The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-08-27
G. w. Fem departed Friday morn.

Leslie Gooch left Thursday II
for a week or ten days trip to the
Black Hills.
Misses Marie Serum of Jackson,
Mimi, and Lydia Duberg OF Mankato,
are the guests of Mrs. c. o. Trygstad.
Mrs. Bullard returned home to
Springfield, ILL.,, Friday morning after
a visit of several weeks at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. NJ. c. Bates.
Miss Alma Foss returned home to
Minneapolis Friday morning, after a
several weeks visit with Miss Mable
Jarman. Miss Jarman accompanied
her.
Miss Frances Erie returned Thurs
day evening from a visit with rela'
tives at White, and she was accom-
panied home by her cousin, Miss Flor
ence Russell of Mankato.
MI. and Mrs. Johnson returned
home to Heron Lake, Mimi, Saturday
morning, after a several weeks visit
at the home of their daughters, Mrs.
c. o. Trygstad and Mrs. julius Clevan.
Miss Bradbold returned home to
Springfield, Mimi, Saturday morning,
after a visit with Mrs. Leo Cogley.
Miss Stacia Kelly of Chamberlain has
also been the guest of Mrs. Cogley
this week.
Miss Marjorie Stevens of Van Horn,
Iowa, who has been the guest of her
aunt, Mrs. NJ. d. Orhrans, for some
time, left Friday morning for a two
weeks visit at Verdi, after which she
will return here.
Mrs. Harms and sister of Castlewood,
were mere the last of the week visiting
the T. l.. Chappell family and other
friends. Mrs. Harms husband was
teacher of manual training at the
high school last year.
Dad Mix, j. G. Miles horse, has
been doing pretty well on the Iowa
circuit, where he has been for the past
month. At Carroll he o first money
and at Sac City took second. He has
been given a new record OF 2:13H.
Harry Wornson resigned his posi-
ton as city carrier last week and left
Saturday with his family for Man
kato. where he will engage in the gen
eral mercantile business. These esti-
mable young people have many friends
in Brookings who will be sorry to have
them leave the city.
The last issue of the Clear Lake Ad-
vocate had a nice write-up Of the Da-
kota Deaconess hospital, together with
pictures of the building and of Miss
Moore, the superintendent. The insti-
tuition is gaining a splendid reputation
throughout eastern South Dakota, a
condition that is very pleasing to
Brookings people generally as well as
to the management of the hospital.
1t is we'll to note that Clear Lake has
not been troubled with a swarm OF
rough, lawless, drunken hoboes this
year nor last. This condition exists
uOuDlltoS DCCduSS liz wy 10 dly ULlu
the absence of saloons means the alb
sence of this class Of wandering Will
lies. Many of our citizens can "hark
back" to the old saloon days when the
town was the rounding up" place of a
multitude of undesirable characters.
How fortunate is the dry town.-Clear
Lake Advocate.
A quartet of newly fiedged automo-
bile were discussing the rela-
tive merits of their various cars and
they decided to christen them, each
after a president of the United States.
One owned a Packard, one a Cadillac,
one an Overland and one a Ford. The
first one broke a bottle of happy water
over the hood of his car and said
First on good roads, first on bad
roads, | christen thee George Wash
ington." The second man approach.
ed his Cadillac likewise using the fes-
tive bottle and striking an imposing at
titude he spake: Quiet and powerful,
sturdy and reliable, | christen thee
William Taft" The Overland owner
disposed of his bottle of headache
and said: Determination in every line,
given to the spirit of get there with
out demonstration, | christen thee
Woodrow Wilson" The Ford owner
picked himself out of the grass, broke
a bottle of pop over his car and said
dejectedly: you rough-riding son-of
a-gun, | christen thee Teddy Roose-
velt."-EX.
A copy of a BarabCo, Wis, paper
reaches us telling of the return of 4
citizen of that town from Brookings
and Huron and of the terrible stories
he brought back of crop conditions in
South Dakota. This Baraboo man ap-
parently had a vivid imagination, a.
according to his tale we have had no
rain since the middle of June and the
crops were all burned up. What the
drought did not destroy the black rust