The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-15
Local and Personal

A L. Davis returned home sunday
from an extended visit to his former
home at Cozad, Neb., and departed
Monday for Chicago to buy new goods
for his two stores.
Clay Pence, who has been a student
at the college the past three or four
wears, left this week for his home at
Howard and will go from there to
Pittsburg to take a position with the
WESTINGHOUSE Electric company. Mr..
Pence completed the necessary work
for a degree and will receive his dl-
rloma with the 1912 class.
Deputy County Auditor o. o. Roe
has been confined to his home the
past ten days with a severe case OF
bronchial trouble and his condition
at times has been serious. He Will
have to give up his work for the
present and may be obliged to go to
a warmer climate. During his illness
Julius Clevan has been assisting Au-
ditor bitterness.
A certain young lady home from
boarding school, in telling her mother
how she was increasing in flesh re-
marked: why, mother, | weigh a
hundred and twenty-five pounds
stripped for gym" AS soo as the
Mortified old lady sufficiently re-
covered from the shock, she gasped:
For lam sakes, who's Jim?"-Ex.
The commercial club of Aberdeen
took charge of the farmers institute
in that city in such vigorous fashion
that they made it the biggest and
best institute ever held in Brown
{ county. Brookings county is to have
an institute the first week in March
and we would suggest that the Brook
ings Commercial club cooperate with
the institute association in making
: it the greatest institute ever held in
: Brookings.
Yankton is having a moving pic
| ture-show war which will recall the
one here several years ago. Yank-
? ton has had two picture shows for
some years and recently the opera
l house added a picture machine and
is running a moving picture show
: on all nights that the house is not
Y otherwise engaged. AS a result the
2 picture shows have combined in a
r war on the opera house, each n Of
t fering a free ticket to the other show
S with each ticket purchased.
Prof. N. E. Hansen has accepted
t an invitation to talk on alfalfa at Lem
mon some time in March. Prof. Han
sen receives many more requests for
addresses than he is able to fill, but
7 the call from Lennon appealed to
him, as it came from the commercial
club, a live booster organization, and
the country around that town is ad
mirably suited to the thorough try
ing out of the professors new varie
ties or alIal1d.
IS The Public Opinion tells of the mys
II terious disappearance at Goldfield
Nevada, of Col. T. E. Eddy, an early
resident of Watertown and a promin
h ent attorney. Mr.. Eddy has been ir
n the west for some years and was ex
s tensively interested in mining in Ne
vada. He disappeared two weeks age
t. and no trace of him can be found, fou
play is feared. Mr.. Eddy was at ont
r time a law partner of Judge Seward
The county commissioners OF
r. Thursday selected VIM. Mckee a
janitor Of the new court house at
d salary of $45 a month. Mr.. Mckee
is began work Monday, giving up hi
position at the commercial club OF
g. Saturday. Mr.. Mckee will hav
10 charge of the heating plant and clea
m up the halls of the building, leavin
the county officers to do their ow
I'd ianitor work in the offices. He claim
H. that he did not contract to take car
of the offices and the officers are col
IN. siderably wrought up over the matte
al It would seem as though in a buildin
oo of the size and p%retensions OF Brool
Of ings county's new court house thel
at should be a man OF two men II ne
cessary to do the janitor work. TT
90 county should pay what the job
%. worth in the first place, including tn
no caring for the entire building. 1t
,tb ridiculous to ask the county Officer
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