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

The first snowstorm of the season
today.
Read about the free automobile on
page one.
Watch for the opening date for the
New Roller Rink.
Sivert Simonson was owe from
Volga between trains Tuesday.
The w. c. T. L. will hold a sale OF
baked goods at Smythe's grocery Sat
urday, December Z.
DIR. j. R. Jackson, OsteOpath, sue
cessor to DR.. Bradbury. Office in
Bradbury building, phone s.
Miss Winifred Van Husen, regis
trar at the college, spent the vacation
with friends at Watertown.
z. Prentice departed Monday morn
ing for Chicago to attend the big stock
show and to visit his two sons.
| am selling hats, ribbons and
feathers at half price. Some real bar
gains. Miss Gertrude HOLSTER.
The lecture by Seumas Mac Manus
on the Irish revival will be given at
the opera house at s o'clock, Tuesday.
Mayor Leighty returned home Fri
day night from his visit at Carthage
and Mrs. Leighty and the children
reached home Sunday.
Prof. G.. A. Starring wen out to
Rapid City with the football team and
spent Thanksgiving with his parents.
Miss Ella Black returned Monday
from her visit at Yankton.
"The Irish poet proved himself n
of the most popular lecturers who
have ever appeared before Indiana
students Editorial. The Daily Stu
dent, of Indiana University.
A workman named Walters fell from
the derrick on the new college build
ing yesterday and was badly cut about
the head and bruised up. He was
taken to the Deaconess hospital.
Clarence Beatty arrived Tuesday
evening and has resumed his old posi-
ton with his brother, E. II. Beatty.
Clarence has been attending a jewel
er's school at Peoria, H., the past
year.
Mrs. d. w. Bunday of Great Falls,
Montana, was the guest Of Mrs. Nels
Gullick and other old friends here the
past week. She was called to Estol-
line recently by the death of her
father.
Tuesday the college farm shipped
two pure bred Percheron colts to a
purchaser at Fort Pierre. One Of them
was a year old and the other six
months and the two brought eight
hundred dollars. 1t pays to raise
good horses in South Dakota,
Prof. n. f. Hansen departed Mon,
day morning for Minneapolis, where
he lectures on fruit breeding before
the Minneapolis State Horticultural
Society. He goes from there to Ames,
Iowa, where he talks to the students
of the State College on fruit breeding
and Of his travels in Europe and Asia.
Two very important things TO re-
member in connection with the new
parcels post service are; That dis
tinctive parcels post stamps must be
used on all fourth-class matter begin
ming January 1st, 1913, and that sucn
matter bearing ordinary postage
stamps will be treated as Held For
Postage" and also that all parcels
must zeal the return card of the send
err; otherwise they will not be accept
ed for mailing.
Mrs. A. E. Gentle and sons, pro-
prietors of the Brookings Poultry
Yards, entered thirty-three birds at
the Winona poultry show last week
and took most of the prizes. On the
thirty-three entries they took twenty
six cash prizes, eleven first, eight Sec
onds and seven thirds. They also won
the special cash prize offered by the
Winona Commercial Club. In addi-
ton to the above they also brought
home FIVE silver medals and twSs sill
yer cups, which were offered as spee.al
prizes in the Bantam and Buff Wyan'
dotte classes.