The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-01-27
Local and Personal

the Register Office.
Mr.. Packard is a whole show at en-
tertaining. Hear him.
Mrs. Olgar Granum and Mrs. Carrie
Lee, of Volga, visited at the Conrad
Lee home Saturday.
c. N. Halvorson, of the Bank of
Bruce, was tr~ansacting business in
Brookings the latter part of the week.
Red raspberries, good value at 20
cents. Special Is cents a can. Con-
nelly & Black, "The Corner Grocers."
Phone II.
M. A. Allison was over from the
west side Monday paying his taxes
and transacting other business in
Brookings.
w. G. Ray and Guy Little were at
Vermillion last week taking examina-
tons before the State Pharmacy board,
returning Friday.
There is to be a joint meeting of the
A. o. U. w. and d. of H. Tuesday,
February 1st. All members of the
two orders and their families are cor
daily invited to attend.
Mrs. F. +. Brown entertained Sat
urday afternoon in honor of Miss
Beatrice Richey of Des Moines, Iowa.
Twenty guests were present and a de-
lightful evening was reported.
Alton Packard, the worlds famous
c%artoonist and entertainer will appear
as the third number of the Y. M. G. A.
Lecture Course in the college auditor
ium next Thursday evening. Program
begins at SIS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Sherwin, who
have been visiting their son Ralph at
Bay Harbor, Fla, departed this week
for Brooklyn, N. Y, to visit for a week
or two with their son Howard, who
is employed by the New York Central.
Brother Boswell of the Castlewood
Republican sometimes hits upon A
good idea and when he does he gives
it to his readers. Here's one that
strikes us as exceptionally pat. He
says hat a nice way to assist the rural
mail carriers and to show you appre-
ciate their efforts would be to attend to
breaking the roads after a bad storm
and a sack of oats deposited at the
mail box once in awhile would help
wonderfully. Better try it.
The Castlewood Republican says
that a large delegation of our citizens
went up to Watertown Friday after.
noon to attend the presentation of the
%oratorio, THE Messiah" by Handel,
given by the South Dakota State Col
lege chorus of 200 voices and a thirty.
five piece orchestra in the Methodist
church. 1t was one of the rich treats
of the season and u people were
pleased and delighted. There was a
large attendance, a special train being
run from Brookings and returned
through here at midnight.
Realizing the value of school work
of pupils exhibited at the fairs has
prompted County School Superintend-
ent, Herbert w. Blakely, to create
early interest in preparing exhibits for
the next county and state fairs. A let
ter has been SEM out to the teachers
Of Brookings county by Mr.. Blakely
asking their cooperation and help in
making the exhibit of this county the
best ever" The display at the fair
last fall attracted considerable atten.
ton by parents, teachers, school Off.
GERS and visitors. Owing to a conflict
in dates the county exhibit could not
be sent to the State Fair but it Is the
general belief that had the exhibit
gone a portion of the prize money
would have been brought back to
Brookings county. The teachers have
been asked to encourage their pupils
to specialize in some line of work they
a do especially well.