The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-08

different wards next Monday. Come
out and vote your convictions.
The Paul j. Rainey African Hunt
Pictures will be shown at The Fad Fri
day and Saturday, July 16 and II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Harte and H. G.
Hauff and family autoed to Big Stone
Tuesday morning for a few days out
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Korte returned home
to Plymouth, Wis, yesterday morn
ing, after a visit at the Thos. Alton
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sandy Gray and Miss
DeWolf of Peever, arrived the last of
the week for a visit at the Frank Far
renkop home.
DR.. and Mrs. c. C. Lipp departed the
last of the week for Youngstown,
Ohio, where they will visit relatives
for some time.
Prof. C. Larsen left the last of the
week for Iowa in his auto to join his
family who have been visiting there
for some time.
Lee Gaylord returned home to st.
Paul yesterday morning after spend
ing a few days at the home of his
uncle, John A. Olson.
Carl Johnson, who is holding down
a civil engineering position with the
city of Mitchell, visited over the
Fourth with home folks.
Special election next Monday on
power house question. You must have
an opinion one way or the other, SO
come out and express it.
James Shepard, Jr., and Hubble
Pickett left yesterday morning to join
| the Watertown band on it's trip to the
San Francisco exposition.
Quite a crowd from here went to
Watertown Friday to the Barnum &
Bailey circus. There were $4,000 at
the afternoon performance.
Miss Katherine MacNamara arrived
arrived from Minneapolis Saturday
morning and visited until Monday
night at the home of her parents.
Mrs. Algaard and Mrs. Davidson re-
turned to their homes at Lebeau and
Eagle Butte the last of the week, after
a visit at the II. G. Fox home.
Mrs. Ben Nitzkowski and children
returned to her home at Arena, n. d.,
after a three weeks visit with her
brother, Henry Schmidt and family in
Argo township.
There will be a special election in
the wards next Monday to decide
whether or not the city power plant
will be moved. The polls will be open
from eight until five.
Sam Sloan has resigned his position
in the college agronomy department
and about the first of August he goes
to Webster, where he will be county
agent Of Day county.
Mrs. B. f. McProud departed the
last of the week for Lincoln, Neb.
Prof. McProud will join her later and
next year he has accepted a position
in Nebraska Wesleyan University in
that city.
CLAUS Dybdahl returned home Fri
day from Fargo, N. D., where he at
tended a big Norwegian gathering.
The people of each section of Norway
held a picnic, and Mr.. Dybdahl met
many old friends whom he had not
seen for many years.
Among the Brookings people who
autoed to Big Stone the first of the
week were Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Poole,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. G.. Akin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Philo Hall and daughter, Mrs, Henry
Shea, Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. Quail, Chas.
Hall and family and Mr.. and Mrs.
Atkinson.
We are in receipt Of a copy of the
Portland, Oregon, Evening Telegram,
which contains a picture Of the bunch
gathered for the annual Brookings
County Picnic. All former residents OF
the county living in or near Port
land were invited and a jolly bunch
Of about se%venty-fve were present. We
recognized quite a number Of familiar
faces in the picture.
Rev. C. F. Hoffman returned home
Sunday morning from his several
weeks western trip. Mrs. Hoffman re
NAMED at Prosser, Wash, with her
mother who was very Ill when Mr.
HOFFMAN left and he received word
upon his arrival home that she had
passed away. Mr.. Hoffman came back
over the Canadian Pacific, stopping of
at a number of places, and he says
that business conditions are bad
through that section. The crop pros
poets are poor and the war has also
put a crimp in business. He says thai
there was evidence of war along the
railroad, as the bridges for severa