The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-05-04

turned home Wednesday morning
from Huron.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franz Ryger left last
Saturday for Canton, for a visit with
Mrs. Ryger's parents.
For floor finishing see me. I've got
the best machine on the market today.
Old floors made like new. F. H. Carl
son. Phone 19S.-Advertisement.
For floor finishing see me. I've
today. Old floors made like new.
F. II. Carlson. Phone 19S.-Advertise-
ment.
Harry Gowel is building a new home
on Sixth n The home building
boom is getting under way. Brook
ings should have 25 new houses by
next fall.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Gordon Cook Of Minneapolis, Mimi,
on Tuesday, May 2. Mrs. Cook, nee
Gertrude Deeth, will be remembered
as a former Brookings girl.
The new home Of ID. w. Schuneman
on west Eighth street is nearly COM
pleted. 1t is a neat, little frame bun
galow and will make a fine home for
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuneman.
Mrs. II. c. Getty has returned from
Rochester, Mimi, where she has been
in the hospital for treatment. Mrs.
VIM. Haase, who has also been in
the hospital, returned with her.
John O. Peterson will move his
Wide Awake shoe repair shop today,
from the Erstad building to the base
ment of the Bradbury block, formerly
occupied by S. Marvin's plumbing
shop.
Leo d. Vedder, one Of the proprie-
tors of the Paramount Shoe repair
shop, which recently opened in the
rear of the Boot Shop, was united in
marriage to Miss Leonoar Casjens OF
Hayti, at Hayti on Monday afternoon.
They will make their home in Brook
ings.
n. T. Nelson, who recently COM
pleted a neat, new bungalow on
Eighth street, has begun excavation
for another new house on the lot adj
Joining. Mr.. Nelson is n Of the
most consistent city builders we have
and his houses are always in demand
the minute he completes them.
The first pogo jumping stick to ar
rive in Brookings came last week to
the young son Of Mr.. and Mrs. E. I.
Burris as a gift from a relative in the
cities. Very few Brookings people
have seen these new contraptions and
many are interested in watching the
boy playing with the new toy.
Mrs. G.. j. O'Brien returned last
week from the hospital at Rochester,
Mimi, where she went to see If an
operation could be performed to re-
move a tumor from the brain. The
surgeons after an examination found
that it would be impossible to do any
thing for her. Her friends still hope
that there may be some way Of spar
ing her life.
South Dakota has it's winds, but
Wisconsin nolds the present record
for powerful breezes. Near James
Vile, Wis, the wind blew a silo about
three feet off it's foundation three
weeks ago. While the farmer was con-
sidering what to do to get it back on
the foundation another wind came
along and blew the silo squarely back
on it's foundation.
The Brookings engineering company
of the national guard has received Of
ficial recognition from the federal
government and is now eligible to
receive pay and supplies from the gov
eminent. Capt. J. P. Soderstrum is
drilling the company every Wednes-
day evening at the college armory.
There is still room for a few more
men in the company and any n in
terested should see the captain.
A monumen. to the school spirit of
the State college students is the new
grandstand at State field which has
been built with student labor. With
Coach G. A. West as straw boss, the
boys have turned to with a will every
day the last two weeks and have built
a real grandstand that will sea 1000
people. One section of the stand re-
mains to be completed when more
material can be obtained, but over
twothirds of the length of the pro
posed structure is now complete. 1t
is set on concrete piers and %staunchly
built in every respect so that all dan
ger of breaking down is obviated. The
new bleachers will be put in use for
the first time mex Saturday at the
Sinuy Valley and inter-ClaSS meets.