The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-02-06
Local and Personal

The Arlington Sun says that Sivert
Simonson of Volga, has bought a lot
there and will erect a large garage.
C. o. Quail left Monday night for
New Ulm and the Twin Cities and at
the latter towns will select his new
fall stock of goods.
L. c. Olson and o. o. Graves depart
ed Monday night for the Twin Cities
and Chicago, where they will select
their new fall stock of clothing.
Sunday was grounding day and as
the day was bright and sunny we pre-
sumo the small animal saw his shadow.
Anyway, it will be a good plan not to
move out the hard coal heater for
another six weeks.
A. J. Katz of st. Paul, and F. p.
Schzunke of New Ulm, spent a few
days here last week comforting with
Manager Quail of the Columbia Cloth
ing Company, returning to their homes
on Thursday morning.
A. p. Nord returned home Friday
night from Pierre, where he was in a
hospital some time with an attack of
pneumonia. He is very much improv-
ed, but does not expect to go back on
the road for some little time.
Stanley White has gone to Payson,
Utah, where he has secured a posi-
ton with the Dyer Company of Cleve-
land, Ohio, builders of sugar factories,
as time keeper and assistant cashier
Santa Ana California; Register.
The same identical cast and scenic
production which has been seen for
long engagements-in New York, Chi
cago and other leading cities is posi-
lively guaranteed to appear here with
George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly"
Every scene and character in the book
has been faithfully reproduced on the
stage.
A merchant in a western town uses
a bulletin board instead of patronizing
the local paper. An old farmer visited
the town the other day and read on the
bulletin board: Before you buy pants,
come in and see ours" He needed a
pair, went inside and was Mortified to
find that there was not a man clerk in
the place. He bought a corn-cob pipe
and fled.
Prof. c. Willis, formerly connected
with the college and TO- editor of the
Northwest Farmstead at Minneapolis,
was here Saturday on his way home
from the conservation congress at
Pierre. He informed us that while
there was considerable agitation for
the consolidation of the state insti-
buttons at Pierre he did not anticipate
that it would amount to anything
more than agitation.
BY working the following problem
the result will give you the name of
article that frequently tries the tenn
per of the best natured m Place
the year of your birth on a piece of
paper; add your age at your last birth
day; multiply the result by one thous-
and and substract 697,423. Substitute
for the figures letters of the alphabet,
viz: A for 1, B for 2, C for 3, etc, and
read the result carefully.
In Trenton school district No. 81
the month of January the following
pupils have been neither absent nor
tardy: Delbert Fabrick, Cecil Nc
knight, Homer Mcknight, Ardelle Nc
knight, George Mcknight, Clyde Nc
Knight, Eula Herman, Mildred Herr
man, Earl Palmer, Charles Palmer,
Bertha Saba, Basil Telkalnp, Harold
Telkamp, Lizzie Telkamp, Emmett Tel
kamp, edna Watson, Edwin Watson.
Mamie Smith, teacher.
c. E Childs of Palo Alto, Cal, a
former well known B%rookings resident,
writes DR.. Hyde telling him of an auto
mobile trip the Childs family tool from
Palo Alto to San Diego. 1t was made
during the cold snap, which struck the
Sunshine State last month and the
party nearly froze to death and several
times the auto froze up. They We're so
disguised with the weather when they
reached San Diego that they shipped
their car home and made the return
trip by railroad. Mr.. and Mrs. Childs
had invited DR.. and Mrs. Hyde to go
out and make the trip with them, but
the doctor tells us that now heis very
glad they couldn't 60, as they could
hardly have withstood the rigors of
the California winter.
An attempt is being made to induce
the legislature to make an appropria.
ton for an experimental denatured
alcohol plant at the Bookings college.
1t would seem that the wisdom of
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