The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-12-16

Bruce visitors in the city one day
last week.
Silk hose for men and women in
Christmas boxes at the Ellis-Hall Co.
Department Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Ponto were in
Sioux Falls last week where the former
attended the implement dealers o n
vention.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Berge were in
Volga last week calling on their many
old friends in that city and the sur
rounding vicinity.
o. ]. Edwards of Waterfowl arrived
last Friday morning to visit friends
and attend The Messiah at the col
lege auditorium in the evening.
The Variety Basement at the Hub
Department Store is becoming the
most popular place in town-it con-
tains the greatest assortment Of Christ
mas goods ever shown in the city.
Mrs. Ole Odegaard of Brookings
township, who has been confined to
the Volga hospital for some time, un-
derwent an operation on Tuesday of
last week. At present she is getting
along nicely.
The Chicago & North Western rail-
road issued a new safety bulletin re-
Gently in which it urges employees and
patrons to suggest plans which will
make it's operation safer, more regular
and more satisfactory to the public.
Safety postal cards will be furnished
to anyone who will ask for them.
1t would not do to say that Will
Bohlke brought a load of gold to town
one day last week, but he brought a
load that was pretty near an equiva-
lent to a load of gold. He brought in a
load of clover seed consisting of 62
bushels and II pounds which he sold
to the local dealers for 1925 per bushel
netting him $578.12-quite a sum for
one load of produce, don't you think?
Mr.. Bohlke had quite a patch of clover
and it yielded two bushels or more of
seed to the acre.-Volga Tribune.
Prof. Geo. A. Starring, publicity
manager for State College at Brook
ings, who came down the first of the
week to attend the funeral of Mrs. r.
L. Slagle, vas a pleasant caller at the
Republican on Tuesday morning. Dur
ing the short time which we spent in
his company we found him to be one
that it is a pleasure to meet, and also
came to the conclusion that the State
College has found the right man and
placed him in the right place, When
they put him in charge of the publicity
Republican.
One of the largest crowds of the
season attended the production, Hen
pecked Henry" in the Grand opera
house last Friday evening. The plot,
which was far from being a deep one.
afforded excellent opportunity for the
talent of Clyde Long, who appeared in
the role of Bowser, the retired Kala-
Henry, and for that of Miss True
Powers, who was cast as the director
of the Bowser household. Jeane
Wentz, as a typical Chicago youth who
falls in love with Bowser's daughter,
and Miss Fay Davenport, in the role of
a vaudeville star who inveigles the un-
sophisticated Henry into contributing
a few hundred dollars toward her
wardrobe, were well up to the average
as fun-makers. Miss Ellen Howard,
who assumed the part of Fay Daven-
port, is a real vocalist but was handl-
capped Friday night by a severe cold
while other members of the company
were unable to appear at all on &C
count of sickness. The chorus was
a we'll balanced one, and the songs
written especially for the play were
well received.
In speaking of the death of Mrs. r.
l.. Slagle, the Vermillion Republican
said, in part: "On May %, 1896, she
was united in marriage to DR.. r. l..
Slagle at st. Paul, Mimi, and went
with him as a bride to Brookings
where he was then professor of chem
istry at the State College. The fol
lowing year they removed to Rapid
City where DR.. Slagle had been elected
to the presidency of the State School
of Mines. On January 1, 1906, they
returned to Brookings, DR.. Slagle hav-
ing been elected as president of the
State College at that place. Both at
Rapid City and Brookings she was
greatly loved and respected by the stu
dents and citizens, and the
ment Of her death will come with
double sadness to the people of those
cities when they remember the pleas
ant smiles and winning ways which
characterized her life among them.
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