The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-09-28
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Mrs. Lyle Waltz spent a few days
last week visiting relatives at Bruce.
Harry Larson underwent an opera
ton for appendicitis at the local hos
pital last Thursday.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
James Milne at the hospital last Sat
urday, September %.
A large number from this city drove
up to White Tuesday evening to attend
the Eastern Star meeting.
Willie Stuefen and Miss Daisy John
son Of Elkton. were united in mar
riage yesterday afternoon at the court
house by Judge Geo. P. Hall.
Karl Rotcliff, instructor in pharmacy
at State college for the last year, left
Tuesday for Lawrence, Kans., to &C
cept an appointment as drug analyst
at h University of Kansas.
Mary May, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
n. j. May Of Aurora, was brought to
the Dakota Deaconess hospital this
morning suffering from a fractured
leg which she sustained in an automo-
bile accident.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. +. Purdy, accom-
panied by Mrs. Russell Shreeves, de-
parted this morning by auto for Min
neapolis where they will spend & week
visiting and enjoying life in the me-
%tropolis. Mrs. Shreeves has a brother
living there.
Rev. and Mrs. j. A. G. Waits and
family left Monday by auto for Min
neapolis, Mimi, where Mrs. Waits and
the children will 60 by train to her
home for a visit while Mr.. Waits drives
on to Calumet, Mich, and prepares
their new home for occupation.
A group of boy scouts from Troop 2
gave the members of the Kiwanis club
a demonstration of scouting at their
regular meeting this noon. They
showed the men how to tie knots. ban
semaphore and explained other fea-
lures Of their work.
There are many readers of the Reg
lister who will be interested in the an
nOuncement received this week from
Chicago which says that Lloyd f.
Work q Company announce the open
ing OF offices for the conduct of a gen.
eral Investment bond business at 105
South La Sale street.
The recent calls on the fire depart
ment to the suburbs to put out field
fires should be a warning to farmers
to take extra precautions this dry
weather for fire prevention. Flowing
around stacks and cOrn fields as we'll
as other preventative measures will
in all possibility save a good many
dollars to n
John Randall, retired railroad man
and well known resident Of Brookings,
passed away Tuesday morning at his
home in his city. He had been i'll
for some time with dropsy and was in
a very weakened condition. Funeral
services will be held this afternoon
from the Baptist church. An obituary
will be published mex week.
In the Minneapolis Journal Tuesday
there were published photographs
showing the progress that was being
made On the construction of the Luce
line west Of Hutchinson, Mimi, toward
~Brookings. The connection between
Hutchinson and Clara City will be com
pleted this fall, a distance of about
sixty miles. This brings the Luce line
within about seventy miles of Brook
ings. Another year may see us con
nected with the Twin Cities by an
electric line.
State college is represented this
week at the Mitchell corr palace by
an eighty-foot display prepared by the
extension division. Lynn Hutton has
a sample barberry bush eight feet tall
with pictures and exhibits Of barberry
eradication methods. A complete wool
booth is another feature of the display
and the food, clothing and poultry de
partments have prominent places on
the floor under the supervision Of Miss
Susan Wilder, Miss Mary Dolve and
Miss Sutton, extension specialists.
Frank Lotus, one Of the criminals
who was sent to the penitentiary for
the robbery of the banks at Bushnell
and White twelve years ago, is making
an application to the state board for
a pardon. He was one OF the prisoners
who escaped from the county Jail
twelve years ago and was never seen
again until Sheriff Nolan brought him
back about a year ago, having located
him in the federal prison at Fort Lea
wentworth. He was sentenced by Judge
Skinner to the penitentiary for eight
years and nine months.
Last week DR.. Hyde received a let
ter from DR.. A. ]. Finch, Denver, Colo,
to the effect that Mrs. Finch was in
the hospital for an operation for gall
stones. On Tuesday the doctor re-
ceived a wire from Denver that Mrs,
Finch had passed away being unable
to withstand the operation. There are
still many in Brookings who remem-
Der DR.. Finch as a young man and
who was at one time pastor Of the
First Baptist church. He was called