The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-05
Local and Personal

No. "a A. F. & A. M. Friday, February
9Th. Commences at 4 o'clock D. M.
Work in E. A. and NJ. NJ. degrees.
Connolly Brothers will open up for
business at the old Smythe stand on
Saturday, February 14th, with a COM
plete new and fresh stock of groceries.
Neil Donaldson departed last week
for Eugene, Oregon, where his parents
are now located. Neil expects to take
up auctioneering work in that section.
The Honeymoon given by the Athen-
ian Literary Society of the State Col
lege, at the college auditorium next
Saturday evening, February Z, admis-
sion 25 cents.
The railroad solicitors who are work
ing north and east of the city report
very satisfactory progress and people
in these directions are taking a great
deal of interest in the Electric Short
Line.
Excavation in the street for a broken
main this week shows that the ground
is frozen down less than three feet, and
it always freezes harder where the
bare dirt is closely packed than in a
field.
Now is the time to get your black
smith work done for spring. Bring in
your discs and other machinery and
we will give it expert attention. Re-
member we do the best horse shoeing
in town. r. H. Anderson, the black
smith.
A vacuum vapor heating system was
installed at the home Of R. E. Phelps
this week. This is a new method of
heating and the plant is the first one
to be installed in Bookings, although
in the east it is reported to be quite
popular. 1t heats with steam, without
pressure.
Charlie Schulz, one of the prosper.
Gus farmers of Eureka township, was
in the city Monday to secure some of
Prof. Hansen's alfalfa seed. Mr..
Schulz is one of the pioneers of
Eureka township and has taken the
Register ever since the first number
was issued.
Harry G. Freesman arrived here
from Iowa this week with his family
and they are living in the WEIGH house.
Mr.. Freesman bought the Sloan quar-
ter north of town last year, but as
there are no buildings on the place the
family will remain in town until they
are completed.
The Civic League has employed one
of the nurses at the hospital to give
lectures to the school children upon
the proper care of their health, and
we also understand the nurse will
visit cases in the city where her ser
vices are needed. This is similar to
the visiting nurse movement which
has been tried in the large cities and
has met with much favor.
From Shakespeare to Harold Bell
Wright is a long jump, but no writer
from the dramatic day to that of the
novelist, has attained the number OF
readers. Mr.. Wright's most popular
novel, 1.-THE Sheperd of the Hills" has
been made into a play by its author
with the assistance of Fishery w
REYNOLDS and will be given its first
local presentation at the opera house
tonight. The story is one of the Ozark
mountains and teaches a lesson OF
the simple life. Its characters live and
act naturally; it is a play that attracts
by it's simplicity yet holds the auditor
with breathless interest from the first
curtain to the last.
Geo. Thayer, who has been at
Rochester for several weeks, was
operated upon last Saturday. He raj
lied well from the operation and his
condition this week is reported to be
favorable. Mr.. Thayer's friends in
Bookings have been rather worried
about him for some time and it will be
good news to them to learn that he is
now well on the road to recovery.
One of the smartest social events OF
the college year was the annual junior
prom, al the armory Monday evening
A large crowd was in attendance, In
Guiding quite a few city and out OF
town people. The decorations were
unusually pretty and elaborate, and
good music was furnished by Phelps
orchestra. The junior class Is to be
complimented upon the success of the
affair.