The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-06-22
Local and Personal


Ten-day sale. The Boot Shop.-Ad-
yertisement.
Miss Ruby Nyman is visiting
friends in Volga this week.
MIR. and Mrs. j. r. Shreeves spent
Sunday visiting relatives at Colman.
Adding machine paper at the Reg.
lister office, "a inch roll, 25 cents
Advertisement.
Paris green, arsenate of lead and
bordeau mixture. Anderson, your
Observation-Disclosures.
a. b. Chase left for Parker Monday
on business in connection with the
estate Of his late mother. He re-
turned Tuesday evening.
Modern home for rent, 9O2 Williams
street. Furniture for saIe-Auction
household goods July I, at 2 p. m. r..
E. Riley.-Advertisement.
On Tuesday morning, July 6, Mrs.
Steere would like to have Is or 20 chill
dren at State college for summer
school work. The children should be
six years OF age.
Miss Mae Stearns arrived last week
from Artesian, where she has been
teaching, and will spend the summer
visiting at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. II. /. Stearns.
Mrs. Grace Bailey returned Sunday
night from Chicago where she has
been taking special work at the uni
versity, and is visiting at the home of
her mother, Mrs. James Revell.
\ large number of MasonS and
Eastern Star ladies attended the St.
Johns picnic held Tuesday at Lake
Poinsett. The Rev. r. c. Keagy Of
his city delivered an address at the
program in the afternoon. Everyone
who attended reports a good time.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. j. Flittie returned
home yesterday morning from La
Crosse, Wis, where they attended the
convention of the Lutheran church Of
America. Mr.. FIittie states hal the
crops looked fine everywhere he went,
better.
The Badgers had a fine time at the
annual Wisconsin picnic held last Fri
day at the tourist camp. The asso-
citation elected the following officers
for the coming year: Robert Henry
of Nolga, president; Geo. p. SeXauer
vice president, and Mrs. Sexauer, sec
rotary and treasurer.
The Volga Tribune came out this
week with a special Farm Bureau edi-
ton containing "a pages, all printed
in the shop at Volga. This is no small
undertaking and great credit is due
to Editor Ralph Horton for tackling
the job and seeing it through to such
a splendid finish. The paper looks ar
tistic and neat in every detail, not n
of the "A pages d~eIracting from the
general appearance. Ralph is a hust-
Ter and he has the courage to do big
things and the ability to do them well.
Miss Edith Pearson and her mother,
Mrs. Pearson, of the home economics
department Of State college, and Miss
McCown, dean of women, along with
little Practice Cottage Mary, left Sun
day for Minneapolis, Mimi. They will
deliver little Mary over to her father,
after being cared for by the girls of
the home economics department for
two years. They have been happy
years for Mary and the girls, too. Mrs.
Pearson will endeavor TO find another
baby for the practice cottage while
she is in Minneapolis.
The birth rate in Brookings County
ranks among the highest in the state,
according 10 the report of vital sta
tistics for the month Of April, made
by the state board of health. During
April So births were reported in this
county, nearly two births a day. Brown
and Minnehaha counties were the only
two counties in the state whose births
exceeded the number reported in
Brookings county. Three deaths of
children under five years were re-
ported. The total number of deaths
for the month was Is. At the present
rate of births and deaths, the popu-
lation of South Dakota makes a net
increase of about 1000 per month.
Wanted-A married man on farm.
Robert A. Storm.-Advertisement.