The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-12-26
Local and Personal

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Watch for Molly Mcdonald"
s. Marvin has been at De Smet the
past week remodeling the heating
pls Mt in the Catholic parsonage.
Mrs. Keton came down from Henry
the first OF the week to spend Christ
mas with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bushnell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Heald of Let
cher, are here this week visiting at
the home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. s. Loban.
DR.. Hill the eye, ear, nos and
throat specialist Of WATERFOWL, will be
in Brookings at the Leon hotel, Tues
day, December 31st.
Geo. H. Bishop, instructor of manual
training in the high school, departed
Friday morning for his home at Ann
Arbor, Mich, to spend the vacation.
Coming to the Pleasant Hour, Janu-
airy 24-25, 1913, pilgrims Progress"
in four reels. One Of the greatest
moving picture productions ever
played.
c. A. Johnson was down to Zum-
brota, Mimi, last week and made the
final settlement for a church and a
power house, which the firm of Void
& johnson completed there this year.
Miss Shambeaugh, teacher in the
eighth grade department OF the city
schools, handed Inn her resignation
last week, ill-health having compelled
her to give up her work here. She
departed Friday evening for her home
at Clinton, Iowa.
Molly Mcdonald" a stirring story
Of the west, will run serially in the
Register, beginning next week. This
will be the best story the Register has
ever published, and you want to read
the opening chapters.
William Corcoran, the Volga saloon
keeper, who was arrested last week
on a charge of selling liquor to minors,
was arraigned before Judge Trygstad
on Thursday afternoon. He waived
examination and was bound over to
the January term of circuit court o N
two counts. He furnished bail of 5000
in each cas-
A card from Peter Binford and wife
who are now LOCATED at Whittier,
Cal, says: please send our Register,
as we miss it very much. We arrived
here on the 9th, after a pleasant trip,
although We were not out of the cold
weather until we left Salt Lake City.
Here in Whittier the weather is beau
tiful and at nine p. m. / am writing
this without a fire"
Coach Ewing of the college, was at
Minneapolis Monday to attend a
meeting of the Dakota-Minnesota ath-
letic conference. From the Minneap-
oils Tribune We learn that an effort
was made by the representatives
from South Dakota colleges to Dust
the state university from the confer.
ence, but the matter was left over
until another year. However, Vermil-
lion was censured for playing ineligi.
BILE men and otherwise violating the
rules of decency in athletics, and it
was felt that the public should know
just why it was possible for a small
university like South Dakota to have
such a good football team.
The Christmas business at the
Brookings post office was greater by
nearly one-haf than any previous
year in it's history, and it was dis,
posed of with greater dispatch and
fore. The following figures are inter
esting and show that Brookings al
least is prosperous and we'll able tC
spend money for Christmas gifts
During the week before Christmas the
postage receipts for holiday packages
alone amounted to $754.42, an increase
of $2O8.47 over the corresponding
week last year. The banner day was
Monday, the second day before Christ
mas, when tie receipts were $1S0.S7,
an increase of about eighty dollars
over the second day before Christmas
last year. Postmaster Oyloe and the
force are to be congratulated upon
this splendid showing.
William Allison, who has been very
sick for some weeks, departed Friday
evening for Heppner, Oregon, where
his son, DR.. Harry Alison is now
located. He was accompanied by his
two sons from the west and Mrs. ALI
son and Mildred. When the party
reached Omaha, Mr.. Allison became
much worse and it was thought that
he was dying, but later word was re-
ceived that he was some better and
the journey would be continued on
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