The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-02-25

Lecture and Artists Course. Ed
mund Vance Cooke, March /.
Clat Eden wen out to Pierre Fri
day evening TO spend a few days on
business.
Mrs, Thos, Madden returned home
Sunday from a two or three weeks
stay at Eikton.
Why can't Brookings have a Jitney
line? Il is growing in popularity all
over the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Marvin visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Thayer near
Aurora the first of the week.
Ole Mikkelson returned home to
Toronto yesterday morning, after
spending some time at the hospital.
The recent sleet storms did an est.
mated damage of nearly $4,000 to the
rural lines Of the Brookings County
Telephone company.
Father Shean was at Elkton between
trains Saturday. He informs US that
he viii 60 west to take possession OF
his claim the fore part of April.
The Past Noble Grand association
will BE- entertained by Mrs. McCarl
and Mrs. Erie at Mrs. McCarl's resi-.
,dence Tuesday afternoon, March 2.
Misses Mable and Jessie Steele OF
LeMars, Iowa, are here to attend the
wedding of their cousin, Miss Beatrice
Lehner, who will be married this even
ing to Jesse Swift.
The fair directors elected at the re-
cent annual meeting have not as yet
met to elect officers and probably will
not do so until the return of G, n.
Pierre.
The Calling of Dan Matthews" Mr..
Wrights last book to be put into play
ing form by the author himself and
Fishery w. Reynolds, has met with
overwhelming success and will be the
attraction at the Grand on March 6,
and will be presented in the lavish
manner in regard to cast and scenery
for which Messrs. Gaskill & MacVitty
are justly famous.
Several local citizens are consider
ing the establishment of an ice manu-
featuring plant and are about ready
to get down to active work. They pro-
pose to form a stock company and put
in a plant that would cost between ten
and fifteen thousand dollars. The pro-
motors are confident that there is an
opening for such an institution here
and tell us that it is a sure go.
II. L. Button, district agent of the
Mutual Benefit, attended the annual
meeting of the South Dakota agents of
the company at Sioux Falls last week.
The agents of the company in this dis
trict recently formed an organization
and Mr.. Button tells us that they have
decided to hold their first annual meet
ing at Brookings, April 20. Frank L..
Wilson, general agent of the company
for Wisconsin, will be the principal
speaker.
The Lawrence Deming Co. was at
the Grand all last week and while the
weather vas such as to prevent the
attendance they deserved, yet all who
saw them spoke in most praiseworthy
terms Of their performance. The act
ing was good, and the specialties clean
and clever. They are better than the
average repertoire company, in fact in
the opinion of many they were the best
attraction of the kind that we have
had in some time.
The public library during the first
week in the new building, loaned 454
books-233 to children and 221 to
adults. The last week in January, at
the old library, PIT books were loaned
Ill to children and $50 to adult,
The library is open from 3 to 6 and I
W y every udS WIN LlN 'A''pNiO'i VI
Friday evening, when it is closed. On
Saturday afternoons the library opens
one hour earlier. Sundays from 3 to 6
the reading rooms will be open but no
books nor magazines are to be taken
out or returned on Sundays.
If the plans of County Treasurer Gull
lick do not go awry there will be a
summer hotel built at Lake Campbell
this year. Mr.. Guillick has secured
possession of the tract of land known
as Golden's Point on the southeast cor
ner of the lake, one of the finest pieces
of ground around Campbell and VIII
organize a stock company to build the
hotel. He has already received so
much encouragement that he feels
sure that the venture will be a sure
go. The details, Of course, have not
been worked out, but it Is proposed to
put up a two story building, with din
inc roop, k;tobap and q lunch room on