The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-10-14
A. B. Chase was a business visitor
in Sioux Falls last Thursday.

4 IlCll NocI I'LL " I1oSpCoS,
Iowa, visited between trains last
Thursday with Mrs. Guy Smith, in
Brookings.
NJ. H. Skiff returned home to Mime
apolis Monday morning after a visit
in the home of his brother, l.. II. Skiff.
Mr.. Ski1 formerly resided in Brook
ings and is we'll known here.
Mrs. Herman Hauff of Brookings is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. A.
Perley, while here for the Federation,
I" Mrs. Lillian Smith of Brook
ings is visiting her sister, Mrs. Melvin
p. Davis, while here to attend the
State Federation.-Flandreau Herald.
Miss Helen Caldwell of Brookings
has been elected TO membership in the
Hypatia Society of Colorado College
at Colorado Springs. Col. This is a
high honor among the girls. Election
10 this honorary society is possible
only after several qualifications have
been passed.
Arlington Sun.-D. S. Palmer was in
Arlington Monday and ordered the ad-
dress of his paper changed from Het-
land to BroOkings where he recently
purchased a residence property and is
now a resident of that city. The farm
north of Hetland has been rented to
Arthur Thompson.
Bids are being called for for the
office of superintendent of the poor
farm in Brookings county for the year
1916. l.. =. Ammons is now the in
cumbent of the office and has held that
position for a number of years. Each
year bids are made for the place and
it is probable Mr.. Ammons will secure
it for another year.
Bandmen of Brookings will be in
terested to learn hat the proposition
has been submitted to the city council
of Sioux City to make Reeds band a
municipal organization. Many Brook
ings residents have heard Reeds splen-
ulu uduu' anu the ldIt dCllOu SHO"s
that the business men of Sioux City
realize the benefits Of a well advertis-
ed, high grade band and want it main
tanned.
Trains on the Chicago & Northwest
ern railroad running into Watertown
were routed over the Brookings di-
vision last Friday night and Saturday
morning, owing to a freight wreck near
Altamont. Three box cars of the
freight left the rails and plowed
through dirt and sod until they stopped
in a slight hollow at the side of the
track. None of the train crew was
injured, but the wreck caused all trains
into Watertown to be delayed for some
time.
Art Smith, the boy aviator whom
many Brookings residents witnessed at
the state fair at Huron, met with what
might have been a more serious acct
dent at Trenton, n. j., last week. He
was making the final flight of an en-
gagement there and when over the
grandstand spied his wife seated in
the crowds. He let go his steering
wheel and waved at her, and in so do
ing lost control of his machine and it
dropped, crashing into the grandstand.
Smith was internally injured and badly
bruised, how seriously is not known.
On Saturday evening, October 2, Mr.
Albert Jacobson of Volga and Miss
Augusta NJ. Stall of Elkhorn, Wiscon-
sin, were married at the home of the
groom's mother in Bookings, Rev. r.
A. Bruce, pastor of the Brookings
Methodist church, officiating. Both
of the contracting parties are well
known in the vicinity of Volga. The
groom was employed in the Hammer
meat market for a number of years,
and since January l has conducted the
business himself under a lease. The
bride has been matron of the Volga
hospital for the past fifteen months
dlIu udS pttu du tLlCltnJ, COuIltOuS
official. They have gone to housekeep-
ing in the old Truman residence in
Volga, and their many friends extend
congratulations.
County Treasurer C. A. Gullick re-
ports that up to October II, 1915, 81
hunting licenses have been issued at
the B%rookings county court house. 6S7
Of these licenses were issued during
the month of September alone, five be-
ing nonresident licenses at SIS each.
The $887.00 realized from the licenses
all goes to the state, the county get
ting no part. Last year 1920 licenses
were issued in Brookings county but
it is doubtful If that number will be
reached this year. Season for prairie
chickens closed last Saturday and the
season on ducks and other water fowl
will close December /. The treasurer's
office also reports that up to October
IL, 976 automobile licenses have been
1000 - Ali. $500, -: -.l