The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-07-23
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Sunday.
c. A. and Gilbert Gullick and Ed. Car
Isle have moved their portable hous'
to Lake Campbell.
c. O. Quail and family left Sunda,
by auto for a few days visit 10 tn,
southern part Of the state.
Rev Norman of Window. MINI, i.
here this week visiting at the home o
his fath~erin-law, Andrew Olson.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ". Everett. o
Washington. u. G.. arrived Tuesda!
for a visit ut IN, home Of his cousin
l.. II. Skin.
} Mccoy and family autoed dowr
from Huron sunday morning and
spent the day at the home Of hi:
brother, Y, L. Mccoy.
Fred Prentice. who is located il
Chicago. is here for a couple Of weeks
visit at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs Zach Prentice.
Miss Sarah Garfield returned hons
to Mitchollvnle, Iowa. Friday morning
after a visit of a week at the home OF
her brother, W. a Garfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius Clevan and Mr.
and Mrs. c. 0. Trygstad autoed down
TO Heron Lake, Mimi, Sunday and
spent a couple of days with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Towner and
daughter of Peterson, Iowa, have been
spending a week at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. II. d. Hill south of the city.
Mr.. Towner is a brother of Mrs. Hill.
Miss Gertrude Tiller of WATERFOWL,
and Miss Christine Tiller of Hendricks,
are visiting at the home of their sis.
ter and cousin, Mrs. Boyd Lombard.
Miss Christine will remain here and at
tend school in the fall.
Mrs. A. J. Kendall. Miss Nellie Ken
dali and Mrs. c. ID. Kendall and child,
rem left last week for an extended visit
at different Wisconsin points. The
male members of the family are
patching 1t" during their absence.
L. NJ. Worden, who lives south or
town, reports that his boys captured
a red squirrel ear the river one day
this week. Gray squirrels are quite
common in this country, but this is
the first red squirrel we have heard
of. 1t is possible that he is some pet
that escaped.
Conductor Nash, one of the old
timers on this division, passed away
at his home at Tracy the latter part
of the week. His run was on the pas
senger through here for many years
and he was known to a large number
of our citizens. At one time he was
the owner of Hotel Leon.
The townships Of Trenton and
Medary have put in two fine pieces OF
road work recently. The strip of road
from II. |. Stearns' east to Wilbur At
kins has been turned into a fine high
way, and the road from Mr.. Stearns
west to Tom lannon's, near the lake
has been graded up in fine shape.
The college company of the South
Dakota national guard arrived home
Thursday from the summer encamp-
ment at Sparta, Wis, and report a
splendid time. The Bookings COM
and Huron went in together as
a team in the annual track meet and
every event on the list except the
shot put.
The city council held a special SEES.
sion the last Of the week to dispose
of some matters. The contract for
hauling the city coal was awarded to
Martinson Brothers, and the city
cement work to John Dokken. The con-
tract for the extension to the heating
system was awarded to the Bookings
Construction Co.
We were taken into the Holiday
anu ohi't ont udy last week anu
shown a stalk of corr taken from the
field of w. ]. Gentle that reached from
floor to ceiling. 1t measured over nine
feet. Some Iowa parties were here
boasting about their corr but when
they were shown thtis particular stalk
they were nonplussed and declared it
was grown in Iowa.
The pictures that were taken by the
st. Paul jobbers on their recent visit
here were shown at the Pleasant Hour
Friday and Saturday evenings. The
Brookings views were of the visitors
and a number of Brookings citizens on
the old chapel steps and of the secre.
tary of the ST. Paul association milk
ing College Belle Wayne. The pictures,
although short, will prove a good ad-
vertisement for the city.
When the dust is on the counter and
the cobweb's on the shelf, there's no
one in the store but your own disheart-
ened self, and your stock is getting
shelf worn, and everything looks stale
and bills enough are coming in to
make a banker dale. Oh! then is the