The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-04

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Mrs. Ed. Dokken returned Monday
evening from a three weeks visit with
relatives in Iowa.
f. c. Olson autoed up from Sioux
Falls to attend the funeral of Mrs. G.
n. Breed on Sunday.
MI. and Mrs, John O'Leary were
guests at the Hurney home this week,
returning home Tuesday morning.
Miss Reya Meyer returned home to
Elkton Tuesday morning. after a few
days visit with Miss Gladys Olmstcad.
Miss Gladys Olmstead departed
Tuesday morning for Lodi, Wis, where
she will visit her sister, Mrs. Leslie
Wilson.
DR.. Horace w. Tilden delivered the
memorial day address at Elkton on
Saturday. and on Sunday he filled the
pulpit of the Baptist church.
Miss Mable Bacon departed Thurs.
day morning for Valparaiso, Indiana,
where she will take a commercial
course in Valparaiso university.
Next Tuesday will be rather a busy
day in Bookings, with the circus in
town. the visit of the special train of
Sioux City boosters and a dance by a
travelling orchestra.
The Brookings fire department has
elected the following officers for the
coming year: Chief, Ed. Carlisle; first
assistant, Gilbert Gullick; second as
sistant. Roy Anderson; secretary, Geo.
+. Purdy; treasurer, II. II. Bartlett.
President Slagle of the state univer-
sity, arrived the last of the week to
join Mrs. Slagle, who had been visit
ing friends mere for a week. They
left Tuesday morning for Rochester,
where Mrs. Slagle will continue treat
ment at the hospital.
The Masonic fraternity as well as
the remainder of the large congrega-
ton at the Presbyterian church last
Sunday morning enjoyed the splendid
sermon of Rev. VIM. A. Mast. We
have heard many express themselves,
and it was one of the best sermons of
its kind we have ever heard.
The Brookings band furnished music
for the memorial day exercises at Elk
ton Saturday, and they Unexpectedly
got into a ball game. The Elkton and
Bushnell teams were scheduled to
play, but in the first inning the Bush,
nell boys did not like a decision of
the umpire and refused to continue
the game, The band boys came to the
rescue by Offering to play Elkton, and
they defeated them by a score of 3
to o. The band reports splendid treat
ment at the hands of the Elkton pco-
pie and especially appreciated the
courtesy of Mr.. and Mrs. b. ID. Lowell,
who entertained them at supper at the
Wayside Inn.
On Monday DR.. G.. l.. Brown, acting
president of the State College, present.
ed monographs and medals to members
of the track and base ball teams. The
following lei received medals or
monographs for track work: Arthur
Lynch, captain, George Faulkner,
Homer Matheison, Arno Britzius,
Leigh Peterson, Lacey Caldwell,
George Kennard, Howard KOrnder,
Leroy LaXson, Charles Humphrey,
Perry Clifford, David Little, and Cleve-
land Abbott. Those who received
base ball monographs are Bushey, cap,
tain; Abbott, Kornder, Pratt, Ray,
Stevens. O. Chenoweth, and l.. Olson.
Next year State College will be repre-
scented by strong teams in both base
ball and track, since she will lose but
two veterans in track and one in base
ball.
The 1915 Jack Rabbit" the annual
published by the junior class of the
State College, has appeared on the
campus. The book is dedicated to
Prof. A. S. Harding, the class father,
who has been professor of history and
political science at the college for
thirteen years. The book is eight by
twelve inches, $50 pages best quality
book paper, bound in limp black
leather. with cover title embossed IN
gold. The pages are decorated in yell
low and give the newly adopted mono
gram Of the. college as border insert
at the bottom, with suitable art work
ages. Frank Kremer and Carl John
son of BroOkings are editor and bust
ness manager respectively. The book
is a credit to the junior class and a
worthy exponent of student life at the
State College.
The suggestion in last weeks Regis
ter hat the city employ a manager
for its utilities has been favorably
commented on by a large number or
citizens, and the consensus Of opinion
seems to be that the sooner this move
is made the better. One nan who is
conversant with city affairs informed
US that ~Brookings could afford to pay
a competent man $4,000 a wear and