The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-06-24
A. j. Dokken and family autoed up to

A. j. Dokken and family autoed up to
Toronto last week to visit relatives.
Miss Mae Austin visited over Sun
day at the home of her brother at
Bruce.
Mrs. Jessie Kelly was called to Min
neapolis last week by the death of her
mother.
Geo. Henry, state fire marshal, IA
here this week and was accompanied
by a son o fGovernor Byrne.
Mrs. NJ. +. Bacon returned home
Monday from a visit of a week with
her daughter at Castlewood.
Mrs. Dreamer of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
visiting at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Fishback.
Mrs. G.. 0. Thompson came down
from Toronto the last of the week for
a visit with Brookings relatives.
Mrs. Ed. S~hanbarker and daughter
returned Saturday from a couple of
weeks visit at Doland and Gettysburg.
The Hub Department Store will
have especial display of fruits on
Saturday-Come and look this over.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pigg of Merrimac, Wis,
who were here last week to attend a
reunion of the Loveland family, depart,
ed Saturday for a visit at Huron and
Hot Springs.
DR.. b. b. Bracket of the State Col
lege, departed Monlay morning for
Ames, Iowa, to attend the annual meet
ing of the National Society for the Ad-
vancement of Engineering Education.
The telephone plant issued a new di-
rectory this week. The letter h has
been discarded as a call number and
l. substituted, as "B" and IS" sound
ed so much alike that there were fire.
quent mistakes.
A carnival was arranged for to show
at the fair grounds all of next week,
but for some reason or other the deal
fell through. The failure to secure the
attraction was not the fault of the
local people, however.
Guy Fowler took a crew of men up
to Will Grinols' farm between here
and Clear Lake this week to start work
on a complete set of farm buildings,
which will be erected at a cost of eight
or ten thousand dollars.
Twin daughters were born to Rev.
and Mrs. Paul Roberts at the hospital
Tuesday morning, and both mother
and children are doing finely. Rev.
and Mrs. Roberts many friends will
extend congratulations upon this hap
by event.
When the amount provided by law
for the purchase of mothers pensions
in each county is exhausted, the at
torney general rules that the county
treasurer is not authorized under the
law to make further payments out Of
the general fund for mothers pen
sions. The legislature, he believes,
and holds, intended that the levy
shall not exceed one-tenth of a mill.
He is of the further opinion that the
county court should select the most
needy cases as the law recommends,
though in some places the court has
not done this, and left the matter I'M
decided.
The base ball fans net at the assem-
bly, room Thursday afternoon and form
ed an organization for the support OF
the local team. The following officers
were elected: President, 4. II. Connel-
ly; vice-president, DR.. Jackson; secre-
tary and treasurer, c. M. McGinnis;
manager, p. w. Waltz; field manager,
r. A. Turner; finance committee, o. o.
Graves, G. o. Quail, Henry Getty. The
association made a canvass of the bust
ness section and secured several hun
dred dollars for the support of the
team. This will all be paid to the local
boys, as it is not the intention to get
any players from the outside. 1t is
hoped to keep the team in the field
until about the first of August.