The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-01-06
c. II. Atkinson attended to business
y, offarc OF Nyofartawn T,,ncloy

L. y. Akln departed LOT SlOuA rdiiS
Sunday morning to attend to business
matters a few days.
lily enjoyed dinner New Years Day at
the home of Mrs. J. F. Seuvert.
Ward Spatz Of Fairfield, Neb., ar
rived last Wednesday for an extended
visit with his friend, Ivan Cobel.
Mrs. Ray j. Fridley and Miss Cecil
WEIGH departed last evening for Chat
field, Mimi, for a few days visit.
Mrs. Agnes Carlisle, who has bee
confined to her bed on account of i'll
ness for several weeks, is improving
nicely at present.
Mrs. Robert Nergote returned to her
home at Marshall, MINI, yesterday
morning after spending a week with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Alton.
The little girl of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
II. Hotchkiss was taken to the hospital
last evening for an operation for ap-
pendicitis. The Hotchkiss family are
recent arrivals in Brookings and re-
side in South Bookings
r. F. C~henoweth, president of the
Bank of Wolsey and who moved here
with his family some time in Septem-
Der, has opened a real estate office on
Main street in the building recently
vacated by the Racket Store.
In writing from Los Angeles, Cal,
Jas. Natesta says: Snow flakes fall
ing in city today, mountain and foot
hills covered with snow. Can you beat
it?" Yes, jim, we have about a foot
of the beautiful and very good sleigh
ing for this part of South Dakota.
The deliveries necessary to be made
on account of the sale at the Ellis-Hall
Co. Department Store have made it
necessary to put on extra rigs and
some mistakes may occur. Should
you receive a package not belonging to
you won't you kindly phone II so that
it may be called for?
A baby daughter was born to Mr..
and Mrs. T. G. Grosscup of Kenne-
wick, Wash, on Friday, December 81,
according to word received by Brook
ings friends. Mrs. Grosscup was form
erly Miss Norma Allen of Brookings
and has many friends here. The baby
girl has been named Virginia.
All interested in trees, fruits, vege-
tables and flowers are invited to at
tend the twe~nty-seventh annual meet
ing of the South Dakota State Horticul-
tural Society at Huron January IS, 10,
20. There will be an interesting pro-
gram. This work is especially essen
tial to the development of a state. Ad-
dress N. e. Hansen, Bookings.
The grocery firm of Connolly &
Black received a letter last week from
the Chicago Examiner congratulating
them as being one of the more than
nineteen hundred customers who par
ticipated in a fourteen-column adver-
tisement appearing in the Examiner
and Chicago Herald of Sunday, De-
cember 26. The advertisement was ar
Walker Vehicle Co. and contained the
names and addresses of all firms in the
middle west handling Monarch goods.
A prominent member of the CONNER
cial club was heard to remark that he
considered it a legitimate function Of
the organization to take an interest in
seeing that the Ellis-Hall Co. depart
ment store is purchased by parties who
will maintain it's high standard. This
store has been a splendid advertise
ment for Brookings and has done much
to improve Bookings as a trading
center. In this connection the Register
is in position to state authoritatively
that the reports being circulated that
the store and business have been trad
ed or sold are absolutely without foun-
dation. The business is for sale and
we trust that it will be purchased BY
the right parties.
Just to show that sixty years makes
no difference to a man who has follow
ed strictly moral habits throughout
life Geo. Cole performed a feat last
Friday that others many years younger
would hesitate in attempting. While
in the Chas. E. Poole barber shop
George casually remarked that that
day was his sixtieth birthday a%nniYer-
sary and he was as young as any of
the upstairs in the shop. Bill May
and Jack" Rogers, two of the tonsor-
ial artists, thought otherwise but said
nothing. But George is just the kind
of a man to back up what he says and
surprised the occupants of the shop
by offering to take off his shoes and
socks and run around the block for a
dollar. Bill and Jack thought they'd
bluff him a little and offered him fifty
cents to run up to the Hub corner,