The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-05-17
TWO BIG BENEFITS
FOR THE RED CROSS
HEARTY RESPONSE TO TAG DAY
APPEAL-DAiNTY MAiDENS IN
WHITE SELL TAGS
PATRIOTIC entertainment A SUCCESS
Splendid Music-Attractive Acts of
Dancing and notwithstanding
Address

One of the very best tag days was
pulled off in Brookings last Saturday,
when a bunch Of young girls arrayed in
white went all over the city and col.
lected money by the sale of Red Cross
tags for the benefit of the work to be
carried on by the local chapter. A
very complete account of the work Of
the day is given in the Red Cross
notes. The people of Brookings are to
be congratulated on their generous re-
spouse to the appeal and the money
collected will be a good start for the
work contemplated. We must not lose
sight of the fact however that this is
only the beginning and that with this
splendid start the money that will be
called for later to carry on the labors
of the chapter will be and should be
given both cheerfully and readily.
After a rest over Sunday the attack
in the same charitable interests was re-
sumed on Monday, and eliminated in
a grand entertainment at the opera
house in the evening. The Pleasant
Hour movie gave over the use of the
evening gratis. excepting bare err.
penses, and a big audience assembled
to enjoy the evening.
Prof. Christensen's orchestra open.
ed the program with two numbers. one
Of which composed of airs of the ma.
ton struck a popular chord. The
State College ladies Quartette gave two
numbers that we're greeted with hear
ty applause, the rendition of Mendels-
sohn's Spring Son." being particular
happy. The films shown by the Pleas
ant Hour were those of our navy, our
boys and u country in action, cover.
ing the life Of the troops on the border,
the manouvers of the ships at sea and
the training of the boys for a soldiers
life.
A vaudeville act appearing at the
theatre this week kindly gave part of
their show as a number, and the aero
batic work of little Baby Barlow"
was a performance that brought down
the house, the little lady being ably as.
sisted by her father. The aesthetic
dances given by Misses Kendall, Brict-
son and Irish were indeed poetic in
their Interpretation and called forth
an encore. Prof. Browns patriotic re-
citations held the house s~pellbound
with interest. The chorus singing of
the Viking Mandskor was rendered
with their well trained voices in splen.
did harmony. The closing tableau, i'm.
personated by Misses Trimble, Harold.
son and Caldwell was a most beauti-
full allegory of the patriotic work in
which the great Red Cross is engaged.
The address Of the evening was de-
livered by the Hon. Coe l. Crawford, of
Huron, former attorney general, gov
ernor and senator. Senator Crawford
has lost none of the splendid grasp Of
facts and ideas that have always char
acterized his public utterances, and
the words that he spoke Monday even.
ing in support of the flag, the country
and the president, touched every heart
in the big audience. 1t was a great
pleasure to hear him. The introduction
of Senator Crawford made by Hon.
Philo Hall was a little gem of thought
polished in delivery.
Taken as a whole the two days work
for the Red Cross has demonstrated
beyond any doubt that the people Of
Bookings are heartily and with all
their might and main back of the
movement to the most successful cul-
mination possible.