The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-07-08
Local and Personal
Z. G. Trotzig, Associate and News Editor. Phone LII

Fresh flowers at the Brookings
Greenhouse.
Dan Miner Of Hermosa is visiting
at the home Of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Miner
Miss EIva Walker of Lake Preston
arrived Tuesday afternoon for visit
with Mrs. Fred Miner
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Enright and
family left for their home at Bushnell
Tuesday afternoon after a visit in this
city.
Miss Katherine Geiger arrived from
Lake Preston Tuesday for a few days
visit at Me home of Mrs. NJ. d.
Ohrans.
Nels Jacobsen left for Westbrook,
Mimi, Tuesday morning where he will
conduct free evangelist meetings dur
ing the week.
'Tis an i'll wind that doesn't do some
good and the one last Wednesday
brought about some badly needed
trimming Of trees.
Miss Florence NOrd of Huron, grad
uate of State college in 1915 and for
mer Brookings girl, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. John Eikum.
Miss Emily McGill, who is spending
the summer at Hitchcock, spent the
week end with her mother, Mrs. V.
L. McGill, returning on Monday.
Mrs. E. S. Hanson and her sister,
Mrs. ]. ]. Thompson of Spokane,
Wash, left Wednesday evening for
Canton for visit with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Pickett returned
home from Rochester, Mimi, Sunday
morning. We are sorry to report that
Mr.. Pickett's condition is no better.
man came up from Iowa the other
day and asked one of our citizens,
What in the world do you fellows
do, up here on this island, for a liv-
ing?"
A note just received from Dick Hal
laday of Iroquois, secretary of the
State Press association, announces the
tri-state editorial convention at Sioux
Clly, from July 10 10 IL,
Mrs. D. FarQuhar of Buffalo, N. Y,
stopped in Brookings Tuesday on her
way home from visiting relatives in
Castlewood She was accompanied by
Miss Phyllis Ried who saw her safely
off on the train.
The Misses Alice Hastings and Ger
trude Yule returned last evening from
Spirit Lake, Ia, where they attended
a house party with number of their
normal school chums. They also Wis
tied at Spencer, la.
A. J. Dokken has decided to sell
his new residence nearly completed,
on corner Sixth st. and Sixth Ave. 1t
will be finished in about ten days and
he invites anyone interested in new
home to call and look it over.
The board of county commissioners
convened Tuesday for their regular
July meeting. The first work on the
program for the board is the eQualiza-
tion of tax assessments. AS soon as
this work is completed the regular
routine business will be taken up and
further discussion of the Sioux river
drainage project.
j. ]. Connolly, the efficient night
watchman of our city, rendered his
resignation TO Mayor 7. |. Flittie yes
terday. Mr.. Connolly has given the
city three years of continuous faithful
service and has earned the general
satisfaction of the people. 1t is not
known who his successor will be. Mr..
Connolly is not ready to announce
what his plans for the future are.
c. w. Smith and wife left for Bry-
ant Tuesday evening, called there by
the sudden death of Mr.. Smiths moth
err Mrs. f. j. Smith, who was living
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
II. J. Hopley. Mrs. Smith had been
a very active woman all her life, al
though past IS years of age at the
time of her death. She had made sew
eral visits at Brookings at her sons
home. She was a great temperance
worker and actively interested in w.
c. T. L. work She will be missed by
all who knew her and mourned by
her near and dear ones.