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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
Local and Personal

Philo Hall left Sunday for Mime.
apolis to look after legal business,
Children's shoes, sizes five to ten,
$1.48. Gillespie & Rogers, Footftters.
Mrs. E. A. Waltz and son, L. C.
Waltz, spent Sunday with relatives at
Bruce.
RI. f. Hesse stepped on a nail Mon
day while at work and has a very sore
foot as a result.
Attorney Wallace E. Purdy went to
Sioux Falls Tuesday on legal matters
before the court.
Boys shoes, sizes 9 to 1914. 81 .98;
and sizes n to 5k. $2.48. Gillespie &
Rogers, Footftters.
A. f. Bunday was at Rochester last
week consulting the Mayos on the con-
dition of his health.
K. J. Heymer was over at Hetland a
couple Of days this week wiring two
houses for electric lights.
Elmer Sexauer left Monday in his
car to look after interests in several
elevators over in Minnesota.
Nearly new sever passenger Stude-
baker automobile for sale cheap if
taken at once. See A. f. Bunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fl. Bushnell and
daughter returned Tuesday from Cali
fornia where they spent the winter.
Joseph 0. Johnson writes the Regis
ter hat he has changed his address
from Iloilo, Pacific Islands, to Manila.
Mrs. w. II. Beals and daughter Edna
went to st. Paul Sunday night to con
suit specialists on her daughter
health.
The |, X. L. Grocery put on a new
Ford delivery outfit Tuesday morning.
It is one of the best equipped rigs in
the city.
Mrs. l.. l.. Sharpe and son returned
she spent the past month visiting her
mother.
F. VI. Enlight and family drove over
from Bushnell Sunday and spent the
day visiting at the home of Mrs.
Joseph Enright.
The rain Tuesday again delayed farm
operations. The soil is very moist at
present and rain will not be needed for
at least a month.
yNv,.J ~.. ~. D.. Ion -I- -
now on the battle front in northern
France, tells us he has been honored
with the rank of Captain.
Mrs. f. J. Ray returned Sunday from
BeIvidere. H., where she spent several
weeks at the bedside Of her %brother-in.
law. She left him improving in health.
Prof. Carl Christensen returned Fri.
day evening from st. Paul where he
attended the performances of Faust
and Aida given by the Boston Grand
Opera Co.
Geo. Beatty. of Owatonna, MINI,
spent Sunday here with his brother. f,
II. Beatty, and family. He is district
manager of the telephone lines serv.
ing the southern section of Minnesota.
Mrs. Anna Larson celebrated her
S5th birthday last Friday at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Lien. Ten
widows of old soldiers met with her
and helped her celebrate. A nice
luncheon WAC served
In another column appears an article
on the school question from the pen OF
Rev. Paul Roberts, pastor Of the Epis'
copal church which is timely. The
Register suggests that those interest
ed in the public school question here
should give the article attention.
Ben Bosen. of Milwaukee. Wis, and
s. J. Rudolph purchased a carload OF
horses this week and are shipping
them to Ministee, Mich, for farm pur'
poses. Among the bunch was a team
of mares weighing nearly a ton each.
It was the largest team " shipped
from Brookings.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-04-26
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
RESCUE
CIRCUS CAMEL FOR
ARMY CAMP MASCOT

General Headquarters, American
Expedition Army, France, Nov. TO-
Emancipation has come to Mabel thru
the benevoience of a dozen American
officers attached to general head
quarters. Mabel is a lady camel. the
veteran of ten seasons of circus pa
rades and two shows a day. Today
her name is Camelflage, the well-fed,
stately mascot of her owners
A circus went broke in this town in
the summer of 1914. When the ami
mails went on the block at auction a
local drayman saw possibilities in Ma
bel. Since then she has been hauling
dray thru the streets and anguish
ing for the odor of tan-bark
One of the first things the Ameri-
can officers are planning on Mabers
behalf is a series of baths in some
strong liquid. These will restore the
fur to the naked patches on her ex-
terror and kill off the things that bite
when it came to choosing a name
for the new mascot. there were those
who wanted to call her Piffle. But
that name was overruIed because Ma
bel that was, or Camelflage that is.
knows nothing of American prohibi-
ton or politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
PACIFISTS TRY AGAIN
Peoples Council. Once Barred, Holds
Session in Chicago Today.

Chicago, Nov. 10.-The leading
pacifist organization of the county
whose brief but eyentful history has
been anything but pacific-will at
tempt to hold an anti-war meeting IN
a downtown hall this afternoon.
The meeting will be staged by the
Chicago branch of the Peoples Coun-
Gil for Democracy and Terms OF
Peace, which was barred from three
states a few weeks ago before 1t final
ly landed in Chicag o-only to have its
organization meeting broken up by the
police after Governor Lowden had or
dered state troops here from Spring.
field for that same purpose
Police and federal officials admit
ted today that no attempt viii be
made to interfere with the meeting
unless seditious or reasonable re-
marks are uttered
Prof J. Scott Nearing, of Toledo,
will be the only speaker this after
noon. His subject will be IA Plea
for the Election Of a Democratic
Peace Committee"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
PACT PLEASES CHINA
See Guarantee of Peace in Orient
Thru U. S.-Jap Agreement.

Picking. Nov. 10.-English and
Chinese newspapers in. Picking, Shang-
hal and Tien Tsin comment on the
LansingIshii agreement concerning
China, contending that it will guar
intee peace in the far east and serve
to eliminate Chinese distrust iowa rd
Japan because, say the newspapers,
it removes the reasons for the friction
of recent years.
The China Daily Press of Shanghai
says the United States has obtained
Japan's guarantee for the territorial
integrity of China, but it warns China
that she must wake up and do some
thing for herself or the United States.
Great Britain and Japan cannot save
her. n
ne SHahehal Daily News says the
sIlutual recognition of Japan's special
ihterest IN China by the United States
is warmly welcomed as it puts def
nlte emu 10 past Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
FOR RECREATION
Encouraging Reports for 353rd In
fantry Fund.

That the regimental fund for the
all-Kansas 353rd infantry is an as
sured fact was shown by the reports
this week. Reports from all sections
of the state were to the effect that
committees were busy in all sections
raising the proportion for their county.
representatives from the various COM
panies of the regiment report that the
fund is being received with a hearty
response from the people back home,
a total of nearly $4,000 has been Sc
cured so far. according to the early
reports, which are taken as an indica-
ton that the boys are putting forth an
effort that will secure the entire
$4,000.
In all sections of the state the COM
mercial organizations, the chairmen of
the local boards, the editors and many
interestd in the welfare of the Kansas
boys are at work. They are working
toward one goal, that is tofsecure the
entire amount by November 20, so that
the Kansas boys may hold an open
house to the people of Kansas on
Christmas day. All contributions to
the fund should be made payable to
Col. James H. Reeves, commander
353rd infantry. Camp Funston, Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
HAVE A BIG BATTLE
Soldiers at Camp Funston Get Into a
Big War Game.

Camp Funston, Nov. Camp Fun
ston Sammies saw their first action"
Thursday. There were numerous
dead and wounded" who stoutly de-
MED being dead or wounded. and ar
gued with the umpire who dared to
suggest such a thing. 1t was in the
maneuvers between the red and the
blue armies that all the action took
place, and even tho many of the men
didn't know exactly what was going
on, everybody had a great time. 1t
was a pleasant variation from the in
cessant drill the men have been thru
in the last few weeks.
The Kansas boys of the 353rd, in
fantry regiment were in the thick of
it, commanded by Col. James H.
Reeves, and they made a fine show
ing. The umpire hasn't decided yet
who won the battle, but Kansas bows
claim a clean cut victory.
Ninety-six negro officers, recently
commissioned at the officers training
camp at Des Moines, have arrived to
take charge of companies of negro
troops. Most of the Missouri, Kansas.
South Dakota, Nebraska, Arizona.
Colorado and New Mexico negro
troops are here, and the Mississippi
negroes probably will begin coming
the last of this week or the first of
next.
The eighty-ninth division footba II
team will meet the Henry Kendall
college eleven here Saturday. and the
soldier boys are betting the division
team will bring home the bacon.
Inere VIII be boxing, basket ball and
many other sports that aid a soldier
IN the means of war now in vogue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
SPOKE TO PRESS CLUB
Irving Bachelor and Ray Stannard
Baker Before Newspapermen.

Irving Bachelor and Ray Stannard
Baker, who's Who Folks" in Amer
lean letters, in dress suits braved the
scent cigars of the Topeka Press
club and spoke ten minutes, each,
Friday night at Pelletiers tea room
at a dinner given by the newspaper
men in their honor
Bachelor had just returned from
Europe. He expressed every conf
dence that the allies would hold the
western front The toastmaster told
the audience that Bachelor had been
wounded by a Boehe shell while on
ing terms of the English troops.
Baker, who has written under the
name of David Grayson, described the
American training camps he had Wis
tied. He expressed himself pleased
and surprised at the rapidity with
which an unprepared nation has gone
about preparing for the big war.
Chancellor Frank Strong of the
Kansas university: DR.. w. A. Bran
denburg, president of the state man
ual training school at PittsbuTg and
DIR. Edmund ]. Kulp of the First
Methodist church were called on for
talks by Marco Morrow, POSTMASTER.
Chancellor Strong told the guests that
700 university men had enlisted up
to date. At Pittsburg, a smaller
school, los men have enlisted, the
president of that college stated. DR.
Kulp lauded the patriotism of the
American people. About fifty were
nrasent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
NEGRO TROOPS
Nine Per Cent of Our Soldiers
Will Be COlOred.
The Largest Number of the
Race Ever Modified.
Their FIGHTING RECORD GOOD
Commissions We're Given to
s26 Negro Officers.
Other Officers Mainly White
West Pointers.
Their FIGHTING RECORD GOOD

When the full force of the United
States troops are sent to the battle
front in France about 9 per cent of the
soldiers fighting under the Stars and
Stripes will be negroes.
This fighting force of negroes will
be the largest ever gathered together.
regardless of the fact that in many
previous wars the negroes have been
heavily engaged. Negro troops have
been under some of the greatest COM
manders, from Hannibal to Napoleon.
and they have in many cases diStin-
guished themselves in battle.
The fighting record of the French
SenegaleSe is excellent and there are
many individuals from the African
troops who have done great work I'M
der the English and French flags. In
the case of the American negroes the
conditions of their fighting under Of
fcers of their own race will be very
much the same. The officers will to
great degree be white men, altho
there will be many negro officers.
At this time the United States has
Tour colored regiments; two are in
fantry and two are cavalry. Approx
lmately 1000 men compose the four
regiments. The cavalry is the Elev-
enth end the Ninth. The Eleventh is
the cavalry of Caranzal fame and the
Ninth is the one to which an American
general referred when he said: 'If
had to go thru a 1000 yards of hell,
L would rather have the Ninth cav
airy back of me than anything 1 ever
saw. Both these regiments are Off
cered by white West Pointers.
The following national guard units
are in the service and differed by
colored officers: First Connecticut.
First District of Columbia, Eighth
Illinois, First Maryland, Fifteenth
New York, Ninth Battalion Ohio, First
separate Tennessee company and First
separate Massachusetts.
At the negro training carp at Des
Moines there were a total of 625 COM
missions given the colored men. 1O6
captains, 800 first 1ieutenants and 1919
second lieutenants. With this total
and the S26 negro officers in the Ma
t1onal Guards and regular army, the
supply of available material has been
exhausted and it will be necessary to
have white officers for about nine
tenths of the colored men in the selec-
tive service.
The negro troops are being trained
at each of the national environments
and the proper proportion of negroes
will go to Europe as the men are sent
to the front. Negroes have been in
practically every war and it is believed
that the men in training in the United
States will prove themselves superior
to those engaged in previous wars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
To Prevent Sickness and Stamp Out
Disease.

Every precaution is being taken and
a systematic fight is being waged
against the spread of any disease that
has got into the camp by Col. ]. L.
Shepherd, divisional surgeon, and the
many assistants under his orders
The most dangerous diseases that
have gotten into Camp Funston are
meningitis and pneumonia The men,
nights has been brought in here by
some person who is a Carrier" for
as Colonel Sheppard explained, men
nights may be carried by some person
that is not ill and probably never will
have the disease. Inasmuch as Mis-
souri, and Kansas always have more
or less meningitis cases, it is not un-
usual that there should be few cases
in camp.
To date there have been seventeen
cases in the camp, and there have
been four deaths from this disease.
Whenever a man feels badly he is
given immediate attention and re-
moved to the hospital If there is d
possibility of him having any danger
Gus disease. Every effort is made by
the great medical staff of Camp Fun
ston to prevent all the sickness pos
sible. Whenever there is a case of
some disease that may be carried Or
spread in some way to other bar
rackse, the barracks in which the case
was found is put under quarantine. If
the disease is meningitis, the patient is
Immediately taken to the base hos
pital, where a thorough examination is
held.
The absence of heat during the first
few weeks of camp life for the men
was probably the cause of the forty
cases of pneumonia At this time
there has been six deaths from this
disease but as severy barracks has
some kind of heat now, it is not like
ly that we will have many more cases
of pneumonia develop.
According to Colonel Shepard, this
camp is very fortunate in the num-
Der of men that have been on the
sick list, for it has never been as
much s the average Of 4 per cent
generally reached in army camps and
in most cities. Camp Funston has
had only about 2 u per cent of its
men on the sick list at any one time
and there are about $50 menain the
hospitals, infirmaries and b4rra cks
suffering from one illness or another
In a city the size of Camp Funston
there would be about the same
amount of sickness as there is in the
camp. Inasmuch as the men are
close together, it is to be expected
that the average numberV of cases
should be more. However, this camp
has not as yet gone ahead of the or
binary city.
Greatest care is taken to STOP
every illness that gets into the camp
for by getting at the source of the
disease Immediately the medical de.
partment is able to stop the spread
of the illness in very quick order The
men are examined so many times that
all having liberties to go into other
barracks are very likely to be with
out symptoms of any kind. In many
instances the men themselves have re.
. ported their cases before it was pos
sib1e to make proper diagnosis OF
the ailment. Such spirit is a great
aid to the medical department and
may save the lives of many com.
rades at some later date.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
DUTY OF CHURCHES
They VIII Play Most Important Part
in War Chaplain Says.

The church will soon play the most
important part in the war, Maj. John
T. Axton, chaplain of the goth in
fantry, U. s. A, said Sunday in his
lectures at the Central Congregational
church. 1t will be the duty of the
churches, he said. to lend comfort to
the sorrowing mothers and fathers.
1t will be the church to whom these
heavy hearted people will stream.
The church, also will be one of the
prime factors in offering cheer to the
men and boys, thousands of miles
from home. Messages, boxes, small
articles and cigarets should be sent
him. He should be~made comfortab BILE
and happy, and the church will do all
this and more. Mothers and fathers
and sisters of the departed soldiers
will cling to the church pews and
offer heartfelt prayers Hor their sons
and husbands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
STUDENTS GOOD WORK
School OF Journalism Reporters
Handled Teachers Convention Well.

The State Journal is pleased to ac-
knowledge the value of the aid ex-
tended it Thursday and Friday by the
members of the journalism depart
ment of the University. of Kansas.
Under the direction of L. N. Flint,
dean of Journalism, these students
were organized Systematically into
regular daily-morning and evening
newspaper staff.
In the Mills building was located
the local room" of the K. u. Morn
ing ing-Daily-Weekly, and from
this point the reporters spread out
over the city where they covered the
various sessions of the state teachers
convention, the round table meetings.
the evening banquets and all news in
connection with the gathering. Ad-
vance copies of speeches, interviews
personals, features and photograph
were collected by the students, who
gave every evidence or being seasoned
veterans.
Altho Dean Flint was managing
editor, he did not dodge any of the
work assigned to his men. In addi-
ton to his executive duties, he wrote
copy" collected news and directed
assignments.
The State Journal is especially in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
LODGES IN CAMPS
Sec. Baker Permits Them to BuiId
Halls at Army Cantonments.

Washington. Nov. Secretary
Baker announced today a Lol.cy to
govern activities o. frate-nal organiza-
tons in army trair ~ r1ps CamD
commanders will he fi-acted % mar
nit the constructor O. buildings with
in the camp sites r. my frater-,nI or
ganization diyidually or grou-, 30 or
CARNATIONS acting together. Facilities
of the camp for social and fellowship
meetings will be extended and accred-
tied representative from the various
societies will be authorized to visit
the camps and arrange for entertain
ments for the men at the buildings
thus erected or in nearby communi-
ties.
1t was agreed however. that no in
citations or secret meetings of any
kind are to be carried on within the
camps, that existing well recognized
societies only should be accorded the
recognition and that propaganda work
among the soldiers in behalf of any
new society be forbidden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

street Services at II o'clock by
Evangelist T. D. Broadus
FIRST CHURCH OF THE EVAN
EEICAL ASSOCIATION, Seventh
and Monroe street, B. H. Hobbs, pas
tor Morning services, Missionaries
Evening services will be turned over
to the Nomen's Missi nary society
GERMAN EVANG ELICAL ST.
PAULS, Til I'd AID Hancock street
@. II. Kruger. pastor. Services at IL
o'clock.
UNITY CHURCH, 916 Topeka ave
nue. Lecture at II o'clock by A b.
Smith, signs of the Times.
SPIRITUALIST TEMPLE BUILD
ERS, Fou4eh and Monroe street
Lectures at IL O'Clock ard 1880 o'clock
by Mrs. E. Claybr~ ok.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

debted to Dean Flint for his gener-
osity in allowing one man, Harry Nor
gan, to spend most of the day directly
with the State Journals regular staff.
Mr.. Morgan was an efficient and ener-
getic aid.
Assisting Dean Flint in his work
here were w. A. Dill. instructor in
Journalism at X. u, and p. Casper
Harvey. of the Hays Normal. both
ably equipped and valuably willing.
The reporters brought from the uni
versity for the work were:
Harry Morgan. D. Davis.
Eugene Dyer Willard Wear
Ernest Mowrer. Dorothy Cole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10
SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS

Drudgery is the grey angel of success-Dr. Cannot.
Possession points law; possession is ten
Anon.
lis always morning somewhere, and above
The awakening continents from shore to shore,
Somewhere the birds singing evermore-Longfellow.
To be alive only to appetite pleasure pride money-rnaing
and not to goodness and Kindness purity love- history
poetry music flowers stars God all
but dead-Maltbie D. Babcock
Steep is the way toilsome
Long and hard and slow,
Yet a wider view and purer air
Are ours, each step that 60
Priscilla Leonard.
To will what God doth will that the only that gives
rest-Malherbe
Hurry and Cunning the apprentices Despatch and
of Skill but neither of them masters trade
Cotton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

ston will certainly do their part toward
sending the seth division out pre-
pared for the physical hardships that
the men may be necessitated to endure
and the enthusiasm shown by the men
is in keeping with that of the officials
in charge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

A sister perjures herself to save a
brother in The Stainless Barrier"
which appears at the Cozy Monday
and Tuesday. Irene Hunt and Jack
Livingston are featured in the cast.
Friday and Saturday William Des-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-10

mond will appear in a play of border
life called Fighting Back. Claire
Mcdowell co-stars with Desmond.
The entire program for next week
will consist, as usual: of Triangle pro-
auctions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-28
NEW PORTLAND

A. Walker, who resides in the North
New Portland section of the town and
W no was seriously hurt a few days ago
BY falling from load Of hay. remains
critically i'll and it was thought Friday
that he could not recover.
An organization has been formed
here which is known as the New Port
land Soldiers Aid and the following Of
hcers have been elected: President.
Helen Metcalf; treasurer. Belle Met
calf; secretary. Blanche Hoyt; men,
hership. Maude Mitchell; finance-en-
tertainment committee, Esther Luce,
Della Clark. John Butts, John Mitchell
and Della Gould. The organization is
formed to aid in the present war relief
work and good number have affiliated
themselves with the movement.
The Third and Fourth degrees for
Patrons Of Husbandry were conferred
at the last meeting Of Fernwood
Grange followed by the serving Of
home made CONNECTIONS. Patriotic songs
were sung. the members gave quota
tons and there were readings by Eu-
gene Strickland, Della Gould and Ma
than Burbank.