The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-02-10
Local and Personal
DR.. E. w. Forsee, Osteopath.

DR.. E. w. Forsee. O%steopath.
T. II. LAWN was a business visitor
in Tracy, Mimi, between trains Mon
day.
Tom Hurney and his sister were up
from Elkton on Friday attending
church and looking after other mat
ters.
County Commissioner Il. o. Toilet
son returned Monday from Luverne,
Mimi, where he visited with a brother
and nephew.
DR.. Willis E. Johnson, president of
State college, left Monday evening
for Pierre to attend a meeting of the
board of regents.
daughter Katherine, arrived Monday
for a couple of weeks visit with rela-
tives in Bookings.
Mrs. C. Larsen went to Chicago last
Friday to join her husband in looking
for a house as they will soon take up
their residence there.
Uncle Josh gets in bad with the
honey bees; don't fail to hear him
tell about it on record number 1911,
at McMillan's Jewelry.
Paul Cobel, II. r. Alrick, l. A. Tay-
Tor, c. Crosser and L.. A. White made
a business trip to Sioux Falls Monday.
They made the trip by auto.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. w. Tinker left
Tuesday morning for Blue Earth City,
Mimi, where they expect to visit rela-
tives and friends for a couple of weeks.
Geo. w. Cobel, 7. /. Flittie and II.
F. Haroldson left Tuesday evening for
Omaha, Neb., to attend a meeting of
featuring CO.
4 representative of the Madison
Chautauqua was in Brookings last
week to make a contract with the
Viking male choir for an afternoon
concert at the chautauqua next sum
mer. The Viking choir is in great
demand all over the state and their
reputation as one of the best male
chOirs in the northwest grows daily
They have numerous concerts SEIZED
uled in nearby towns in this state
and Minnesota during the next month.
The annual convention and show
of the South Dakota Potato Growers
association opened at Waterfowl Tues
day. NJ. r. Benedict, farm manage
ment expert, f. +. Mccall, associate
horticulturist, Prof. E. J. Petry, path
ologist, p. J.. Scarbro, director of
junior extension, and w. F. Kumlein,
director Of extension division, form the
delegation from State college and are
the principal speakers on the three
day program. The main entertain
ment feature was a big banquet given
at the Kampeska hotel last night.
The Viking male choir went to Sinai
last Sunday afternoon and gave a sa
cred oncert before a large audience
in the Lutheran church at that place.
Otis Moen and Lawrence Olson were
the soloists. The concert was greatly
appreciated by the Sinai audience and
the Offering given to the boys was ex-
tremely generous. Following the con
cert, Mr.. and Mrs. H. B.. Nelson in
vited the choir to their home where
a sumptuOus meal was served to which
the boys did full justice. The choir
members are loud in their praise of
the hospitality of the citizens Of Sinai.
The fire department was called out
last Thursday afternoon at $50 to
quench a blaze which threatened to
destroy the automobile of VIM. Pit
tenger, the pharmacist at Tidballs
drug store. While starting the en-
CINE in the Robinson barn near the
alley on Fifth avenue which Mr.. Pit
tenger uses as a garage, he noticed
that the engine backfred and a blaze
resulted Immediately. The fire was
smothered successfully with a pillow
but not until considerable damage had
been done. The radiator was ruined
and other parts were made useless. The
loss is covered by insurance. When
the fire department arrived there was
no evidence of a fire except a burning
pillow lying in the snow and many
thought they had been the victims Of
a false alarm.