The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-06-01

Mr.. and Mrs. \. simmons, o. Elan.
creau, were in the city Tuesday visit
ms friends.
Good girl wanted for general house
work. Call at Creamery or home.
Thos. Bang,
There are plenty Of seats left for
Friday and Saturday matinee and night
for the Birth Of a Nation.
Geo. Fowler came down from Clark
Monday returning Tuesday evening.
He is working Clark territory at pres
ent.
w. II. Larrabee, one of the old time
settlers of Aurora, was in the city this
morning looking after business mat
tiers.
Miss Bess Chappell has arrived home
from Lamar, Colorado. where she has
been teaching school during the past
year.
Mrs. L. \. Engelson left for her
home at Midway. y. D., Saturday after
visiting several weeks with relatives in
this. city.
Mrs. Frank Jensen. of Mitchell. ar
rived the first part of the week for a
three weeks visit with her mother,
Mrs. o. T. Hubbard.
Gene Burkhead of Sioux City, was
visiting his old friend. Geo. Fowler, the
first of the week. They We're boys to-
gether at Sioux City.
Mrs. Bonesteel, of Watertown. was
a BroOkings visitor the first of the
week. The BOnesteels were former
residents of Bookings.
Guy f. Youngburg departed Monday
for Boston where he will spend the
summer doing special summer school
work at Harvard University.
Mrs. A. J. Kendall went to Pierre the
last of the week to join Mr.. Kendall
who is looking after his extensive
farming operations in that vicinity.
A wind storm Sunday night did dam
age to the extent of about 100000 to
the poultry house and yards of Dennis
Maher, who lives about one mile south
of Aurora.
Real bargain sale of ladies' furnish.
ings and millinery beginning June 3rd
and continuing for one week. New
bargains will be added during sale.
Helen Johnson.
To the Business Men-We have a
good form Of remittance blank in stock
at IS cents per 200 sheets bound and
perforated. Come in and see it. Regis.
ter Publishing Co.
The college Bible class together
with classes four and five of the Meth
odist Sunday school hiked out to the
]. A. Keck home Monday evening
where they enjoyed a fine supper and
social hour.
The first Inter-County league game
of baseball by the Brookings team will
be played tomorrow at $3.50. The
Aurora-Bushnell team is a strong one.
Go out and give the boys a boost. You
will enjoy the game too.
Miss Maude Chamberlain, who has
been teaching in the city schools dur
ing the past year, departed Sunday for
Minneapolis where she will meet Miss
Josephine Thayer and together they
will go to northern Minnesota where
they will spend the summer.
Tom Armstrong, employed at the c.
& n. w. coal chutes at the Junction,
a. lHJuItu Ntuil'Sudy SNtiIlDS III
the west bound passenger was receiv-
ing coal. The train was running late
and on account of the darkness he was
struck by one of the car steps and was
injured to the extent it was necessary
to remove him to the hospital for at
tentiOn.
f. L. Squirting returned Wednesday
morning from Boomers Ferry, Idaho,
where he has been for several weeks
visiting at the home of his son, Ned.
Mr.. Squirting reports a very pleasant
trip and says that everything is going
we'll for Ned. Mr.. Squirting says condi-
tons are considerably improved IN
Idaho on account of the revival of the
lumber and coal industries but crop
conditions are not very favorable.
I. f. Lees returned Saturday from a
trip to Nevada, Mo. where Mrs. Lees
has been with her mother for some
time. Mr.. Lees says he did not see six
corn fields in Missouri in which he
could count the rows and that half the
corn was no yet planted from Sioux
City to Des Moines. This statement
does not sound very encouraging to
corn raisers but goes to show that
BroOkings county farmers are not
much behind their neighbors in corn
planting.
Chas. Lynch, Arthur Lynch, Father
Dooley, John Culhane, Jr., +. +. Cul-
hane and John Culhane, Sr., went TO
Watertown Saturday night TO attend
the big ceremonial Of Cretin Council,
Knights of Columbus, Sunday. A class
of seventy-seven candidates received
complication in the first three de
grees of the fraternity. Aberdeen
Council had charge of the first two
degrees and a st. Paul degree team
exemplifed the third. They all report
a splendid time.
Those who saw the Birth Of a Nation
Wednesday night are pleased with the
wonderful picture. The music and the
picture combined makes n of the
most wonderful things ever exhibited
in this country. The actual scenes in
the picture are excellent reproductions
of the Civil War times. There is moth
ing in the picture whatever TO offend
anyone and the comparisons are not
exaggerated to put any class or side,
represented in the picture, in position