The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-08
QUIET FOURTH
IN BROOK|NGS
OUR PEOPLE OBSERVE NATIONAL
HOLIDAY IN SAFE AND
SANE WAY
MANY HELP WHITE CELEBRATE FOURTH
And Others Go to Nearby Lakes For a
Picnic-White Had Big Crowd and
a Big Time on Monday

Independence Day was a sane day as
far as BrOokings was concerned. The
almost perfect quiet was only disturb
ed by the shot of small fireworks of
who was enjoying the noise and fare
of his home fireworks which he had
purchased for the children's benefit.
But there seemed to be less noise than
ever before. Perhaps the 4th being
Sunday had some effect. The 9Th was
the day of celebrations. The day was
bright and just warm enough for COM
fort. Bookings had no public enter.
tainment or celebration of any kind
and those who wanted to celebrate in
the good old way, with lots of pink
lemonade, hamburgers, soda pop, par
AIDES, band concerts, ball games, pie
eating contests, races ct cetera, vent
to White, where a very fine celebration
was staged for the benefit of all who
might come. 1t was a very good cele-
" dtipll. 1htlt was al sc NloWuy
everything was pulled off in good order
and the people were given what they
wanted. An eXtra-inning ball game be-
tween Fountain and Medary resulted
in a victory for Fountain. The ball
game between White and Elkton was
the big event of the day and was large
ly attended. Brookings county's pros
perity was again evidenced by such a
large number of automobiles that they
formed a complete circle around the
ball ground, and the circle was large
enough so that there was no interfer-
ence with flies going into the out field.
The game was close and well played
and ended in a victory for White, 4 to
3. White vas generous and spared no
pains to entertain her visitors and she
succeeded.
Undoubtedly the greater number Of
B~rookings residents preferred to spend
their day at the lakes. lakewood and
Campbell were the popular resorts, and
most auto owners saw either one or
the other of these places during the
day, if only for a picnic luncheon.
There was a celebration at lakewood
and this was largely attended. Aurora
and Volga played ball, the latter being
the victors by a score of 2 to /.
In addition to these, there were a
considerable number of boosters who
journeyed to the Big Stone chautauqua
and aided President Perisho of the col
lege and the band in making State Col
lege day the real success that it al
Hon. Philo Hall was speaker of the
day at the c%hautauqua meeting. All
report a very successful time.
AS a whole the 9Th was well spent.
The weather, in the first place, was so
splendid that one would have felt like
celebrating even though it had not
been the day after a big national holi-
day, for the cold rainy weather had
held for some time and the 9Th was so
bright and sunny. 1t cannot be said
that the day was a complete success
for such a day cannot be a complete
success unless there is some patriotic
meeting of some kind. There should
have been something which would tend
to teach the children that the day Is
something more than ire-cracker day.
Some kind of Americanization cere-
mony would have been especially ap-
propriate at this time.