The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-03-27
Local and Personal
J. F. Brooke, Local and News Editor, Phone LII

Aprll 4th, opera House.
Mems dress Shoes, 1888, $4.9S, $5.9S
The Boot Shop, GILLESPIE & Rogers)
Gasoline at wholesale, 25 80 cents
per gallon, at Nissen-Hinkley Garage
Children's Shoes, 7Sc, $1.5S, $2.15
1928. The Boot Shop, (Gillespie &
Rogers).
A lot, your rent money and a little
more means a home to you. Ask
Riley about it.
f. NJ. Shuck returned yesterday
morning from Sioux City, where he
has been for some weeks past.
b. II. Schaphorst returned yesterday
from a trip made to the western part
of the state in the interests of law
business for the Culhane Adjustment
Co.
The funeral services for Mrs. Har-
old Davis will be held this afternoon
at the home of E. w. Davis, at two
o'clock. Interment to occur in Green
wood cemetery.
The latest word from the home of
H. L.. Button, is that Mr.. Button and
little daughter are both very much i'm
proved and their early recovery is now
a matter of time.
Miss Laura Wood went to the home
of her parents at Pingree, N. d., last
week for a short visit during the col
lege vacation. She returned to Brook
ings tie first of this week.
Verne Collinge, who returned to col
lege after being discharged from the
army, left last week to accept the po-
sition of teacher of agriculture in the
high school at Glaston, N. d.
Prof. c. N. Mills has been very ill
for the past week and Mrs. Mills, who
has been teaching in Nebraska, was
home having arrived the last
of the week. Mr.. Mills is slowly get
ting better and his recovery seems as
Ole Oleson, who came to Brookings
with w. T. Haywood when that gen.
purchased the Jarvis hardware
stock, left yesterday to visit with a
sister in Watertown. He expects to
go later to Clear Lake to engage in
hardware business.
w. NJ. Holmes, who has been work
ing as Waterman with one of the big
steam shovel outfits working
IN the Black Hills, came home last
for a brief visit with his family.
He will return to the Hills along about
April LIST, when operations will be re-
A very short vacation occurred at
State College last week and this. The
work ceased on Thursday and was not
resumed again until Tuesday morning.
This being such a short time between
he start and the close, very few stu
went out of the city to make
visits at home.
Lieut.. Hans Hanson, formerly an
of this city and more lately
IN officer of the army overseas, came
Town from Vienna where he has been
since his discharge from the service
is spending a few days this week
listing with friends and looking af-
er business matters.
The storing of building stone on the
OF at the corner of Fifth street and
fifth avenue, owned by Philo Hall,
las occasioned some inquiry. Mr..
Hall informs the Register that there
$ no immediate intention on his part
erect a building but that the stone
will come handy when price regula-
ions bring such a project within the
consideration Of the ordinary pocket
'ook.
A small fire on the second floor of
he medical building in a room used
or storage by the First National Bank,
ccurred yesterday afternoon a little
fter three o'clock. Some waste pa
er on the floor caught in some man. |
er and carried the flame to the wood.
FORK Of n door and its frame, the {
barring of which constituted the dam
ge done. The building IL across the
LEY from the fire headquarters and
rompt action by the iremen stifled !
ny spread of the flames. ID