The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-01-14

The Master Key"-tonight-The
Fad.
The Big Scent Sale starts at the
Variety Store next Saturday.
Read the Trey O'Hearts in the Reg
lister, then see it at the Pleasant Hour.
Philo Hall was at Pierre on legal
business a couple of days the first OF
the week.
Send your friends a copy of last
weeks Register. 1t will help advertise
your town.
The postofice will be moved into it's
new home in the government building
tomorrow.
Our Big Semi-Annual Scent Sale
opens mex Saturday, January Is. The
Variety Store.
One hundred jars of dairy butter to
sell at Csc per pound at the Hub De-
partment Store.
Floyd Austin returned Tuesday from
a several weeks visit in the western
pdII VI tuC otdIC.
The annual Brookings county farm
ers institute will be held in Brookings
February "a, rs and 26.
Don't forget that the Mid-Winter
Clothing Sale at the Columbia closes
or Saturday, January IS.
This week the Register is running a
number of cuts that should have ar
rived for our special edition last week.
We are going to present some n
in the audience an order for $1.00
worth of merchandise, Monday night
at $3.50. 10c to all. The Fad.
At the Hub Department Store all
next week there will be a sale on
wooden, silk and evening dresses by a
large firm overstocked in these lines.
Great slaughtering of prices.
H. G.. Moffatt writes us to send his
Register to Denver, Colo. He has been
at La Junta for some time and says
he is feeling fine. While at La Junta
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cuckow were his
neighbors.
The Bank of Bookings has started
an innovation that would indicate that
B%rookings is growing out of the small
town class. The bank will be open
from nine o'clock in the morning until
four in the afternoon, with no closing
hour for lunch.
County Superintendent Blakely has
appointed Miss Matilda Lambe as his
deputy. Miss Lambe is a successful
teacher of several years experience
and up to the time of taking up her
duties she was teacher in District 8,
Brookings township.
The Register has received a number
of complaints that our building figures
in our last issue were too low. No
doubt they were low in some instances
but on the whole we believe they were
nearly correct. We believed that it
was better to be conservative in fig
ures of this kind rather than to initiate
the values. We can prove everything
we claimed in the figures, and that is
the best kind of advertising.
On Tuesday evening. January 18th,
the Bank of Brookings held its annual
stockholders meeting as provided by
the state banking law. One thousand
dollars was added to the surplus fund
and the annual dividend declared. 1t
vas decided to keep the bank open
continuously from nine a.. m, to four
p. M, ON all banking days, commenc-
ing Monday. January 18th. 1t was the
unanimous opinion that the public
should have the accommodation Of be-
ing able to transact banking business
during the noon hour. The old officers
were reelected, as follows: President,
A. w. Hyde; vice-president, G. F..
Knappen; cashier. G. ]. Flittie; assist
ant cashier, l. e. Lees; directors, A.
w. Hyde, G. F. Knappen, R. F. Kerr,
C. A. Skinner. A. A. Harris, ]. E. Lees.
G. J. Flittie.