The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-11
Local and Personal

Attorney c. L. Mccoy was at Airing
ton on legal business Friday.
Mrs. l.. Mitchell returned Saturday
morning from a few days visit at
Bruce.
Miss Stedman, the county superin-
tendent, was at Elkton between trains
Friday.
Miss Winifred Catlett went up to
Castlewood Friday evening for a few
days visit.
Mrs. Harriet Persons returned Sat.
urday morning from a few days visit
with relatives at Bruce.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Caldwell visited
at the home of their daughter at Lake
Preston the last Of the week.
Editor Pratt Of Elkton, was in the
city Friday on his way to WATERFOWL
to visit over Sunday with his sons.
c. NJ. Fasset returned Saturday from
L.. Mitchell's farm near Bruce, where
he has completed a fine residence.
Miss Camp was the guest of Miss
Stedman Saturday on her way to
Castlewood, where she will teach this
year.
If you have board and rooms for stu
dents, notify the Y. NJ. C. A. Office
hours 10000 to 1900. Geo. C. Phillips,
Gen. Sect.
c. A. Davis, the expressman, captur.
ed a young muskrat in front OF the
Masonic Temple building one evening
this week and took it home to his
children who are making a pet of it. 1t
is presumed that it strayed up from
the river.
F. NJ. Kremer departed Friday night
for Minneapolis to spend a few days
on business. He went to Watertown
and from there over the Minneapolis
& st. Louis, as he says their service
is better and they are never late in
getting into the city.
Mrs. T. G.. Madden arrived Thurs
day morning from Washburn, N. D..
for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Aid
rich and other relatives and numerous
friends. She tells us that Mr.. Madden
is now practicing law at Washburn
and is doing s%plendidly.
Miss Cecile Welch has resigned as
teacher of music in the Sioux Falls
Baptist college, a position to which
she was elected some time ago, as her
mothers health will not admit of her
leaving home. Miss WEIGH regretted
very much to disappoint the Sioux
Falls institution, but under the cir
cumstances there was no help for it.
DR., Edward c. Heston, a former
Brookings boy, now practicing medi-
cine at Seattle, Wash, was here a few
hours Friday visiting old friends, COM
ing here from Madison, where he was
visiting at the home of his father, Pres
ident Heston of the normal school. He
came over in his Overland roadster,
which he drove here from the Coast.
The fire department was called to
the home of Thos. Nelson, who lives
in the cement block house in south
Brookings, Friday afternoon, but We're
unable to discover any evidence of fire.
There had been a fire in a small stove
in one of the upstairs rooms and a
separation of the stove pipe let the
smoke into the room, leading the
neighbors to believe that the house
was afire.
H. G.. Williams, the land man, in
forms us that in his travels over the
county he has seen a large number
of good pieces of alfalfa, which state
ment tends to refute the contentious
of the two Georges. Mr.. Williams
says that he noticed the other day in
the northeastern part of the county
a fine field of fifty or sixty acres that
stood waist high, although it had been
cut twice. Score one for Brookings
county alfalfa!
Owing to the rank growth of vege.
tation that covers the prairies of South
Dakota this year the state fire warden
has issued timely warning to the pub
lie regarding the danger from fires.
The warden has notified the states
attorneys in the various counties that
every prairie fire will be carefully in.
vestigated by his department. 1t be.
hooves every resident of this state to
take extra precaution to prevent
prairie fires as by so doing the grass
can be saved to retain the snow next
winter and thereby add to the moisture
for next years crops.
Tuesday o. A. Sutton brought us in
a sample of white flint corn raised by
his son-in-law, John Crosser, who lives
just east of the city. The corn was
the longest we have ever seen, measur.
ing fourteen and t~hree-fourths inches,
and it would make the eyes of any
Illinois or Iowa corr man stick out.
Mr.. Crosser, who came up here from
Iowa fhic~cpripO COWS that bo payar