The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-03-20
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Call and see us about your building
We will help you. Riley's Lumbe
Yard.
A lot, your rent money and a littl,
more means a home to you. ASH
Riley about it.
Mrs. Frank Skiff and two daughters
came down from Lake Preston Friday
to attend the funeral Of l.. H. Skiff.
See Norma Talmadge in "Ths
Ghosts Of Yesterday" at the Fad, Fri
day and Saturday. Saturday matinee
The Rev. DR.. E. V. Pierce arrived
home last Thursday from Ipswich
where he had been called to attend a
funeral.
Will Skiff of Storm Lake, Iowa, was
in the city last week in attendance
on the funeral services of his brother
the late l.. H. Skif.
Patrons Of the Hotel Dyckman,
Minneapolis. are assured a cordial
welcome, uniform courtesy and the
pest or service always
Geo. H. Perley, we'll known pioneer
and resident Of Flandreau, was a visit.
or at the home of his daughter, Mrs
H. G. Hauf, several days last week.
N. Wexler. now of Minneapolis and
formerly a business mar of this city
was a visitor in Brookings on Mon
day. He returned to the cities Tues.
day morning.
Mrs. o. S. Cummings of Lake Pres.
ton was a visitor in the city Friday
attending the funeral of L. II. Skiff,
the families being friends and neigh.
bors when the Skiffs resided in Lake
Preston. 6
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Davis, formerly
in charge of the depot lunch room I'M
til Mr.. Davis entered the army, have
taken charge of the lunch counter in
the new short order house opened by
Fred Sanders in the Allison building
at the corner of Third and Main.
Mrs. l. c. Gilbertson fell at the fam
lily residence on east Fifth street one
day last week and broke her hip. Her
condition is as well as could be ex-
pected and her speedy improvement
hoped for by her many friends. She
vas not as we'll as was hoped for yes
terday.
Charles Gamble has sold his hard.
ware business at Bushnell and is once
more a private citizen of Brookings.
He has not decided on what other bust
ness he will engage in, but as he hates
to be idle it will not be long before
he has made another start along bust
ness lines.
Robert Knutson, former manual
training instructor of our high school,
has returned from the army service
and is taking a short vacation before
engaging in other work. He was con
nected with the gas service and was
very busy during the time he was in
the army.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Mathews and
baby visited with his relatives in
Brookings from last Wednesday even
ing to Friday, while on their way from
a winters stay in Washington to the
experiment station at Newall. They
were well and had spent a very pleas
ant winter in the national capital.
E. /. Ust came home the last of the
week after spending some little time
in Winona county, Minnesota, look
ing over and purchasing live stock
for his Lake Campbell farm. He pur-
chased a fine bull to add to his herd
with the intention of raising the
standard of his breed from year to
year.
H. L. Walker, a former resident Of
Bookings and who has been manag-
ing the Orpheum theater at Aberdeen,
has sold that amusement place to the
Mccarthy chain of theaters operating
houses at various cities in the two
Dakotas. Friends of Mr.. Walker in
Brookings have not heard of his plans
for the future.
Miss Laura j. Bolles left Tuesday
morning for Stevens Point, Wis,
where she will take a position as a
teacher in the state normal school To-
Gated there to fill out a vacancy for
the balance of the school year caused
by a teacher ~resigning. Miss Bolles
expects to return to her home in this
city at the end of the school year.
w. E. Holbein, secretary of the
Minot, n. D., Commercial Club, was
in the city over Sunday visiting at the
home of his wife's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. R. Hubbart. Mr.. Holbein is
in charge of the publicity for the Jew
ish war campaign and was at Sioux
Falls planning for its PRONUNCIATION.
Mrs. Holbein has recently been oper-
ated on at the hospital in Minot for
a liquid tumor and is now rapidly re-
covering, a fact which all her many
friends in her old home will greatly
Mr.. Holbein was formerly
connected with this Office as its fore
man and enjoyed his visit very much
with some of his old friends.