The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-10-27
Local and Personal
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DR.. E. w. Forsee, Osteopath.-Ad,
yertisement.
Blocker & Blocker, Chiropractors,-
Advertisement.
Taxes are delinquent November LIST.
Advertisement.
One-inch gum tape at the Register
office, rs cents per roll. - Advertise
tisement.
V. G. Wohlheter of Watertown, was
a visitor in Brookings last Saturday on
business matters.
Mrs. c. p. Collins of Howard, ar
rived last Friday to receive special
medical treatment here.
Fancy Jonathan apples for sale at
$3.50 by all Brookings merchants Fri
day and Saturday.-Advertisement.
The annual chicken pie supper of
Presbyterian Ladies' Aid next Thurs.
day evening, November g., at the
church. Everyone invited. Fifty cents
a Observation-Disclosures
All places Of business of the Asso,
ciated Retailers of Brookings will be
closed November 5, Hobo Day, from
2:30 to 4:30 p. m, then will remain
open till everybody is served. Let's
make it a big day. Meet your old
friends from neighboring towns. They
will be Observation-Disclosures.
The annual convention of the county
commissioners of South Dakota will
be held at Sioux Falls on November II
IS and 10. II. c. Halvorson Of the
Brookings county board, is on the pro.
gram to speak on the tax problem. Dis
cussion of road building will be one
of the main topics of the convention.
Chaplain G. p. Squire, II. n. SchooleI
and George Lathrop motored to Sioux
Falls last Saturday to attend a meeting
Of the Sioux Falls post of the Disabled
Veterans of the World War, and boost
for the convention to be held in Brook.
ings next month. Chaplain Squire gave
an address at the meeting that created
much favorable comment in the Sioux
Falls newspapers.
Mrs. and Mrs. NJ. F. Thayer left last
Thursday evening for Long Beach.
Cal, where they will spend the winter
with the rest of the Bookings colony.
Their son, Floyd, who has just returned
from Alaska will join them at Long
Beach. Little Maxine Patka, who has
I,o. r,o1-.or L,, hnr,n Nth Tho Tho -
ers did not accompany them, but will
stay here with her uncle and aunt, Mr..
and Mrs. Otto Hagen.
In a letter to the publisher of the
Register from Hon. John Z. Diamond,
Minneapolis, he says in part: Your
good paper Of the goth brought to me
the sad news of the death of that
highly respected citizen, Prof. Kerr.
No death in Brookings since the de
p~arture Of my dear friend Geo. More
house has so saddened my heart and
mind as the untimely death of Prof.
Kerr. He was a manly nan and be-
loved by all who knew him. The
world was made better by reason Of
his having lived in it. God keep him
as there were few like him"
The Vermillion Republican cleverly
writes: "The regular weekly hard
times demonstration was put on in Yer
million Saturday night. About a quar-,
ter of a million dollars worth of auto
mobiles were parked on the $500, 600
pavement while their passengers filled
the movies, visited the stores, ate pea
nuts and popcorn, drank pop and near
beer, playing billiards and pool, and
milled around the streets, telling each
other how blooming hard up they
were. Some day the people will come
out of their long trance and wonder
how they came TO hypnotic them
selves
Geo. F. Thayer, in writing to the
Register form Long Beach, Cal,
among other things says that there
are a great many families living here
from Brookings county, We meet so
many it seems like a B%rookings colony
and they all to be well and happy,
| have always said that there was no
county in South Dakota better adver.
tised anywhere west of Chicago than
old Brookings. The same can be said
here in lower California. You meet SC