The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-06-15
Prof. Robertson Cook has returned

avenue yesterday.
Geo. A. Starring is at Huron and
Aberdeen in connection with his State
Fair advertising duties.
Misses Grace and Mabel Bacon left
Sunday for Yellowstone Park where
they will spend the summer
Prof. A. J. Willis, of State College,
has a position for the summer with
the State Canal Company ct Albany,
n. Y.
The Misses Ferguson, of State Col
lege, leave this week for Minneapolis
and from there will go to their home
at Harvey, n. d.
Mrs. Hazel Lee, of Sheldon, Iowa, is
a guest at the Browning home. She
came to be present at the Ray
Browning wedding.
Joe Bargeim, whose home is in
Brookings, has been engaged to teach
English in the Lennon high school
for the coming year.
Lucia O'Neil, who has been a guest
at the home of Mrs. Geo. Fowler for a
week, returned to her home at Clear
Lake, Iowa, Friday.
Mrs. Clair Poulson returned to ner
home at Castlewood Tuesday evening
after spending a week at the home of
her mother, Mrs. NJ. f. Bacon.
Mrs. Louis Ortmayer, and baby, of
Mitchell. came Friday night and will
spend the summer at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, A. j. Gilbert.
The Bookings orchestra, which is
made up of Robt. Phelps, r. c. Sher-
wood, James Shepard and Harry Warn
er, went to De Smet Saturday evening
by auto to play for a dance.
Prof. and Mrs. C. n Mills departed
this morning for Indiana. After a six
weeks visit they will go to Kansas for
the remainder of the summer, return
ing to Bookings September first.
Miss Florence Caldwell returned
home Tuesday from Dickinson, N. D.,
where she has been teaching in the
high school and will spend the sum-
mer with her mother, Mrs. Peter Cald-
well.
B.. Jacobson, manager of the Van
Dusen Elevator Co., returned this
morning from Rochester, Mimi, where
he has been for the past five weeks
undergoing treatment and Is consider
ably better.
The friends of Mrs. John Blakely
will be pleased to learn that she was
operated upon successfully at the
Rochester hospital for gall stones. 1t
will, however, be some time before
she can return home.
H. NJ. Karlstad is enjoying a visit
today from a cousin he has not seen
for nearly forty years. The gentleman
is Louis Larson, of Chicago, Western
Industrial Agent for the Flagler Sys-
tenn, Florida East Coast Ry.
Miss Ruth Wood, of the State Col.
lege teaching force, returned Monday
from her trip to British Columbia
where she has been visiting a brother
for some weeks. She is now engaged
Miss Ada Erwin returned Monday
morning from her visit of a month or
more on the coast. Miss Erwin spent
several weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. r.
A. butcher at Corvallis, Oregon, and
on her return spent several days at
Portland and Minneapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Mason and chill
dren and Mrs. T. J.. Sweat, arrived in
the city yesterday from Valley juno
ton, Iowa, and are guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. j.. F. Erwin for a few
days and will then proceed by auto to
points in North Dakota. Mrs. Sweat
is the mother of Mrs. Erwin and Mrs.
Mason a sister.
Charles E. Hall returned last week
from a trip to the north part Of the
state and having made the trip by
automobile, naturally, as most all do,
had something to say about the roads.
Mr.. Hall said: THE roads leading into
and out of ~Brookings are not the worst
roads in South Dakota. Current re-
port to the contrary Notwithstanding.
During the past few months my bust
ness has taken me over a large part of
the state and necessitated my riding
several thousand miles in autos and
Fords. Consequently l know there are
worse roads in the state but not many.
I have met hundreds of travellers who
all had a good word for Brookings and
a bad word for her roads. It is not too
much to say that Jul every effort for
civic betterment has been minimiZed
by our deplorable roads. I spent the
last two weeks at Aberdeen. The roads
into that city are better than the aver
age but continual rains were making,
had made them in fact, bad in many