The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-03-30
Local and Personal

Remember the Y. NJ. C. A. when you
have a few hours work. Phone 331.
f. G.. Montgomery transacted bust
ness and called on friends in Water
town last Friday.
Prof. G. w. Randlett, Of the extern
sion department of the State College,
visited in Pierre Saturday of last week.
The Registers next story will be
The Prince of Graustark" by George
Barr M~cCutcheon. Need we say
more?
Miss Esther Smith, who resides
south of this city, was a guest at the
home of Miss Della Ross, of Castle
wood, the first part of last week.
Jas. alexander, who was called to
this city on account of the death Of
his mother, Mrs. ]. P. Alexander, re-
turned last Thursday night to his
home in Judith Gap, Montana.
w. NJ. MAR, state leader of boys and
girls club work, was in Watertown last
Friday getting the seasons club work
in Codington county arranged and to
confer with Watertown people inter
ested in the work.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Alexander, of
Mortified, Mimi, who were called to
B~rookings on account of the death of
the latter's sister, Mrs. j.. P. Alexan-
der, last week, returned to their home
last Thursday night.
A letter from C.. G. French, formerly
a resident of Brookings, tells us that
he has gone to Bismarck, N. D., to re-
ceive medical treatment. He has been
farming near Raleigh but has lost his
health and had to quit.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Chambers were
in the city Monday guests at the A. +.
Bunday home. They were on their
way home to Dempster from Lake
Preston. Mrs. Chambers is in better
health than she has been for a long
time.
Word has been received in Brook
ings of the death of Norman Johnson,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. p. c. Johnson, at
Houston, Texas. Typhoid fever is
given as the cause. The johnsons
were residents of %Brookings up until
ahout fOur wears 100
A newspaper in the southern part of
the state offered a prize to the best
answer to the question: why is a
newspaper like a woman?" The prize
was won by a Sioux Falls lady, and
this was her answer: Because every
man should have one of his own, and
should not run after his neighbors."
Elkton ACCOMPLISHMENT MINER and
Col. Mckee, of Bookings, were well
come callers in our den last Friday
afternoon. The colonel is high chief
of the court house and keeps the pal
ace in ship shape. Owing to his
efficiency the good looking county
officials are kept in their proper stalls
and seldom miss a meal.
Ripon, (Wis.) Commonwealth
gladstone discovery was made by the
Ripon Knitting Works a few days
since. In looking over their dye stock
a ten pound package of orange dye,
which had lain unused in their store
room for many years, was found which,
in the past two years has advanced in
price almost beyond belief. The dye is
of a particular kind which is practical
ly unobtainable in the United States
at the present time, end while original
ly costing about twenty cents a pound
is now valued at around 81, 200 q pound
sales Of it having been made recently
in small quantities at this figure. Many
phenomenal advances in price have
been heralded abroad of late, but this
is believed to be the climax. A short
time since the same concern sold a
small %ouantitv Of dive Sfuff which cost