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

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people of that town were interested in
our fair and promised a good attend
ance. Toronto was made in fast time,
as the tourists found the best roads
on the trip between that town and
Estelline. The first two or three
miles were hilly, but from that on
they couldn't have been better. After
having passed through Hamlin and
and Deuel. counties the tourists struck
good old Brookings county about three
o'clock and got into White a little
while later. A stop was made in front
of the Celevan & Johnson store, and
after music by the band, the usual hus-
thing by the advertisers, the party head
ed south for Bushnell, getting in there
about %four-thirty. Elkton, another
oasis, vas a welcome sight to the
dusty travellers, and they received one
of the most cordial greetings that had
been given the party anywhere on
the trip. After music by the band
President Philo Hall Of the Bookings
Commercial Club, made a short ad-
dress, thanking the citizens for their
welcome and extending to them a cor
dial invitation to visit the great Brook
ings county fair. Aurora, the last
stop On the journey, was reached
shortly before six o'clock, and the
party rolled into Bookings at six
thirty, bringing to a close a most
pleasant and profitable trip.
Notes of the Trip
The Moline auto of President Ru-
dolph of the fair association, was the
advertising car, and it went owe the
entire route without a particle of
trouble of any kind. And it went some
too, as it was always the last a to
leave a town and it never was the last
one to get to the next stop.
The tourists saw some great crops
on the trip, the fields being thick with
shocks or having from ten to fifteen
big stacks, and the corn was out of
sight-it was so tall. Two fine alfalfa
fields we're passed northeast of Ar
lington and they must certainly have
convinced G. F. Thayer and Geo. Ken
nard, who were in the party, that
B%rookings county can raise this crop
and raise it well. The crops in Ham,
lin and Deuel. counties also looked
fine.
F. M. Ellis discovered at Toronto
that he had a broken spring, but he
managed to patch it up and stuck with
the bunch to the finish.
The great question with the tourists
after they got home was, a a Cadil-
lac outrun a Ford?
Most Of the business men who went
along had their cars decorated with
their own advertisement, as we'll as
the fair banners, thus killing two birds
on n trip. Among the enterprising
merchants were C. o. Quail, o. A.
Hagen, O. o. Olson, F. M. Ellis and
J.. R. Fridley.
The members of the party all look
ed like Ethopians when they reached
home, and question of which was the
blacklist simmered down to Charlie
Shea and Jack Vrenegor.
There were quite a few ladies in
the party and they seemed to enjoy
themselves every minute of the time.
The travellers found some bad Gull
verts and ONE rather bumpy roads
and 1t is a wonder at the rate which
they travelled that the cars did not
have more serious trouble.
The tourists are still talking about
that fried chicken dinner at Bruce.
The cushion on the rear seat of the
Hupmobile car caught fire just as it
reached the Bacon hill in east Brook
ings and a run was made to the Bacon
well, where a pail Of water quickly
put it out. A lighted cigar dropped
down between the cushion and the
seat is thought to have started it. The
car was leading up to this time, but
o. A. Hagen, who was on the job all
day, passed it at this point and reach
ed Brookings first.
The newspaper men with the party
talked with the newspaper boys in the
different towns and found them more
than willing to boost for the fair, as
they hAve always DONE. The fair owes
much of its in the past to the
liberal advertising given it by the
newspapers of the county.
Just before getting into White the
autoes frightened a team hauling q
load Of lumber and they ran away,
scattering the load over the prairie.
The tourists stopped and helped the
driver gather up the lumber.
At Aurora one citizen, slightly the
worse for wear, staggered up to a
of the tourists and said: Seems
to me you went q HI Of a ways
farther to get to Aurora than most Of
them fellows from Brookings do"
One Of the tourists remarked upon
arriving home, well, we are pretty