The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-31

A Scandinavian Baptist revival is
being held in a tent just across the
street from the Register office and Will
continue for several weeks.
A miscellaneous shower was given
Miss Pearl DeWalt at her home Wed
nesday evening and many useful and
beautiful presents were received.
Will Messerschmidt, recruiting off
cor for South Dakota, has arrived from
the camp at San Benito and was in
Bookings a day or two this week.
Those having charge of organizing
the new militia company are going
ahead with their plans and hope to
effect an organization in the neal fu-
ture.
Prof. and Mrs, Paul Gillespie, who
spent their vacation at Cambridge,
Ohio, returned this morning to be
ready for his high school duties next
Monday.
Hubert Mathews arrived home
Tuesday from the border where he had
been since the South Dakota regiment
went south. He was not accepted in
the army and returns TO take up his
studies at the opening of the school
year.
Miss Helen Johnson has returned
from the cities and has a complete line
Of millinery and ladies furnishings.
During the fair she will have special
bargain tables of millinery, furnishings
and fancy goods and invites everybody
to call and see her bargains.
The ladies of the United Presbyter-
ian church gave Miss Lillian Olson a
shower Tuesday afternoon, and the
feature was a fish pond in which the
bride-to-be was compelled to fish for
the articles. Refreshments were serv-
ed, and a nice time is reported.
Mrs. w. C. Ellis, of Youngstown,
Ohio, and Miss Loretta McElmurry,
who had been a student at Columbia
university, arrived Friday evening for
a visit with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. S. A. McElmurry. Mrs. Ellis will
remain for six weeks and Miss Loretta
will go to Madison, at the beginning of
the school year., to teach in the state
normal school.
A. ]. Keith, who jumped a board bill
at the Leon Hotel and went to Water
town. was arrested there last Sunday
and brought back by Deputy Sheriff
Neil Donaldson and States Attorney
Wallace E. Purdy and lodged in Jail.
The case is expected to come up for a
hearing today or tomorrow. Keith is
an insurance man who spent some
time here during the summer and
boarded at the Leon.
New and novel effects in stage set
ting and lighting are offered to the
people of Brookings and vicinity by
the Mae Edwards Players who open a
five night engagement at the Grand
Opera House, Tuesday, September 5.
Miss Edwards is ably supported by a
capable cast and it is the constant
effort of the company management to
give their patrons something entirely
different in a repertoire show, in plays
and vaudeville. SOC, 35c and 25c.
, Mrs. Alice F. Burke and Miss Nell
Richardson, who are making a trans
continental s~uffragist campaign, were
in Brookings Tuesday. They are
travelling in a little yellow Saxon car
They left New York City April 9Th and
have been down the Atlantic coast
across the southern states to lower
California, up the Pacific coast tt
Seattle and from there to South Da
kots. taking in Mitchell, Sioux Fall.
and Brookings. As o mascot they
have q cat which has been with then
the whole route. Their car was pas
tered all over with the names Of towns
! in which they spoke. They have travel
ed in the ave months over 5000 mile,
aud expect to travel several thousant
more before reaching nome.