The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-05-20
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Mrs. G.. M. Hon OF Austin, Mlnn.,
is the guest of her mother, Mrs. May
land, this week.
Mrs. L. A. Lehner visited with her
daughter, Mrs. Swift, at Estelline the
first of the week.
Elton Perley was ove from Elan
dreau Monday taking in the meet and
visiting his sister, Mrs. G.. H. Hauf.
Miss Neva Soule returned home this
week from near Bruce, where she COM
pleted a very successful term of school.
Mrs. B. E. McProud is enjoying a
visit from her mother, Mrs. J. E. Watt,
who arrived from Usage, Kas., last
week. She will remain several weeks.
Thos. Bang let the contract for his
new home this week to Guy Fowler. 1t
will be located north Of Prof. Shep-
ards on a lot which Mr.. Bang recently
bought.
Rev. C. w. Finwall Of Chicago, form
erly Of Brookings, will give a lecture
at the Lutheran church June IL. His
subject will be, "How to Make and
Keep South Dakota Dry"
Mr.. and Mrs. G. +. Hepner are proud
grandparents, having just received
word of the arrival of twins, a boy
and a girl, at the nome of Prof. and
Mrs. Frank Hepner Of Madison, Wis.
Editor Gilbert of the Salem Special,
was a caller at the Register office on
Friday. Mr.. Gilbert and his wife, Mrs.
Mana Gilbert conduct one of the
brightest and newsiest papers in the
state.
Dean Hedge sustained a badly
sprained wrist at the college athletic
field Monday. He was showing how
he used to run the hurdles, but of
course he has kind of lost the knack
and he suffered a bad fall, with the
above painful result.
All older people who desire to at
tend the Union Memorial service next
Sunday morning and are unable to
walk to the auditorium will be pro-
vided with ~conveyances by notifying
w. r. Vinegar any time before Satur-
day night. Phone B-1S6.
Rev. C. F. Hoffman departed Tues
day morning for an extended western
trip. He will attend a number of
church meetings and will visit various
points of interest. He expects to re-
turn by way of Prosser, Wash, where
Mrs. Hoffman is now visiting.
c. d. Kendall has again generously
contributed about a dozen benches for
the school house park. Now it seems
as though it would be up to the city
police force to protect the seats from
the vandals who do not know any bet
ter than to carve them up or break
them.
Brookings county will have a big
corn acreage this year, according to all
reports, as our farmers are gradually
getting farther away from small grain,
and as a consequence they are making
more money. However, there will be
lots of small grain here and it should
bring a big price this fall.
While putting some dressing on a
belt one day this week Jack Warren
suffered a broken finger, the belt draw,
ing the member into the wheel. Mr..
Warren managed to jerk his hand out
of the wheel, which was fortunate, as
he might easily have suffered more
serious consequences.
Macpherson Hayter of Artesian, the
former star State College athlete, was
here Monday to see how the present
day athletes do things. It's a cinch
that they can't do things quite like
MAC" did. Mr.. Hayter was visiting
at the home of his wife's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. H. I. Stearns, south of the
city.
While coming home from the lake
with a party of young people Saturday
/ evening Wayland Borst ran his car off
a culvert south Of the city and the
( machine was badly damaged. When
5 the car left the road it plowed through
the ditch for a considerable distance
but TO- tunately did not turn over ano
none Of the party were injured. The
: car will be laid up in the hospital for
, some time.
' The cold weather of the past week
has put several of out of door attrac
5 tions on the blink. 1t kept down the
r crowd at Mondays meet and caused
: the postponement Of the u of door
] production of Faust" on Monday yer
j ing and of the band concert on Tues
day evening. There is one satisfac
ton though, the cold weather is not
: local, but extends practically all over
the country. So far it has been the
s coolest May in years.
Most of the towns in this section Of
the state have organized base bal
:. teams for the season and there should