The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-02-17
Local and Personal
r. q. Trotzig, Associate and News Editor, Phone Lei

Phone 174-We deliver Ideal Bread.
Phone l74-We deliver. Thursday
special, raised d%Oughnuts.
Phone 174-We deliver. Saturday
special, Bismarcks and cream puffs.
Attorney j. NJ. Coon of Sioux Falls,
was in Brookings last Thursday trans
acting business and visiting friends.
Mrs. r. J. Heymer left Monday night
for st. James, Mimi, where she was
called by the illness of her sister.
The Hot Springs Star states that E.
l.. Norman Of Bookings, spent the
early part Of last week in Hot Springs.
For Sale Farm machinery and
a second hand Ford. Enquire at Bank
of Bookings, or address p. o. Box 22f.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Z. Bunday returned
Monday night from Hetland where
they attended the funeral services of a
relative.
Why wear ragged clothes when you
can buy a Singer Sewing Machine for
five dollars per month at McMillan's
Jewelry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Hauff returned
Sunday from New York City where
they spent a couple of weeks buying
the spring and summer stock for the
Hauff Dry Goods Co.
Word has been received here that
O. p. Sites, former agent at the rail
,,o,, ctntinr &c nnu cn,,, fpr ~ q h1, nctoh-
lished in Boston, Mass, where he has
a position in a bank.
Mrs. John DeBoer, a we'll known
former resident Of Bookings, but
now residing in Vermont, was a Wis
itor in this city last week on business
in connection with her late husbands
estate. While here she enjoyed a visit
with many of her old friends.
Home buyers, here is your chance.
A we'll built, partly finished cottage,
46x30 feet, with full basement, cistern
and furnace, s blocks from stores,
schools and college. You can finish
and move in by May first or sooner.
The terms are very easy. See me OF
once. Frank Sherwin, owner.
John Sponsler, manager Of the Oh
son-Graves clothing store, and c. O.
Quail, anager of the Columbia cloth
ing store, left Tuesday morning for
Sioux Falls to attend the annual con-
vention of the State Retail ClothieIs
association which is in session in the
Queen City for three days this week.
The BrOokings County Farm Bu
reau is the clearing house for all farm
help. Farmers who need to hire men
can obtain help by calling the Farm
Bureau and stating the wages offered.
Single or married men wanting farm
work should write to the Farm Bureau
Office, says County Agent II. J.. Boyts.
The lack of snow and ice has pre-
Guided the possibility of coasting down
the ~toboggan slide on the school
grounds in the ordinary fashion, but
the ingenious Young America is not
to be deferred. Bicycles and coaster
wagons are used instead of sleds with
tnf1lllnS erect, dnC strange 10 say
there have been no hospital admissions
up to date from their use.
Geo. W. Cobel recently acquired in
a trade, Sam Patch, the blue-blooded
racing stallion, owned by S. H. Noel
murray. Sam Patch is a son of Dan
Patch and showed promise last fall
H.. h. thO ~ thA Ox,~tx,
fair. Geo. D. Cole, who has an interest
in the deal, has undertaken the work
of grooming the horse and hopes To
slash records with him next summer.
August 8 and 4 have been fixed as
the dates for the annual singing festi-
val of the Sioux Valley Singers asso-
citation which will be held in Brook
ings this year as guests of the famous
Viking male choir. The event will be
the most notable of it's kind to be held
in the state this year and will bring
hundreds Of visitors to the city. Sew
eral hundred singers who are mem
bers of the association will be in at
tendance. There will be two big o n
certs in which $50 or more voices will
form the chorus.