The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-01-03
Local and Personal
J. F. Brooke. Local and News Editor. Phone LII

You will capitalize in the future on
your publicity Of today.
Mrs. Nellie White, of Volga, visited
friends in the city on Monday.
Walter NJ. Cheever left Tuesday
evening on a business trip to LeMars,
Iowa.
John Noethe, clerk in the Tidball
Pharmacy, Went to his home in Elk
ton to spend New Years,
William Farnum in The Conquer
Or a great production. Pleasant
Hour, Friday and Saturday, January
4 and 8.
Lieut.. Carl Johnson left Tuesday
morning for Camp Lee. Virginia, to
enter the school for officers of the en-
gineer corps.
Mrs. Fred Evans is entertaining her
sister and brother, Dolores, and Harry
Weicks, of Walnut Grove, Mimi, dur
ing the holiday season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ivan Kirwin. of Min
neapolis. were visiting friends in the
city last Friday. Mrs. Kirwin was
formerly Miss Lillian Armstrong,
Wallace T.. Purdy, of the firm of
Hall, Alexander & Purdy, left Tues
day evening for LcMars, Iowa, to at
tend to law business for his firm.
Mrs. Cassie Crowley, of Minneapo-
lie hoe hnnn cnop1inr tho CbriStp,ac
period with her mother, Mrs. Mary
Madden. She left for the city last
evening.
The Business Girls club Will hold
their regular meeting at the library
Monday, January 18th, at 1880 p. m. A
full attendance promptly at that hour
is requested.
Joe Swearing was home for the
Christmas holidays and returned last
week to Pittsburg, where he is one of
the skilled electric workers in the big
Westinghouse plant.
Frank Mcnamara, who has been
making a holiday visit with his par-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Mcnamara,
returned to St. Pau where he is en-
gagged in railroad work.
Miss Helen Cochran, of Lake City,
Mimi. has been visiting her cousin,
Mrs. Cecil skinner, for the past week.
This week she is a guest at the A. j.
Kendall home in this city.
The Rev. b. A. Benson spent last
Thursday in Nolga ministering to the
congregation Of the Lutheran church
in thai town, they being without a
pastor at the present time.
Miss Emella Lee returned from n
visit at her home at Highmore and de-
parted Thursday night for Washing
ton, ID. c., where she takes up her
work in the L. S. Department of Agri-
culture.
Mrs. A. VI. sheldon. of Perdue, Can
ada. formerly Miss Florence Plocker,
has been visiting the family of Prof.
II. B. Mathews the past week. She
wv lAt liz pay vi III Ntth " NISIt
relatives in Illinois.
Richard Mccarthy, who was drafted
and sent to Camp Funston, is spend
ing a twenty-four day furlough in the
county. attending to the closing up of
his farm affairs for last year. He has
beer visiting his sister, Mrs. Patrick
Hurney. this past week.
Last week Fred Youngberg traded
some land in North Dakota for the
stock of the Bruce Mercantile Co, at
that place. He has several prospec-
tive buyers for the business and ex-
poets to dispose of il to a progressive
merchant in a short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. B. Sinjum, of Hur-
on, visited in the city from Saturday
to Tuesday evening with Mrs. Sin
jum's mother, Mrs. A. Sinjum, and his
sister, Mrs. A. w. Thompson. Mr..
Sinjim is now engaged in the auto
sales business in Huron, handling the
Dodge car with splendid success.
On Wednesday evening of last week,
the Rev. B. A. Benson united in mar
riage at the Lutheran parsonage, Will
liam Rudebusch and Miss Anna
Crooks, both of Summit, Roberts coun-
ty. They spent the Christmas season
at the home of the groom's father, d.
R%udebusch, west of the city, and will
make their home on the Rudebusch
farm in Roberts county which the
Young man has been working. Their
many friends extend them the heart
lest congratulations.
Selwyn and Company will bring
their sensational farce success, Fair
and Warmer here Saturday evening,
Jan. 18th. with an ideal cast of far
ceurs and a beautiful production, s
that theatergoers outside of New York