The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-03-19
BOOSTERS HOLD
MONTHLY MEETING
REGULAR MONTHLY SESSION OF
COMMERCIAL CLUB Is HELD
ON FRIDAY
SEVENTEEN NEW MEMBERS REPORTED
Club is in Flourishing Condition and
Every Booster Is Getting on the
Band Wagon-Meeting Notes

Band Wagon-Meeting Notes
The regular monthly meeting of the
Commercial Club was held in the as
sembly room last Friday evening, with
a fair crowd of boosters present. The
meeting was the most businesslike
session held by the club in a long time,
as it was called promptly and when
the business of the evening was com
pleted the session adjourned. A num-
Der of members we have talked with
are pleased with this method of con-
Quoting the meetings, as the business
was completed and lunch disposed of
by %ten-thirty. Formerly the sessions
held so late that the members did not
get away until midnight, and we look
for a better attendance under the new
system.
President Hyde mentioned the activ-
ity along business lines in the city,
and said that it was due in a large
Measure to the coming of the Luce
line. Our citizens are confident that
Bookings is about. to forge to the
front and that the coming few years
will be busy ones for the city. The
people outside of the city are also
confident that Bookings has a future,
and a number of new families are NOV
inng or expect to TO- here to engage
in business. President Hyde said that
the Luce people were working on the
extension of the line to Madison and
were meeting with much encourage
ment. Not only are the people along
the proposed line enthusiastic about
the line but the citizens of Egan and
Flandreau are very anxious that the
road go south to Sioux Falls and
strike their towns.
r. F. Kerr reported for the commit
tee appointed to audit the books of
the secretary. The committee found
everything correct, and complimented
the secretary for the heat name in
which he kept the records.
Charles E. Hall, chairman of the
entertainment committee, reported
that everything was progressing salts
factorily for the reception to the col
lege men, and gave it as his opinion
that it would be the greatest affair
of the kind pulled off in Bookings.
He mentioned that the Civic League
would entertain the girl students,
lady members of the faculty and the
wives of the faculty members and at
taches at the club rooms the same
evening.
Mr.. Hall mentioned the entertain
ment of the farmers during the insti-
tute and paid a deserved compliment
to Miss McElmurry and her class in
domestic science at the high school
for their assistance.
A resolution was introduced and
passed thanking almost everyone in
town, except the newspapers, for their
valuable aid in making Commercial
Club Day a success.
The membership committee reported
seventeen new members since the
last meeting. This is a splendid show
ing, and indicates that the live ones in
the city are getting onto the band
wagon.
Prof. Harding, chairman of the com
. -~.xkoo o--1snka1 No Tho nroriNyo M oof-
ing to recommend some action rela-
tive to the hospital, made his report
He said that the committee did not
feel that the club could donate very
much toward the institution, but that
they recommend that committees be
selected to interview the city council
and the board of county commissioners
asd ask for aid. He thought that the
city and county should each maintain
a free bed, which would cost about
$500 a year. The deficit Of the hos
pital practically all ome from the
free work that Is done for people of
the city or county, who cannot pay and
whose condition demands that they be
taken care Of at once. The city and
county should take care of it's people
who are unable to care for themselves.
That is one of the functions of a gov
eminent. Prof. Harding thought that
the club should, in case of necessity,
appropriate 500 a year for the hos
pital. The report was adopted and
the necessary committees appointed.
u. President Hyde thought that the
committee report was a very fair n
and said that he believed that the