The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-02-08
Local and Personal
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p. F. Levins. Local and News Editor, Phone Ii


at the Register office.
l.. H. Berg, of Marshfeld, Wis, has
taken a position as local reporter on
the Press.
E. G. Montgomery returned Saturday
from Watertown where he had been on
business matters.
Geo. %Schlosser, Secretary of the
Commercial Club at WATERFOWL, was
in the city Tuesday on business mat
tiers.
Attorney w. N. Skinner, of Castle
wood, was in the city Friday on legal
business. He came in on the first train
from the north since Tuesday.
Rev. Porter, of Omaha, Neb., has re.
ceived a call to preach at the local
United Presbyterian church and will
begin his pastorate March LIST.
The best and most complete assert
ment of typewriter ribbons in the city
can be found at the Register Office.
The best ribbons on the market.
Adds Kelly, Axel Anderson and A.
F. S%nedigar, of De Smet, spent several
days here last week during the storm.
They got this far on their way to ST.
Paul.
DR.. j. p. jenkins, of Mitchell, vas in
the city Monday on official church bust
ness with G. r. Knappen and was en-
~tertained by Rev. and Mrs. /. M. Har-
gett while in the city.
South Dakota State College is the
)nly one in the state to be included in
the Minnesota University foot ball
recognized as the best in South Da-
kota.
The First National Bank is sending
out the announcement that Mr.. 0. O.
Olson has become the active Vice-preSi-
dent and will be found by all his
friends at the bank. They are all invit-
ed to come to the bank and transact
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In a letter to friends in the city Mrs.
Jesse Kelly says that they are all at
Boise, Idaho. She says that Lee Aus
tin, AL Kennard, John BRANDED and Mrs.
Tom Ross, former Brookings people
living there, are all well and prosper
ing and like that section.
Secretary Gullick of the CONNER
cial Club has arranged a billiard and
nula grand tournament for members of
the club which began this week. There
are handicaps so that the poor players
will have as good a chance as the e.
perts. These tournaments may extend
over a period of two months.
Plans are being matured by the heirs
of the Binford estate to erect a build
ing 50x6O at the real of the Kendall
drug store in the spring. 1t will be
located where the Chinese laundry now
stands and work will be commenced
about April LIST. The old building will
be moved away or torn down.
Chas. Gle, of White, returned Satur-
day morning from Grass Range, Mont,
where he spent a couple of weeks visit
ing his son and daughter. He spent
several days in the storm and was
tied UP at various places. He says
when they passed through Mobridge
the thermometer registered so below
zero.
The residents on the south of the
track have been circulating petition
to have a sewer district established in
thai portion of the city and to have a
main trunk sewer run to the septic
tank. The petition has been generally
signed by the people in that district
and it was presented to the council
for consideration.
Prof. n. Z. Hansen has just publish
ed a circular carrying a lot of informa.
ton about new fruit and new alfalfa
and other plants he is working with in
the horticultural department at State
College. The information is worth
much to anyone engaged in this work
and no doubt could secure one by writ.
ing him at the State College.
Mrs. Frank See, of Bushnell, has
purchased the Cottage Hotel building
from Mrs. Jas. Nolan. paying $500 for
the property. She will not take pos
session until the first Of ext Novem'
Der at which time the lease of the
present manager will expire. 1t is un'
derstood that she will at that time
take possession and operate the hotel
herself.
From the U. S. government weather
bureau at Huron the Register gets the
following weather statistics for Janu
airy: the total rainfall vas 2.21 and
snowfall 25.5; neal temperature 1O.4
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