapid City to look after at
fairs at the Model store,
Mrs. f. H. Gooch and son, Leslie,
returned home Thursday evening from
an extended visit in Missouri.
Fred Cole and family departed Tues
day evening for Green Lake, Mimi,
to enjoy a couple of weeks outing.
Miss Very, pastor of the Christian
church, departed Saturday morning
for an extended visit in Wisconsin and
Illinois.
Miss Grace Lockhart of Pierre,
came down from Watertown Monday
morning to visit her cousin, Mrs. j
p. Johnson.
M. II n Aim ,n+r1ronI hnnon ENrl
day evening from a several weeks
visit with her brother and sister in
North Dakota.
Mrs. ]. /. Blote and children re-
turned to their home at Estelline Fri
day evening after a visit of a week
with relatives here.
Mrs. J. L. Jarvis has purchased a
new big Overland car, No. sc from
S. II. McCarl, the local agent. The
machine was delivered Saturday.
Mrs. H. Fishback returned home the
first OF the week from Spirit Lake,
where she and Mr.. Fishback have
been spending most of the summer.
Ross and Bruce Elliott returned
home the last of the week from Pc
oria, H., where they have been TAX
ing special work at the Bradley in
stitute.
Mrs. II. +. Mathews, who has been
visiting her husbands parents and
other relatives for the past month,
left Tuesday evening for Reno, Ne
vada, to join Mr.. Mathews.
The Register wants the name and
address of each Sunday school sup
%crintendent and secretary in Brook
ings county together with the num-
Der enrolled in their Sunday school.
Ellsworth McCarl and family ar
rived Tuesday from Wenatchee,
Wash, to visit relatives and friends.
Mr.. McCarl is now in the fruit rails
ing business at Wenatchee and likes
that country.
The city council is contemplating
fixing up the road straight west Of
the city, past the old dumping ground,
which has been in a bad condition
for some time and prevented the peo-
pie in that direction from getting to
the city.
The work on the new city hall is
going along in good shape, although
the wet weather has hindered the
force to some extent. The contractors
succeeded in filing up the old cistern
and we'll under the building, and the
concrete foundations are nearly com
pleted.
William Knisely was brought to the
hospital from Aurora Friday, with a
badly mangled right nand, the result
Of a charge from a shot gun, which
he had been carelessly handling The
hand was so badly torn that it was
necessary to amputate it. The man
is a transient and gives his home as
Chicago Heights, III.
DIR. Harry Allison, who has been
visiting at the home of his parents
the last six weeks, left Saturday morn
ing for Chicago, where he will spend
the next year in the AleXian Brothers
hospital, one OF the largest in that
city. When this valuable experience
has been acquired he will look up a
good location for the practice Of his
profession.
The mail order houses have been
shipping their catalogs and other ad-
vertising matter into this section by
the carload the past week, just at the
season when local merchants figure
that times are quiet anyway and that
it doesn't pay TO advertise. Tho mail
order houses does as much, II not
more advertising at this season OF the
year as any other, and they know the
advertising game about as thoroughly
as any set of men in the country