The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-05

money by purchasing a suit at Ellis
Hall Co. Department Store.
Watch for the opening of Connolly
Brothers grocery on February IA.
New fresh stock throughout.
The Brookings delegation returned
home Friday evening from the big
agricultural meetings at Mitchell.
Geo. R. Watson of Duluth, and Bet
sey Gronvold of Spring Grove, Mimi,
took out a license to wed this week.
Mrs. Nellie White and Mrs. Robert
Henry were over from Volga visiting
Brookings friends between trains Fri
day.
Mrs. Noe returned to Clear Lake
Monday morning, after a few days
visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Fry.
Thos. Haugen and Harry Kennard
went to Minneapolis the last of the
week to spend a few days at the auto
show.
Clyde Wickoff left Friday night for
Minneapolis to attend the big auto
show, which is in progress there this
week.
The man. friends of John Mac
Namara are glad that he is able to be
around again, after a severe illness of
some weeks.
Mrs. M. c. Bates and baby returned
home Saturday evening from a couple
of months visit with relatives at
Springfield, Ill.
DR.. Hill, the eye, ear, ose and throat
specialist of Watertown, will be in
Brookings at the Leon hotel Friday,
February Goth.
Will Lamb, a son of e. p. Lamb,
was operated upon for appendicitis at
the Deaconess hospital last week, and
is recovering nicely.
j. F. Farrand departed Friday night
for his home at DEBORAH, Iowa, by way
Of the Twin Cities, after spending
a week here on business.
Miss Ida B. Alrick departed Thurs,
day morning for Montana, where she
will teach in the same district that
she had charge of last year.
Mrs. Thos. Jackson returned home
to st. Paul Monday morning, after
spending several weeks at the home of
her parents, MI. and Mrs. John Mac
Namara.
Mrs. Fritzner of Mankato, and Olaf
Wornson of Hadley, Mimi, returned
to their homes Monday morning, after
a visit at the home of their father,
Thos. Wornson.
Mss Agnes Lind of Winona, arrived
Saturday evening to take the position
of teacher of one of the second grades
which was made vacant by the resig-
nation of Miss Christianson.
E.. G. Johnson, who was private Sec
rotary to President Slagle the past
couple of years, left Saturday morning
for New York City, where he takes a
position with an advertising company.
MI and Mrs. Horace Fishback left
Saturday morning for California,
where they will spend the remainder
of the winter. They were joined at
Rochester, Mimi, by some friends who
made the trip with them.
Miss Marie Vahle, one of the teach.
ers in the city schools, returned Satur-
day evening from her home at Tracy,
where she was called the previous
week by the serious illness of her
father, whom she left much better.
The public library in January, 1913,
loaned 718 books. In January, 1914,
there have been 867 borrowed, show
ing an increase Of 149. The past
month the children have read 358
books, about one-third of which were
non-fction. The adult readers have
borrowed 500 books the past month
and of these 40 were non-iction.
John Dokken departed Monday
morning for the Twin Cities, where
ne Will purchase a complete n up-to-
date outfit Of machinery for the manu-
f~acture of cement blocks, and he will
begin the manufacture of the blocks
on a large scale about the first Of
March. He will go from there to Cass
county. Minnesota, to look after his
land.
Some weeks ago the Register men
toned that the Episcopal congregation
had purchased the w. H. H. Phillips
property, and the transfer was made
last week. A substantial stone church
will be erected the coming summer.
We take this as evidence that the
church is growing in strength, and we
believe a great deal Of the credit for
1t is due to the efforts of the able and
popular pastor. Rev. Roberts.