The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-08-12

Jitney ~Elopement' at The Fad tonight.
Mrs. Nellie White of volga, is spend.
Ing the week in Bookings visiting with
friends.
7. 0. Haugen of the Toggery, was
at Minneapolis on business a few days
last week.
Miss NJ. Joerns,. the milliner, depart
ed Saturday morning for MINNEAPOLIS
and Chicago.
Miss Winnie Paul went up to Water
town Friday evening for a weeks visit
with Mrs. Russell Jensen.
Miss Estelle Morrow departed Satur-
day morning for Chicago to join a
party of friends for a two weeks out
ing.
You can ave money on your shoe
bill at the Gillespie & Rogers Clean
Sweep Sale, which lasts until August
21st.
Before you lay in your supply of
coal call at the Farmers Shipping asso-
NlANlO1 anu Stt ihtlI l.. " w. oC1d lllOIl
coal.
Miss Loretta McElmurry arrived
home Friday evening, after teaching in
summer school at Madison for several
weeks.
The Baptist Ladies Aid Society will
meet in the church parlors Thursday,
August 10. A picnic lunch will be
served.
Mr., and Mrs. C. C. Laddusaw and
family left Saturday morning by auto
for LeMars, Iowa. for a visit with re-
~latiyes.
Miss Carter of the Ellis-Hall dry
goods department, went up to Water
town Friday evening for a short visit
with relatives.
Miss Gladys Murray of Chicago, ar
rived the last of the week for an ex-
tended visit at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. Ed. House.
Aylmer Cole returned home yester-
day morning from a trip to Nebraska
and he reports that crops look fine
down in that section.
Miss Stella McAdams who spent a
week with her sister, Mrs. o. A. Hagen,
returned Saturday morning to her
home at Swea City, Iowa.
Mrs. NJ. Otradovic of Glenham. ar
rived the last of the week and will
make an extended visit at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. II. l.. Button.
Mrs. s. II. McElmurry and daughter
Loretta left Saturday morning for an
extended visit with their daughter and
sister, Mrs. w. Eells at youngstown, o.
Bud Brooke arrived last week for a
visit with his father, J. F. Brooke, and
with old friends. Bud is now attend
ing the University of North Dakota at
Grand Forks, and he has grown into
a fine young man.
The H. G.. Williams Land Co. have
had a bunch of landseekers here this
week. The satisfied look on the faces
of these strangers impressed us with
the idea that they had seen some
thing worth while.
Editor Horton, of the Volga Tribune,
was in town Saturday. He reports bus
mess good for this time of year and
was quite optimistic over the outlook.
Brother Horton is giving the people
of the west side a bang up good paper
and we are glad to see him prosper.
Several parties have spoken to the
Register in commentator of our ar
ticle directed to the county commits
sion in regard to the eye-sore surround
ing the county's beautiful court house
and grounds. We were told that we
didn't make it half strong enough.
Well, maybe we didn't, but the Regis
ter is willing to risk 1t and we are
going to. wait a little while and see IL
the commissioners are the bunch we
have given them credit of being.
Hubble Pickett and James Shepard,
Jr., arrived home the first of the week,
having made the trip with the Water
town band to the San Francisco ex-
position. The boys report a fine trip
and that they were royalty entertained
along the way. The band won the
$500 prize at Los Angeles in competi-
ton with fifteen other bands from diff
ferent parts of the country and they
made a big hit everywhere. Whenever
they played on the streets they drew
so many people that it was necessary
to have an extra detail of police to
handle the crowds. The trip was a
big advertisement for WATERFOWL and
South Dakota. Upon their arrival at
Watertown they were given a splen-
did reception, with a banquet,
speeches, etc.
A stranger to the city, after viewing
the delights of the city in the way OF
public buildings, nice houses, beauti-