The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-01-27

price. Kennard's sale, Feb. lst.
Try one of those Bubble Books for
the children. The Photograph Shop
The February Victor records will be
on sale Saturday at The Photograph
Shop.
Charles Blakeslee, who is working
at Tracy, Mimi, spent Sunday in
Brookings at the home of his mother,
Mrs. c. Blakeslee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles j. Gilbert Of
Faulkton. are spending the week III
this city visiting friends and attendin2
the meetings at the college.
j. O. Johnson Of WATERFOWL, recently
appointed member of the board of re-
gents, arrived Wednesday morning and
spent the day on business in this city.
Horace NJ. Aver returned from Aber.
deem the first of the week where he
has been writing insurance for the
past three weeks, with good success.
Most dramatic story Of the war.
torium on Thursday, February Bird,
500 p. m. Benefit bowling alley. Ad-
mission soc. No war tax.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Jones of Elk
Point, both of whom are well known
TO college people, are in the city this
week attending the extension workers
conference and renewing friendships.
Among the out-of-town visitors at
th, To ,,, D,Lra,, convention thiS NInnE
we noticed Ben Lawshe of Aberdeen,
who is visiting his many friends here
as we'll as taking a great interest in
the convention meetings.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. McFadden of
Webster, are spending the week in this
city visiting at the home of Mrs. Nc
Fadden's mother, Mrs. c. Blakeslee.
Mr.. McFadden is attending the conven
ton meetings at State college.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Purdy enter
tanned about ten guests at a dinner
party last evening. Among the guests
were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Carl Gunder-
son, a relative of Mrs. Purdy, and
Judge w. N. Skinner and Court Re-
porter A. T. Hopkins.
Rapid progress is being made in the
work of fitting up the new motion
picture theater under construction by
T. o. Haugen. At present the Cornell
Electric Co. is putting in the necessary
electric wiring. 1t is not possible yet
to when the theater will be
ready for opening.
Marriage licenses were issued by the
clerk of courts to the following named
couples during the last week: Henry
Snowden of st. Louis, Mo, and Mrs.
Emma Snowden of White; Paul Car
penter and Josephine Lamp, both of
Ward; Walfred Z. Thompson of Bruce,
and Miss Emma Madsen of Arlington.
The Register neglected last week to
state that Donald Williams, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Williams, successfully
underwent a very serious mastoid OPP
Grafton at the hospital at Rochester,
Mimi, and is now recovering. Friends
here are glad the lads life was saved
and trust his recovery will be rapid
and complete.
G. A. Starring, director of publicity
of the State Farm Bureau, and p. j.
Crandall, state secretary, of Huron,
are in the city this week %attendins
the state convention Of the organic
ton. Mr.. Starring, who formerly was
professor of journalism and agricul-
tural editor at State college, favored
this Office with a pleasant call.
In the new volume of who's Who
in America" the names of four Brook
ings citizens appears: DR.. N. f. Han
sen, Dr. w. Z. Johnson, Robert !
Kerr and Prof. j. w. Wilson. There
are sixty-tive South Dakotans listed
in the volume, Sioux Falls having the
most with IA, Vermillion is next witt
s, Pierre 7, Huron 5, and Brookings
ranks fifth with 4 names. The dis
tinction of being written up in this
volume of the nations foremost men
is a great one and it falls GRACEFUL
upon the above named citizens Of
BrOOklnSS.
County Agent Harry j. BOyts has
established the office of the County
Farm Bureau in the office room neyt
to DR.. Gulbrandsen'g in the zeal Of the
First National bank building on tn"
ground floor. The Office is comfortablc
and conveniently located. The ofiC"
will be open every day except SUNDAY.
The services Of Mrs. C. d. Alton have
been secured as secretary. Mrs. Alton
was engaged in the same line of work
in the county agent leaders, office at
the college and previous to coming TO
the college she hadstwo years experi
ence in the work in Minnesota. A com
petent secretary is greatly needed in
a farm bureau Office and the bureau is
extremely fortunate in securing the
services of Mrs. Alton.
We wish to call the attention of the
taxpayers of BrOOkings to the state