The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-02-06

were down a few days last week on
business.
Harry NJ. Cornell of Mott, n. D., a
here a day or two this week visiting
old friends.
Miss Adine Rowe of Pierre. has been
the guest of Miss leila Lindskog the
past week.
Miss McCord of Pierre, was the
guest of Miss Gladys Armstrong the
last of the week.
G. W. Roskie went to Pierre Satur-
day evening and remained two or
three days on business.
Mrs. Mary Enos returned home Sun
day evening from a several weeks
visit in North Dakota and at St. Paul.
Paul butcher went to Sioux Falls
this morning to attend the mid-winter
meeting of the South Dakota Editorial
Association.
H. c. Endelman of Viborg, and w. F.
Schnardt of Memo, were here a day
or two this week looking over the col
lege, as the guests of Prof. Wilson.
Company c will have to vacate their
present quarters over the Model cloth
ing store, as the room has been rented
to William Cameron for his pool hall.
The boys are undecided where they
will locate.
Typewriter ribbons at the Register
office for emith-Premier Oliver, I'm
derwood, l.. C. Smith, Royal, Reming-
ton, Smith Premier Visible, Reming-
ton Visible and Burroughs adding ma
chimes.
Lieutenant Calvin p. Titus of the
regular army, inspected Company C
last evening, and was very we'll pleas
ed with the showing they made, stat
ing that it was one of the best com
panies he had seen in the state. Lieu.
tenant Titus was much in the public
prints at the time of the Boxer out
break in China, as he VAS the first
soldier of the allied armies to scale
the wall of Pekin.
The fire department was called to
the home of Paul butcher Tuesday
afternoon by a fire that started in the
floor of the kitchen. The pipe leading
from the cistern to the kitchen had
frozen up and the plumber in thawing
it out with his torch had unknOWingly
set fire to the joist of the floor. II
burned up the side of the building ant
had a fairly good start when discover
ed, but was extinguished without ser
iOus damage.
The Junior Prom. one of the mos
important social events of the college
year, took place at the armory OF
Monday evening. An unusually large
crowd was present, a number bein!
g, here from outside towns. Specia
l lighting effects and artistic decora
lions added much to the beauty of tn
? interior of the hall. The programs,
neat booklet covered with greel
2 leather, were a feature. Good musi
was furnished by the Brookings OF
! chestra.
Rural route patrons are in the habi
: of depositing unstamped mail in thei
e mail boxes with small coin. This pra'
0 tice is extremely inconvenient for tn
carrier, especially in the winter. Fac
Y carrier has from fifty to sixty stops
make on his daily trip and imagin
e his taking off his mittens that nan
g times to extract pennies from a frost
e box, oftimes finding them frozen TO tn
i box or mingled with snow and ice.
is against the rules to deposit none
in mail boxes and all mail should /
stamped. Again. any patron wishln
q a postal money order should be at II
box and pay for same and not depos
II money in the mail box.
Il The following resolutions passed
II the recent meeting of the State LlN
V Stock and Poultry Association at Nj
II chell indicated that the good work
the State College is appreciated. al
/ that liberal appropriations are niece
a in order for the college 10 a
complish as much as it should: TX
@ solved, that We appreciate the effor
\. of our State Agricultural College.
behalf of the Live Stock and Agricl
tural Interests of our State, belieVll
= il 10 be of great benefit to every
diyidual in the state. In view OF q
II fact that hog cholera has again brok'
- out in various parts of our state,
favor a liberal appropriation for o
Agricultural College 10 manufactu
, vaccine TO be used in the %preventil
~ of cholera"
-, Paul Muller, a young man of twen'
y, two. living with his parents five MI
southeast of Elkton, became sudden
;. insane Thursday evening and shot
: mother FIVE times. Two of the sht
entered the breast, n the arm a
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