The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-09-17
Clyde Wyckoff went over to Elktol

on business the last OF the week.
President Perisho went up TO Aber-
deem Saturday to deliver an address.
Miss Edna Jerde went TO Aurora
Saturday morning for a few days visit.
Local hunters report that both
chickens and ducks are plentiful this
fall.
Mrs. Ernest Bacon came down from
Estelline and visited over Sunday at
the NJ. f. Bacon home.
Mrs. VIM. Madden of Castlewood,
visited over sunday with ther parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Matheny.
Mrs. II. L. Davis and baby returned
Saturday morning from a several
weeks visit with her parents at Clark.
Rev, Boyce, the district s%uperintend-
ent Of the N. I. church was down from
Watertown a couple of days this week.
Joe Swerins visited over sunday at
the home of his parents. Nh. and Mrs.
Henry Swer.ne. He went from here
to Sioux Falls, where he Will superin-
tend some electrical construction
work.
The SHOW You Day at the college
experiment station Saturday was not
the success anticipated. due 10 the
weather. \ drizzling rain fell all day
and consequently very few farmers
came 10 w
Paul Parker and Miss Hannah John
son were guests over sunday at the
homes Of II. c. Olson and Norman
Hanson. They came out here recently
from Illinois and are teaching in the
western part of this county.
Aylmer Cole expects 10 move here
with his family from Bellevue, Iowa.
within the next few weeks. Mr.. Coles
interests are all in this section. which
prompts HIM 10 make the change.
Brookings will be very glad 10 wei
come the family.
The ~ring-necked pheasants which
were distributed in this county by the
state game commission last year, are
said TO be on the increase and will
in time take the place Of the prairie
chicken as a game bird. Game Warden
Hedrick expects TO place 1,4OO more
more in the state this winter.
Ted Akin says that he is going TO
take his runabout TO Hot Springs and
give il some hot baths. in the hope
that it can get rid Of its cough, but il
looks 10 US as though il was suffering
from a general breakdown, and was
nearing the end. However. il has a
perfectly good license number.
Ten years ago when the De Smet
creamery was al its best, and this
whole community was being so greatly
benefited by il, the August payment
for butterfat was 1412 cents per pound.
Farmers were satisfied that al that
price they could make il pay TO milk
COWS, and they were milking all they
could keep. Now the price is IS cents,
or nearly double. 1t surely ought TO
be profitable TO run a dairy these days
when feed is so abundant. Farmers
do you realize that right now you
are getting nearly two and a half cents
a quart for your milk, when you sell
the butterfat at this price, and have
the milk left to feed calves and hogs?
Better buy a few more cows.-De Smet
News.
The divorce courts have furnished
the plot to be used in many amusing
plays, but, according 10 report, none
more laughable than Edgar Selwyn's
latest farce, Nearly Married, which
comes TO the opera house September
%. Nearly Married" is in three acts
that are said to be crowded with 50
many unusual situations that the au-
dience is kept in a constant state Of
laughter every minute the curtain is
up. Its clean fun, too. but of course,
everyone knows that Cohan and Harris
stage no other kind. Plays coarse i'll
theme and salacious in motive do not
appeal 10 this firm and this, perhaps
as much as any other, is the reason
for the following they have built W.
who know that a production at these
hands means a thoroughly enjoyable
entertainment in an atmosphere OF
cleanliness.
The writer visited F~landreau lasr
Monday to attend the funeral Of Nj
Blycker, We arrived there early
enough to take a hurried inventory OF
the town and call on old time friends
We found the town all fused up owe
their fair which started that day, and
everybody was busy helping TO place
the exhibits in their proper channel
to draw a prize, A n hundred
thousand dollar court house is nov
beng built there and the work is W
TO the second story. The structure is
constructed of Bedford stone and the
outlines show that IL will no a hand