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

ouoeS sale sui on at GllleSple u
Rogers, Footftters, Bookings.
Thos. Tinker threshed six acres Of
oats the past week which averaged so
bushels to the acre.
G. r. Beals, of Miller, was here Tues
day on a land deal and visited with
S. H. McCarl and family.
John Culhane, Jr., returned Satur-
day from a business trip which took
him to Scenic and Rapid City.
Misses Leila Linn and Mable Croft
left Monday night for Chicago to spend
ten days visiting friends and relatives.
Foot specialist for tired or troubled
feet will be at Gillespie & Rogers,
Footftters, Saturday, August 10. Ad-
vice free.
H. Hanson went to Vermillion Satur-
day to attend a family reunion and
spent several days visiting relatives
and old friends.
T. A. Nelson, auditor for the You
Ia Lumber Co., was over from
Tracy Monday and Tuesday checking
up business in the local yard.
R. H. Bartlett, buyer for the Hub
store, left Monday for Chicago, Cleve-
land and New York, to purchase the
fall and winter stocks for that store.
Misses Mabelle and Florence Sever
son, Mabelle Jarman, Arlene Ziegler,
Bernice Palmer and Beulah Alton are
camping this week at Lake Campbell.
T. e. Colbern, who had been work
ing on the Home Messenger, jumped
a board bill at the Cottage Hotel last
week and left town. The officers are
looking for him.
From government reports it is learn
ed hat July, 1916, was the hottest
since 1871. The heat was general all
over the continent and fairly uniform
from day to day.
Harry Williams will move his land
Office this week into the new building
he has just finished and which is &C.
cupied by the Clark ten cent store. He
will occupy the second floor.
Anyone wishing to secure good high
school girls for housework during the
school year should phone Prof. J. w.
Browning, who will have a list of girls
looking for homes and work.
Mrs. S. B. Kelley is here from the
Pacific coast trying to effect a settle
ment of property interests. Her broth
er, Mr.. Young, of Clinton, lowe, has
the matter in charge for her.
Jas. Sloan, who lives four miles
north of the city, threshed this week
and it is reported that his barley aver
aged IS bushels per acre. The season
considered, this is a good yield.
G. A. Hales, proprietor of the ST.
Vincent hotel at Flandreau, brought
Mrs. Lund over in his car Monday.
Mrs. Lund whose husband died recent
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home.
Gullick rounded up a bunch of Gypsies
Monday. Seven Of them were fined
$500 apiece and ordered out of town.
They were travelling by auto and en-
joying the fruit Of the land.
Misses Jennie and Georgia Heymer
of Cherokee, Iowa, were in the city a
day of two the fore part of the week
visiting their father and brother. They
were on their way to Minneapolis to
spend their vacation and came this
way for a short visit.
/. B. Johnson says it is not a case
of the other fellow looking worse or
being in the hospital but a case of hav-
ing dived in the shallow water while
Y DdLuiuS at LAKE SdulpUcll ouuudy. HE
face is pretty badly scratched up from
striking the gravel at the bottom of
the lake when he dived.
Mrs. A. A. Mccormick and children
returned Friday from Marquette, Wis,
where she spent six weeks visiting rel
atives. She reports very hot dry
weather there and says crops have
suffered much. For many days while
she was there the thermometer stood
above 100 and there was heavy loss OF
life as a result.
At a meeting of the city council held
Monday evening the plat of H. R.
Setter was accepted and the opening
Of Main street to the north was re-
ferred to the committee on streets and
sidewalks. The dumping ground mat
ter was also up and was referred
Routine work occupied the balance OF
! the time Of the meeting.