The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-12-21

The biggest little Jewelry store in
the state. Sharp's.-Advertisement
Holiday sale. 70, So and $1.0O rec
ords at 40 cents each. Photograph
ShOp.-Advertisement.
Lewis Quissel, we'll known farmer Of
ArgO township, was a business visitor
in the county seat yesterday.
We still have a fsw bargains in
monographs, the ideal Xmas gift for
the family. Photograph Shop.-Ad-
yertisement.
Ribbon novelties, embroidered tow
els, and many other fancy articles for
Christmas. Evans and Akin, THE
Specially Shop."-Advertisement.
Farmers, don't let your stock tank
freeze, when you can buy a submerged
type heater for only $S.75 at Roberts
and Waltz Observation-Disclosures
Geo. A. Starring of Huron, secretary
of the South Dakota Farm Bureau fed
GRAFTON is a visitor in Brookings this
week attending the extension confer
ence at State college.
wi. l. >. bCo' - IlNhlS lNb
today for Norwich, Ontario, Canada,
and will spend the next three months
with relatives and friends in different
parts of the dominion.
Mrs. Anna Andrews Of DeSmet, was
the guest of friends in Brookings yes
terday. She brought with her a dainty
line of hand painted Christmas China
which was fired in the kiln of Mrs. J.
II. Hubbard.
The Register was pleased this week
to receive the annual remittance Of
Mrs. A. NJ. Work who still resides at
Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Work says,
Il can hardly do without the Register,
we have had it now for more than
thirty years"
Miss Lucy J. Hartman, noted singer
from Chicago, was a guest at the cadet
officers mess at the Leon hotel Mon
day evening. A four course dinner
dent of State college, was a guest and
the principal speaker Of the evening.
Rev. S. l.. Hammond of ~Indepen-
dence, Iowa, has been chosen as pastor
of the First Presbyterian church to fill
the acanc left by the resignation Of
Rev. J. A. G.. Waits last August. Rev.
Hammond will preach his first sermon
in the BrOokings church on Sunday,
December 81.
AS part of the preparation for de-
bates between State college and the
University Of South Dakota next term,
students in the collegiate literary So
cieties held joint debates lase week,
each organization taking one decision.
Although any student in State college
can try out for a place on the regular
members Of the literary soci
cites are busy working up forensic en-
thusiashm. States debating season
begins January %, when the school of
agriculture meets a team from Brook.
ings high school.
Make it a merry Christmas for the
fire department and don't fiirt with
disaster by being careless with lighted
candles and infammable Christmas
tree decorations. If Santa Claus wears
cotton whiskers, don't let him smoke
or get near lighted candles. Wherev-
er you have a lighted Christmas tree
be sure to have a fire extinguisher
handy. The fire chief has issued these
orders and Mornings SO that Brookings
may be saved the disaster Of a Christ
mas fire, which are the most common
of all fires at this time Of year.
Word has been received from J. w.
Reach of Chicago, H., a former resi-
dent of Brookings, OF the death of his
daughter, Mrs. Ada Johnson Of Cedar
Rapids, on Monday, December IL, and
was buried at Dubuqe, Iowa, on De-
cember 10. She left four children,
Marie, Russell, Wesley, and Lyle, a
week old baby. She is also mourned
by four sisters and her father. Mrs.
Johnson was better known in Brook
ings by her name before her second
marriage, Mrs. Claude Davis. Her
many friends here will be grieved to
learn of her sudden death and extend
to the family Of small child
rem, who are so sorely bereft Of theii