The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-01

hypnotic and vaudeville show.
This is examination week at the
college, the work of the first semes
ter closing Friday. The second Sc
mester begins next Tuesday morning
Fresh barrel of French Auto Bat
teries just received at the Fridley
Auto Company.
Since the commercial club moved
into its new home the increase in
membership has been steady, several
applications being hended in the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Holt returned
to their home at Woonsocket Monday
evening, after a couple of weeks visit
at the home of their uncle, e. H.
Williams.
The thermometer Tuesday morn
ing registered ten below, quite a
change from the few days previous,
but still nothing like the weather of
the early part of the month.
o. o. Graves returned home Sunday
from his buying trip to Chicago. Mr..
and Mrs. Olson went on to California,
where they will probably remain a
couple Of months.
Miss Clara Olson returned home
Monday evening from the Twin Cities,
where she went on a buying trip for
the o. o. Olson store. She also visited
relatives at points in Minnesota.
Quite a number of our citizens are
employing their moments this winter
in cutting down the few remaining
cottonwood trees in the city and con
verting them into fire-wood.
G.. II. HOLSTER Of Northern Trust
company of Fargo, N. D., was in the
city Tuesday on business. Mr.. Hollis
ter is a member of the board Of re-
gents of North Dakota.
Prof. J. w. Wilson left Monday ey-
ening for Mitchell to attend the annual
meeting and sale of the South Dakota
hJplONSu hlNO oIoCh DlSCutIo as
ISOLATION, of which he is secretary.
The leading musicians and enter
tainers Of the city, numbering over
fifty in all, will appear in the benefit
entertainment for the hospital at the
opera house next Wednesday evening.
II. G. Skinner left Monday evening
for Canova to join the farmers insti-
tute corps, of which he will be a mem
Der during the balance of the insti-
tute season, talking particularly upon
hogs and sheep, on which subject he
is an expert.
The hospital board would like very
much to have the different societies
that have selected rooms to furnish
and have not completed the same to
do so as soon as possible. The rooms
are nearly all in use and a little fur
nishing adds wonderfully to the COM
fort and homelike appearance of the
rooms.
Adjutant General Engelsby was
down from Watertown Friday and
spent the day with officers of the ma
tional guard and other friends here.
Mrs. Thos. Connolly has been very
seriously i'll with an attack Of appen-
dicitis this week and it is thought that
it will be necessary for her to have
an operation.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Roddle write
the Register that they have arrived
at Tampa, Florida, after a delightful
trip. Mr.. Roddle is feeling good and
can De out of doors all the time, as
the weather is nice and warm, the
thermometer registering between 60
and 70 in the shade. Their many
friends in Brookings will trust that
Mr.. Roddle will return home complete
IL restored in health.
Tomorrow is grounding day, when
the little animal is supposed to come
out of his winter home and take a
crack at predicting the weather for
the next six weeks. If he sees his
shadow, that is if it is a sunshiny
day, we will have six weeks more of
winter and if it is a dark cloudy day
the grounding will remain out OF
doors in the belief that spring will
come DOR However, the Dakota
~groundhogs know by experience that
We always have six weeks more OF
winter after this time, so it is doubt
full IL they even take the trouble to
come out.
There will be five issues Of the
Register published in February this
year, beginning today. This is most
unusual and will not happen again for
years. The eason for this unusual
occurrence is because this is leap
year, giving the month Twenty-Five
dayS The first publication. is The