The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-16
Local and Personal

Mrs. McGill departed the last of the
week for an extended visit at Tomah,
Wis.
Postmaster and Mrs. O. G.. Oyloe left
the last of the week for a visit at De-
corah, Iowa.
DR.. Hill, the eye, ear nose and throat
specialist of Watertown, will be in
VoIga at the office Of DR.. Seaman Fri
day, July 31st.
Mrs. w. II. Beals departed ycster
day morning for a visit at different
points in Illinois.
Geo. Purdy, w. Z. Purdy, Edward La
Grave and VIM, Cameron spent Sun
day at Watertown.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Rexford of Minneap-
oils, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
ReXford a few days this week.
We have 10 boxes of Neidich Process
Standard Carbon Paper, to close out
at $50 per box, at the Register office.
J. II. Hubbard returned home Satur-
day evening from his trip to Chicago,
and on the way home visited in Wis
consin.
Lieutenant Oscar Foley departed
Sunday night for San Antonio, Texas,
to join the 3rd L. S. Cavalry, to which
regiment he was recently transferred.
An Arlington citizen was ~sandbag-
ged and robbed one day this week.
The job is supposed to have been done
by transients and some of them look
tough enough to do almost anything.
The weather during the past week
has been the warmest of the year, the
thermometer climbing above the 95
mark nearly every day. A light rain
last night served to cool things off
today.
Several from here went over to
Volga yesterday to see the big ball
game between Bruce and Arlington.
The game was for blood and was an
exciting affair, Bruce winning out by
a score of 4 to 3. O'Brien, n of
Bruce's best players, broke a leg slid
ing into a base.
Geo. Bunce, The veteran travelling
man, informed us last night that the
crops in eastern South Dakota look
the best he has ever seen them. Mr..
Bunce says that he is entitled to he
called a pioneer resident of Brook,
ings, as he has been coming here now
for over thirty years and was n of
the first travelling men to make the
town. During all this time he has
been travelling for the same house, the
Conrad Cigar Co.
The farmers along the Sioux river
presented a petition to the county COM
missioners this week asking them to
take charge of the work of s~traighten-
ing the river. The petitioners also pre-
scented a bond to cover the cost of the
survey by the state engineer, AS pro-
vided by law, and the commissioners
will establish the route and assess the
expenses against the property bene-
fitted. The work will start from about
three miles north of the Junction and
run through to the county line on the
south. This question was agitated in
the Register columns some time ago
and evidently it has borne fruit, and
practically all of the farmers along the
river are in favor of it. And there is
no reason why they should rot be, as
the work when completed will add
thousands of dollars to the value of
their property. The river through this
county is very crooked. in ONE places
taking six or eight miles to run one
mile in a straight line, and as a result
it has never been able to carry off the
water in a wet season. All of the big
bends will be cut out by digging a
channel between the two nearest
points on the river.