The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-05-11
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to outside parties for "Everywoman."
About twenty couple of Brookings
young married folks enjoyed a dance
at the Redman hall Wednesday night.
This will, doubtless, be the last of
these pleasant affairs this season.
Ernest Wills, who has been visiting
in Brookings for the past few days, re-
ceived a telegram the early part Of
the week to report for duty at the
Westinghouse plant at %Pittsburg, Pa,
next Monday, and accordingly he de
parted Tuesday morning for that place.
Mr.. Wills is assistant foreman of the
electric lighting and starting equip
ment department in the Westinghouse
shops.
Bruce Herald:-A letter has been re-
ceived from Mrs. Adelia Sponsler from
Laurel, Montana, telling of the death
of her eight year old daughter from the
bite of a woOd-tiCk. An article from
llt I-Ctultl oulIOOh i DuDIlSIltu DPlDN.
After two weeks of sickness from
spotted fever Caroline Elizabeth Spoons
Ter, eight year old daughter of Mrs.
Adelia Sponsler, succumbed to death
shortly after midnight Friday night
at the Orthman home in the lower
Clark Forke Valley. The child was
bitten by a wood-tick and in a short
time after it was removed by her
mother the fever developed. The first
that was noticed of the child's illness
was a few hours after the tick had
been removed when she refused to eat
she arose from bed she fell to the floor
unconscious and from that time on
until death came she was not con-
scious of what was going on around
her. The deceased was the eldest
child of Mrs. Sponsler and came here
with her mother in 1911. She was
born in Bruce, S. d., nearly eight years
ago. She was a bright child and loved
by all who knew her. Funeral ser
vices were held at the Methodist
church Sunday afternoon at two
o'clock and were conducted by Rev.
r. T. Weston, pastor Of that church
Burial took place at the Laurel ceme-
terry. The little girl was the Oldest
daughter of G. w. Sponsler of Preston
township, S. d.
Industrial Collegian:-Friday even
ing, May S, will long be remembered
by the small boys of the city as IN of
the biggest evenings, which they ever
spent. The boys gathered in the lower
gym about seven o'clock and were en-
tertained for an hour by the acrobats
and clowns. About eight o'clock, it
was announced that there would next
be games in the upper gym, and every
one rushed Immediately to the scene
Of action. Six teams of ten each were
chosen for the medicine ball race, a
Y. M. C. A. man taking charge of each
team. At this juncture Prof. Brown
was given the floor. He read the
humorous section of "Mr. Middlerib
and the Bumblebee" and succeeded in
greatly interesting and amusing his
rather difficult audience. The signal
for the start Of the medicine ball race
was next given and two very close con
tests of three teams each were played.
The excitement now rose to the high
est pitch when the two winning teams
out of the six raced for final victory.
After the contest peace was again re-
stored and a group picture was taken
by Photographer Clarin. Following
this the r~efreshment line was formed
and a lunch of cocoa, sandwiches and
cake was served. The leafs" were
plentiful but the appetites were cores
pondingly sharp and the last crumb
met its end bravely. An important
feature of the evening was tie part by
the Boy Scouts under the leadership
of Mr.. Cornell. The Buys showed their
careful training and did much to keep
order as well as to entertain the a
dience. Mr.. Cornell is deserving of
all the backing in this work. which the
people of Brookings can give him.
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