The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-03-28

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Miss Ella Eidsmoe Of B~eresford, a
former college student, is visiting
friends here this week.
County Commissioner Lewis John
son was over from the west side be-
tween trains Saturday.
Mrs. Morris Shea was called to
Iowa Saturday morning by the death
of a relative.
The warm weather Of the past week
makes it certain that by next week
spring work will be in full blast.
The high school needs a piano.
Come and help increase the fund by
attending Sylvia" at the Grand,
March Goth.
Superintendent Morton of the city
power plant, returned Sunday morn
ing from the Twin Cities, where he
took in the electrical show.
Mrs. Patterson is having an ad-
vanced Easter sale OF pattern hats
and novelties, beginning Friday,
March 22nd and continuing until Eas-
ter.
Mrs. Cecil Salmon of Bell Fourche,
who is visiting at the home of her
brother, Rio Miner. spent a few days
with friends at Bruce the last Of the
week.
S. ]. Wood of Pierre, was in the city
the last of the week visiting his
brother, viii and old friends. Mr..
Wood is still suffering considerably
from a broken foot, which he sus-
Henry Erdmann, the college stud
ent who secured the contract for sur
veying the site of the government
building at Main and Fifth streets,
completed the work Saturday.
o. Norman and family and Mrs.
Bouchine of Deuel. county, arrived
yesterday morning and are visiting
at the home Of T. o. Bogstie. Mr.
Norman has a son who graduates
from the school of agriculture today.
John P. Erie, n Of the old time
and highly respected residents of
the city, passed away at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. J. F. Farrand. yes
terday morning. His death was due
to heart trouble and he was eighty
years of age. The funeral will be held
from the Lutheran church tomorrow
afternoon at Two o'clock.
Prof. R. F. Kerr returned Friday
night from Pierre, where he was cal
led to sit for his portrait which was
done in oil by a we'll known ST. Paul
artist. This portrait, in company
with those Of the other ex-presidents
Of the State Historical Society, will
hang in the Society's rooms in the
new capitol.
There has been quite a little i'm
provement made in the basement of
the opera house, the old dressing
rooms having been discarded and a
new set of rooms for that purpose hay-
ing been constructed in the vacant
room west Of the dining The
new rooms are roomy and comfortable
and are a big improvement over the
old quarters.
Sheriff Benton of Nebraska, who
came here last week and arrested a
young man by the name Of Pratt,
wanted there for wife-desertiOn, re-
turned Friday from Pierre, where he
secured requisition papers from Gov
ernor Vessey. Attorneys of the young
man then gave notice that they would
ask for a writ of habeas corpus and
Sheriff Halvorson took Pratt to
Watertown Saturday evening to ap-
pear before Judge Seward. The Judge
set Monday afternoon at two o'clock
as the time for hearing the petition,
but as Pratt's attorneys did not ap-
pear Judge Seward ordered Sheriff
Halvorson to turn the man over TO the
Nebraska sheriff,
Last Thursday afternoon an I'M
locked switch in the east end Of the
railroad yards threw V freight
cars into the ditch. The switch was
closed properly enough, but was not
locked and when the string OF cars
struck it they forced it open. Two
of the cars were badly smashed up,
but the others suffered little injury.
The accident happened just over the
viaduct on Sixth street and the
bridge railing was torn away. The
wrecker from Huron arrived on the
scene about five o'clock and had the
wreckage cleared away by ten o'clock.
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