The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-05-12
For auto livery call 159. Geo. Brown.
Boys, be sure and read the notice

J. W. Lenocher arrived in the city
from California yesterday morning.
Andrew Nord of Huron was looking
after business matters in Brookings
yesterday.
DR.. o. H. Lawrence spent Sunday in
Bruce visiting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. L. G. Dokken.
V. L. Burge Of ~Castlewood, spent
Wednesday in Bookings visiting with
relatives and friends.
The new home of Clyde Tidball at
the corner of Sixth avenue and Third
street is going up rapidly.
If you want TO sell your wool at the
market price, see n. Wexler at Brook
ings. Or write and ! will call.
A reduction has been made in re-
discount rates. Minneapolis Reserve
bank a cut 10 61a per cent.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Gilbert departed
this morning for Bozeman, Mont,
where they will spend the summer
with their children. S. J. Kabrud will
occupy their residence on Ninth street.
Monuments. Parties needing this
work will do well TO pick out their
markers and monuments this week, so
il will be in for Decoration Day.
BOOKINGS Granite Works. Phone ass.
On Thursday evening May 5, Walter
Moulton and Miss Isabelle Hoffman,
both OF this city, were united in mar
riage at the Methodist Episcopal par
sonage, the service being read by the
Rev. r. C. Keagy.
The prize fish of the season was
caught yesterday at Lake Campbell
by Alvin Johnson. 1t is a pickerel
weighing over Is pounds, measuring
40 inches in length. 1t was caught at
the outlet of the lake.
Mrs. L. S. Peddicord and Mrs. Edith
Schuneman left Wednesday morning
for Aberdeen TO attend the state con
vention of the Womans' Auxiliary Of
the American Legion as delegates from
the local post of the auxiliary.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. II. Jennings returned
from their southern trip on Friday.
They have been spending the winter
months in Florida, their headquarters
being at Delray. On their way north
they visited at Chattanooga and other
historical spots.
All members of the City Federation
of Womans' organizations are invited
to come to the Commercial Club
rooms Saturday evening at s o'clock,
to meet Mrs. E. r. Buck of Sioux
Falls, state president of the FEEDER
ated Clubs of South Dakota.
Mrs. E. r. Buck of Sioux Falls, pres
ident Of the South Dakota Federation
of Women's clubs, will arrive Friday
to visit over the week end at the home
of Rev. and Mrs. J. j. Gardner. Mrs.
Buck and her husband, DR.. Buck, are
very dear friends of the Gardeners.
The College Y. NJ. c. A. have appoint
| ed a committee who have planned a
| picnic next Thursday, May 10, at $50
p. m. in the college grove. All bust
ness men of Brookings are invited to
attend. There will be games for en-
tertainment followed by a big feed.
II. Howard Biggar who has been
holding a position with the Dakota
Farmer for some time has accepted
| the position Of farm editor for the
Daily Journal-Stockman at Omaha,
Neb. A part of his work will be in the
field in the states of Iowa and Ne,
braSka.
Mrs. F. d. Fromme and three daugh-
ters of B~lacksburg, Va, arrived Mon
day for a visit Of about five weeks at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. X. Fridley. Mrs. Fromme says they
find life very pleasant at their home
in Virginia where DR.. Fromme is head
of the argonomy department at Nir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute.
A news dispatch from Pierre states
that J. F. Brooke, formerly of Brook
ings, but nov secretary of the Com
mercial Club of Pierre, has presented
to the state historical department an
authentic copy of the first issue of the
Philadelphia Ledger which was printed
in 1886. The copy was presented to
J. B. Brooke, father Of ] F.. Brooke,
in 1876 by George W. Childs, publisher
of the paper.
Considerable attention was attracted
yesterday forenoon when a large mum
Der of cars gaily decorated with red,
white and blue bunting bearing the
members of the local Grand Army of
the Republic post and the Womans'
Relief Corps paraded through Main
street before departing for White
where a big dinner and an afternoon
entertainment was given to them by
the W. r. c. of White.
Sam Cornell Of Tracy, in writing a
congratulatory letter to the publisher
of the Register says, Il see by the
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