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

H. X. Halvorson left Monday morn
ing on a business trip to Chicago.
Boost the Ambulance Fund at the
Band Concert tomorrow (Friday)
night.
John Whitmus went to Balaton on
Sunday to make a few days visit with
relatives.
See Sanders & WeWalt for Con-
tinental Fence Stays. Sole agents for
Bookings County.
Ladies' shopping in Minneapolis
will find the Hotel Dyckman most ac-
cessible to all the leading stores"
Lawn s~harpened and re-
paired, across the street from Brook
ings Produce Co. c. E. Sorenson.
The Deaconess Aid Society will
serve ice cream at the band concert
for the benefit of the hospital, Friday
evening, Aug. 16.
Lieut.. Arthur Drew left Sunday for
Minneapolis and will go from there
to join the Medical Corps, at Fort
Oglethorpe. Georgia.
Hotel Dyckman is Minneapolis
newest downtown fireproof hotel. 800
rooms, each room has it's own private
bath. Rates $1.75 to $3.50 per day.
Morley Andrews, college student
onj horhnr OF Dnn1n'c chnn wont 70
Highmore Sunday evening for a
weeks visit with his mother and rel
atives at home.
Mrs. David Bairey and little daugh.
ter returned home Saturday from Red
field where they have been for a visit
of a couple of weeks with Mrs.
Bairey's mother.
Thomas w. Morris left Tuesday
morning for Portland, Ore, where he
will attend the G. A. R. encampment
and then spend several weeks visit
ing with friends on the coast.
Maurine and Marshall Crowley,
who have been in st. Paul for several
weeks visiting with their mother, re-
turned to Bookings Sunday evening,
are again with their grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Madden.
The Farmers Shipping Association
shipped their first car of new barley
last Saturday to market. This Is the
earliest that they have made a bar
ley shipment in the history of the
business Of many years.
Mrs. Erick Fairness says that the
new tomatoes reported last week as
coming from the garden Of Prof. Star
ring are not the first by any means.
She has beer serving them from her
garden since July 18th, and they are
splendid ones for size and quality.
Miss Harriet Palmer came down
from Huron and spent Sunday at
home, returning Monday morning.
Miss Harriet is much pleased with
her work with the State Council of
Defense and is making good on her
end of this important state business.
r. A. Storm on Monday shipped to
the children of his brother in Wis
consin. the pony, cart and harness
that have been the joy of the chill.
dren of his family. Being almost
grown up they think it better to pass
on their pleasures to a younger bunch
of kids.
Andrew Allison, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
R. Allison, who went to Fort Sheri-
dan as one of the college students to
take the sixty days instructors
course, has decided to take part in
the war and has enlisted in the army.
He sent home for his parents permits
sion and it was given gladly.
The new sidewalk ordered by the
city to connect the Produce Co. with
the town has been constructed. Pat
rons of that place of business viii
give a good walk on Fifth Avenue
south of Third street, past the new
Sorenson blacksmith shop at the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Front street.