The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-10-28
PLANS FOR HOBO
DAY ALL ARRANGED
BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR TO
BE ON SATURDAY OF NEXT
WEEK, NOVEMBER 6
THOUSANDS OF VISITORS EXPECTED
State Championship Football Game,
Cross Country Run, Flower Show
And Big Parade Will Draw

With the opening of the State Col
lege of Agriculture at Brookings each
fall students and citizens of the city
alike look forward to the biggest
event of the school year, Hobo Day.
Plans for the fourth annual Hobo Day
celebration this year have been made.
The day will be Saturday, November
9th.
From nine o'clock in the morning
until late at night there will be some
thing doing every minute. The foot
ball game for the collegiate champion
ship of South Dakota between the
State University at Vermillion and
State College, the annual cross coun-
try run, the chrysanthemum show, and
the invasion and parade of one thous-
and hoboes and Indian squaws will
draw thousands of visitors to Brook
ings. Elaborate preparations have
been made to entertain the Vermillion
contingent and other visitors on that
day. Students are busy with cos
tunes, athletes are planning new
grandstand oom and the good house
wives of B~rookings are thinking of
tasty handouts for the Weary
Willies."
Hobo Day in Brookings Is unique in
that nothing of a similar nature has
ever been attempted in any other city
in the Northwest. Residents of South
Dakota plan each year to visit Brook
ings at the time of the celebration
and the indications are that the one
this year will be more complete and
the stunts more comic than ever be-
fore. Hobo Day Is being extensively
advertised by the Brookings CONNER
cial Club. Display advertising is be-
ing carried in forty newspapers OF
tory, thousands of illustrated cards are
being mailed, mo jinx" buttons were
released Tuesday and students are
writing personal letters. B~rookings
business houses will be thoroughly de-
corated for the day, State field is being
decorated and the buildings are be-
ing reprinted; consequently Brook
ings will look her best on November
6. A moving picture corporation has
written for the privilege Of taking pic
lures and running them throughout
the northwest circuit.
Have You Sent a Card?
Have you sent one of the Hobo Day
cards to a friend? These may be Sc
cured free of charge at the banks and
every man, woman and child is urged
to mail to someone who might be in
6. Since only a thousand souvenir but
tons were made for the occasion those
who have not by this time received
one will probably be unable to do so.
States football team expects to pay
off old scores on Hobo Day by trounc-
ing the Coyotes. Three times during
the past six years State has strived to
defeat the university team, but with
out avail. The result this season will
be different, States fans believe, and
a desperate attempt will be made to
humble the rooters from the sister in
stitution.
Students Assemble at Nine
Students will assemble at the audi
forum at nine o'clock and a piano.
ramic picture will be taken. At ten
o'clock the march through the city
will begin. The parade will proceed
down Medary avenue to Williams
street, then west to Main, north to
Sixth and back down to the depot to
meet the morning train. Following
the arrival Of the trains will be march
ing on Main street, lead by States
Military Band OF forty pieces, and a
mass meeting and yell-fest will occupy
a half hours time. Ballots for the
Hobo King and Indian Chieftess will
be cast and these ~personages will be
crowned on the college campus at 1870.
At HAS the signal will be given and
the hungry hoboes and squaws will be-
gin their itinerary through the city In
quest of provisions. Dinner in the
college Jungle, between the power
house and the greenhouse lanes, will
be held at 1890, to which students,
townsmen and visitors are invited. I'M
mediately after dinner the Hobo King
and Indian Chieftess will be crowned,
and then comes the dancing.
The football game at State field will