The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-04
Local and Personal

DIR. j. w. Foster Office in Post Office
building, Phone Sc. Residence 500
Sixth street. Phone B-2S0.
Mrs. Weicks returned home to Wal
nut Grove, Mimi, Monday morning,
after a visit at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. F. A. Evans.
j. P. Cheever returned home Sunday
from a visit to his son Ned, at Superior
and a fishing trip at Isle Royal. He
was accompanied by Mrs. Cheever.
Ladies! Call and inspect the first
showing of the new fall styles at Miss
HOLSTERS millinery store Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday of next week.
Floyd and Elmer Thayer departed
Friday for York, Neb., to resume their
studies at the York business college,
after spending the vacation at home.
August .Kranz returned to his home
at Grundy Center, Iowa, Monday morn
ing, after a visit with his daughters,
Mrs. Albert Messerschmidt and Mrs.
Geo. Eberlein.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. D. Palmer, former
we'll known residents of Brookings,
are guests this week at the home of
H. G. Fox. They are now living at
Santa Ana, Cal.
Monday was the windiest and most
dusty day We have had in several
years and the rain on Tuesday morn
ing was hailed with delight, especially
by the careful housewife.
Van and Horace Fishback, Roy Nord
and Guy Youngburg went over to Mad
ison Monday and took part in the ten
mis- tournament, the Fishback brothers
winning first prize in the doubles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Peterson and
daughter Jessie, departed Tuesday
evening for Occur D'Alene, Idaho,
where they intend to spend the winter.
If they like it they may decide to locate
there.
The county commissioners are hold
ing a meeting at the court house this
week, their principal business being
to determine the amount of money
needed for county purposes and to fix
the levy.
The North-W Western will run a special
train to Huron on account of the state
fair Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week. The train will start
at Bookings, leaving here at 1880
each morning.
Mrs. James Pike arrived home last
week from Portland, oregon, where
she has been visiting her son, Ernest
E. Pike. She stopped off at Glendive,
Mont, to visit her daughter on the
way home. She was accompanied by
her son Floyd.
Bruce Elliott left last week for Hib-
bling, MINI. where he will teach manual
training in the high school. His
brother Ross, is also engaged as
teacher of manual training there, the
Hibbing schools having three instruc-
tors in this work.
DR.. Arthur Drew was here and spent
Sunday with his wife, who is visiting
at the home of her mother, Mrs. Cole
grove. DR.. Drew completed his medi-
cal studies at Chicago in June and is
now taking a years course in surgery
in a Minneapolis hospital.
We failed to see any very strenuous
cutting of weeds on weed Day" last
Thursday. There are still a large mum
Der of unsightly patches in the city
and it is the intention of the authori-
ties to cut them down and charge the
expense to the property owner.
Father w. T.. Shean and John Van
Laningham returned home the latter
part of the week from their auto trip
to Colorado and other western states.
Father Shean tells us that they travel
ed $500 miles, and saw some grand
scenery as we'll as some desolate coun-
try.
The First National bank window is
beginning to be a regular fruit market,
and the collection certainly makes a
fine showing for Brookings county as
a fruit raising section. Two new speci.
ments were added this week, a fine
branch of plums from the A. E. Thorn
Der orchard and three big apples raised
by Andrew Olson.