The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-06-17
COMMERCIAL CLUB
BUSINESS MEETING
BROOkINGS BOOSTERS DISPOSE
OF SOME IMPORTANT MAT
TIERS FRIDAY
WILL CENSOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING
Outside Advertising Concerns Must
Get Permit From the Clubs Public
ity Committee-Other Business

The monthly business meeting Of
the Commercial Club vas held in the
assembly room last Friday evening.
President Carlisle called the meet
ing to order at eight-thirty with a fair
crowd of members present, In the
absence of Secretary Gullick r. F.
Kerr was named secretary pro TEN.
Reports of the special and standing
committees were heard. E.. l.. Spur
ling reported that he and a number of
other club members had safely chaper-
oned the Moody county teachers to
Brookings.
President Carlisle mentioned the re-
organization of the Lake Campbell
dam committee, which was done at
the last meeting of the directors. Mr..
Kerr, who is a member Of the It.
tee, stated that State Game Warden
Hedrick was expected to furnish some
financial aid toward repairing the dam
and the work would be started after
the June rains. John Murphy said
that if the work was left until after
the June rains the lake would be very
low for the rest of the year and he
moved that the committee be instruct
ed to get busy at once, and the motion
carried.
President Carlisle reported that he
had taken up with the council the mat
ter of financial assistance for the
band and that $3.50 had been appro-
priated for the organization.
j. H. Hubbard gave a short talk in
behalf of the Boy Scouts. He stated
that the boys were working for the
81, 800 club house offered as a premium
by the Curtis Publishing company and
he said that the Brookings Troop were
now in sixth place, having advanced
rapidly since the beginning of the
contest. DR.. Hyde moved that it be
the sense of the club that all club
members and other citizens give the
boys every assistance.
Pres Carlisle said that Brookings
had a chance to secure the 1916 meet
ing of the State Bankers Association
and upon motion he appointed the fol-
lowing committee to take charge of
the matter: Alymer Cole, l.. A. Otter
ness, G.. J. Flittie, G. d. Cole, r. A..
Larson.
AS Friday was the wedding day of
o. O. Olson, a member of the club
board of directors and chairman of
the entertainment committee, a face
tious member moved that a telegram
be sent Mr.. Olson informing him that
he had full authority from the club
to go as far as he liked. The motion
was carried without a dissenting vote
and Secretary Kerr, with some mis-
givings, duly dispatched the telegram.
DR.. Hyde moved that a committee
of three be appointed to cooperate
with the Civic League on arrange
ments for the Fourth of July. The
motion carried.
Charles E.. Hall said that the bust
ness men of Brookings were being i'm
posed upon by numerous fake adj
vertising solicitors from the outside
and he moved that as a protection to
the local people that these transients
be required to put their proposition up
to the clubs publicity committee and
then if they get a clean bill of health
they can tackle the business men. The
idea was voted a splendid one and
it carried unanimously.
DR.. Stoll said that there was also
need of a committee to pass on the
merits of the many stock and bonds
that are offered for sale here. The
secretary was instructed to inquire
into the Blue Sky law, which was
passed by the state legislature and if
this does not cover the matter it is
likely that the club will appoint a
special committee to pass upon such
propositions.
President Carlisle said that the
committee he had appointed to take
charge of good roads day" had fail
ed him and upon motion he appointed
a new one, which consists of Prof.
Solberg, ]. F. Erwin and Prof. Willis.
This committee have instructions to
arrange for a day upon which all citi-
zens are expected to report for road
work.
The president said that what Brook
ings county needed was a county en-
gineer, that the county could ave his