The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-08-27

We can already see what the users
OF city heat are going to be up against.
Prof. B. T. Whitehead left Tuesday
morning for Upton, Iowa, to visit an
aunt.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Smith returned
home Tuesday from their cottage at
Lake Oakwood, where they spent most
of the summer.
With an all-star cast presenting
three of the most popular operas of the
day the coming of the Sheehan English
opera Company to this city is looked
forward to with unusual interest as it
is no doubt one of the most important
musical offerings of the season. This
attraction will be here Monday, Sep
TENDER Z.
Seed corn in South Dakota should be
selected from September l to IS, &C
cording to Manley Champlin, assist
ant agronomist at the State College.
He suggests from experience that
sound ears be chosen from various
stalks-ears growing about the height
of the average mans hips. Select a
good variety growing near home.
DR.. Jay Pitts, who recently examined
the throat of Joseph F. Sheehan, the
famius tenor who will be heard as star
in his own company which comes to
the Grand Monday, September Z, de-
clares that he is unique among tenors,
as his singing machine combines, to a
greater extent than that of any other
tenor he has examined. the physical
characteristics necessary for the per
feet production of vocal sounds of al
most unlimited volumn.
Mrs. Anna E. Miller, a former resi-
dent of Brookings passed away at the
home of her son at Mitchell on Mon
day. The remains were brought to
Bookings and the funeral was held
from the NJ. E.. church yesterday after
noon, conducted by Rev. Bruce, and
interment was made in Greenwood
Mrs. Miller was born in Albany, N. Y,
February IA, 1843. She was married
to Jessie S. Miller in Illinois in 1862
and they later moved to Iowa. They
came to South Dakota in 1885, settling
at Wolsey, and in 1902 moved to Brook.
fngs. Mr.. Miller passed away in 1909,
and since that time Mrs. Miller had
made her home with her sons, Ernest
A. of jamestown, N. D., and Jessie A
of Mitchell. Mrs. Miller had many old
friends in Brookings who learned OF
her death with sincere sorrow.
The laying of the cornerstone of the
new public library building was oh
served at five o'clock last evening. 1t
was intended to have a program OF
talks, but IN account of the rain that
was falling this was dispensed with
and the stone was laid with simple
ceremonies. The members of the
library board and a few others weTe
present. A copper box containing the
following articles was placed in thu
stone: Original constitution of the
Brookings Free Library; Senate Bill
81, 1913, the new library law under
which the Brookings library was or
ganized; report of the condition O.
libraries in South Dakota, prepared b.
Prof. w. H. Powers for the state super
intendent of education; preliminary
program of the state educational AM
library association at Sioux Falls, No,
vember, 1913; basement plan of the
Bookings library; letter head of tn
Bookings Commercial Club, on tn
portant buildings of the town, includ
ing the library; letter from the Carne
gle Corporation in reference to the
library; panorama of State College and
students, 1913; picture folder of Brook
ings the Banner County of South Da
kota; American Library Association
booklet, 1907; Brookings Register o.
January 80, 1913, containing the frs
annual report of the library; Press o.
April, 1914, containing picture of the
/ building; letterhead of the library com
mission; history of the library; coins
r 1914 half dollar, 1913 dime, 1909 Lin
coin penny.