The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-07-31

" Tue WIEN from q TWO or three weeks
visit in the east.
Miss Clara Thompson arrived from
Baldwin, Wis, Thursday evening and
Is a guest at the home of Martin Chris
topherson.
Mrs. j. R. Fridley and Mr.. George
Cole and family spent Wednesday at
Lake Benton, enjoying a picnic at that
beautiful resort.
Dr. b. T. Green autoed over to Sioux
Falls the last of the week to attend the
annual meeting of the South Dakota
Medical Association.
Mrs. Haas and baby of Arlington, ar.
rived Wednesday for a visit at the
home of Mrs. Haas parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H H. Phillips.
Misses Louise and Mable Lohr came
down from Estelline Friday morning
for a few days visit with Misses Wini.
fred and Marguerite Catlett.
Rev. A. NJ. Work, formerly pastor of
the First Presbyterian church Of this
city but now of Perry, Iowa, arrived
Wednesday morning. He officiated at
the Boyd-Labbitt wedding Wednesday
afternoon. His many good friends in
the city we're glad to see Mr.. Work
again.
Rev. NJ. X. Baldridge Of Sandstone,
Mimi, was here the last of the week
visiting G.. F. Hepner and other old
friends. Rev. Baldridge was one of the
first settlers of Fountain, a town that
was started six or eight miles north.
east of here in the '70's and which was
abandoned when Brookings appeared
on the map.
Editor Swenson and A. o. Ronning
We're over from Hendricks on business
Thursday. In addition to being an
editor Mr.. Swenson is also a real
estate man, and a live one, and he
came yer into South Dakota to sell a
piece of land and to show Bookings
county land dealers what a real good
land agent was like.
G. F. Knappen returned from Kala-
mazoo, Mich, Wednesday morning
where he was called by the sudden
death of his brother, Judge Knappen.
Elsewhere in this issue may be found
a beautiful tribute paid by a Kalama-
zoo paper to the deceased who was
well known throughout large districts
of Michigan because of his extended
connection with the bar of that state.
The Brookings Concert Band closed
a contract with the directors of the
Moody County Fair Association by
which it is agreed that the B~rookings
band shall furnish a twenty-five piece
band for that fair during the last three
days. The consideration named is
$780, 90. The Moody county directors
are to be commended for their selec-
ton for the Brookings band always
makes good and is always a big draw
ing card at any public event.
E. e. Haugen on Thursday landed
the biggest thing in the way of a fish
that has been taken out of Lake
Campbell in recent years. There is
some dispute as to whether it was a
pickerel or muskalonge, as they both
to the same family, but we are
inclined to believe that it was the first
named, as it lacked the spots Of the
muskie. 1t weighed ten and a half
pounds after being brought to the
and as fish shrink quite a little it
probably was over eleven pounds when
taken out of the water. Mr.. Haugen
caught it on the west side of the lake
his cottage, and his bait was a
No. Az Skinner spoon. 1t put up a
stiff battle before it was landed.
The state fair of South Dakota is
not a private institution run for per-
sonal profit. 1t belongs to the people
of the state, is their public property.
The state board Of agriculture is CRATE
full for the manner in which the rank
and file of South Dakotans have sup
their big exposition. In turn
the board is trying to make good the
confidence which the people place in
them, and is ~endeavoring to see that
there is no disappointment either in
exhibits or entertainment. The board
has always purchased the most costly
and up-to-date attractions for the fair.
Lets be right up to the minute" has
been their slogan. Last year the big
aviation meet was the main feature.
This veal air machines are more com.
mon. The spectacular and 1913 pat
ented pyrotechnics are the latest in
thrillers,-that's what the state fair
will present as the big attraction.
This feature of Pains great histori,
cal pageant at the State Fair will be
an Interpretation of an event, the de-
of which have been the cause OF
great difference of opinion. The bat.
tie of the Little Bighorn, where Custer
fell, is one of the great outstanding
events of pioneer days. The battle
lasted but a few minutes, when Custer
and his entire force of about six hun.
dred and thirty white men,-members