The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Smith were over
from Volga on Tuesday.
McCalley Company at the opera
house Thursday, January 80.
f. C. Olson returned home Friday
morning from a visit to the Rapid City
store.
Pure Vermont Maple Sugar and
Syrup for sale. II. NJ. Sanderson.
Phone 1927.
J. ]. Green returned home Thursday
evening from a five weeks visit at
points in Illinois.
Mrs. John Blakely went to Aurora
Saturday morning and spent the day
with Mrs. Southland.
Elmer Sexauer returned Thursday
evening from a business trip east in
the interests of the Brookings Roller
Mill.
Mrs. c. 7. Hastings departed Friday
morning for Befunick Springs, Florida.
where she will visit a sister for some
time.
Hear the McCalley Company at the
opera house on Thursday evening, jan
uary 80, under the auspices of the
Catholic ladies.
Mrs. Messner and daughter arrived
from Fairmont, Mich, the last OF the
week fora visit at the home OF her
sister, Mrs. S. w. Armstrong.
Harry Odegard, who is running a
barber shop at Aneta, n. d., came
down Friday and will visit a couple of
weeks with his parents and friends.
Dramatic recital by Prof. W. w.
Hartman, Friday evening. January
oath, First Presbyterian church.
Shakesperian scenes, debating society
and other humorous selections. Tickets
Csc and 35c.
Bert Lee was here a few days the
last Of the week visiting at the home
of C.. A. Johnson. He has sold out his
drug store at Badger and was on his
way to Mankato, where he will engage
in the drug business.
The board of control of the South
Dakota Firemen's Association held a
meeting at Huron last week and Rapid
City was selected as the next place Of
meeting for the association, when the
annual state firemen's tournament will
be held. The meeting will be in June.
Register Of Deeds Bagley went to
Sioux Falls Friday morning, taking
with him a couple of books from the
office to have rebound. These were
the first deed and the first mortgage
book used by the county, which had
become so dilapidated that they were
falling to pieces. They are of too
much value to be entrusted to the ex-
press company, so Mr.. Bagley took
them in person.
Charles Riley McCally and his cap
able company of entertainers will ap-
pear at the opera house next Thurs
day evening, January 80, under the
auspices of the Catholic Ladies Aid.
The program will consist of humorous
readings, representations, limitations
and violin solos, and will be a most en-
tertaining evening. Admission will be
fifty cents for adults and twenty-five
cents for children.
The following may be Of interest to
Brookings mothers: The 7-months-
old baby of Mr.. and Mrs. John Swason,
Of Brule county, hung herself in a go
cart and was found dead by the
mother. The mother left the little tot
in the go-cart and stepped outside the
house to care for some horses, her hus-
band being temporarily absent. When
she returned she found the cart,
which was Of the collapsible kind, had
collapsed and that her little daughter
had strangled to death.
1t is almost the universal custom to
say something good Of a show perfor-
nance, If it is at all deserving and
SFCh I1ouSu Udu Lut CuiIOlo are Cud J.
table enough to say nothing. However
the following from the Spearfish Mail
is so different that it is refreshing:
"One Of the unanswered mysteries is
how a bunch of transformers can
circulate around the Black Hills coun-
try and get away without being mob
bed. The alleged theatrical troupe
which bilked Spearfish people one
evening last week Is one Of the worst
which has come this way in a long
time. The heroine was old, fat, home
ly, barefooted, and it is even asserted
that her feet were dirty at that. Her
acting was on a par with a baby ele-
plant, aid the balance of the bunch
were no better. Enough is too much
of this sort"
polly of the Circus" at the opera
house last evening was away above
the average show that we get, in fact
no better or more elaborate perfor-
manna hoe avar ham oivap IN pronE-