The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-08-23


Frank Sherwin has just been grant
ed a patent for an Improvement on
his planter attachment.
Miss Anna Usletten went to Hen
bricks, MINI, Tuesday morning for a
ten days visit with friends.
Mrs. A. J. Dokken and Mrs. John
Austin, who have been visiting near
Toronto, returned home Sunday.
Andrew Colliton, of Elkton, one Of
iting in Bookings the first of the
week.
Mrs. Alfred Myers. of Estherville.
Iowa. who has been visiting her faith
er, B. jacobson, returned home Mon
day morning.
Watch for sale of household goods
belonging to J. p. Ashbaugh. at cor
ner of Eighth avenue and Williams
street. on August 30th.
w. A. Burgess. White banker and
general Brookings county booster,
was in the city a short time Friday
evening. coming over by auto.
Prof. +. d. Stivers went Tuesday
morning to Tyndall, where he will re-
main a week as instructor at the Bon
Homme County teachers institute.
The County Commissioners are in
session this week, looking after some
bridge matters and other matters that
were lain over at the last regular
meeting.
Captain C. II. Karlstad. the only
man from Brookings county to get a
captains commission at the Fort
Smelling camp, was down from Demp-
ster Friday and Saturday, visiting
friends.
Miss Edith Peterson, who has been
attending the summer school at Madi-
son, Wis, returned home Friday. AT
ter leaving the school she and a
friend went to Chicago and made the
lake trip to Duluth. coming home
from there.
Ed. c. Phillips returned Tuesday
evening from Washington, D.. c.,
where he has been spending his vaca-
ton visiting his parents and sister.
He reports that Prof. and Mrs.
good health.
G.. NJ. Ellis, a cousin of F. NJ. Ellis,
was in the city this last week visit
ing, looking over the country and siz-
ing up the crops. He is in the real
estate business with Offices at Ida
Grove and Sioux City, Iowa, and is
very much pleased with the outlook
here.
w. A. Caldwell and his sister, Mrs.
J.. ID. Wilson, have been entertaining
a cousin, Lyman Mcintyre, of Traer.
Iowa. Mr.. Mcintyre has been making
a tour Of the state by auto and is
much pleased with the general crop
outlook. He arrived Monday and de-
parted this week on his way home.
A. T. Tompkins and family returned
Sunday from their Iowa trip, They
Hartley and together they wen u
Lake Okoboji for a short stay. Mr.
Tompkins reports small grain good.
but corn no further advanced than in
Bookings county. In some places i
gave strong evidence of being fired
Friday evening there was a decided
indication Of good crops, when a trac
tor with four trailing wagons pulled
south on Main street, headed for the
Farmers Cooperative elevator. 4
few days before we saw a tractor with
three wagons, and the college has
been hauling coal in two trailers, but
four is the most so far. And they
were all double boxes at that.
Virgil A~shbaugh, who has been in
charge of a creamery at Suffolk. Va,
writes his father, j. p. Ashbau2h
that he has taken a better position
in a creamery at Salem, New jersey.
and likes the change very much. His
Virginia position did not seem to of
fer any chances for advancement, but
the new one at Salem has every op-
p%ortunity for him to climb higher and
demonstrate his ability to make good
His friends here will be glad Of the
improvement In his prospects.
o. A. Sutton returned Monday fro,
an extended visit in Iowa. In his ~
he visited a daughter In O'Brien
county and a sister in Black Havk
county. On his return he spent 3
week with his son, d. B. Sutton.
Plankinton, S. D. He reports that :.
health has been steadily improviD
and that he is gaining in strenst1
every day. In regard to crop condi-
lions in Iowa, Mr.. Sutton says smal
grain is immense, but the corr situa