The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-06-17
Mrs. G.. c. Green went to Estelline
Thursday to visit her daughter.


ing for a three months stay at Cotton
wood.
Mrs. A. n. Hume and children de-
parted Tuesday morning for a visit in
Indiana.
The Brookings ball team defeated
Elkton at Elkton on Sunday by a score
of Z to 5.
After an extended visit in the east
and in California, Mrs. Lillian Hinckley
returned home this week.
Arthur Adams returned home to
Lansford, n. d., Thursday, after spend
ing a week with Brookings friends.
Vey J. Valentine of Mitchell, was
here last week visiting friends and TAX
ing in the commencement exercises at
the college.
Mrs. H. f. Lloyd, who has been visit
ing old friends here for several weeks,
departed this morning for her home
at Hollywood, California.
Ward Waltz has been elected man
dStl VI lut lOIdl YAH team anu dS uS
is an astute baseball man we expect
the boys to show winning stride from
now IN.
The Bank of Brookings has ordered
a Burroughs ledger posting machine,
a mechanical bookkeeper that will
greatly tighten the book work of the
institution.
Ten Nights in a Bar Room was
given here by the Terry company Sat
urday night and it seemed to please
the crowd fairly well. The big tent
was packed.
Miss Lillian Breed returned home
Friday from Park Rapids, Mimi,
where she completed a successful
years work as instructor of English in
the high school.
President Perisho delivered the COM
mencement address before the gradu-
ating class at Wilmot Friday evening.
Nearly a foot of snow fell in the
Black Hills Sunday.
The street commissioner has been
putting gravel around the crossings
during the week and it makes an i'm
provement that is appreciated, espec-
tally by auto owners.
The school election Tuesday only
drew out a small vote, about twenty
ballots being cast. There was no op-
position to the reelection of w. A.
Caldwell and Prof. r. B. Forsee.
Prof. G. A. Starring has bought a
lot and a half on Medary avenue,
north of the r. Matheny residence and
opposite the college campus, but does
not expect to build for the present at
least, but if he remains here he will put
up a nice home.
r. f. Kerr returned home Thursday
night from Sioux Falls, where he at
tended the state meeting Of the var
ious Masonic bodies. He was present.
ed with a beautiful diamond star pin,
it being an honor conferred on Past
Grand Patrons of the order.
Cashier Flittie has just completed a
nice cottage on the west bank of Lake
Campbell, and a corporation consist.
ing of the c. o. Trygstad, o. o. Olson,
j. G. and o. G. Oyloe and c. A. John.
son families have built a good sized
bungalow in the same neighborhood.
Judge Sherwood adjourned circuit
court yesterday afternoon as most of
the jurymen and other court attend.
ants wished to take in the old set
tiers reunion. The judge also wished
to attend the doings, as he can qualify
as a Brookings county pioneer, hav.
ing taught school at Volga in 1881.
Last week the Deuel. county board
Z let the contract TO a home man for a
number of steel and concrete bridges.
5 This is good judgment on the part of
2 the commissioners, as we don't see any
reason why this money shouldn't be
i left at home, especially when they
work cheaper and as we'll as the
/. bridge trust will do it.
DR.. Stoll and E. H. Carlisle spent a
couple of days fishing at Spirit Lake
this week. but they report that the
sport was pretty poor. The fishing at
most of the lakes has been no good
SO far this year and it is presumed
that the cold and uncertain weather is
responsible. There has been practi-
cally nothing doing at Lake Campbell.
Those who were complaining about
the GOODNESS of the past May are urged
by the st. Louis Post-Dispatch to dig
into the records of the past until they
come to 1916 which was known
throughout the United States as the
year without a summer. In that year
rive ~-.Il 49, r. -