The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-01-19

DR.. B.. II. Sayre, local veterinarian.
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Tw0-inch gum tape at the Register
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Do you need any electric light
bulbs. Haywood Hardware Co.-Ad-
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The 10 and 10 cent sale at Moore's
Variety Store beginning Saturday.
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The Viking male choir will go to
Tracy, MINI. next Sunday and give
a concert in that city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stewart Baily Of Bruce
spent Sunday visiting at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Seth Thornton.
Dead Men Tell No Tales coming
the same week as The Four Horse
men, super special at the Pleasant
Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Laura f. Vinegar Of Sioux
Falls, formerly a resident of Brook
ings, is a guest of the Rev. and Mrs.
Keagy and other friends this week.
Ralph Horton, editor of the VOlga
Tribune, and his mother, Mrs. A. 7.
Horton, were visitors in Brookings
Monday. Mrs. Horton visited at the
A. p. Ryger home while Editor Horton,
attended to business matters and
the Farm Bureau banquet.
Clarence McCauley Of Bruce, and
Mary O'Conner of Montgomery, Ind,
were married Tuesday morning at
the ST. Thomas church, Rev. f. Y.
Dooley officiating. The young couple
will make their home on the groom's
farm, southeast of Bruce. Congratu-
ations and best wishes are extended
to them.
From a recapitulation of property
taxes in 13 cities of South Dakota
having a population of over 1000, it
appears that Brook:ngs enjoys n OF
the lowest tax rates. The total taxes
per capita in Aberdeen, Mitchell and
Sioux Falls amount to $50 and over.
The total taxes per capita in Brook
l0OS are EOl.JO, LIZ ~ VI lAA|iiA go
with the exception of Redfield and
Yankton. Pierre, Rapid City and
Watertown compete with Aberdeen
for the high a honor. BroOkings
county taxes are also low compared
with other counties of the state. The
total tax per acre in this county is
90 cents. 1t is $50 for instance in
Union, Clay, Yankton and Minnehaha
counties, and over a dollar in Beadle,
Miner, McCook and all other counties
in the southern part of the state.
Our old friend Geo. F. Thayer, who
is spending the winter in California,
sends the Register a clipping from the
Long Beach Press which will interest
manyof our readers. "A party of
Bookings. S. Oak, friends and
neighbors of Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Davis,
surprised them last evening at their
home. $50 Colorado avenue. The
evening was spent in visiting and re-
calling some of the good times in
Bookings. The friends had prepared
well-filled baskets Of good things to
eat. Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
C. T. Lynch, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Bush
nell, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. S. Thayer, Mr..
Geo. F. Thayer, Mr.. and Mrs. 7. II.
Bertness, T. l. Chappell, Mesdames
Sutton, Colegrove, Smith, Hendricks.
Cromwell, Sheppard.
The many friends Of Mrs. Mary
Siberts were shocked to learn of
the death Of her youngest daughter,
Mrs. Miriam Siberts Morley, who
died at Ling Beach. Calf, Jan. s,
of neuralgia of the heart, at the age
of thirty-two years. She was gradu-
ated from Northwestern University
in 1913. teaching school in Arizona
and California until being called TO
Lima, Peru, as a missionary in March
1919. On Dec. %, 1920, she married
Maynard L. Morley who had been an
aviator in France during the War, and
was at the time of their marriage in
mission work in Lima. Mrs. Morley
was ordered by her physicians to the
States last September, being Joined by
her husband a little later, Mrs. ST.
berts makes her home with another
daughter, Mrs E. G.. Montgomery of
this city, and to them the sympathy
of friends and neighbors is extended.