The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-22

DR.. Witham was at Aurora on pro-
fessional business between trains yes
terday.
The baby Of Henry Paul of White,
was brought to the hospital for treat
ment Sunday.
Protect your valuable papers in a
Safety Deposit box at the First Ma
tional Bank. $1.O0 per year.
A crew of men are at work clean
ing the woodwork of the interior of
the depot, preparatory to RESTRAINING
it.
Prof. Powers, the director Of the
Dramatic club, has made a special
study of Dramatic Art and is a past
master in the art of staging plays.
Do not miss seeing Frank Kremer
in the League of Youth. Everyone
remembers Mr.. Kremer for the hit he
scored in last years high school pro-
duction.
Miss Ruth Wood has appeared on
the boards in Brookings so many
times that nothing further need be
said about her cleverness. See her in
the League of Youth.
Editor Patton of the Odd Fellows
World of Sioux Falls, and deputy
grand master of the state order, was
in the city Monday and met with the
local lodge in the evening.
Mayor Leighty was called to Garth.
age Sunday by a message informing
him that his father was very low, and
word vas received here Monday that
he had passed away. Mrs. Leighty
went down to attend the funeral.
The warm weather the latter part
Of the week just about cleaned up all
the snow, although some of the larger
drifts are still with us. This week
has been colder and spring is evidently
at some distance yet.
The commercial club this week re-
ceived the promised Oil painting from
the Great Northern railroad and it
has been hung in the club rooms. The
painting, a very fine one, is of Two
Park.
Mrs. j. w. Linn returned Monday
evening from Wisconsin and Iowa,
where she went to be with her moth
er, who died a week ago Saturday
and was taken to Iowa for burial.
Mrs. Linn also visited a son while in
Iowa.
The county officers and the care
taker of the new court house have
come to al amicable agreement re-
garding the ~janitOr work, the care
taker agreeing to look after the offices,
so that everything is peaceful and
harmonious in the fine new building.
Coach Temple tells us that his track
squad at the college is working faith
fully and the outlook is good for a
fairly strong team. OF course, the
team will have to be recruited and
built up gradually, but the other col
leges of the state will know that
Bookings is on the map this year.
The daughter of Mr.. Judd OF Bush
nell, who was operated upon at the
hospital for appendicitis last week,
was able to go home Monday.
J,ron1x ID cnrrIof u,c an11oJ %
Minneapolis yesterday morning by a
message stating that his wife was
not quite so well. She has been in a
hospital there for ONE time and has
been improving, but it is not thought
that her condition is serious.
The highly entertaining and edify-
ing spectacle of a young man being
h%ypnotized and made to play a piano
for an eight hour stretch was present
ed to Brookings people Tuesday after
noon.
President Slagle returned home the
rst of the week from Minneapolis,
Madison, Wis, and Fargo, y. D.,
where in company with Architect
Swartz Of Sioux Falls and Regents
Dwight and Hitchcock, he examined
the college buildings in those cities.
Plans are being prepared for the new
100000 building at the college and
the gentlemen wished to get some
ideas to help them in the work. The
new building at the college will be the
best and most expensive college build
ing in the state.
The warm weather of the past week
has brought the ducks north and Bert
Shepard managed to get a lone strag-
gler at the river. However, they are
not very numerous in this section, al
though they are reported to be plenti-
full at Pierre, evidently following up
the open water in the Missouri. Sew
eral have also reported that they have