The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-16

the week.
Mrs. w. J.. Gentle departed Friday
morning for Minneapolis to attend the
poultry show and to visit friends for
a few days.
TOMATOES, SOLID PACK. PER
CAN 10; per dozen, $1.1S. At the
Corner Grocery.
Miss Clara Olson of the Bee Hive,
left Friday morning for st. Paul on a
weeks buying trip.
Mrs. c. II. Moore of st. Paul, arrived
Friday evening for a visit at the home
of her sister, Mrs. \. B. Hanson.
The Arrival of Kitty at the opera
house on Friday evening was a fun
provoking comedy and seemed to be
well enjoyed by the audience.
The meeting of the stockholders of
the Fraternity Company scheduled for
last Saturday evening failed to ma
terialize, as no stockholders or even
directors appeared. The same old
board of directors will hold over for
another year.
For the first time in the history of
the American stage, a first class dram
attic production is on tour with a mum,
Der of celebrated clowns, acrobats and
bareback riders of the circus type
playing prominent parts. The play
is Frederick Thompson's greatest sen,
s%ation, Polly of the Circus" with Miss
Elsie st. Leon in the star part, which
comes to the Grand next Wednesday,
January %.
The stockholders of the Farmers
National bank held their annual meet
ing on Tuesday afternoon and re-
elected the old officers, as follows.
President, w. A. Caldwell; ~vice-presi-
dent, O. ]. Bitterness; cashier, T. l..
Chappell; assistant cashier, l.. A.
Bitterness; directors, w. A. Caldwell,
o. j. Bitterness, Peter Binford, f. L.
Youngburg, Martin Staven, A. P. Nord,
II. l.. Chappell.
In the company appearing in Fred
eric Thompson's Polly of the Circus"
with Miss Elsie st. Leon in the leading
part, accompanied by the famous st.
Leon company of acrobats, which ap-
pears at the Grand on Wednesday,
January %, are, in addition to a score
or more of w~ell-known actors, a mum
Der Of circus people and circus acts
which contribute not a little to the
success of the play. The big third act
sawdust ring scene, represents a three
ring circus in actual operation.
On Friday the State College passed
the 500 mark, the greatest enrolment
in it's history, and it was the occasion
for much jubiliation on the hill. Stu
dents are still coming in and many
will be here at the beginning of the
and the total enrolment should reach
900 for the year. The enrolment on
Friday was divided up as follows: Col
lege and school of agriculture, 511;
summer school. 1877; steam engineer
ing, 46; short course in agriculture, %;
creamery, II; home economics, ~;
specials, 6; total, sol.
The agronomy department of the
college will represent South Dakota
at the Fifth National Corn Exposition
to be held at Columbia, South Carolina
January q to February s. Part of the
Brookings county exhibit at the state
fair will be used and the department
will also use it's own state fair exhibit.
Prof. Champlin will put up the exhibit
and accompany it to South Carolina
to demonstrate it, and Prof. Hutton
will go down about the first of Febru-
airy to assist him. The exhibit will
illustrate the various lines of soil and
crop experiments and plant-breeding
work.
Charley Davis, one of Bushnelrs
we'll known, if not illustrious citizens,
was over Saturday. Charley did not
visit US from choice, but rather from
necessity, having intended to get off
the train at Aurora, but oversight and
the conductor put him off here. He
was gathered in toward evening by
Chief Gullick on a charge of being
drunk, but when brought before Judge
Trygstad he protested his innocence,
declaring that he was ''only tired"
However, his honor was deaf to all
e~ntreaties for mercy and tackled on a
five dollar plaster. Charley a I'M
able to produce the flyer, so ne was
locked up until the next morning and
then allowed to go his way.
Elsie st. Leon, in the title role in
Frederic Thompson's massive produc-
ton Of Polly Of the Circus" with it's
two loads of scenery and its troupe
of trained animals, acrobats, bareback
riders, sufficient in number to cause
even some regular tent shows to suffer
by comparison, takes possession Of the