The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-18
Potatoes bought. Farmers co.operar

Monday evening for a hunting trip
with friends.
Clare Gaylord returned home Friday
from the Black Hills, where he spent
the summer.
Lloyd Hyde departed Friday morn
ing for Dartmouth, N. H., where he will
attend Dartmouth college the coming
year.
Prof. Christensen and Messrs. Schap-
horst, Gooch, Gotthold and Rittman of
the Brookings band, spent last week
at Huron helping out the band of that
city during the fair.
The season was opened at the opera
house on Saturday evening by w. A.
Brady's production of Baby Nine" a
splendidly acted comedy that was
greatly enjoyed by the audience.
Our schools are the pride of Brook
ings. What are their chief merits?
What are their shortcomings? Hear
Superintendent Browning Sunday
evening.
Prof. C. F. Schlatter and family ar
rived home Tuesday evening. The
professor spent most of the summer
taking special work at Chicago, while
the family have been visiting relatives
in Iowa.
A. l.. Davis returned home Tuesday
morning from Excelsior Springs, Mo-,
where she spent a couple Of weeks
taking treatment. He says that he
feels better and as he lost his mus
tache down there in Missouri we know
he looks better.
The high school football team Is
thinking of going to Flandreau Satur-
day to play the Indians, but definite
arrangements have not as yet been
completed. The boys are now in good
shape after a ten days practice and
are confident that they can lick the
redskins.
The old teachers of the city schools
rendered the board of education and
their wives and the new teachers a
reception at the high school building
Tuesday evening. Dinner was served
at %six-thirty, followed by a general
social time and ending with a theatre
party at THE Fad"
Features coming at the Pleasant
Hour: Friday night, Sept. 10, only,
THE Toll of War;" 101 Bison. One of
those fine clear western pictures. Mon
day and Tuesday, Sept. 1928, "A Fair
Exchange" Wednesday, Sept. "a,
only, "In the Sultan's Power" featur-
ing Capt. Jack Bonavita, the worlds
great lion tanner.
Miss Lila Skinner departed yester-
day morning for Columbus, Ohio,
where she takes a position as instruc-
tor in home economics at Ohio State
University, Miss Lila is a graduate of
the State College and last year took
special work in home economics at
Columbia university, SO that she is
well fitted for her new position.
o. A. Hagen expects to move his
bakery establishment back to it's old
location on Main street the last of this
week. The building, which was dam
aged by fire, has undergone extensive
alterations and repairs and with the
lev floor cases and other fixtures
which Mr. Hagen has added he will be
in a better position than ever to serve
his trade.
Last week we had an item to the
effect that Geo. Kennard was evidently
a better corn raiser than N. thinner
man, and yesterday Mr.. Kennard drop
ped in to see If MI. Zimmerman had
disputed this assertion. When he
learned that he hadn't Mr.. Kennard
said that there was no question but
what he had Mr.. Zimmerman bluffed
out, and it looks that way to us.
Last week a party of Brookings peo-
pie went to I~reton, Iowa, in the John
Sloan and M. A. Karr autoes to attend
the meetings of the Northwest Iowa
~Presbytery and the Woman's Presby-
terial convention. The following were
in the party: Mr.. and Mrs. M. A.
Karr, Miss Jennie Karr, Mrs. w. A.
Caldwell and two children, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Sloan, Mrs. John Olson and
Rev. an1 Mrs. Hoffman and little
daughter.
Cecil Skinner and Bland Catlett de-
parted Sunday night for Ann Arbor,
Mich, where they will attend the state
university. Bland was a student there
last year, but this is Cecirs first year.
The former is a strong candidate for
the university football team, and
Cecil will try for the Freshman team.
The boys ordered the Register sent to
them to keep informed on football and
other lesser events that happen in
Brookings.
"Freckles" a dramatization of one
of the most widely read books in the
past decade. by Gene Stratton-Porter,
is announced for the opera house dur
ing the county fair, September 1925.