The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-03-20

response to a message that his mother
was very low.
G II. Atkinson left Monday evening
for WATERFOWL to remain a few days
on business.
Mrs. A. j. Kendall departed Monday
morning for Sioux City to spend a few
DAYS with relatives.
The Brookings oil chestra furnished
music for a st. Patrick's Day dance at
White Monday evening.
The CITY school board will meet to,
morrow night to complete the list of
teachers for next year.
Prof. Jas. H. Shepard purchased a
very fine Schiller piano of the r. NJ.
Solberg Music Store last week.
Miss Mildred Ashbaugh of Butler,
Mimi, is visiting at the home of her
uncle. J.. p. Ashbaugh, this week.
A l.. Davis left Tuesday morning
for Mobridge to look after his e fur
njture store which opened for business
on Saturday.
A f.. Burman returned home TO
Wayerly. Iowa, Monday evening, after
a weeks visit at the home of his son,
O. +. Burman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Odegaard, who
were married at Volga on Wednesday
of last week. came over to Brookings
Thursday to spend their honeymoon.
The Senior class of the high school
are working on What Happened to
Jones" a three act comedy, which they
will present at commencement time.
Mrs. Nessner and daughter, Helen,
returned home at Fremont, Mich, on
Tuesday morning after a couple OF
weeks visit at the home of her sister,
Mrs. S. w. Armstrong.
VIM. Crumb of McKain, visited over
Sunday here. Mrs. Crumb and little
daughter are visiting at the home OF
her mother, Mrs. Honan, and the little
girl has been quite sick.
The bids for the new Brookings post
office were opened at Washington last
Friday, but the local post office force
informed us this morning that no word
had been received as to who got the
contract.
Joe Swering returned home Tuesday
morning from Minneapolis, where he
was operated on for the removal of a
growth from the eye. The operation
was a successful one and Joe is natur-
ally feeling much better.
Mrs. May Cowen of Iroquois, was the
guest of Mrs. G.. f. Thayer on Thurs
day. She is chairman of the finance
committee of the d. of H. lodge and
was on her way home from a meeting
of the grand lodge officers at Water
town.
Clarence Pier left Monday evening
for Watertown, where he held a cream
buyers examination under the direc-
ton of the state dairy experts office.
Henry Erdmann went to Sioux Falls
Tuesday morning to hold a similar eX-
animation.
Miss Julia Clifford, who took the
leading part in the production of The
Balkan Princess at the opera house
Friday evening, is the wife of Bob
Fitzsimmons, the we'll known pugilist,
so Ted Akin tells us and he ought to
know. However, Bob has had several
wives and we are unable to give
Julia's number.
The trains from the west and north
were both a couple Of hours late Tues
udN ulOIuluS. lie uOIlu passenger
had trouble with it's engine, and the
train from the west had hard work
getting through the snow west of the
river, this being the first train to
come through from Rapid City after
Fridays big storm.
The Woman's Civic League will
meet March 21st, at 8 o'clock. Every
member ought to be present to re-
ceive the committee from the gradual
ing class of the high school which pre-
sent to the league the matter of the
placing of a fountain in front of the
high school building.
Our old friend R. NJ. Crawford was
in to see us the other day, his first
visit in several months. Last fall he
went down to Sioux Falls with the in
tention of making that city his home,
but was taken sick o on after his ar