The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-28
Local and Persona!

DR.. B. II. Sayre, local veterinarian.
Old papers at the Register office at
5 cents the package.
New Era Shine Parlor is the place
to have those shoes polished.
Ladies shopping in Minneapolis
will find the Hotel Dyckman most ac-
cessible to all the leading stores"
Miss Altha Furnish of Rock Island,
ILL.,, is a guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. w. Catlett, as an attendant
on the Swering- Catlett nuptials which
occur today.
DR.. %Frudenfeld, the Madison eye, ear,
nose and throat specialist, will be in
Brookings again on Thursday, Dec.
18th, at the Leon Hotel. Glasses &C
curately fitted and guaranteed salts
factory in every way.
Miss Frances Pope Of Miles City,
Mont, is visiting at the home of her
uncle, J. w. Catlett, and is one of the
out-of-town guests at the marriage of
her cousin, Miss Winifred Catlett, to
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day.
A card to the Register from Mrs.
James H. Shepard, now at Allentown,
Pa, at the home of her son, James
H. Shepard, Jr., the arrival
in that family of a V pound daugh-
ter a week ago this morning. The
many friends Of Jimmy" in Brook
ings. and they are numerous, extend
to him and his wife the heartiest con
gratulations.
Robert Whitmus, an engineer on the
Great Northern, living at Hillyard,
Wash, a suburb of Spokane, arrived
Thursday night for a visit with his
parents, Mr.. ard Mrs. John Whitmus,
and will remain as long as the condi-
ious. Two doctors are giving Mary
undivided attention and all that medi.
cal skill can do is being exercised in
her behalf.
Walter T. Kukuk, a former resident
of %Brookings county and later living
at Colman, is given in the list Of those
killed in action in a very recent re.
port from abroad. He was well known
in the city and his many friends and
the friends of the family will extend
their deepest sympathy in this hour
of sorrow. He paid the supreme price
and his patriotic death is only another
Of the sad things this wal has brought
home to us all.
The memorial services in honor OF
Frank Pike, who paid the supreme
price Of his loyalty in the trenches ir
France, was held at the NJ. E. church
in Aurora last Sunday afternoon al
2:3O o'clock. The church was appro
priately decorated and a large portrait
of the dead hero was placed on ar
easel on the platform. Music was fur
nished by the choir of the church and
the house was filled beyond comfort
able capacity to listen to the address
of the Rev. l. NJ. Hargett of the Brook
ings Methodist church.
A telegram was received the frs
OF the week by Mrs. Eva Wiley, from
the war department, stating that hel
husband, Rex Wiley. now with the
A. E. F. in France had died of pneu
monia in a camp hospital. No partic
ulars of his sickness or the attendan'
circumstances have been received
Mrs. Wiley has been making her hom'
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
Pease, since the departure of her hus
band for war. The fullest sympath!
of the entire community and count!
go out to this young widow in the hou
of her bereavement. And every tim
!; that the horrors Of war are brough
home thus closely to the people o
: Brookings county. SO does their feel
ing OF just wrath against the foe win
: has devastated the world grow Il