The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-04-29

shoes, 5000 Cole Mercantile Co.
Special purchase of sport coats to
go on sale April 80. at Coles. See au
in this paper.
Has Mutual Benefit been the best
Life Insurance for rs years? Why?
Ask Horace NJ. Aver.
The passenger from the east was
held an hour and half at the station
here Tuesday evening on account OF
a derailment at Volga.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. j. Kendall spent the
eek end in Minneapolis shopping and
visiting relatives and friends. They re-
urned Monday morning.
Scott Taylor and family will leave
Huron the latter part of the week and
make ther home in Brookings. Mr..
Taylor is an engineer on the North
western
Mrs. Laban Thornton is here from
Kansas CITY visiting the family of Seth
Thornton, her brother-in-law, who is
the head Of the new printing depart
ment at State college.
The Young Women's Foreign Mis-
sionary society held their annual thank
Offering Monday evening at the NJ. Il.
church Dr. Springer of Africa, and
his mother were guests.
See a city built and burned in big
eiehtact screen production, Tine
Right to Happiness" starring Dorothy
Phillips, at the Pleasant Hour, Mon
day and Tuesday, May 8 md q.
The contest announced last week
between Lake Preston high school and
BrookLgs high school was postponed
and will take place tonight at the col
lege auditorium at 500 O'Clock.
The Register received word today
that Mrs. O. S. Sneve, mother of II.
A. B. Sneve, passed away at her home
in Silvana, Wash, Friday morning
April %, after an illness Of several
months.
Mrs. Clara Countermine has been
called to her home in Pennsylvania
by the serious illness of her father.
Miss Mae Murphy has been engaged
to fill the vacancy for the remainded
of the year.
Last Sunday morning at the Bap-
tist church, $13 900 was subscribed to-
ward their share in the Interchurch
movement. Rev E. V. Pierce reports
two-thirds OF the $4,000 quota already
subscribed.
The American Legion post passed
resolution at their meeting last week
favoring the soldiers bonus and home
purchasing plans. Practically every
post in the state has passed favorably
on the bonus plan.
f. II. Keel, Oph., of Sioux Falls, will
be in Brookings again at the hotel,
Monday, May 3. Special attention
given to weak eyes, poor sight, in
famed eyes and eye lids, headache and
nervousness. Glasses correctly fitted.
r. F. Kerr returned yesterday from
Sioux Falls where he has been for
three weeks impaneled on the jury
of the federal court which has been
in session. He had the opportunity
to sit on only one case during the
whole session.
Mrs NJ A. Hartman, the faithful
cook of the college faculty boarding
club was i'll Monday and the faculty
missed their breakfast and luncheon
They all rejoiced Monday evening, how
ever. when she was recovered sufil-
ciently to give them their dinner
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul butcher left last
evening for Minneapolis, where they
visit a couple of days with their son,
Prof r. A. butcher of the University
Mr.. butcher will take in the special
program of the School of Journalism
given for the benefit Of Minnesota pub
fishers.
Harold F. Bibby arrived from Gales
vlle Wis, last Friday with his wife
and has established his home in Brook
ings. He will be employed by his broth
er, I. J. Bibby, in the Brooking Cream
cry. He is an experienced creamery
man, having managed creamery in
Wisconsin for the last seven years.
Prof. ]. GLADDEN. Hutton, of the
agronomy department at State college,
has the leading article in the current
issue of the Farmer and Breeder pub
lished at Sioux City. The article is
entitled "The Soil and the Nation
Food and gives an interesting dis
cussion of how food will win US peace
Mr.. and Mrs ]. L. Bairey were very
pleasantly surprised by twenty friends
and neighbors Monday evening, April
26. in honor of their twentieth wed
ding anniversary. An enjoyable even
ing was spent after which refresh
ments were served. Mr.. and Mrs.
Bairey were presented with a gift by
the friends present.
d. Sharp's jewelry shop, which has
stood on the east side of Main street
for a good many years. was moved
this week back to the alley on Fifth
street. The Fox Realty company
building was moved from the corner,
south to the place where the jewery
shop stood. These movements were
necessary to make room for the new