The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-02-27
S:!th Inaugural Banquet 45 n /! 5 f'r %1 March 18th

clothing Co.
1t will do you good to see the new
silks, dress goods and laces at Skin
ner's Department Store.
Mrs. C. G. Hastings returned home
Friday evening from a several weeks
visit in Florida and Alabama,
w. H. Deeth, who is bill clerk of the
senate at Pierre, came down Fri
day night and visited over Sunday
with his family.
Mrs. Frye and twin babies came
down from %Iroquois Monday morning
for a visit at the home of her hus-
bands parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Frye.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward c. Vctter on Wa ;h%ington's
birthday. Mr.. Vetter is a mail clerk
On the north passenger, and the family
have made their home here the past
year.
Miss Hattie Young who has been
living with her brother, Prof. G, A.
Young at La Fayette, Ind, for some
months, writes that she ras returned
to Portland, Oregon, and expects to be
in Brookings in April.
Paul H. Castle gave an address at
the Pleasant Hour Sunday afternoon
in the interests of the socialist cause
This is the first of a series of five
lectures that will be given at the
Pleasant Hour each Sunday afternoon.
E. A. Murphy of Dawson, Yukon Ter
ritory, visited his uncle, w. H. Murphy
on Sunday. Mr.. Murphy is the general
manager of a railroad that runs
through tie Klondike region, and was
on his way home from a trip to Eng
land, where he made his report to the
stockholders Of the road.
C. A. Johnson returned home Sun
day morning from an eastern trip, dur
ing which he visited his daughter, Mrs.
Kleelan, at Madison, Wis. He was at
the latter place when he learned of
the death of Mrs. ]. NJ. Green and he
attended the funeral at Mt. Horeb,
which is in the same county az Madi-
son.
We are in receipt Of a program of
the annual concert given by the Baker
Montana, concert band, of which Emil
Lentz, a former well known Brook
;a-- l-o;ron. MAN &c 1no6nr Tho
program is neatly printed and from
the amount of advertising therein We
Judge that Bakers business men are
live ones. Mr.. Lentz and his brother
are in general mercantile business
there.
r. E. Clarin, the photographer, has
a new display case on the sidewalk
below his gallery that is about the
largest of it's kind ever seen around
here. 1t is ten feet long, eve feet
high and four feet wide, which provides
space enough to hold the pictures of
everyone in town. Mr.. Clarin will put
two or three cluster lights on the top,
and it will be a thing of utility and
beauty by night as well as by day.
One Of the methods used by the
Carnegie Peace Foundation for spread
ing knowledge and sentiment concern
ing the international peace movement
is the endowment of prizes for college
o~ratorical contests upon the subject.
Last year Mr.. Carnegie's representa-
tive requested DR.. X. c. Hoyt, of Huron
college, to take the iniative in introduc-
ing such contests in South Dakota. AS
a result four institutions will this year
have local contests. The state contest
will be held at the Dakota Wesleyan
college of Mitchell, and the institutions
represented will be the Dakota Yves
leyan, the State College, Yankton col
lege, and Huron college. One hundred
dollars will be used for the state
prizes.
AS the Register announced some
time ago, the carrier window delivery
at the local post Office in the evenings
will be dispensed with after March 4,
next Tuesday. The recent ruling of
the post Office department makes this
necessary, as it requires that all
clerks and carriers work only eight
hours and this time must be put in
within ten hours. AS the carriers
start to work at seven o'clock in the
morning they must be through at five
o'clock in the afternoon. This even
ing delivery has been a great conven-
fence to the people of the city, but as
a matter of fact Brookings Is about the
only Office in the country that has it,
so it is presumed that We can get
along without it If other towns can.
Under the new ruling the hours OF the
post office force will have to be chang
ed, as the evening mail will be dis
tributed in the boxes and the general
delivery window kept open until eight
o'clock. There are four clerks In the
office and IL Ia expected that two OF