The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-10-15

Scotney Concert Co., October II.
T. c. Aiken returned home yester.
day from a business trip to points
north.
Rev. w. A. Mast departed Friday
evening for Mitchell to attend the an.
nual meeting of the Presbyterian
Synod.
H.. G. Moffatt left yesterday morning
for a visit at Newton, Iowa, and he
will go from there to Arizona to spend
the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Alton of Pipe
stone, returned home Tuesday morn
ing, after a few days visit at the home
of his father, Thos. Alton.
The college students and the band
were down to the depot in force Satur-
day night to welcome the victorious
football team home from Huron.
James Hall of Stewartsville, Mimi,
came down yesterday from De .Smet,
where he had been visiting, and is a
guest at the home of his sister, Mrs.
J.. G. Miles.
Apples are reported to be a bounti-
full crop this year and they are cheaper
than usual, as the war has shut off the
usual European market. Locally ap-
pies are selling on track for ninety
cents and a dollar a bushel.
Chas. Martinson has a fine display
of his corn at the Bank of Brookings
and at Samples store. The corn went
"A bushels to the acre. T. S. LeFevre
tells us that he has some corn that
will go pretty close to 100 bushels TO
the acre.
Mrs. Arthur Dillman of Newell, ar.
rived Tuesday morning for a one day
visit with friends. She will be Joined
by Mr.. Dillman and they will go to
Washington, where he will spend the
winter doing special work in the De.
partment of Agriculture.
Because it is hard to find extra shoe.
makers capable of turning out good
work, we have been unable to accom-
modate our customers with prompt
repair service. Now we are ready to
handle your repairing at quick notice
and will assure o of the best kind
of work obtainable. Gillespie & Rog.
ers, Footitters.
At the NJ. f. conference at Messing.
ton Springs the last of the week Rev.
r. A. Bruce was returned to Brook
ings for another year, which is pleas.
ing to Brookings people. The confer
ence decided not to divide the terri
tory of the Deaconess hospital, another
cause for rejoicing in Brookings. This
city invited the conference to meet
here in 1915, but it decided to go to
Sioux Falls.
The Brookings post Office has been
granted an additional city carrier by
the Department with service to begin
October 18th. The routes will be re
arranged and extended to additional
territory where patrons wishing city
delivery service are provided with al
the requisite public improvements
such as street lights, street crossings
street signs, house numbers and good
continuous sidewalks.
Geo. Thayer received a letter the
other day from an old acquaintance in
eastern Ohio saying that they had
a heavy frost in June that completely
killed their corn. They then put the
land into potatoes and b%uckwheat ant
another frost came along early in the
fall and killed these crops. This is
some different from South Dakota
which the eastern people like to poke
fun at, as our first frost came yester
day, after every crop was out of the
way.
At the M. E. conference Sunday thu
following appointments of minister
for Brookings and vicinity were made
Brookings and Trenton, R. A. Bruce
darlington, R. e. Tarleton; Bruce, p
H. Weston; Clear Lake, c. B. DENIM
son; Elkton. A.. Wilson; White, M
IT,, Nickerson: Colman, o. M. Rifen
!, bark; Egan, Arthur Hoyer; Flandreau
III. B. WILDER; Flandreau circuit, d. c
l Arms Rev. o. e. Boyce Of Water
town, was again named as superintend
emit Of this district