The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-01-20
Local and Personal
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Wanted-Good clean cotton rags at
the Register office.
|. Atkinson was a business visitor
in Elkton last week.
c. ii. Atkinson attended to business
matters in Watertown last week.
The Misses Clara and Alma Rud
were Brookings visitors Tuesday. = I"
Miss Nellie Reeves visited in Brook
ings several days last week. 4 = =
Mesdames Arnott and S~tockwell We're
Brookings visitors last Saturday.
NClga Tribune.
Eva Belle COughlin and Alice Rose
dahl were up from ~Brookings Saturday
visiting their parents. y = Mrs. An
drew Westrum took the Friday morn
ing train for ~Brookings. y + Mrs.
Bertness was a Brookings visitor last
Friday.-Bruce Herald.
The fifth annual South Dakota high
school basketball championship tOurna-
ment is to be held in Huron on March
II and IS, 1916, under the auspices Of
Huron college. The increased interest
manifested in this annual high school
event has encouraged Huron college to
make more extensive preparations
than have ever been made heretofore,
and it promises to be one of the great
est events in the history Of our high
school athletics. The rules governing
the tournament and entrance applica-
ii n blanks will be furnished by Huron
college on request.
A. II. Wheaton of Rapid City, former
ly of Bookings, was in town last week
in the interests of a company owning
land in Hettinger county, n. ID. While
here Mr.. Wheaton took time to visit
the creamery that he promoted and
erected as contractor. Mr.. Wheaton
was manager for the first six months,
chosen because of his knowledge of
the business and he was able to make
good the promises made the farmers
in working up the proposition. The
creamery proved to be of great benefit
to the people Of the county, individual
ly and collectively; and it is still on
the job.-De Smet News.
The Bookings county fair will be-
held at the fair grounds on the 9Th, 9Th,
7th and Sth of September, this being
the week before the South Dakota
State Fair. The next regular meeting
OF the board of directors will be held
on the first Saturday in February and
the plans for making the 1916 fair bet
ter than ever will be made. The prem
ium list for the Juvenile and rural and
town schools department is being sent
out to the teachers OF the county this
week. Superintendent II. w. Blakely
is planning to take the whole school
exhibit to the state fair and show what
the best county in the state can do.
Although Brookings had but 1852
inches of rain during 1915 it had the
most cloudy days of any city in the
state, totaling 1852. Towns with yer
100 cloudy days or a third of the year
were Brookings, Castlewood, next low
est in rainfall in the state, C%enterville,
Highmore, White Lake, YanktOn,
Eales, Fort Meade, Onida, Rapid City,
Serum, Vale and Waters Ranch. A
precipitation table compiled by the
United States weather bureau for
South Dakota and submitted to the i'm
migration department, shows that for
the ten months of 1915, up to Novem-
Der /, Oelrichs, which is in lower Fall
River county. had the greatest rain
fall, amounting to practically 40
inches, being exactly 1911. The town
of Bowling, which is in western Stan
ley county had second most, reachi e
1877. The weather took an opposite
turn this year, favoring the western
portion of the state with rain. for the
precipitation table shows that the
towns of the Jim valley, usually having
the most, had this year the least rain