The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-07

lespie & Rogers.
Startling cut-prices on 200 pattern
hats. Cole Mercantile Co.
We are still serving Fem Bros ice
cream. E. C. Nolan. Drugs.
If you want 2-colored typewriter
ribbons for your machine, call at the
Register Office.
"a Fight For Millions" the won
derful new Bill Duncan serial, starts
at Pleasant Hour Wednesday, Nov. 20.
We are now prepared to serve and
will appreciate your patronage on hot
chocolates and other fountain drinks.
z. c. Nolan Drug Store.
The recent heavy rains have left
the roads in bad condition for travel
by auto. 1t is seldom that the roads
in this section are as muddy at this
time Of year.
Most of the lawns in Brookings look
greener and nicer than at any time
during the m We were wit
ness to a man running a lawn mower
the other day.
Put some pure-bred Leghorn hens
in your hen house for winter eggs.
Get them at Button g. Otradovec's sale
Wednesday, Nov. 18th. ten blocks east
of Kendall's Drug Store.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Duggan, who
were called here by the death of Mrs.
Forrest Simmons, a sister of Mr.. Dug
gan, returned to their home at Worth
ington. Minn., on Tuesday.
With doors and windows open all
day and a little fire to take off the
chill morning and evening, reminds
our California going friends that they
are enjoying the real article right
here in South Dakota.
Harold Marley, son OF Conductor
Matt Markey, Of the C. & n. w. Rail-
way, has been commissioned a lieu
tenant from a training camp and or
dered to service. All of Mats friends
will congratulate him, and if the son
is anything like the father, there will
be something doing on the front where
he happens to be.
MIS-. Dllliity L III iStC 'r''
morning for Melville, a small town
near Darlington, n. d., where she will
assist the Ralph Miller family in their
battle with the influenza. Mrs. r. G.
Miller had planned on going to be
with them, but she is now laid up
with the prevailing malady, and her
daughter-in-law has kindly stepped into
the breach.
Paul Cobel left Monday evening for
Sacramento, Calf, where he will visit
with his brother and wife, Lieut.. and
Mrs. Ivan l.. Cobel. He hopes that
his call to the service will come while
he is there and that he is ordered to
report at that camp. Lieut.. Cobel is
one of the instructors there and they
are enjoying the life and work on the
coast immensely.
w. p. Slocum has rented his farm
property southeast of the city and has
moved with his wife and daughter in
to the city and is now residing on
east Fifth street. We are glad to see
our old friend nearer to the heart Of
things though his good will and help
have always been available when
there was anything to accomplish for
the public good.
Miss Edith Wilson left Tuesday
evening for Omaha, Nebr., where she
will join her father, w. J. Wilson, and
together they will go to New Mexico
to spend the winter. Mr.. Wilson be-
lieves that a years residence away
from our severe winters will eradicate
the bronchial trouble he has been hay
ing, and his many friends certainly
wish him success in this endeavor.
Robt. Henry, Volga banker, was a
visitor in the city Wednesday. He
came over with the election returns
from his city and was accompanied
by his son, Lloyd, who reported for
a physical examination before the To-
cal board. Lloyd enlisted in the
spring and was very i'll at jefferson
Barracks for a long time, finally be-
ing discharged from the army. Tn
der the new registration he has it all
to do over again.
A message last week from Grace
City, n. d., where Mrs. Mary Enos IS
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Grace
Bradley, stated that Mrs. Enos had
stepped out of the doorway Of the
hotel in that town in the dark and had
a bad fall on the cement sidewalk.
Her daughter, Mrs. L. J. Kendall, left
Friday morning for there to be with
her mother, and a letter this week
states that Mrs. Enos' condition is
quite serious, though not dangerous.
There is every indication that she will
recover in time from the injury.
A report of the Halloween party at
All Saints School in Sioux Falls. reads
like an advertisement for Brookings.
AS the result of a series of contests
held during the evening, Miss Cora
BARTLETT of RrOOkinpS nrOyed herself