The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-08-21
Local and Personal

C. A. Palmer has purchased a Ford
car.
G. F. Thayer went down to Aurora
on land business yesterday.
o. o. Graves returned home Friday
morning from a buying trip to Chi
cago
Kelly's Music Store is now located
in the Erstad building on Williams
street.
September 1st the Pleasant Hour
will begin the first show at 1880
o'clock.
Just received u new fall trimmings
all the very latest. The Bee Hive
Store.
DR.. Hill, the eye, ear, nose and
throat specialist, Of Watertown, will
be in Brookings at the Leon Hotel Fri
day, August goth.
Miss Dollie Sherwood accompanied
her father, Judge Sherwood, here from
Clark Tuesday and is the guest of
Gladys butcher for a few days.
G. w. Rexford and little son return
ed home to Crofton, Neb., Monday
evening, after a ten days visit at the
home of his uncle, Homer Rexford.
Mrs. F. E. Dodsworth and children
returned home to Minneapolis yester-
day morning, after spending a couple
of months at the home of her mother,
Mrs. A. A. Poole.
Make your savings profitable by in
vesting where there are no preferred
stockholders-where the entire earn
ings come to you-in the Building and
Loan Association.
1t is not necessary to pay house rent
all your life. The ~Brookings Building
and Loan Association will enable you
to build and own your home in a few
years for about what you pay for rent.
Maurice, the four "a old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Fox, sustained a
broken arm Tuesday afternoon, but is
getting along nicely. The youngster
was doing some %acrobatic stunt or d
horizontal hitching post, when he lost
his hold and fell to the ground.
Quincy Lee Morrow, who is now
field secretary of the national prohibi-
ton committee, is home for a visit
with his family. He has been cam
paigning in Michigan and goes next
week to Maryland and from there to
Texas.
Rev. c. F. Hoffman, Helen, Willie
and Lyman Caldwell, Lawrence Olson
and jeanette Sloan returned home
Monday night from Waterloo, where
they were delegates to the national
meeting of the young peoples unions
of the U. P. church.
The Roughnecks and R~oundheads
played the deciding ball game of the
series at the fair grounds on Friday
evening, and the Roundheads won by
a score of 2 to 0. The game was fast
and exciting and the teams really put
up better ball than We thought they
were capable of.
The Farmers Cooperative Company
is O ready for business and in addi-
ton to our grain business we are
handling coal and salt. We are also
agents for the T. G. Mandt wagon, the
Flying Dutchman" gang and sulky
plows, and for all kinds of farm nipple.
ments. ]. d. Wilson, manager.
Work on the government building
Is progressing rather slowly, the brick
foundation not as yet being completed
The government is pretty particular
with the work and it has to go slowly,
The specifications required four layers
of taxpayer and two coats of tar over
the brick to guard against water seep.
ing through the walls.
"The Fad" opened most auspiciously
Monday evening, having packed houses
at both shows. The entertainment
which consists of vaudeville and mo-
ton pictures, was very good and pleas
ed the crowds, and the show house
promises to be a popular place fol
Brookings people. Brookings now has
two moving picture theatres, both Of
them good ones, and when the weather
cools off and the students are back
they will be playing to capacity crowds
each night.