The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-10-01

800 trot at the Lake county fair at
Madison last week. He is racing at
Candy this week.
Mrs. VIM. Hebb and two daughters
returned home to Minneapolis Satur-
day morning, after a couple of weeks
visit with the Poole families.
The State College football team will
play their first game of the season
with the state university at Vermil-
lion the coming Saturday. This will
be one of the hardest games of the
season, as the university always has
a strong team, but the local bunch are
confident of making a good showing.
Vey Valentine. who graduated from
the State College last spring, has &C
copied a position as county organizer
in Dawson county where the federal
hog cholera Investigations are being
made. Mr.. Valentine will represent
the college in his new work, %co-operat-
ing with the state livestock sanitary
board, and with the L. S. Department
of Agriculture.
There are a few theatre goers in
every city that prefer the heavy
drama, but the majority of theatre
goers like a good clean comedy so
they can spend an evening laughing
and can feel refreshed and rested
e. ---.-- 10 T., gaTNIA Dot, x-A ofinn
of Aunt Mary" there is a laugh in
almost every line. 1t is a comedy so
home like and natural that the au-
dience feel like they are living the
play and are among their neighbors.
1t is clean and wholesome and there is
not a line that would offend any one.
Be sure and see this great comedy at
the opera house October s.
Students are still registering at the
State College and the attendance is
quite a little higher than at this time
last year. This is especially encourag-
ing as last years attendance figures
nearly reached the 1000 mark and set
a new record. Enthusiasm runs high
in all the college departments, and the
outlook for brilliant progress in all
lines is extremely encouraging. Presi-
dent Perisho expresses his deep salts
faction at his hearty reception by stu
dents, faculty and citizens, believing
the time has come for united c%o-opera-
ton of all factions toward the agricul-
tural and industrial betterment Of the
through her servant, the State
College.
The great comedy written by Anne
Warner, and made famous by May
Robson, is considered by all to be the
sweetest and most inspiring plays of
our time. 1t is essentially a play of
character, the costuming and stage
pictures affording glimpses of the
home of Aunt Mary, and her old fash
toned servants, ruled by Aunt Mary.
This comedy has received enthusiastic
support from ~clergymen, teachers,
club women and others outside the
ranks of the regular theatre patrons,
remarkable success. This excellent
comedy will be seen at the opera
house on next Thursday evening and
the theatre goers of Bookings should
not miss the opportunity of seeing this
great play.
John Gallagher, son of Thos. Gala
CHER, a former resident of Mathews
township, came down from the family
home south of Highmore Friday and
purchased a new Buick auto. The
Gallaghers are located about eighteen
miles south of Highmore and are en-
gagged in stockraising. Anyone en-
gagged in the cattle business out in
that section can have a Buick, or any
other old kind of an auto, if they want
it. God makes plenty of grass out in
that country and about all a man has
to do is to get hold of young stock to
eat it. The Gallaghers were among
the few who realized early in the
game that the grass was the best crop
in that country, and they have pros
pered far beyond what they ever did
here at grain raising or mixed farm
ing.-De Smet Independent.
Mrs. Jack Miller of I~roquois, has a
life history worth reading, according
to the ~IroQuois Chief. When a child
of four she was kidnapped, while play
ing with her brother on the porch Of
their home in st. Louis, and her cap
tor, a member of a band of cut
threats and robbers, finally gave hec
to the infamous Bender family, who
kept her until she was II, when a
band of woodchoppers came along,
saw the child crying, and took her
with them, afterward getting up a
posse which captured the Blenders.
During her stay with this notorious
band of murderers she saw a num-
Der of people killed, most of them hav-