The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-03-27

left the lake and went south during
the wintry weather of the past few
days.
Brookings friends Of Miss Alvira
Johnson have received announcements
of her marriage to Vivian B. Asher,
which occurred at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
on March Is. They will make their
home at Cedar Rapids.
A. w. Tyner, of the South Dakota
Motor Company of Webster, state
agent for the Detroiter car, came
down Friday and delivered a machine
to John ~Swenehart, who has taken
the local agency for this ar.
It would be a good thing If the
churches of this city would adopt the
same methods used by moving picture
shows warning the ladies to take off
their hats. We believe that more men
would attend church if this was done.
The past week has been far from
~spring-like and there seems to be little
prospect for the farmers to go to work
in the field for some days yet. On
Thursday and part of Friday a near
blizzard ragged, and it has showed
nearly every day this week.
Next week the college students and
faculty will enjoy the regular spring
vacation. This date vas decided upon
last year, and evidently Ira Hicks
weather almanac wasn't consulted or
a spring vacation would V have
been staged in the midst of winter.
The Sunday Minneapolis Journal
had a picture of our court house, de-
signaling it as ~"Brookings county's
new $3.50, 900 court house" Our coun-
ty building is not SO new any more,
but publicity like that given us by
the Journal is always worth while.
A Register reader this week con
tributes an interesting article on the
mail order question and it will be
worth while for merchants to read it.
We do not altogether agree with him
and you may not, but you will have to
admit he puts p a good argument.
Mrs. Harold Davis took her little
daughter to Rochester Friday for an
operation, and word from there states
that the little one rallied we'll and is
expected to recover nicely. Mrs.
Davis was accompanied by her mother,
Mrs. Austin Of Clark, and Mr.. Davis
went down Saturday.
A meeting of the tennis enthusiasts
of the city is called for next Saturday
afternoon at four o'clock at the First
National Bank. The tennis associa-
ton will be reorganized and plans dis
cussed for the coming season. All
persons interested in the sport are
earnestly requested to be present.
Albert Moe of Preston township,
was brought here Monday by Sheriff
Halvorson to be examined by the in
sanity board. He was brought before
the board Tuesday afternoon and the
examination was continued until yes
terday %afteroon. Moe appeared ra-
tional enough and was allowed to go
home.
This week the Register has an ad
from the Square Lumber Company of
Aurora, of which F. H. Ainsworth is
manager. Mr.. Ainsworth is a good
business man and knows the value of
advertising and uses the Register as
publicity agent because of our large
list of subscribers in Aurora and
vicinity.
We understand that Mrs. J.. c..
Larson, who went suddenly insane
last week, is very much improved
and is expected to regain her normal
state of mind: Fred Raymond, the
man who shot a horse for Victor Kjos,
has also recovered and it is not known
whether or not he will be taken to
Yankton.
Secretary Gullick of the Commercial
Club is in receipt of a letter from Ben
Wood, secretary of the South Dakota
Good Roads Association, in which he
says that the credit for the good roads
movement in this state belongs al,
most entirely to the B~rookings Com
mercial Club and Prof. Solberg. That's
a compliment worth having.
Since the yellow number" was
issued Tuesday Editor Nord of the
Collegian, has been laying low and he