The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-11-18

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are ordering turkeys. Pumpkin pie,
cranberry sauce and roast turkey will
soon be the principal things upon the
bill-of-fare next Thursday is the
next big event of national Importance.
Bookings is being visited by an I'M
usual number of beggars and solicitors
at present and if all received what
they asked the city would soon be
drained of cash and eatables. Idle men
have been a pretty scarce article In
this portion of the country since the
starting up of harvesting operations
and good wages have prevailed. How
ever the busy seasons work is rapidly
drawing to a close and the laboring
men are beginning to seek other fields
of employment.
Finishing six hours ahead of the
scheduled time, the big six cylinder
Studebaker sent out from Aberdeen
last week which passed through Brook
ings demonstrated in the reliability
Iul VI lllt lNO DdholdS NNllI t'NNN
miles that it is capable of standing up
under the most difficult road condl-
tons. Except where the mud was
nearly up to the hubs the speedometer
needle lowered between the so and 90
miles an hour mark and the passen-
gers had to strapped in to keep them
from bouncing out. The roads were
bad the first day of the run but it kept
it's schedule and when good roads were
struck from Huron to Brookings and
then to WATERFOWL an hour was gain
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Olson and Miss
Eleanor Anderson returned home to
Lake Norden the first of last week
after a short visit with Brookings
friends.
Th~reshing days are about over for
this year in Brookings county and
much grain is being marketed, al
though there is some threshing that
has not been done. Thousands OF
acres of fall blowing has been done
this year and the crop acreage next
year should be the largest ever known
in this county.
1t is expected that the moving pic
lures taken in Brookings on Hobo Day
will be finished mex week and 1T Is
planned to show them at the Pleasant
Hour on Friday and Saturday, Novem-
Der 26 and 27. There will be between
LOO and 1900 feet in the film, show
ing the business houses and the crowd
and Hobo Day stunts. Brookings Com
mercial Club men are discussing the
advisability of taking the best parts
from the films made last year and with
that of this year make two films to
send over the state for advertising
purposes.
County Treasurer G.. A. Gullick is
busy this week preparing the delin-
ouent tax list for the printer. He re-
-, ports the list is about the same size as
! in past years. The tax sale will be
, held the second Monday in December,
, after the publications of the list as re-
, auired by law. Under the new law the
=, delinquent personal tax list has been
g turned over to Sheriff Fred S. Miner
: and he is busy making collections. The
sheriff receives one dollar, with twenty
! cents mileage fees, for every collection
y he makes.
Roy Morrison of Madison learned
last week Of the death Of his mother
in the tornado which devastated Great
, Bend, Kansas. After he had written
: a dispatch in the Madison office of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. inquir'
ing of friends in Great Bend if any OF
his relatives had been injured by the
storm he was informed there was a
+ message awaiting him. On opening 1t
G he read, your mother was killed and
your grandfather badly injured" Mr.
Morrison is in the employ of the con
q tractors who are plastering the new
O duultlOn W Tie mduloOu IlSH oNioo'
and he left Immediately for Great
d Bend.
o All the %granaries and available build
ings on the farms have been filled with
grain this fall and in addition temper
airy grain bins in the feds are quite
conspicuous. Help was none too plen
tiful during the %threshing season ant
it was impossible to market any grea'
amount Of grain during the period o
threshing. The freezing up time II
bringing grain in and the bulk VIII b'
marketed during the winter months.
Miss Stella Collins came down from
Watertown last Saturday evening ant
visited until Monday with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Collins.
Local sportsmen are right on the jo'
now and ducks and geese fly about a
their own peril. The hunting seasol
for fowl is rapidly drawing to a clos