The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-07-20
and the audience that listened to the
governor was a fine one.

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governor was a fine one.
Ex-Governor S. II. Elrod Of Clark
was on the platform during the af
~ternoon and introduced Governor
Glenn, and their meeting here makes
quite an interesting story. During
the last ten years the state has been
considerably wrought up at times
over the North Carolina bond money,
amounting to $4,000, which South
Dakota received. These bonds were
given the state by New York capita
lists, who held other bonds of the
same issue to the amount of about
n hundred thousand dollars and
which had been repudiated by North
Carolina. These private owners
could not sue a state, so they in
duced South Dakota to act as a cats
paw and this state by getting a Judge
ment against North Carolina on it's
ten thousand dollars worth of bonds
made the whole issue valid. Several
attempts have been made since to
refund the money to our southern
sister state, but the last legislature
turned it in to the general fund where
it will remain. 1t is certainly not a
transaction that any South Dakotan
can be proud of. In 1904 while gov
ernor Mr.. Elrod sent a special mes
sage to the legislature urging that
the honor of the state be upheld by
the return of the money. Mr.. Glenn,
then governor of North Carolina, sent
him a very cordial letter thanking
him for his efforts, and they became
well acquainted through a friendly
correspondence. At the time Prof.
Kerr was private secretary to Gov
ernor Elrod, and he sent a special
invitation to him to be present Fri
day and meet Governor Glenn. They
met as old friends, although they had
never seen each other, and spent a
most pleasant day together.
Saturday afternoon DR.. L. A. Steiner
was the speaker, his subject being
The Trail of the Immigrant" and
he gave a most pleasing lecture, eX-
planning in an interesting way the
transformation of the foreign immi-
grants into good American citizens.
Sunday afternoon Walt Holcomb de-
livered one of the very best lectures
of the week, his Horse Race" being
a most interesting and at times ex-
citing discourse on character. He
attracted a fine crowd and no one
was disappointed with what they
heard. The evening program was fea-
tured by an excellent sermon on the
Bible by DR.. Dent Atkinson.
The entertainments during the last
of the week were pleasing, especially
Everett Kemp, the monologist, on
Friday evening. Pamahsika and his
trained pets on Thursday afternoon
we're very good and served as a pleas
ing change from the ordinary run OF
the chautauqua. The Ursula Young
Concert company and the Highland
Ladies Orchestra furnished the music
of the last three days.
Miss Mable Killing had charge OF
the children's work during the week
and on Saturday evening she put her
youngsters through their PAGES for
thirty minutes to the great delight of
the audience who would have been
we'll pleased to have them give the
entire evenings performance. The
children executed Spanish and Swed-
ish folks dances, drills and games in
a way that reflected greatly to the
credit of their instructor. The young
sters were only in Miss Killings
charge for five days. having one kour
of instruction a day, which makes their
performance seem all the more re-
markable and then not enough time
was given them to put on all the stunts
they had learned. Miss Killing paid a
high compliment to her class of boys,
saying that they were the most gen.
tlemanly lot she was ever in charge
Of.
C. L. Gose, representative of the
Midland chautauqua circuit, who was
here Tuesday to settle up the finan-
cial end Of the ~chautauqua, stated that
B~rookings did very well. all things
considered, turning in larger receipts
than either Watertown or Redfeld,
and he was certain that his bureau
would be glad to put On a chautauqua
here again the coming year.