The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-05-06

Mrs. B. E. Lloyd of Arlington, was
the guest of Mrs. E. A. Wing the lat
ter part of the week.
The Clarin Studio has the latest
apparatus for amateur finishing. Try
US and let Us show you.
B. w. Lanphier came down from Mil
bank Saturday and visited until Mon
day evening with his family.
Be sure and attend the big sale Of
shoes and oxfords now on at Gillespie
& Rogers.
A, j. Katz of st. Paul, president of
the Columbia Clothing Company, spent
a day or two at the local store this
week.
A. f. James is slowly recovering
from his recent illness, which compel
led him to give up his work on the
dray.
G. F. Knappen left Thursday even
ing for Mitchell and other points in
the interests of the Dakota Wesleyan
endowment campaign.
Fred Cole left Thursday evening for
the west, after spending a week or ten
days with Brookings friends. He has
decided to locate at Valley City, N. d.
W. b. Wood of the college horti-
cultural department, returned home
Tuesday morning from west of the
river, where he has been for some
time looking after the alfalfa work.
A. E. Bunday is enjoying a visit from
his father, who is one of the old time
residents of the northwestern part of
the county. Mr.. Bunday spends most
of his time now visiting around with
his children.
Conrad Hoff returned Monday from
Mankato, where he finished his course
at the commercial college. The col
lege has assured him a position as
supervisor of penmanship either in
Idaho or Colorado.
The fire department was called to
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Franck's drug store, Sunday afternoon
by the explosion of a gasoline stove,
but the blaze was extinguished with
but slight damage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Sanders returned
home Sunday from their winters stay
at Delray, Florida. They report a
very pleasant winter and Mr.. Sanders
is enjoying much better health than
when he left here last fall.
The Brookings ball team played a
return game with the Bruce-Volga
combination at the fair grounds Thurs
day afternoon and were again victor
ious, the score being II to 10. Rough
grounds were mainly responsible for
the big score
Chas. Gullick tells us that he is
about ready to close up his proposition
for a hotel at Lake Campbell and he
has called a meeting of the stock
holders for tomorrow night at the
assembly room to form a permanent
organization and to go ahead with the
work.
1t is the policy of the Register to
accept advertisements of food pro-
ducts of merit only. Investigations
show that K. c. Baking Powder has
been sold throughout the United
States for over twenty years, and the
steady increase in it's consumption is
due to it's quality.
Dick Bielski of Philip, was here the
last of the week. Dick was formerly
a student at the college and later was
employed at the First National Bank,
and he has many friends in the city.
He has been a member Of the legisla-
ture from Stanley county during the
past two sessions.
The second floor of the city hall was
a busy place Monday evening. The
new city council was organizing in the
council rooms, the college choral union
was rehearsing in the assembly room
and the building and loan association
was holding its annual meeting in the
two front rooms of the Commercial
Club. And of course, there was some
thing doing in the other club rooms.
Last week we had a local that Mrs.
James Semple had marketed about
s21 worth of eggs in one week and the
day after the paper was issued Mrs.
e. w. Davis telephoned that she could
beat this record all hollow as she had
sold SIS worth of eggs in a week. This
is a pretty good argument in support
of the Brookings Produce Company's
contention that the hen is more valu-
able than the COW.
Deputy Register of Deeds Burgess
was arrested Saturday night as a re-
suit of the election scrap at White,
charged with voting both here and at
White. 1t seems that he voted here
in the caucus and at White on. election
day and while this Is a serious ofense