The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-10


Volga last Thursday.
/. d. Spooner has taken a position
with the Cole Mercantile Co.
Shoes sale still on at Gillespie &
Rogers, Footftters, Brookings.
Will Corcoran, of Volga, was in the
city Saturday on business matters.
j. H. Roberts was over from Madison
and spent Sunday with his family.
John Culhane, Jr., went to Harold,
S. d., Tuesday on business matters.
New fall suits and dresses are now
in at the Cole Mercantile Company's
store.
Mrs. Geo. Cole and daughter Olive
are home from an extended visit in
the east.
A. w. Collins was taken sick Friday
night and has been under the doctors
care since.
Mrs. N. Wexler spent last week in
Minneapolis visiting her sons Harry
and Louis.
Mrs. Homer Rexford is spending a
couple of months at Petroskey, Mich,
for her health.
J. f. Erwin was I'VE to WATERFOWL
last Thursday on business and while
there visited friends.
Druggist Ennis and family were here
Thursday evening calling on friends.
Their nome is at Volga.
Miss Florence Kean spent Sunday at
the A. w. Collins home. She is a
niece Of Mr.. and Mrs. Collins.
Foot specialist for tired or troubled
feet will be at Gillespie & Rogers,
Footftters, Saturday, August 10. Adj
vice free.
C. f. Prescott who had been here
visiting his brother-in-law, II. G.. Will
liams, left Saturday for his home at
Winona, MINI.
Mrs. Herman Hauff and children re-
turned Saturday from Flandreau where
she had been visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. A. Perley.
o. o. Graves reports his little daugh-
ter, who was operated on last week,
as improving nicely and the little lady
will soon be well again.
II. G.. Williams has purchased the
residence he now occupies on Second
street from Geo. w. Cobel, the deal
going through last week.
c. d. Oldham and A. w. Collins were
at Castlewood Friday to erect a monu-
ment over a son of the latter. Mr..
Oldham prepared the monument.
M. E. Bacon and Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Avery were Castlewood visitors last
Thursday. They visited Clair Poulson
and family. Mrs. Poulson is a daugh-
ter of Mr.. Bacon.
Miss Laura Bolles tore down a barn
on her property on Ninth street be-
tween Eleventh and Medary avenue
last week preparatory to building a
rActIa,aA ~htnl will fnnn tha COLLAGE
campus.
Mrs. Ida Wheeler and Mrs. Olive
Boshard, sisters of Mrs. Fred Norton,
Mrs. Geo. Wheeler and Charlie Wheel
er and wife, who had been here to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. Norton, re-
turned Thursday night to their home
at Concord, Mimi.
Harvesting is done in this county
and shock threshing is under way. Re-
ports of the grain yield are not very
encouraging although some yields are
average. Corn is doing well, but we
will have to have rain if corn and po-
tatoes are to be bumper crops.
A. T. Horton and SON., of the Volga
Tribune, Miss Walker, of the Bruce
Herald. and Paul butcher and P. F.
Levins, of the Bookings Register,
were the only B~rookings county news
paper representatives at the state edi-
torial meeting held in Sioux Falls last
week.
H. G. Williams recently purchased
LOO head of sheep at Harold, S. D.,
and expects them to arrive here the
last of the week. He will place them
on a farm he owns north of White and
feed most of them for the early win
ter market. Some of them he expects
to dispose of to those who may want
lambs.
Rev. F. w. Stoll, Of Aurora, left Sun
day evening for a three weeks visit
in Illinois and Ohio. In Chicago he
will visit two sons who are in business
and in Ohio he will visit his aged
mother and other relatives. In his alb
sence Rev. Mast, of this city will
preach August 13 and Rev. Milne will
preach August 20.
Mrs. Lewis Ward, niece of Mrs. Bert
P~ierson, and Mrs. Frank Stratton and
son and daughter all arrived Thursday
for a visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Bert Pierson. Mrs. Ward will be bet
ter known as Myrtle Lorimer, a form
er resident of Brookings. She now
lives at Aberdeen. Mrs. Stratton is
a sister of Mr.. Pierson and her home
is at Odebolt, Iowa.
A. B. Allison and wife, Mrs. Emma
Waltz, Mrs. NJ. G. Carlisle, Prof. X. F.
Kerr, Sam Cornell and wife, Mrs. c. p.
Welch, Mrs. w. H. WEIGH and Mrs.
Elmer Sexauer autoed over to Airing
ton Friday to attend the funeral of Mr..
A. D. Maxwell, a hardware merchant
at that place. Formerly Mr.. Maxwell
was a resident of Brookings county,
having taken land here in the early
days Of the county. Later he moved to
Arlington where he has been a leading
business man since.