The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-18
Local and Personal
Prepared Lutifsk at the Bee Hive.
H. r. HAR0LDSON, Cashier
L. A. BITTERNESS, Asst Cashier

Prepared Lutifisk at the Bee Hive.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. II. Bjerke, residing
near Bookings, were Sioux Falls visit
ors last Thursday.
our meats are fine; try them. The
Rising Sun Meat Market, Theo
Schultz, Proprietor.
We have a full and complete line OF
meats. If you try us once you'll try
us always. Rising Sun Meat Market
Place your order with the Rising
Sun Meat Market now for your
Thanksgiving turkey. Theo. Schultz,
Proprietor.
~Brookings friends have received
word of the birth of a daughter to Mr..
and Mrs. Walker Elder, now of Dick
inson, N. d., who until recently were
residents of this city.
Mrs. f. Z. Dodge of Redfeld, arrived
last evening for a visit with Mrs. NJ.
f. Wimsey. Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge were
at n time residents of Brookings and
still have many acquaintance here.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. V. Christensen and
Misses Bosshard and Verne Mansfield
autoed to ~Brookings last Saturday
morning and spent Saturday and Sun
day there with Clifford Corkill at the
college. They returned to Hurley
Monday.-Hurley Herald.
Brookings friends will be interested
to know that Miss Petra Digre, who
formerly was a nurse at the Dakota
D~eaconess hospital in this city, has
gone to Phoenix. Arizona, with her
brother for the latter's health. Her
brothers home Is in Hendricks, Mimi,
and they went from that city.
Brookings, South Dakota, was given
a little free publicity by Ring w. Lard
ner, the well known humorous writer,
in last Saturdays Chicago Tribune. He
covered the Minnesota-Chicago foot
ball game at Minneapolis and in speak
ing Of his trip said: "St. Paul and
Minneapolis Is the only 2 places in
the United States I haven't visited *
cept Brookings, south dakota, and
vassar, Michigan" Thanks, Ring, for
the advertising.
At a meeting of business men and
taxpayers in Bruce last week the pro-
position to install an electric light
plant In that city was accepted. The
question Of seventeen lights for the
city, FIVE on main street and the re-
mainder on side streets, was unani-
mously accepted by the taxpayers.
Messrs. Weibers and Schultz were
granted a franchise by the city board
Of trustees and the rate for lights was
fixed at Is cents.
Albert Johnson, an aged itinerant,
was found dead In the cornfield at the
Everitt Degenaar farm near Clear
Lake recently. 1t is thought he had
been dead several days as he had gone
to the cornfeld during that time
to shock corn. For some time
he had made his home near
Lake Hendricks, Mimi, east of
Astoria. The body was ship
ped to relatives at Kendalls, Wis. In
searching the clothing a deposit certi.
ficate for $4,000 on the Bank Of Candy
was discovered and a purse contain
ing $500 in bills and $1.91 in coin.
George Artus has applied for a pat
emit for his gas selling device recently
installed in front of his garage, says
the Clear Lake Courier. A profess
sional craftsman from the State Col.
lege at Bookings made a pen sketch
of the machine which will be traced on
a blue print and filed at Washington.
The machine Is attracting considerable
attention from auto supply houses and
Mr.. Artus has already had two tempt
ing offers for his patent. but refuses
to sell. We understand he has made
arrangements with . Minneapolis man.
ufacturins company to make the ma.