The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-01
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j. F. Brooke. Local and News Editor. Phone Ii

Some very special values in sum
mer wear at The Toggery Saturday.
Those having an account with us
please call and settle before Sept. LIST.
F. c. Fryer.
Lawn sharpened and re-
paired, two blocks south of City Light
Plant. C. e. Sorenson.
Ladies' shopping in Minneapolis
will find the Hotel Dyckman most &C.
cessible to all the leading stores"
The Rev. w. A. Mast spent a couple
of days at home this week, going to-
day to Spirit Lake, Iowa, for a con
tinuatiOn of his vacation trip.
DR.. A. H. Stoll says he was over
in Volga one day lately and the streets
of our neighbor are as bad as the
streets of Bookings. That he is sur
prised to see an enterprising town
like Volga in such bad company.
Philo Hall returned Tuesday morn.
ing from Minneapolis, where he spent
several days in consultation with
Judge Alexander regarding the import
ant insurance cases the firm has in
the Minnesota courts. Judge Alexan.
der is not expected home for several
weeks longer.
Roy and Earl Wyckoff of Kansas
City, Kansas, nephews of J. B. Hast.
ings and relatives of d.. S. Wyckoff,
have been in the city and county for
a week or more visiting their rela-
tives. Earl Wyckoff was accompan-
ty left for their home on Monday
morning.
A letter from Lloyd Holiday, now
in training camp, says that he has
been promoted to the grade of cor
poral and is being given every en-
couragement by the officers to work
hard and do his best. Like all of the
boys he is impatient to get across and
do something that will count for the
extinction of the Hun.
John Dokken came down from his
Grant county farm last week and
spent a couple of days attending to
business matters. He said he could
tell by the condition of the roads as
Don as he was within the county
limits, as the going continued to get
worse as he approached the city. Mr..
Dokken is doing fine with his farm
and is also engaged in cement work
and bridge building.
H. G. Hauff returned Sunday even
ing from his regular trip to New York
City, where he goes twice a year to
purchase goods for his store. He
found the market rather short on
everything. but he placed such orders
AS will, he thinks, mean a good deal
to his customers in the coming
months. He reports the east as alive
on the war situation and everybody
on their toes all the time.
The Revs. o. E. Tell, of Phillip, and
John McLearie, of Rapid City, Presby-
terian ministers appointed by the
South Dakota Synod to v the
state in the interest of home missions,
were in the city Monday on a mission
connected with that work. Mr.. Nc.
Learie is a professor at the School
of Mines and Mr.. Tell the pastor at
Phillip, they visited at the home of
the Rev. w. A. Mast and left for the
west Monday evening.
A soldier in France writing to a
friend here says: Say, when they
start to tell you about that Sunny
France stuff and the flowers over here
tell them its all wrong, as l know we
have had more rain than Texas ever
had in the wettest year known, and
We are still getting more OF it and the
outlook is good for plenty more. I
have been in rubber boots so long that
| think my feet are getting webbed
like a duck. About every thirty min
utes we have a rain and when 1t isn't
raining it's getting ready to rain"