The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-07-13
BOOKINGS Bky
TO SEE NO SERVICE
FOURTH REGIMENT BAND RE.
TURNED SATURDAY-NEW
BAND ORGANIZED
COMPANY c TO MOVE SOON IS OPINION
Regiment Examined and Mustered
Into Federal Service Under
Two Laws

twenty-five of the 20 members of
the Fourth Regiment Band returned to
B~rookings Saturday morning after
spending sixteen days at Camp Hag-
man, Redield, during the mobilization
of the South Dakota National Guard.
In accordance with the contract tx
listing between the Fourth Regiment
Band and Adjutant General Morris
the required time of service expired in
ten days after arrival at Redfeld.
This arrangement vas made to pro-
vide music at the annual summer
camp of the guard. A new Fourth
Regiment Band has been organized
with A. B. Ireland, of Aberdeen, as di-
rector.
An unofficial report from Redfeld
says the South Dakota troops will be
moved today to either Fort Leaven-
worth or Fort Riley, Kansas. Colonel
Hunter of the Central department at
Chicago was at Camp Hagman Sunday
and Monday IN an inspection tour. 1t
is said hat the camp site is not salts
factory for a mobilization of any
length of time. The fact that II Pull
man coaches passed through Aber-
deem Tuesday for Bismarck, North Da-
kota; cars sufficient for three or four
trains are concentrated at Aberdeen
and Huron and that the troops of Min
nesota have departed for border points
leads many to believe that the reports
in circulation will not miss the truth
far.
The members of the band who re-
turned to Brookings are as follows:
E. c. Ainsworth, Leslie Anderson,
Elmer II. Atkinson, Wayland Borst,
Rudolph Bucholtz, G. Adolph Bucholz,
Ray A. Bunday, Joseph Bergeim, Rob-
ert T. Elliot, Clair Gaylord, Geo. Gil
bertson, Robert Hemingway, H. J.
Mathews, Frank Neal, Arris Palmer,
James Shepard, Jr, Harry Solberg,
Milton Wood, and Marvin Keck. Prof.
Carl Christensen went to Aberdeen
and returned to Brookings Sunday
night. The following returned to their
respective homes as indicated: Joe
Drury, Chamberlain; Harold Peterson,
Sioux Falls; E. j. Reeve, Howard; B.
Harry Sanders, Garretson; F. S. Tabor
Garretson; Harry Warner, De Smet;
and Lesher Wing, Beulah, Wyoming.
w. d. Fish joined Company c and re-
manned as quartermaster of headquar-
tiers and is also assistant director of
the new Fourth Regiment Band.
Mustered Under Two Laws
Orders were received at Camp Hag-
man the latter part of last week to
muster into federal service under the
Dick bill OF 1909 in addition to the
mastering under the new law to make
made. This new order makes it imper-
alive that the men take the federal
oath or be court martialed. The thir-
ty men at the camp who have refused
to take the oath will be compelled to
be mustered in or take the conse-
Quences.
The regiment was presented for in
spection last Saturday afternoon to
Lieutenant j.. w. E~verington, U. S. A,
senior mastering officer, the units com
posing the Fourth infantry being in
spected and counted to see that they
meet up with federal requirements.
The inspection showed 1,001 and 55
officers available for federal service.
Complete Examinations
Physical examinations under the fed
eral inspection were completed Satur-
day among both officers and men. The
number rejected totaled "a and a num-
Der were held up pending further con-
s%ideration.
The following quotation from one of
C Co. home letters will interest and
please our readers: when l was get
ting my shot in the shoulder, last night
the doctor asked me if l wasn't from
Brookings, and he said we were the
most perfect bunch he had yer seen.
He said we were a model company.
Our company only lost two men, one
for under weight and one for heart
trouble. This examination was a great
deal more severe than the state exam.
nation" Some other companies lost
heavily under the federal test.
Protect Against Typhoid
The entire command was innoculat-