The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-01-26

Kramer & Son ants hides. Phone
3S1.-Advertisement.
For auto livery call 159. Geo
Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs. E. S. Hanson is visiting rela-
tives at Canton this week.
Two auto loads of young people
attended the dance al Elkton Monday
evening.
Have your radiator solution tested
at the Brookings Tire Works.-Adver.
tisement.
Mrs. w. S. Dudley is spending a
month visiting relatives at Lincoln
and Omaha, Neb.
Miss Nettie Metcalf of Paullina,
Iowa, is visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. J. G.. Raak.
Remember that cut of SO cents on
the Register only lasts 5 more days.
Advertisement.
Listen-1O cents has the buying
value of a quarter spent at the 5 and
10 cent Store.-Advertisement.
Lost-a bunch of keys. A reward
will be paid for their return t. the
Register oftice.-Advertisement.
Mrs. A. l.. Pratt returned last Thurs
day from Des Moines, Iowa, where
she spent three months visiting rel
atives.
Less than a week now in which to
take advantage of the Registers so
cent cut on Observation-Disclosures
ment.
Prof. and Mrs. A. L. Ford are re-
joicing over the birth of a daughter
which arrived Wednesday, January
Is, at the D~eaconess hospital.
Miss Alice Caldwell went to Sioux
Falls Tuesday for a visit with rela-
tives. She expects to make arrange
ments to enter a training school for
nurses in some hospital.
G. l. Gillespie of Anoka, Mimi,
spent last week in Brookings visiting
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. r. c..
Rogers and assisting with the invoic-
ing of the stock of the Boot Shop.
Mr.. Gillespie and Mr.. Rogers are
partners in the business.
Announcement has been made of
the birth of a daughter, Betty Jean,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Stegman of
Holstein, Iowa. Mrs. Stegman is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Case
of Bookings. and Mrs. Case has been
IN IIp1ctnin tha 1oct faur unnlS Nicit-
ing her daughters home.
Miss Laura Vinegar returned to
her home in Sioux Falls Tuesday
after a weeks visit in Bookings.
Friends here will be interested to
know that Miss Vinegar has been
selected as assistant to the Secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce at
Sioux Falls, effective Jan. rs.
Word has been received by South
Dakota relatives of the death Of a.
NJ. Allen at Los Angeles, Cal, on
January 10, from heart failure. Mr..
Allen was formerly secretary at State
college and well known in this com
munity. He had made his home in
Fargo, n. Oak, until about two weeks
before his death when he wen to
California to make his home. His
sudden death is a shock to his many
friends in Bookings and to State
college alumni.
The new class Z, or Zulu engines as
they are nicknamed by the railroad
men, are now in use on the freight
trains running through BroOkings.
They are being used on the division
between Huron and Tracy for general
freight service. The Zulu is the
largest engine in use on the North
Western line and could not be used
on this division until oil of the
bridges AMI t~restles had been rein
forced ard stl cHgthened. This work
was completed before the first of the
year and the f"sr engine went through
to Huron on January Is. The driv-
ing wheels are 81 inches in diameter
and exert a tractive effort of i7,430
pounds. The relative size of the Glass
u engines is shown by their weight,
Y engines in comparison with the
RI engine, the previous heavy type,
is shown by their weight, the Zulu
weighing 23S,0 900 pounds and the RI
weighing $4,000 pounds.
A few of the new silver dollars have
been received in Brookings and are
being shown around as curiosities.
The new dollars were coined in the
L. S. Mint at Washington recently.
with a new design celebrating world
peace, and are called peace dollars.
Only about a half million have gone
into circulation so they will prove to
be quite rare, unless the design is
adopted as permanent. They are
slightly thicker than the old dollar,
and on the diverse have the head Of
the goddess of Liberty, a face younger
and Of different type from the old,
with the inscriptions United States
of America" "E Pluribus Unum."
On the reverse is an eagle with wings
folded standing over the word Peace"
The new dollars have been widely
z-.4:I-ol ~, both ho~1ynr- o~l o.t