The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-10-24
Local and Personal

Miss Amy Ladd, who is teaching at
Elkton, visited friends here a few days
last week.
Rev. and Mrs. Gardner returned
home Thursday evening from their
visit of a couple of weeks in Iowa.
The heaviest frost of the season
came Monday night and took about all
the leaves that remained on the trees.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. j. bitterness motored
over to Dell Rapids Saturday after
noon and spent Sunday with relatives.
Mrs. l.. b. Billings, who spent a
few days visiting at the home of her
cousin, DIR. Hill, last week, departed
Thursday morning for Chicago.
The Baptist Ladies Aid will hold its
annual chicken-pie supper in the
church parlors Friday, November l..
Supper from $50 until all are served.
DR. Slagle, Misses Fromme and Kel-
ly, Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Miner and Frank
Telkamp were the Brookings people
who attended the state grange meet
ing at WatertoWn last week.
Misses Dawes, Bogstie, Caldwell,
H%artgering and Anderson returned
Monday night from Vermillion, where
they attended the Y. w. c. A. conven-
ton as delegates from the college.
w. h. Stowe and Morris Shea de-
parted Thursday evening for the Hot
Springs sanitarium. They expect to
take treatment about six weeks, but
Mr.. Stowe may decide to remain there
indefinitely.
Geo. Wells. who is in the mercantile
business at Seneca. was down a few
DAYS this week visiting at the home of
his father-in-law, Thos. Tinker. Mr..
Wells says that he is doing a fine cash
business in spite of a rather poor crop
out there.
The duck hunting has been very
good up until the last week, when
there has been practically no shooting
and local hunters are undecided
whether the birds have all gone south
or are still waiting up north for colder
weather.
j. X. Fridley returned Thursday
from Minneapolis, where he went last
week with the tenan from his farm
who was severely injured in a run.
away. The mans back was not
broken as first supposed and the doc
tors were of the opinion that he would
live.
Miss Elenor Moore, who is to be
superintendent of the hospital under
the d~eaconess management, arrived
from Chicago today 70 take up hel
work. The hospital has several pa
tients in il at present and will not bt
closed for repairs until they are dis
charged, about the last o. next week
Monday was the last day for films
election petitions and on that day thu
county auditor received the petition
of James Wright, who will go on thu
ballot as an independent candidate fol
county commissioner in the Volga dis
trict. The Register job rooms thi
week completed the job of printing
the ballots for this county.
The Ford repair shop has been NOV
ed to the Fridley garage, and V. d
Wilcox, who vas in charge of the Fore
shop, has taken the position of fore
man of the Fridley repair shops. a
f. Bunday, the Ford agent, expects t.
use the old place as a salesroom, bu
the Fridley Auto Company will TAX
care of the Ford repair business.
There is a great scarcity of help i
this vicinity and the farmers will hav
to let some of their fall work go owe
until spring on this account. In tn
city everyone is busy, that is every
one that ever does work, but Their
are some lying idle who might b
working, and the county would nc
have to provide for their keep mex
winter.