The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-24
Local and Personal
J. y. Brooke. Local and New. Editor. Phone Lei

George f. Green OF Minneapolis.
brother of Mrs. F. NJ. Kremer, NJ
rived in the city today for a visi
with his sister.
The Register has put in a supply o
the ] and . inch tape for the machine.
recently sold to merchants by the Sta
Gummed Products Co.
Patrons OF the Hotel Dyckman
Minneapolis, are assured a cordia
I welcome, uniform courtesy and the
best OF service always"
The Parties who borrowed the hand
saw, copper measure and oil can OIL
tho ChautauQua Association viii
please return the same to the local
manager. r. F. Kerr.
4 new plate glass front in the store
building OF the Bookings Construc.
ton Co. makes an added improvement
on the east side Of Main street. When
(. ]. Ray has completed the remod.
cling of the front it will make their
place of business look entirely diff,
ferent and prove an attraction to pros.
pective clients of this company.
Several beggars have been infesting
the city during the past week. Their
pleas for help being diversified. One
woman who gave the impression that
she was a widow was soliciting
money to join her husband in Cali.
fornia. The picking seemed to be
rather poor as their stay in the city
was abbreviated.
From a copy OF the Colville. Wash,
Examiner, we learn that Will L. Big.
gar, assistant cashier of the Bank
of Colville, has purchased a ranch
near Rice, Wash, and has traded of
his residence in Colville. II is a high
ly improved farm with $4,000 worth
OF Improvements. This Is very evi.
dent that VIII is prospecting and per-
haps that he intends a return to the
tilling of the soil. His many friends
in his old home county are glad to
learn of this prosperity.
The harvesting of rye is reported
as all over with good returns, and
barley about all cut with a fine crop.
Wheat is being cut, but the estimate
of the crop will be much of a conun-
drum, as 1t is so spotted and It's looks
belle Its real condition. Wheat rails
ing is not much of an industry in
this section of the state and the less
that is planted the better the farmers
will be satisfied. This seems to be
the general opinion of those who have
kept track Of the production in this
county.
Albert Anderson, a workman on the
ditcher, came in contact with a live
wire while at work Saturday and was
for several hours In a p~recarious con-
dition. He was taken to the hospital
and by the first Of the week had re-
covered sufficiently to be out of dan
ger. II there is any chance for con.
tributory negligence on the part OF
the city in cases Of this kind, the city
superintendent should take all pre-
cautions to keep the city from being
responsible. Temporary shutting of
of TIE current would obyiate any
chance of possible danger.
The proceedings of the South Da-
kota Academy of Science for 1917,
has just been published. Ii contains
several matters Of LEGAL interest TO
Brookings people, among which are
an obituary of James Fl. Shepard, a
chemical examination of the oils OF
prose- by b. A. Dunbar and f. r
B~ennewies. new methods Of identi.
~fication of Chord. bromid and iodid
ions by B.. A. Dunbar and NJ. C. White
and tunnel clouds at a great altitude
by ]. G.. Hutton. This has been is.
sued as a bulletin OF the University
OF South Dakota and is now being
distributed on application.
Hans Phillipson advises the Regis.
ter Of the death at Middle River,
Mimi, OF the wife OF his brother
John Phillipson, one Of the early set.
tiers of the county. who with mis- wife
took AZ a homestead in 1879 the farm
soutt of the city now occupied by
Geo Eberlein. Mrs. Phillipson has
been sick for some timc past and
nnally suceumbed on Sunday last. She
iesyes In addition TO Ter husband. d
family OF six children. ail grown up
The many old friends OF the family
who knew them in the pioneer days
WIN Join the Register in the deepes,
condolences In their SORROW and be
reayement.