The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-02-02
Local and Personal
Why do girls leave home?-Adver


For auto livery call 159. Geo.
Observation-Disclosures.
Children's white top, patent shoes.
Coles Observation-Disclosures.
Women's one-strap, low heel pumps
$1.45. Coles Observation-Disclosures
ment.
Two modern rooms for light house
keeping for rent Call L366.-Adver-
tisement.
Special buys in every department at
Coles Friday and Saturday.-Adver-
tisement.
A. G.. Fricke and Phil Severson re-
turned Monday from Sioux Falls,
where they sent a few days on bust
ness.
A marriage license was issued at
the clerk of courts office to Oscar
Larson and Miss Bertha Brandt Of
Elkton.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. p. Soderstrom are
rejoicing over the birth of a son,
John Clark, who arrived Monday
morning at their home.
Mrs. Emery Mapes of Minneapolis,
Mimi, arrived Tuesday for a visit at
the home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Rev. and Mrs. Z. V. Pierce.
Gilbert T. Gilbertson returned to
Pipestone, Mimi, Tuesday after spend
ing the past month in Brookings at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Z. T. Gilbertson.
With fourteen to twenty inches of
snow in Virginia and earthquakes
and frozen lemons in California, we
are quite content in this part Of the
world with nice, mild winter weather
and a clean. bracing atmosphere that
fills the lungs with nature S pure
ozone and puts pep in the ~pepless.
The best news that has developed
in the month of January is the higher
basis OF the grain and live stock mar
kets. Grain prices have made steady
but small advances. Livestock has
taken bigger jumps however, the
farmer can now get around $500 a
hundred for his hogs and $500 for
his cattle. The top prices this week
ran up to $500 for hogs and $7.75
for steers. These prices are the high
est the farmer has been able to get
for owe a year and are the surest
signs of the return of good times
Mrs. A. Mears, who had charge of
the Red Cross drive, asks us to thank
everyone who in any way contributed
to the success of the drive. The
work Of the vocational men was
especially appreciated. The chair
man Of the different wards We're, Mrs.
A.. S. Harding, Mrs. /. o. Dybdahl,
Mrs. w. V. Duggam, and Mrs. Geo.
Hall, all of whom with their efficient
co-workers are to be commended. The
success of the drive, despite the
stringency of the times, all goes to
show that Bookings is composed of
a generous, kindly people.
The Rotary club has made plans to
give a concert for the benefit of the
Rotary clubs Boy Work fund, at the
college auditorium on February q.
MISS IRENE "1lltdllS u ANt" 1 q
famous soprano, will sing and the col
lege orchestra under the direction OF
Prof. Carl Christensen will give a con
cert. Miss Williams will be the SOLO
list for the Minneapolis Symphony or
chestra in Minneapolis the Sunday
previous to the concert at Bookings.
Her visit to Minneapolis makes it pos
sible for the Rotary club to bring her
to Brookings for this concert.
The cold wintry weather has kept
people indoors and has increased the
desire for a good book to read to
while away the evenings. The Brook
ings public library has felt this and
the circulation for the month Of Jan
uary broke all records. Miss Abigail
Lyon. the new librarian, reports So
new borrowers for the month. Last
Saturday was the biggest day in the
history of the library, 1872 books go
ing out in a single day. For the
whole month the circulation was 205
greater thar January 1921. Another
interesting feature was that % per
cent Of the books were of the non
fiction class.
On Thursday, February 9th, three
prominent leaders of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S. A., will be the
principal speakers at a special Pres
tbyterian Day conference to be held
in the First Presbyterian church OF
Brookings. The speakers are DR..
Carl H. Dudley, New York City; DR..
William R. Harshaw, Minneapolis,
and Rev. A. B. Keller, Seattle, Wash.
There will be an afternoon meeting
at 500 o'clock, and an evening meet
ing at 500 o'clock. There will also
be a brotherhood supper served in the
church dining rooms at $50 p. m, to
which all the men Of the church are
invited. The object of the confer
ence is to present an interesting ac-
count of the work which the church
is carrying on in all parts OF the
world-a work which has developed