The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-08

Dig ioaVeS OF DreaQ 1Or nVe ana ten
cents at the Ideal Home Bakery.
Mrs. r. E. Clarin and Miss Ruby
Lien visited friends at Hendricks last
week.
"The Spoilers"-9 reels-will play a
return engagement at The Fad, Wed
nesday, July 21st.
The college faculty and summer
school students held a picnic on the
campus Monday afternoon.
]. f. Clark of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, spent a few
days at the college last week.
Mrs. Fred Cole and children arrived
Saturday night from the west to join
Mr., Cole and they are living in the old
Presbyterian manse.
John Meratta was here this week
and made arrangements to open up
an ice real parlor and fruit stand in
Mrs. Wimsey's building about the mid
die Of August.
Nowhere else in the United States
has reseeding been carried on so sue
cessfully as in the Black Hills national
forest. The first work of this kind was
done here in 1905 and has been contin-
ued each year since.-Minneapolis
Journal.
r. II. Bartlett, f. +. Haugen, Ed. Car
Isle and John Murphy autoed to Big
Stone in the formers car Sunday
morning and fished until Tuesday
%eevning. They report that the fish
ing was fine and 100 pike, bass and
croppies were brought home.
Mitchell will have nearly three miles
of street railway before the summer is
over if present plans do not go amiss.
A franchise was recently voted by the
city and a corporation has been organ
lied with a capitalization of $780, 600
with a holding company capitalized at
$4,000 Local capitalists are push
ing the project in IN energetic manner.
There was a lively and somewhat
noisy time around the Masonic Temple
Saturday afternoon when Mgr. Kerr
of the c~hautauQua sent up a dozen
small balloons containing a children's
ticket. The balloons fioated a short
distance and when they came down
there was some tussle among the kids.
Each Of the youngsters was also pre-
scented with a whistle, with which
they proceeded to annoy the commun-
ity.
The south used to have a great deal
to say about king cotton and now the
north is shouting about king corn,
says an exchange. People got the
idea that the south was a one-crop
country-cotton. That did the south
no particular good and too much harp
ing about corn will result the same in
the north. The fact is that for diversi-
fed crops we car beat the world and
nc mar should be so foolish as to put
his ldltn III one crop.
A fortunate accident occurred near
Milbank the first of the week when an
automobile containing six persons
barely escaped death from a collision
with a fast Milwaukee train. The
train came upon the auto so suddenly
that the driver saw that he had no
time to cross and he made an attempt
TO back the machine from the track.
The engine sailed and the train cut
off the engine and front wheels of the
hurt.
There is a movement on foot for a
Booster trip for all of Deuel. county,
to visit the agricultural college at
Brookings. Dean Perisho of the col
lege, has issued an invitation to all
residents of Deuel. county to name a
date and visit the school and the pres
following the c%hautauqua. Mr.. Perisho
says notify him a day or two in ad-
and he will see that the visitors
have warm coffee and will arrange for
a picnic dinner on the campus. Watch
The Courier for future announcements.
Clear Lake Courier.
The Universal Franchise League Of
Brookings, met at the home of its
president, Mrs. NJ. f. Bacon, last Fri
day afternoon. 1t proved to be an
unusual meeting, for soon after their
arrival, the ladies discovered that the
day marked an important event in the
life of their president, it being her
birthday anniversary. They, there
fore. disposed of their business as
quickly as possible and spent the rest
Of the afternoon in helping their hos.
tess to celebrate the occasion proper.
ly. At the close OF the afternoon they