The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-02-24
BROOK|NGS IS IN
LAND Of PLENTY
BUILDING PLANS FOR THIS YEAR
PROMISE TO ECLIPSE BIG
GROWTH DURING 1915
HAS OVER $500 PER CAPITA WEALTH
City offers Pleasant Place to Live
Has Best Educational Advantages
of Any City in State


Through the courtesy of the Sioux
Falls Press the Register is enabled to
reproduce its recent write-up of Brook
ings. With characteristic enterprise
the Press is giving one of these illus
trated write-ups to various towns with
in its territory and increasing its al
ready large circulation. 1t will be
strange if Bookings don't derive con-
siderable benefit from this kind Of ad-
vertising and its publication will tend
to popularize the Press in Brookings.
Brookings could be called the CEN
ter of scientific farming of South Da-
kota and this section of the West. 1t
is in itself a very rich, diversified
farming community and the home of
the South Dakota State College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The
influence of the college in it's a%gricul-
ture extension and farm and stock
demonstrations has it's telling effect
for good throughout the state and
particularly so in Bookings and
Brookings county, which is located in
the best farming district of the whole
state. The city of Brookings is a sub
stantially built community inhabited
by thoroughbred. aggressive citizens.
The city faces the coming new year
with the utmost confidence for more
business and more prosperity in 1916
than eve b,fore. The year 1915 was
a record breaker and 1916 gives prom
Use of being another.
The city is fourth and perhaps third
in the entire state in the number of
new homes built during the last year,
representing an expenditure OF more
than 5000 600. This and other sub
s~tantial improvements in the city is
but one phase Of the broad scheme of
advancement that has characterized
the last year in this progressive city.
The citizens of this city of beautiful
homes look upon with great satisfac-
ton the two fundamentals of the city's
foundation, namely, their great educa-
tional institution, the South Dakota
State College of Agriculture and the
general moral tone of the community
represented by the excellent condition
of the many religious organizations,
the spiritual and financial support
they receive and the influence
they exert. There has at no time been
a touch Of the financial depression
that has been experienced in less fav-
ored cities and capital has at all times
been available for legitimate new local
projects and extensions.
The financial institutions Of Brook
ings would do credit to a city much
larger. Three strong and successful
banks supply the monetary needs of
this growing community.
The Bank of Bookings has on de-
post much more than a million dol
lars and is the second largest state
bank in the state. The deposits have
grown within the last seven years
from 1923 900 to it's present amount of
more than a million dollars. The
bank makes a specially of farm loans
and is doing much to the
farmers in their successful efforts of
farm advancement. The bank is I'M
der the able management of G.. J. Fit
tie. it's cashier, who is assisted by the
following officers: A. w. Hyde, presi-
dent; G.. F. Knappen, v~ice-president;
Theodore !. Flittie, vice-president; F.
p. Herman, assistant cashier; L. G..
Hyde, assistant cashier; and G. L.
Severson, assistant cashier. The vice.
president, Mr.. Knappen, has charge of
the loans of the Union Central Life In
surance company of Cincinnati, for the
state of South Dakota. There are over
two millions of dollars in loans in
South Dakota by this company and it
owns not an acre of land acquired
through foreclosure on delinquents.
The First National Bank Of Brook
ings vas first established in 1880 as a
privs tie bank and was nationalized in
1883. It Is now the oldest national
bank in that part of the state, and
one of the safest in the state. 1t has
always been known for square deal
ing. II does a banking business ex-
clusively. The deposits are near to
the million dollar mark. being $947.-
O01.52 on December 81, 1915. The men
connected with this bank have q splen-