The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-04

Williams. Moody rounty still holds
the palm.-Flandreau Enterprise.
Charles Toliver has been appointed
to the position of night flagman for the
Northwestern. John Ronning has been
holding the day position for many
years but the night traffic at times is
almost as great as during the day. The
safety first" idea of the Northwestern
has no doubt been the controlling fac
tor in placing a night man at this dan
gerous crossing on Main street.
The city of De Smet will u%ndoubted-
ly be represented in Brookings on
Hobo Day, according to the following
from the De Smet News: A week from
tomorrow will be Hobo Day at State
College. De Smetshould be well repre-
scented in Brookings on that day to
show our interest in the great school.
A large delegation will be there from
here if the weather is pleasant.
Clear Lake Advocate.-Miss Waneta
Cordiner, who is attending State Col
lege at Bookings, visited with home
folks Saturday and Sunday returning
Monday. She reported that greater
preparations than ever were being
made for Hobo Day by the college
students and faculty. A large number
Of Clear Lakers are already planning
on attending. Hobo Day is on Satur-
day, November 6.
$34,25 was realized by the Brookings
Commercial Club from the entertain
ment given by the Hallowell Concert
company of Chicago at the Grand
opera house Tuesday evening. A large
crowd attended the concert and the
members Of the organization proved
they were experts along musical lines.
Mr.. John Wentzell, the baritone solo
list Of the company, has a deep, reson-
ant voice but his enunciation was poor.
Alexandria Herald.-The Herald
learns that Mrs. Nellie Chapman, who
moved to Brookings several weeks ago.
has been at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. Gideon Ives, at Proctor, MINI,
practically all the time since leaving
here. The Ives children have been i'll
with typhoid fever, and Mrs. Chapman
has been assisting in caring for them.
At last reports the children were re-
covering, and Mrs. Chapman expected
to return to Brookings this week.
The Luce Electric Short Line will be
completed from Minneapolis to Hutch
inson, nearly half way to Montevido,
this season. 1t is now running to
Winsted and it is expected that it will
reach Clara City next season and Mon
tevido soon after. This line will open
up a very rich region of country be-
tween here and Hutchinson, that has
never had good conveniences and It's
town, S. D., will also be a great thing
for Montevido and for this section of
the state.-Montevido (Minn.) Leader.
The precipitation record at Brook
ings for the months of April, May,
June, July and August for the years
1914 and 1915, according to a Pierre
dispatch, shows the rainfall was 2.44
inches heavier last year than this. In
1914 the total for the five months was
1899 while this year it was 1855.
Other cities in this part of the state
report heavier rainfall than in 1914.
Watertown had 1927 inches in 1914
and 1871 inches in 1915 while Huron
reports 14.04 for 1914 and 22.60 for
1915. At many western points the
rainfall was heavier this year thar
last.
Rev. Irl R. Hicks, the famed st.
Louis weather prognosticator, says a
touch of early winter will be felt the
first week in November, and that it
will prove the wise thing to prepare
for heavy frosts and hurtful freezing.
Rev. Hicks further says there need
be no little surprise if stormy and dis
agreeable weather continues over the
period Of the new moon. The first
regular storm period will be from the
Sth to the 18th Of the month and from
then on we can look for real winter
weather, and from the 21st to the 25th
the western states can look for a No
vember blizzard.
Watertown will root for State Col
lege of Bookings on Saturday, Novem-
Der 13, when the locals play the North
Dakota aggies in that city, according
to the following from the Saturday
News: One of them is bound to be dis.
appointed unless, ~perchance, both
should be as in case of a tie-in
which event the disappointment would
be mixed with a certain degree of sat
isfaction in that the other fellows
didn't win. Brookings college students