The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12


day at the State Fair at Huron.
Mrs. f. B. Dalton was over from
Bruce Monday looking after business
matters.
Mrs. G.. w. Morrell Of Lake Pres
ton spent yesterday in the city visit
ing her niece. Miss Lucy Manley.
William Hanson of the Pleasant
Hour theater went to Huron last
evening to take in the State Fair.
The clerk of courts issued a mar
riage license last Saturday to Axel
Bach and Miss Ebba Christine Chris
Jensen, both of Bruce.
Tag Day last week at the County
Fair was not a record breaker, but
netted a very fair amount for the Dea-
coness Hospital, there being taken in
the sun of s297.55.
Two extra coaches were attached
to the regular train west on Monday
evening to accommodate the student
soldiers who were going home for a
three days furlough before being sent
to their camps for further training.
Mrs. O. A. Burman left Tuesday
for Ionia, Iowa, where she was called
by a telegram announcing the death
of an uncle, of whose family she
formerly was a member. She expects
to be gone until some time next week.
Mr., and Mrs. Charles Rice of Har-
Ian, Iowa, were visitors at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Kabrud
Sunday and Monday, on their way
from their home to Driscoll, N. ID.
They left on their journey Monday
afternoon.
The Teachers Association
will hold a rally in the assembly of
the departmental school. Friday even
ing, September 20, at s o'clock. Please
keep this date in mind and let every
parent and teacher be present at this
meeting.
Chas. ID. Alton went cut to Huron
Monday to assist a friend of his from
Marshall, Mimi, who has one of the
privileges at the State Fair. Zig
has had considerable experience in
the show business, having operated
a movie at Marshall, and will be a
useful assistant at the Huron fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. McFadden spent
Sunday at the home of Mrs. McFad-
den's mother, Mrs. G.. Blakeslee. Mr..
McFadden is on an agricultural fur
Tough from Camp Lewis and is at
tending to some of the work at the
experiment station at HighmOre in
which he was engaged for the State
College before going to camp.
f. L. Squirting returned Sunday
morning from his ranch at Bonners
Ferry, Idaho, and reports that the
crop conditions in that section are of
the finest. He says hat Miss Doro-
thy Squirting has started with her
work as teacher of home economics
in the high school there and is nicely
located and seems pleased with the
outlook of the work.
Mrs. Geo. p. Hall has received a
card announcing the birth Of a daugh-
ter, Aida Lois, to Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
lace r. Cornman at Anahein, Calf,
Mrs. Cornman is a sister Of Mrs. Hall
and has many friends in Brookings
who will remember her as Miss Laura
King, when the family resided here.
The Register joins in congratulations
to Mr.. and Mrs. Cornman.
Fred Cole returned yesterday morn
ing from the sanitarium at Minneap-
oils, where he has been for several
weeks, greatly improved. Soon after
his arrival he received a telegram
from Ethan, stating that his aged
mother is very i'll with pneumonia.
This unpleasant news was not good
medicine for an Ill man and his many
friends hope with him that better
news of Mrs. Coles condition will
come soon.
Mrs. e. II. Sexauer left Tuesday
morning to join her husband, at
Camp Fremont, Calf, where he is in
the training camp. There was some
expectation that troops from the
coast might be sent to Siberia at
once, but the latest information out
there seems to point to keeping the
men in training there for several
months. MI. Sexauer has rented IN
apartment and Mrs. Sexauer will re-
main near Camp Fremont as long as
her husband is stationed there.
DR.. and Mrs. A. w. Hyde, Geo
panied by Miss Vena Valley of Lake
Preston, went last Friday by auto to
Des Moines and Camp Dodge. In the
former city they visited the doctors