The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-08-23
Local and Personal
DR.. J. R. Jackson, Osteopath.
j. +. Brooke, Local and News Editor. Phone IL

Polly of the Circus a tent show
in Bookings, Aug. 20.
Mrs. Ernest Ainsworth came down
from Clark Saturday morning for a
short visit with her mother and
friends.
Miss Freda Green, who has been
visiting her brother, DR.. B. T. Green,
left Friday evening TO visit another
brother at De Smet.
Miss Pearl Webster, who has been
visiting at the home of her cousin,
Rio Miner, for several weeks, re-
turned home Saturday morning.
NOTICE-All persons indebted to
the Fridley Automobile Co, are re-
quested to settle their accounts be
fore August 9th. This is imperative.
Lieut.. E. H. Erp went to Canton
Saturday morning for a visit, and
from there will go to his old home in
Illinois. He is to report the last of
this month at the National Army
camp at Fort Riley.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. L. Chappell. &C.
%companied by their daughters, Misses
Bessie and Genevieve, went by auto
to Aberdeen last week to visit anoth-
er daughter, Mrs. Harold A. Stafford,
and other friends in that city.
Aftnrnny Hone IIorrnn 1og. Co.,,.
day morning for a visit with friends
at Vienna. He said very plainly that
it was not a business trip, but pure
ly for pleasure and rest after his
three months at the Fort Smelling
camp.
John Ward, of Durand Wis, ac-
companied by his son, sohn Ward,
Jr., autoed from their home this week
TO visit Mrs. A. b. Allison, a sister
of Mr.. Ward, Sr. They only spent a
couple of days here as their business
affairs called them back.
Lieut.. Arthur S. Mitchell got home
Thursday, and will stay around home
until time TO go to the camp for the
national army. He is in the quarter
masters department and will probab-
ly go to an instruction camp before
being assigned to a regiment.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Steer, son and
daughter, came by auto from Huron
Saturday and visited over Sunday at
the home of Mrs, Steers parents, L.
J.. Tisdale and wife. They continued
their journey to their home in Sioux
Falls the first part of the week.
Archie Bishman Eel to Rochester,
Mimi. last week to consult about the
serious condition of his eye, resulting
from a piece OF steel silver flying
into it while he was pulling staples
out of a fence. An examination re-
vealed that the steel had penetrated
the eye and that the organ would
have to be removed. This was i'm
possible at first, as the eye was too
uduly oWoiicu, pul was uOhc ILLS
week, and he is getting along as well
as could be expected. His father, G.
A. Bishman, was with him at the
time of the operation.
Attorney Hans Hanson returned
Friday evening from the training
camp at Fort Smelling, looking as fine
as a fiddle. He, and eighty-seven
others out of one company, did not re-
ceive commissions in the new army,
but were offered non-commissioned
appointments at the new camps.
These mer do not discuss the reason
for the outcome of their examinations,
in fact will not say a word about ii.
But other sources of information that
are at our command lead us to con
clude that at least two of the instruc-
cor officers at Fort Smelling might
have been greatly improved upon
without any detriment to the service.
The full inside facts regarding the
discharge of H. H. Pickett, also indi-
cate that mistakes were made that
might have been avoided. had the
system Of marking the men been as
we'll developed as 1t is in a country
school.