The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
Local and Personal

Fletcher March 2.
Tarzan of the Apes.
Try Candy -four, sold by G. W. Van
Dusen & Co.
Misunderstanding 2:3O p. M. SC to
all at The Fad.
Mrs. F. NJ. Kremer visited friends at
Estelline last week.
Don't come if you want to sleep.
Fletcher won't let you.
Haggard sells Shorthorns at the
Stock Pavilion, March 10.
w. E. Purdy went down to Elkton
on legal business Monday.
Vaudeville next Monday and Tues
day, March End and 3rd, at The Fad.
Candy flour, an absolute guarantee
of cleanliness. G. w. Van Dusen G. Co.
About W. weeks more and the
Register begins that great story of
Tarzan of the Apes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coughlin of Elkton,
visited over Sunday at the home of
her mother, Mrs. JOS. Enright.
Editor Tasker returned home to
Lake Benton yesterday, after having
spent some time in the hospital.
If you have heard him, the name
Observation-Disclosures be enough to
take you to the college auditorium
Monday evening, March 2, at S:15.
Miss Grace Lentz returned home to
Redwood Falls, Mimi, Monday morn
ing, after a couple of weeks visit at
the home of her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Etting.
1t is the man and the message that
he brings that you should consider.
Fletcher at the college auditorium,
March 2. The price of admission is
only SOC.
A.. l.. Davis is redecorating and max
ing numerous other improvements in
the interior of his store and he will in
a short time put in a complete stock of
house furnishings.
Father Shean returned home the
last of the week from Rochester, where
he consulted the Mayos, and he tells
us that he will probably have to return
there again within a few weeks.
Prof. C. w. Hochstetler came down
from Huron Saturday morning and
spent the day with Coach Ewing ar.
ranging the details of the state meet
to be held at Huron May 81 and %.
C. o. Quail informs us that he has
plans practically completed for the
erection of a fine home next to his
present residence in north Brookings.
1t will be modern in every respect and
will cost about 5 $4,000.
County Auditor Ripley, who attended
the meeting of the county auditors and
the tax commission at Pierre last
week, tells us that the assessment was
left the same as last year there being
no changes of any kind.
c. F. Martin, who has Been foreman
of the laundry for some weeks, resign.
ed last week and left Saturday for his
home at Redwood Falls, MINI. He
will go into the laundry business for
himself and has a good location in
view.
Mrs. VIM. Pickett-the Cottage
Store-will have an exhibit of art
needle work and materials from Misses
Porter & Pay, Mankato, Mimi, at
Hotel Leon February 81, 20, March 2,
8. Miss Pay will demonstrate the new
stitches in art needle work.
G.. N. Kennard made a trip over to
Volga Friday to dispose of a team Of
horses that he had no need of On the
farm. MI. Kennard tells us that he is
at a loss to understand why there is
not a good horse market in Bookings,
as every time he has horses to sell he
has to go to Volga. Not that he OBJ
jects to going to Volga, and neither is
he d~ispleased with the price he re-
ceives there, but he thinks it strange
that a town the size of B%rookings does
not offer a good market for horses.
The high school basketball team
went to Tyler Saturday morning and
were defeated by the team of that
town by a score Of 16 to 10. The sur
rounding small towns seem to be wal
Looping our team or pretty regularly, in
fact they have always done it, and the
reason is not hard to find. In the
small town they make basketball the
leader in sport, 1t is in fact their only
sport in many instances. and as a re.
suit Of the interest centered in this
one game they are able to build up
f~rst-class teams. The Arlington team
took a trip around the state last week,
playing the larger towns and cleaned
up everything in their path. Here al
Brookings basketball is only a minor
sport, and the chief interest is in the
football. track and baseball teams.