The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-02-27

~ II. OOIllSOn was ONt llOlu NOlSd
on business between trains Tuesday.
Father Flynn was down from Estel-
ling visiting Father Shean on Tuesday.
The roller rink is open for rent to
private parties every Tuesday evening.
Be up-to-date. Trade in your upright
and get a player-piano at Mrs. Jessie
Kelly's.
+. G. Olson left Tuesday morning for
Minneapolis to spend a few days on
business.
A marriage license was granted this
week to John c. Hammer and Miss
Nora Nelson of Volga.
Register of Deeds Bagley was con
fined to his home the last of the week
by an attack of the grip.
This is L~ongfellow Week at the pub
lie schools and the students are study
ing the life and works of the great
author.
Edward Olson, who is now located at
Swift Current, Sask,, Canada, came
down this week for a visit with rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. r. S. Leekly arrived Tuesday
morning from Madison, n. d., and is
visiting at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Iverson.
Mrs. James Pike returned home
Tuesday from Rochester, Mimi, having
been called there about a month ago
by the illness of her sisterin-law.
Mrs. E. O. Ensberg of Toronto, ar
rived the last of the week from a trip
to the Twin Cities and is visiting at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. j.
Dokken.
Every person that enters our store
Thursday, Friday and Saturday is
entitled to a guess on a fine fruit cake
to be given away Saturday evening, at
the Bee Hive Store.
l.. H. Skiff was at Huron Thursday
to attend the annual meeting of the
Master Plumbers Association of South
Dakota, and was reelected president
for the coming year.
P. j. Erie of the post office force, had
another holiday the last Of the week,
but this one was not at all to his lik-
ing, as he was confined to his home by
an attack of rheumatism.
On Thursday ]. H. Nielsen closed a
deal for the puchase OF the Paul pool
hall and took immediate possession.
Mr.. Nielsen was formerly proprietor
of the Brookings creamery.
s. w. Snelson, the contractor, tells
us that he anticipates that there will
be considerable Guiding in and around
Brookings this coming season. Last
year was rather quiet in the building
line, but it is expected that 1913 will
make up for it.
Mrs. Gertrude Marks is confined in
the county Jail and will be examined
as to her sanity. She has been living
at Aurora for several months, and
came there from Minnesota. 1t is
thought that her present condition is
only temporary.
A union meeting of the oranges of
Brookings county will be held at the
college chapel on Saturday, March 1st.
The afternoon session commencing at
1870 o'clock will be open to the public.
Everyone interested in farming and
rural life should attend.
Everett ~Sanderson, who has been
located at Araphoe, Colo, the past few
years, arrived Monday morning and
will again become a resident OF Brook
ings county, having rented a farm
north of Aurora. Mrs. Sanderson has
been here several weeks.
Miss Myrtle Gullick arrived Monday
evening from Chicago, where she re-
Gently received her diploma as gradI-
ate nurse, and is visiting at the home
of her father, Chief of Police Gullick.
She leaves Saturday for Houston,
Texas, where she takes a position as
surgical nurse in a large hospital.
E. ]. Ray Of the Brookings Construc-
ton Company, tells us that he has had
a large force Of men at work at the
new college building since November
and 1t will be nearly three months
more before he completes the contract.
The company has a ten thousand dol
lar contract for putting in the plumb
ing and heating systems, and the job
will take over three miles Of pipe.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Goerndt returned
home Thursday evening from Van
Horn, Iowa, where they were called u
couple Of weeks ago by the illness OF
her brother, Walter Stevens. Mr..
Stevens was using a small hand-axe
and it glanced and nearly severed the
big toe. The wound developed into
blood-poisoning and his life was dis
paired of for some time, but 1t Is now
thought that he will recover.
The neatest piece Of advertising lit
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