The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-10-28

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Miss Mae Lehner visited last Fri
day and Saturday with her sister, Mrs.
Jesse Swift, at Estelline.
Mrs. NJ. B. Milne and son Donald
went to Minneapolis Monday for a
visit Of a few days with Mrs. Mines
mother.
Misses Jessie Smith and Harriet
Bartlett, teachers in the schools at
Wanda, Mimi, came last Saturday and
spent the day with the formers broth
er, d. F. Smith.
Fred w. Cuckow writes from LIE
Junta, Colo, that he failed to get his
paper last week. He says, must have
the Register every week. It's like get
ting a letter from home. All are doing
well here"
Complaint is going out from farmers
in North Dakota of the loss of wheat
and other grains occasioned by the
ravages of wild ducks and geese. Local
hunters are planning to make a big
killing when the first flight Of game
southwark occurs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Sanderson and
family moved this week from neal
Estelline to Brookings and expect to
occupy the Culhane residence in the
eastern part of the city. Mr.. Sander
son has been living on the Catlett
farm near Estelline.
Miss Edith Peterson returned to
Milbank Monday where she is teach
ing, after visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. p. o. Peterson. Miss Peterson
said that her brother, Orvis Peterson,
was improving nicely at the hospital
and unless he suffered another re-
lapse another operation would not be
necessary.
E. L. Prahl, residing north Of this
city, is one of Brookings county's pro-
gressive farmers and his crops this
year averaged as high as the best of
them. His potatoes went 265 bushels
to the acre, wheat 80 bushels, barley
40 bushels and oats 60 bushels. Few
farmers can boast of as good aver
ages in all crops.
A movement is under way among
the alumni of Huron College for the
purchase of an athletic field to be pre-
scented to the college this coming com
mencement by the association. Two
fields are under consideration, either
one of which would make a splendid
athletic grounds. Twenty alumni
| started the movement.
Permission was granted to the State
of South Dakota by the supreme court
to file an original suit against Charles
H. Cassill, former state treasurer, for
$4,000, alleged to have been received
by Cassill as fees in consideration of
the deposits of public funds in South
Dakota and Chicago banks during his
term of office. Cassill was given until
the first Monday in March to answer.
Any mail received at the Brookings
post Office that is not outwardly neu-
trail, SO far as the appearance of the
envelope or wrapper is concerned, will
not be forwarded according to official
notice received by Postmaster O. G..
Oyloe from the department at Wash
ington. This order applies especially
to mail that is found occasionally
bearing a sticker motto, such as "Gott
Strafe England" or a picture of the
German escutcheon with a red blot
labeled "Lusitania" and inscribed
"The Blot That Won't Come Off"
Timothy higgins. nearly 80 years
old, died at his home in Elkton of all
ments due to old age. He was a IA
tive of Ireland, where he was born in
1925, and came to the United States in
1851, and was married in indianapolis
in 1854. In 1858 he and his family
moved to Fillmore county, Minnesota,
where they resided for twenty years,
afterward removing to Sheldon, Iowa.
In 1882 they located on a homestead in
Brookings county, near Elkton, where
they resided until 1897, when they re-
moved to Elkton. His wife, one son
and four daughters survive the aged
man.
The Laymen's Missionary Conven-
ton for South Dakota that will assem-
BILE at Mitchell November Z to 10,
will be in charge of Team B, one OF
the five teams of speakers that will
conduct the Is conventions OF the Ma
tional Missionary Campaign. Team
B will consist OF sixteen men who
are outstanding leaders of their de-
nominations. All have a wide range
Of experience and achievement which
they represent and their presence in
dicates the rare privileges awaiting
the delegates to this convention,
where the problems Of the Christian
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