The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-13
and Personal

Mimi.
Patrick Welsh of Moorhead, Mimi,
and Mrs. Robert Horn of Mobridge,
are here this week, called to the city
by the serious illness of their father,
John Welsh.
The pleasant weather Of the past
week has enabled the force on the
government building to push the
structure up quite a little and they
still insist that they will have it en-
closed so as to work inside during the
coolest weather of the winter. Ed.
Poole, who has the contract for haul
ing all the materials, is handling his
end of it in good shape and there has
been no delay from that source.
President Slagle departed Friday for
Washington, ID. c., TO attend the an
nual meeting of the National Associa-
ton of Agricultural College Presi-
dents and Directors of Experiment
Stations, and he is on the program for
an address. Director Wilson of the ex-
pertinent station departed Monday
morning to attend the meeting. The
professor expected TO leave Sunday
morning, but arrived at the depot as
the train was climbing the hill out of
town.
A $4,000 damage suit has resulted
from a recent accident at Hudson in
which Albert Thinner, a little boy, lost
his life by being run down by an auto
mobile driven by Frank Johnson, Of.
Hudson. The defendant in the action
is Johnson, and the plaintiff Is Richard
Thinner, father of the boy who was
killed. Johnson, since the accident,
has claimed that he was running his
automobile at moderate rate of speed
and that the little boy ran directly in
front Of the machine, making an acct
unavoidable.
Mss B0--esen. the State Field
Librarian. Szndayed in Brookings. She
had oee1 expected on Saturday to at
tend the WOnan's Club, which has in
Consideration the arranging of a series
Of talks and scory-tellings at the pub
lie library. The ladies missed her
counsel because OF faulty railroad con.
nections. Miss Borrensen is making
an inspection tour, as it were, Of all
the libraries of the state. She has
also gone to many places where there
Is no library and reports that a num-
Der are ready to establish Libraries.
Canton, Dallas, Lake Andes, Hot
Springs, and Armour have just secured
Carnegie buildings. Miss Barrensen
left Monday morning for Bstelline and
other points north.
Miss Enos has SEN lists of books
suitable for different grades to the
teachers who have spoken of them to
children with the result that a
good many new cards have been issu-
ed. Some Of the club women are find
Ing some material for their work. 1t
IS the desire of the trustees to in
crease this material as much as posi-
bic. Requests for specific books that
will help the librarian will procure i'm
nediately IL possible. Some of the
most attractive books have never been
from the shelves; for example there Is
.iley's new book Of poems, made par
-icularly interesting because OF the
last month of his birthday.
The Keokuk dam, one of the marvels
Of this engineering age, has aroused
interest of everyone; some of our
people have been there. The library
has a book on the Remaking Of the
Mississippi, beautifully illustrated. 1t
Is your library and all suggestions for
its increased usefulness will be gladly
received.
In Golfers Weekly OF December IL,
1912, there appears an editorial COM
ment concerning Fine Feathers" the
drama by Eugene Walter
which H. H. Frazee will present here
for the first time at the Grand opera
house next Monday, November II, in
which Eugent Walters latest play Is
mentioned as a worthy to
his previous works. "Mr. Walters
Fine Feathers" says the Collier al.
ticle, has been playing in Chicago
with great sccess since early August
(1912). The Fine Feathers in this
case are the pretty things which an
unconsciously selfish wife demands.
and for which her devoted young hus-
band sells his soul and eventually
wrecks his happiness and hers. This
characteristic American theme, with
people taken. as he took them before,
from the seat opposite in the "Lr
train OF the fiat overhead, Mt. Walter
carries out to its conclusion with the
same force and acrid thoroughness
which he showed In Paid In Full and
The Easiest Way"
The increase In circulation for the
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