The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-09-16
Local and Personal
e. G. Trotzig, Associate and News Editor. Phone LII

Thos. Bang was a business visitor
in Aurora and Elkton Tuesday.
Horace Campbell is at Huron this
week playing with the Aberdeen band
at the state fair.
Prof. and Mrs. P. w. Kieser are
spending the week at Huron at the
state fair.
The brick work on the addition to
the real of the Haywood hardware
store is nearly complete.
The reason why men who mind their
own business succeed is because they
have so little competition.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. M. Algyer of Tracy,
Mimi, spent Sunday visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Raak.
Miss Gertrude Buettner, who is
teaching school neal Estelline, spent
Monday visiting friends in this city.
Mrs. d. Algyer of Sioux City, Ia, is
spending the week in this city as a
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
J.. =. Raak.
Arthur Lynch left Monday for his
home at Long Beach, Cal, after a
months stay here looking after his
framing interests.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j.. Dokken and
daughter spent Sunday visiting in
Toronto at the home of Mrs. Dokken's
mother, Mrs. Z. Ensberg.
There is still time to enter the Mad
son Normal school. Fall quarter
opens September 81. Teaching, com
mercial, music, nursing, high school
and junior college courses offered.
Harold and Robert Slocum returned
Sunday morning from Minneapolis,
Mimi, where they spent ten days Wis
iting at the home of their sister, Mrs.
George LANCE, and also taking in the
Minnesota State fair.
Mrs. w. II. Murphy left last week
for an extended visit in Minneapolis,
Mimi, with her son and daughter-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. w. Murphy of
Fargo, N. D., who are the proud par
ents of a little daughter born Septem-
Der 8.
The first regular meeting of the Bus
mess Girls club viii be held next Mon
day evening, September 20, at 500
o'clock, at the club rooms. An inter
esting program will be given and all
the business women of the city are
cordially invited to attend.
c. G. Carlson returned from Min
neapolis, Mimi, Monday morning after
spending a week in that city endeav-
Oring to get necessary material
shipped here for the construction of
the new bank. At present the work
men are making the forms for the
walls of the vault.
Murphy & Hanson, proprietors of
the Pleasant Hour theater, completed
remodeling and %renovating the theater
last week, resulting in a considerably
improved appearance. The ticket win
dow has been moved to a more con
v~enient position. Many repairs We're
also made and the interior has been
~redecorated.
MI. dlu IhlS. Il. II. IlduSCu Ctu ~
Sunday from a very enjoyable motor
trip through Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Iowa. They visited their child
hood home in Iowa and took in many
Edmund, accompanied them as far as
Madison, Wis, where he will attend
the University of Wisconsin during
the coming year.
F. w. Ponto, prominent breeder of
Poland China swine, who lives up near
Toronto, made eleven entries at the
State fair at Huron this week and re-
ceived IA blue ribbons. This distinc-
ton places him among the foremost
breeders of the state. Mr.. Ponto is
offering some of these fine hogs at his
big public sale to be held on his farm
on Tuesday, September q.
School district No. So of which Miss
Agnes Bodene is the teacher, took
first prize at the State fair at Huron
for the best rural school display. Dis
trict No. IS, teacher, Miss Blanche
Matteson, took second place. These
same exhibits also took first and Sec
ond prize, respectively, at the Brook
ings county fair. Bookings county
schools as a whole took third place
this year. The schools of Brookings
county hold an enviable position in
the state and invariably carry off the
honors at the fair.