The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-03-13

Friday morning and spent the day
with relatives.
Mrs. j. w. Holiday went to Elkton
Thursday morning to put her son
Elmer in school.
+. c.. Olson returned home Sunday
evening from a ten days business trip
to Minneapolis.
Mrs. G.. F. Thayer left Thursday
morning for Madison to attend a meet
ing of the d. of H.
Miss Krete Kendall departed Thurs
day morning for Sioux City for a
visit with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. John O'Leary of Elk.
ton, were guests at the Hurney home
the last of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. p. Alexander went
down TO Elkton Friday morning and
spent the day with old neighbors.
Prof. II. C. Solberg went [, Spring
field, Mimi, Friday evening and in
the evening was the principal speaker
at a good roads meeting.
DIR. A. n. Hume and Prof. j. G.
Hutton went to Lake Benton Friday
morning and spent the day collecting
specimens for class work.
Paul Hartmann writes us from
Rock Creek, Mimi, that the family are
nicely located on their farm and are
well pleased with that section.
Miss Gertrude Stedman departed
the last of the week for Minneapolis
where she entered Asbury hospital
for an operation for appendicitis.
Prof. Gage of Huron college, spent
Thursday here looking over the do.
nestle science department of the col
lege. Huron college expects to add a
department of this kind in the near
future.
Clarence Conklin was here the last
Of the week visiting at the home of
his father, Alderman Conklin. Clar-
ence has been running a hotel at Ray,
Mimi, but recently sold out and is
looking for another location.
The first rain of the year came late
Sunday night and after a short time it
turned into a wet snow. This mois-
ture was very acceptable as the
ground vas very dry and it will put it
in fair shape for spring work.
Big crowds have attended the c. A.
Skinner & Ellis Company's "houl
sales during the past week. This is
a new feature of merchandising in
Bookings and evidently is proving
very popular. The sales will continue
the next week.
II. C. Shusler returned to his home
at Britton Thursday evening, after
spending a few days here as a guest
at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. p.
Ryger. Mr.. Shusler is a prominent
dairyman and was here to attend the
S. ID. S. G. Dairy Club banquet.
We are in receipt of a card from j.
f. Brooke, who is located at Kansas
City, and his friends will be glad to
know that he is still on earth. On the
card is a picture of the building of the
Kansas City Star, which Jim says is
an ideal newspaper plant, and he ought
to know.
Attorney w. E. Purdy went up to
Watertown Thursday evening TO rep
resent Mrs. Nettie Thomas in her suit
for divorce before Judge Sherwood
and the decree was granted by the
court. The couple moved here from
Illinois a year or two ago and pur-
chased the Cole farm east Of the city,
where Mrs. Thomas is now living.
Thomas is now living in the city.
1t appears that the reason why the
anti-gambling ordinance was voted
down so unanimously last week was
because it was a little too drastic, in
the opinion of the aldermen. The ques-
ton Of where the line should be
drawn is a delicate one and it will be a
hard matter to get n lumber OF
men, or women, to agree just what
should be allowed and what should be
prohibited. The aldermen are receiv-
ing some praise and some kicks for
their vote en- this question, but that
all goes with the job.
1t is an unwritten law Of the Brook
ings post office that when a member
of the force receives a raise in salary
it is UP to him to provide a feed" for
the rest of the bunch. Recently Oscar
Johnson's monthly stipend was in
fated to some degree, so IL will be
host to the bunch next Saturday even
ing. By way o; entertainment for his
guests Oscar is going to put on a
track meet and this will be held on
the county fair grounds. The entries
are all in and indications are that the
meet will be a most extraordinary
affair. Postmaster Oyloe is entered
in the 100-yard dash and with a run
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college students he has been ardeously
training in the alley back of the post
office the past week. We have watch
ed him in one or two workouts and he
shows considerable speed, but he will
need it all when he goes against p. j.
Erie. Mr.. Erie has been taking pri-
vate lessons under Trainer Temple
and Jim tells us in confidence that
"Pete" is so fast that when he gets
started he has hard work stopping
. himself. G. NJ. Anderson and H
Christofferson are entered in the high
hurdles, and Charley Collins and Hans
Korstad will run the low hurdles. Both
of these events should be close, but we
refuse to predict the time. The three
legged race is another event thai
promises to be interesting. In this
race Will Vinegar and Ray Breed viii
be tied together as n team and the
other will be formed by the splicing
of Harold Davis and Clarence Kaprud
Henry Arnescn and Martin Christof
ferson are the entries in the potato
race and to kind of even up the race
Martin will ride his bicycle. Mr..