The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-29

a visit at Doland.
Theo. Meyer arrived from Mitchell
Tuesday morning to spend two or
three days on business.
The Sunday morning train from the
east was eight hours late, due to a
derailment near Mankato.
r. NJ. Collins arrived Monday morn
ing to take a position as machinist-
operator at the Register office.
G. H. Hoff, one Of the new pro-
p~rietors of the Olson cigar factory,
visited over Sunday at his home in
Huron.
Farmers should remember the in
stitute meetings next week, beginning
Tuesday afternoon and closing Friday
afternoon.
Mems meeting at the Methodist
church Sunday, 800 p. m. Music by
the Lutheran Mems Chorus. Address
by DR.. John p. d. John.
The thermometer registered eight
below zero this morning, and March,
which is due tomorrow, is 10 likely
to come in very lamb-like.
J. p. Olson and G. H. Hoff left
Thursday morning to make a trip to
the ~neighboring towns to acquaint Mr..
Hoff with the patrons of the Olson
factory.
You can now buy California oranges
by the peck, bushel or box at less than
wholesale price at SINNERS depart
ment store.
Friday and Saturday the weather
was very springlike, but this week
has been more like March, with plenty
of wind and occasional lurries of
snow.
II. r. Jensen left today for North
Dakota to spend about a month as
sisting his father, who is organizing
a new insurance company in that
state.
A.. Mcmillan returned home Satur-
day morning from GLADDEN., Mich,
ago by the serious illness of a brother.
He reports that his brother was not
very much improved when he left.
Bert and Jim Lane were arrested
Thursday on a charge of being drunk
and disorderly and Judge Stowe gave
them eigt' and four da" respectively,
in tina, new, comfortable city Jail. Bert
promised to leave town if released,
so he was let go Sunday and departed
for Aberdeen.
Several of the travelling men who
make Brookings their headquarters,
have joined the Commercial club and
there. They are all delighted with
the rooms and equipment which they
say are the finest in the state, and they
are certainly a good bunch to have
boosting for the city.
The depot waiting rooms and office
will soon present a more inviting ap-
pearance, as a crew of men are busy
staining the walls and vanishing the
woodwork. The walls in the mems
room are dark brown at the base,
shaded to a light brown at the top,
and a light green ceiling. In the
ladies' room the walls are green with
a cream ceiling. In the office the walls
are Of brown and the ceiling green, a
real Irish green, so Len Kendall says,
and we are willing to take his word
for it.
A series Of missionary meetings are
in progress at the Lutheran church
isis week. The first meeting vas
held Tuesday afternoon and the meet
ings will close with an English SER
vice this evening. A large number of
out of town people have been in at
tendance, and the following ministers
are assisting Rev. Fossness: Rev. Sac
terle OF Minneapolis: Rev. Skarvedt OF
Lake Benton; Rev. Rynerson Of Water
town; Rev. Dahl Of Lake Preston; Rev.
H~inderocker Of Astoria: Rev. HOl-
land of Hettinger, n. d.
Profs. n. f. Hansen and c. Larsen
were at Canton Friday and made ad-
dresses before the Lincoln county
Corn Growers association, Prof. Han
sen talking on alfalfa and horticulture
and Prof. Larsen on dairying, and
they report an excellent meeting. Prof.
Hansen brought back a sample OF
South American corn, which a on
exhibition there. but which bears but
little resemblance to it's South Dakota
cousin. Corn is a native of tropical
South America, where 1t grows to en-
ormous size, and the kernels on the
sample that Prof. Hansen has r as
large as hickory nuts.