The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-03-08
Local and Personal

Ladies shoes $1.9S, $2.7S, SEAS. Gil
lespie & Rogers, Footftters.
Hear Pollyanna at the Methodist
church, Tuesday, March 18th.
Miss Bogstie was an Estelline visitor
at the VIM. Meisel home II day re-
Gently.
c. c. Erie is home from a business
trip through the southern part of Hi.
nois which occupied about two weeks.
The usual shopping crowd was in the
city last Saturday and the merchants
were busy all day looking after their
many wants.
Mike Holleran, who had been here
from Rock Rapids, Iowa, looking after
land interests at Bruce and Bushnell,
left for home Friday.
Miss Lillian Johnson of Hendricks,
Mimi, has accepted a position as book
keeper at Connelly's grocery store and
entered upon her duties Monday.
Safety first. Instantaneous fire ex-
tinguisher needed in every home, of
fee and garage. Call at COS Main
street, or phone 1S3.-Dorr Supply Co
A. r. Weaver has purchased the
Norehouse cottage on Sixth avenue
between Second and Third streets and
will remodel it before occupying it rs
a residence for his family.
There has been a lot of moving
among renters the past week. Scarcely
a day passed that you could not see
several movers passing through the
city to farms in the different sections
of This community.
Potatoes are high in price but this is
no reason why a lot Of tubers should
not be planted this year. 1t is under
stood that a let Of potatoes will Do
planted in Brookings county, even
more than last year.
Louis Hamrick and family left SAT
urday for Mohall, n. d., whore they
will go to farming on a farm they
purchased there last fall. They are
good family and North Dakota is
gamer b. their moving there.
The first freight car No. 1884 0
the Luce Electric line that came int
the city of Bookings was loaded b.
Geo p. Sexauer & Son Wednesday. Tn
Chicago & Northwestern railway, how
ever, hauled the same in and out.
J. L. Jarvis returned Friday from
Sioux Falls where he attended tn,
Hardware Dealers state convention
The meeting was largely attended AM
a good program was carried out eacl
day. The business outline of tn
meeting was to cut overhead charge
and costs of all kinds SO that the dea
ers could get the goods to customer
at the lowest possible prices.
Mrs. H. w. Perkins, assisted b
Misses Grace Rufenacht and Josephin
Flittie, gave a farewell party to Mis-
Agnes Collins at the home of the form
er Thursday evening. Music and sins
ing occupied the time of about twenty
FIVE young ladies present until a lat
hour when a nice luncheon was servet
Miss Collins was presented with som
very nice and valuable linen goods a
a mark of esteem in which she wa
held.
1t has been suggested that the ma
ter of making a tax levy to maintain
band be brought before the tax payer
at the spring election. Under e'
listing state laws a low levy may b
made in each town or city to maintai
a band. Flandreau last spring vote
$500 annually for its band, and othe
surrounding towns do the same thin;
This city has a good band and tn
music is enjoyed by everybody.
quarter of a mill levy would raise
nice little fund for the band and pa
the boys at least for their time ono
a week.