The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-29
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Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Stanley are the
proud parents of a fine baby boy born
Saturday evening.
Mr.. Tom Nelson and daughter, of
Valley City, N. D., arrived Sunday and
are visiting at the Walter Christensen
home this week.
Miss Lillian Sedan was visiting
home folks over Sunday and returned
to school in Brookings Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Griffith of Alton
were shopping in Bushnell Friday.
The Liberty Grange met in the hall
meeting, held in the place of the one
which was to have been held March
16, 1917. We assure you that we all
had a good time, and urge you, if you
are intending to become a member Of
this organization, to put in your ap-
plication at once and get the benefits
of some of the good things while they
are going. From a social, financial
and educational view point, it is your
duty to join if you are a farmer in
this vicinity. Remember the next pro-
gram is Friday evening. All are urg-
ed to be present at this meeting as
there is a special program to be given
then.
Miss Jennie Poppingo of ElktOn was
home over Sunday and returned to
school Monday.
c.. l.. Dimmette was visiting Superin-
tendent H. w. Blakely in Bookings
Sunday.
Mike Scheuler is building a new gar
age for Claude Enright, having the
frame work up already.
A. G.. Lundeen purchased lumber for
a new barn of the Central Lumbe1
Co. this week. Mr.. Lundeen is one of
our progressive farmers who live out
northeast of Bushnell.
The railway company was good
enough to leave us a car of soft coal
Friday, it being the first that we have
been able to get during the past
month.
Mr.. and FRS. c. F. Mingus enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. l.. M. Armstrong
Sunday to dinner
Some of our people who were shop
ping in Elkton between trains, who
were intending to come back on the
freight, had to have Mr.. Armstrong
come down for them on his Ear, be-
cause the freight broke down in Pipe
stone, Mimi, and couldn't come any
farther.
The faculty of the Bushnell school
attended the district teachers meet
ing in Elkton Saturday and reported
one of the best meetings of the year,
il not the best.
Misses Laura and Florence Judd
spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs.
T. Welch, near Elkton.
Vinol Norton and family were pleas
antly entertained at the w. A. Bush
nell home Sunday.
| Walter Burnham, who has been at
tending an automobile school in Kan
sas City, Mo-, returned home Monday.
We trust that he will open up a gar
age in Bushnell.
Don Mcmillan, Mr.. Dewey and
Bernie FELTON, were visiting friends in
Brookings over Sunday.
Messrs. O. F. Coon and VIM. Chap
man autoed to Aurora Sunday. This
does not say that the roads are in good
shape for cars, yet they are drying out
very fast in places.
Chas. Soden has purchased a new
Ford and is trying t obreak the roads
around Bushnell.
Larry White and family visited rel
atives in White Sunday; also accom-
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Thompson,
who are visiting at the White home.
Mrs. E. e. Sedan arrived from Min
neapolis Friday where she has been
visiting relatives at that place during
the past two weeks.
C. L. Clodfelter, who travels for the
r. J. Reynold Tobacco Company, visit
ed the school Friday while Mr.. Dim
mette was giving manual training. and
stated that he was very much surpris-
ed to find that the girls were doing
equally as good or better work than
the boys. Mr.. Clodfelter stated that
1t was quite an accomplishment on
their part to know how to do these