The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-06-24

ence this year Is the largest in it's his
tory. World leaders are on the pro
gram as speakers and leaders. Mr..
Phillips and delegates will return
June %.
Thos. Bang, proprietor Of the Brook
ings creamery, won first prize in the
butter contest at the college on Tues
day. The State Dairymen's association
is holding a series of contests, this be-
ing the third, and Mr.. Bang took third
in the first contest and second in the
second one, so ne is getting better all
the time. Mr.. Bang has an unusually
in addition to his standing the above
contests he won first prize at the last
state fair. BroOkings people will be
glad to know that they are eating the
best butter made in the state. There
we're "a entries in the last contest.
We are informed that there will be
nothing doing In Brookings on the
4th. 1t was not the intention to have a
celebration, but some kind Of a pa
geant for the home folks, but nothing
has been doing along this line and the
Register does not wish the impression
celebration, for we are not. II a town
intends to prepare for the Fourth a
start should be made some time in
May and not a week or two before the
occasion. Monday will be observed
here as the Fourth and all business
places will close on that day. This
will leave our people free to help
White celebrate or go on a picnic or
whatever else they may wish.
At a meeting of the First National
Bank directors Monday afternoon Geo.
w. Cobel Of Fairfield, Neb., was elect
ed director and cashier to succeed II.
+. Haroldson, who resigned some time
ago. Mr.. Cobel was here this week
and returned home to close up his per-
sonal affairs preparatory to moving his
family to Brook ngs. He is a very
pleasant gentleman to meet, and
comes with the highest recommends
tons as a banker and a citizen. He
has been in the banking business at
Fairfield for years, but wished to give
his growing family better educational
advantages, and quite naturally he Sc
lected Brookings. He expects to take
up his duties within thirty days.
The following dispatch from Huron
will be Of local interest, as Mr.. Ives is
well known here: AT the recent
Masonic grand lodge meeting in Sioux
Falls, Col. b. f. Ives was elected for
the sixteenth time grand lecturer of
the order in South Dakota. Col. Ives
has served in Masonic grand lodges
next to the longest of any man in the
state, and has a remarkable Masonic
record. He Is a t~hirty-second degree
man, a knight Templar, a Royal Arch
and an A. f. and A. NJ, a Shriner, a
Royal and a Select Master, a member
Of the Eeastern Star, of the White
Shrine of Jerusalem and of the Ma.
sonic Veterans; has been the repre-
sentative in South Dakota of the grand
lodge of England since 1906, and is
also a member of the Amounted High
Priesthood. Mr.. Ives was grand chap
lain, A. F. and A. NJ, from 1896 to
1909; grand lecturer, A. F. and A. M,
from 1900 to the present time; grand
high priest of the chapter from 1899
to the present time: grand lecturer of
the chapter from 1900 to the present
time; grand chaplain Of the Amounted
High Priesthood from 1896 to 1897;
vice-president of the Amounted High
Priesthood from 1898 to the present
time; president of the Masonic Veter-
ans in 1913, and is also a past COM
mander of the Knights Templar."