The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-02-03

Miss NJ. Joerns caves this week Tor
different points in the east. She ex-
poets to be gone a couple of weeks.
Prof. c. Larsen, head of the State
College dairy department, went to Nit
chell Monday returning Wednesday
evening.
Aylmer Cole went to Minneapolis
Saturday to visit the automobile show
and also the winter sports carnival at
st. Paul.
On account of heavy 10Y this week
the Waterfowl and Tracy passenger
trains have been coming through
Bookings.
The C. & n. w. has had a force of
men and a number of wagons b sy this
week removing the snow from the rail
road yards in order to facilitate the
movement of freight and passenger
traffic.
James w. Wilson, secretary of the
Breeders association, went to Mitchell
Monday to attend the opening session
of the association in that city Monday
evening.
Rev. Frank Bryant returned from
White Tuesday evening where he
preached Sunday at the Presbyterian
church. On account of the heavy snow
Rev. Bryant was unable to return to
Brookings Monday.
The Degree of Honor of the Ancient
Order of United Workmen entertained
about 125 members of the order Tues
day evening at the Odd Fellows hall.
A big supper was enjoyed followed by
a short program and dancing.
st. Paul's Episcopal Guild is pre-
pared to do all kinds of sewing, hem
ming, tying quilts, making carpet rags,
etc. For terms and information call
| the president, Mrs. Paul Roberts,
phone LISA, 419 Fifth Avenue.
Judge C. G.. Sherwood has been in
the city all week working on a mass of
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of cases submitted in briefs. Next
week will be taken up at WATERFOWL
where the circuit court %convenes Tues
day.
Practically all activity has been
more or less, cooled off by the weather.
Even the marriage business has been
affected. Only one license was issued
during the week and that to Sam Neg
stad, Arlington, and Jospehine Felberg,
Sinai.
The basketball game at the college
gymnasium Saturday evening between
the North Dakota Aggies and the State
College resulted in a victory for ths
Aggies by a score of 43 to 25. The
game was well attended and proved
very interesting to say the least.
The weather report for January from
Huron station gives the lowest tem-
perature at 40 degrees below zero on
the 18th and the highest at 3S on the
9th. The precipitation for the month
is given at 200 inches and 1872 inches
of snowfall. Snow on the ground JAN
uary 31st, 1874 inches. There were ten
clear days, IS partly cloudy and s
cloudy, being ten per CEN more sun
shine than normal.
Chas. Gullick has completed plans
for a small summer hotel to be built at
Lake Campbell in the spring, which
will be Of great interest, to Brookings
people, especially those who enjoy an
occasional outing. Mr.. Gullick owns
eleven acres along the lake and before
many months pass it will be made into
an attractive lakeside resort. The gen
eral plans will include a baseball park,
tennis court, a swimming pool and a
boat pavilion and a number of row
ranged hotel of the club house type.
The first story will be constructed of
concrete and will be the lobby; the
second the dining room, which will ac-
comodate about twenty-five people;
and the third floor provides for six bed
rooms. The property is well provided
with shade trees and will prove a pleas
ant place for outing parties during the
summer months.
One of Bookings school girls. Mar
jorie Cole, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Cole, has beer awarded first
prize by the Minneapolis Journal for
the best family legend. The prize win
ming legend is well put and its author
deserves unstinted credit. The prize
winner reads as follows: Years and
years and years ago, all the members
of our family were very, very tall-in
fact SO tall that whenever the sun
came around where they happened to
be standing, they had to sit down or
the sun would hit their heads and burn
them. Often they would forget and