The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-11

has been visiting the Vinegar familie.
the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fay Atkinson were
over from White visiting relatives ant
friends this week.
Claude Davis lost a large number OF
young chickens by drowning during
the heavy rain last Friday afternoon.
Zach Prentice, who has been takins
treatment for blood poisoning at the
hospital, is getting along nicely this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Gropengeiser OF
Onida, are here this week to attend the
graduation of their daughter from the
college.
Vaudeville at The Fad Thursday
and Friday, June Hip. Mile De
Violette, Ireland Billy. Novelty dancers
and entertainers.
o. o. Graves and family are enjoying
a visit this week from his father, O. J.
Graves, and his brother Geo. Graves
and family, of Montevideo, Mimi.
Olaf Eden, who has been quite SER
iously ill for some time, was operated
upon at the hospital last Friday, and
we are glad to report hat he is i'm
proving nicely.
Miss Abbie Carpenter, who will be
well remembered by many ~Brookings
people, sailed last week from Boston
for Scotland, where she will spend part
of the summer. She has been teaching
the past two years at Clamoth Falls,
Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. G. Carlisle, Mrs. II.
F. Haroidson, Mrs. j. l.. Jarvis and
Mrs. V. L. Mccoy are at Aberdeen this
week attending the annual meetings of
the Grand Masonic Orders of the state.
Mrs. Carlisle is Grand Esther of the
o. E. S.
City Auditor Stoddart received a
message Thursday telling of the death
of his brother in New York City, but
it did not reach here in time for him
to attend the funeral. His brother was
a prominent physician and was medi-
cal officer for the New York Life Insur-
ance Company.
We are in receipt of an invitation to
attend the commencement exercises of
the University of Idaho, through the
courtesy of Eugene Kelly of Bookings,
who is a member of this years grad
uating class. Eugene is in charge OF
the hog cholera erum plant at the
university and will remain there dur
ing the summer.
The special train of the st. Paul
Boosters, which arrives here next
Thursday morning at 1925, will have a
moving picture machine, which will
take pictures of the crowd at the depot
when they arrive. The films will after
ward be shown at a local theatre, and
everyone who wants to see themselves
in moving pictures will have to show
up at the depot at the appointed hour.
James Lockhart, the former college
athletic star, spent a day or two here
he will spend the summer with his Sis
ter, Mrs. J. P. Johnson. Jim" has
been attending the University of
Idaho the past year and has made a
great record in athletics. He starred
in both football and track and was
considered one of the best athletes in
the west.
Gollmar Bros. circus showed here
Tuesday and were greeted by large
crowds. The crowd at the afternoon
performance was estimated to be
5000 and there was a good attendance
at night. The show is not to be COM
pared with Ringlings, of course, but
they put on a clean and enjoyable per-
the crowd. Some of their acts were
~high-class and as good as will be seen
anywhere.
Attention of the Brookings county
pioneers is called to the anniversary
celebration and reunion of South Da-
kota's pioneers at Sioux Falls next
week. Prof. Kerr has prepared a list
of eighty names of men in and around
Brookings who have been in the state
thirty years o. longer, and fifteen Of
them have been here forty years or
over. In the county there are of
course a great many more and it would
seem as though Brookings county
should be represented at Sioux Falls
by a good sized delegation.
The special train of Sioux City boost
ers visited Brookings Tuesday morn
ing. The train, consisting of six Pull
mans and a baggage car, arrived short
ly before eleven o'clock and remained
about thirty minutes. Eighty-ive of
the prominent business men of the
city were on the train and they were
accompanied by a splendid band, which
~discoursed sweet music on the streets
while the boosters were circulating
about town getting acquainted with
our citizens. Brookings regretted that
the visitors got here on circus day and