The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-15

Fresh flowers at the Brookings
Greenhouse.
Horace M. Aver writes Mutual Bene-
fit Life Insurance.
F.. E. Kennedy of Huron, spent Sun
day in Brookings visiting his father
in-law, II. d. Woodward.
Is the best any too good for your
gate the Mutual Benefit before buying
Life Insurance.
! Hon. John d. Gill, who had been at
tending to business matters in Mime
apolis for a number of days, returned
home Sunday morning.
| E. A. Brelsford from south Of Bush
nell was in Brookings last week and
bought a new Lexington touring car
at the Woodward garage.
/ Mrs. Scott Taylor returned to her
home at Huron Monday evening after
short visit with her husband who
is an engineer on the railroad here.
| Ivan Conover of the firm of Earring
| ton, Vessey & Conover, was attending
the convention of Ford dealers at
Minneapolis last week and returned
home Sunday morning.
Attorney Frank Kremer of Water
town. came down for visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Kremer,
over the week end. He returned to
| Watertown on Tuesday
c. C. Erie Of Estelline, formerly Of
this city, passed through Brookings
! Sunday morning on his return home
! from Minneapolis where he had been
attending the Ford convention.
]. H. Harrington returned Sunday
morning from Minneapolis where ne
had been attending the convention Of
! Ford dealers. He reports splendid
meeting, over thousand being in at,
tendance.
c. w. Smith, who has been spend
ing the winter in Minneapolis, re-
turned to this city Monday evening.
The family will remain in Minneapolis
until the school year ends. His son
and daughter attend school in the
Twin Cities.
Frank Randall, who has been en-
ployed by the railroad here for several
years, took his family to Huron Mon
day evening where he has built new
home. He expects it to be finished
very soon and will then make his
home in Huron.
Prof Leslie r. Putnam, director of
the conservatory and professor of
voice at Dakota Wesleyan university
at Mitchell, was in town Monday for
business conference with President
w. S. Johnson Of State college. He
left for Mitchell Monday evening.
A class of ten were initiated at Arl-
ington on Tuesday night into the De-
gree of Honor by a drill team from
Brookings composed of the following
women: Mrs. r. S. Marvin, Mrs. Jen-
ME Gldden, Mrs. H. G. Fox, liver Iver-
son, Mrs. Nels Larson, Mrs. d. ].
Korte Miss Edna Jerde, Mrs. H. Will
son, Mrs. George Palmer, Martha
Gappa, Mrs. Millie Caldwell, Mrs. H..
Haswell and Mrs. Carrie Rowe.
It was necessary to chop down one
of the large beautiful evergreen trees
which stood in the way of moving the
Tom Alton house on Williams street,
opposite the court house, last Tuesday.
While everyone agreed that was a
shame to chop it down, it was too large
to move. The house, which is now occu-
pied by ]. X. Johnson, is being moved
up on Second street in order to make
room for the new school building.
John Swanson is in charge of the NOV
| ing.
In spite of the fact that Poland
! China hogs are usually considered
/ breeders Of small litters, E. G. San
derson says that he can find no ground
for this belief. He reports an aver
age of eleven pigs for his first eleven
sows to farrow and an average of
ten for his entire herd of fourteen.
/ One yearling SOW farrowed sixteen
strong live pigs. All litters were uni
| formly large and strong One fine
specimen at three weeks old weighed
twenty pounds.