The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-12-05
Local and Personal

John Matson and family visited over
Thanksgiving at Vienna.
Nominate your wife in our contest,
she can win an automobile.
Watch the Register advertising col
umnss for holiday bargains.
Nominate your daughter in our o II
test, she can win an automobile.
All hats on sale from seventy-five
cents to $3.50. Miss Gertrude Hollis
ter.
Thos. %Jorgenson of Big Sand, Mon
tana, was a guest at the home of his
cousin, Sheriff Halvorson, a few days
this week.
Mrs. Ed. Poole and daughter Fay
visited in Volga and Oslo the latter
part Of last week.
Mrs. James Tinker departed yester-
day morning for a few days visit at
Blue Earth, Mimi.
Editor Walker of the Bruce Herald,
was in the city Tuesday on his way
home from a visit at Rochester, MINI.
Tuesday afternoon, December 10,
Seumas Mac Manus Of Donegal, Ire
land, will give a program of Irish
fairy and folk tales at the opera house.
The Degree of Honor will hold cleo
ton of officers at their hall on Thurs
day even ng, December II, and supper
will be served. All members are urged
to be present.
Mrs. Adams of Minneapolis, arrived
yesterday morning for a few days
stay at the home of her sister-in-law,
Mrs. A. 7. Grove, on her way home
from a visit at WATERFOWL.
Of Seumas Mac Ianus, who gives
two programs in Brookings, Tuesday,
Prof. Beale of Harvard, says: His
pictures charmed and instructed and
his folk-taIes held the hearers spell
bound"
The March Committee of the M. E.
Ladies Aid will serve an oyster supper
in the church dining room Tuesday
evening, December 10. Price 25c. Will
begin serving at $50 O'Clock. Every
body invited. Committee.
The following marriage licenses
were issued by Clerk of Courts Han
son this week: Fred c. Hartley and
Marie Bulger of White; Chas. E. Bent
and Leila Nichols of Bookings; G.
Evenson Ct Bruce, and Eva I. D.. Nelson
of Lake Benton; Geo. o. Davis and
Elizabeth G.. Soden of Bushnell.
The Girls Glee Club Of the high
school are working on an operetta,
20 Hanu San, or THE Japanese Girl"
which they will present on the ~eJening
Of December 16, at the opera house.
The operetta is a pretty and effective
one, giving a picture of Japanese life,
and unusual in having an all girl cast.
A card from James Natesta, who
went overland to Los Angeles, says:
we arrived at our destination all light
and had a delightful trip. The wealth
er was fine and we ran n all kinds
of roads, but made the $500 miles in
twenty-five days of running time, en-
joying every mile. Please send our
Register"
For the next three weeks the Regis,
ter advertising columns will be filled
with helpful hints for holiday buyers,
and it will pay you to carefully note
the bargains listed. The prosperous
year has led the local mechants to put
in unusually big stocks and they can
offer you as good a selection of holiday
goods and at as reasonable prices as
anywhere else in the country.
Hon. T. w. Dwight, member of the
board of regents, and Geo. Schlosser,
secretary of the Sioux Falls CONNER
cial Club, spent Tuesday at the State
College, the guests of President Slagle
and both gentlemen addressed the stu
dents at the weekly convocation in the
morning. Mr.. Schlosser was particu-
larly interested in the sugar beet e *
periments conducted by the college
station and spent most Of the day 60
ing over the statistics with Prof. Shep.
ard, as Sioux Falls is planning to in
stall a beet sugar factory.