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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
I'll TROPHY TRAIN

The advertised trophy train with
France. arrived Friday evening about
an hour late. after it had been with
drawn from travelling the night before,
but reinstated again the next morn
ing. With all of the mixup in adver-
tising it and withdrawing it and re-
Installing it. the crowd that assembled
in Bookings was a high testimonial
of h interest that all people have
in anything hat shows what is do
ing in the war zone. Three cars Of
relics and an open car with cannon
and mortars, which also served as a
speakers stand, with a coach, sleeper
and diner on the rear, made up the
special and all were lighted with cleo
trio lights furnished from the baggage
car. The autos from the country be-
gan to arrive in the afternoon and by
supper time were being parked on the
side streets. In the evening all avail
able ground around the depot was COW
cred by them and it Is a conservative
oStIlldte 10 say ludt elSut HuHuTeu
outside ears brought people to visit
the train. Counting the towns people
who were there, at least five to six
thousand people must have walked
through the train. The promised band
was absent, the development Of grip
among some Of the members causing
ii to be sent back to the Great Lakes
Station. The speakers were good,
their voices clear and carried well on
the night air. County chairman NJ. e.
Culhane, of the Liberty Loan commit
tee. introduced the speakers. A spirit
Of enthusiasm was present at all times
during the evening and frequent
cheers and applause greeted the re-
marks made. The BroOkings Home
Guards acted as guards around the
train and kept the people in line.
There was little crowding and every
body was good natured and the Lib
erty Loan had a good advertisement
and from the returns in the county the
people evidently went home deter
mined more than ever to back the wal
to a victorious end.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
IN WHICH
MEN WILL SERVE
ONLY THE FIRST ONE HUNDRED
ORDER NUMBERS ARE SENT
BY TELEGRAPH
FOUR IN CITY, TWENTY.0NE N COUNTY
Week Sent BY District Board To
Local Boards

The numbers in which the drafted
men will serve were drawn in Wash
ington on Monday, President Wilson
drawing the first number. For draw
ing the balance Of the 1900 num-
bers it took the balance of the day
and part of Tuesday. Only the first
one hundred numbers were tele'
graphed to the country at large, the
balance Of them were sent out by mail
to the district boards and they in turn
distributed them to the local boards,
This makes it impossible for the Reg
lister to give any more names than OF
those who were in the first hundred,
Out of the first hundred only four live
in the city and only twenty-one in the
county. They are as follows:
1922 Herman w. Schwens, ElktOn
1927 Peter N. Winsness, Hendricks
1897 Fred Felberg, Arlington
43S Wm.sE. Peter Nelson, Bruce
904 Lawrence A. Meisenheimer, To.
ronto
1923 Hans C.. RamStead, VOlga
1910 Joe KOr, White
20 r. B. Breed, City
1855 Tom DeVries, White
739 Arthur Peterson, Volga
535 Carroll B. Tompkins, White
PIG Walter F. Bairey, Elkton
CPS Neele l.. Kruse, White
72 VIM. w. Quinn, ElktOn
1872 Joe Waalkes, City
964 Ernest F. Gust, Bushnell
34S Jas. A. Finnerty, Aurora
4 w. E. Purdy, City
134 Howard j.. Blossom, Arlington
395 Edgar H. Beatty, City
657 Alvin Richardson, White
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
HOME FROM FRANCE

Another Brookings officer has been
promoted and SEN back to the United
States to command men who are to
go across to France. Capt. A. Il. An
derson, as he now is, came over the
middle of September. stopped on Long
Island long enough to get married and
is now stationed at Camp Meade,
Maryland, in command of Battery "F,"
32nd +. A. Captain Anderson writes
the city editor of the Register that
he has sent the announcement Of the
wedding, but same has not been re-
ceived, so all the Register can do is
% present congratulations to the hap
by couple, knowing that If Andy"
is as good at picking a wife as he Is
il making soldiers nj Of rockies"
that he probably has the finest wife
il the world. He had hoped to be
able to get west to see his many
friends in South Dakota, but the get
ting married, the shOrtness Of leave
and the assignment to duty, all pre-
vented the visit. No soldier in the
old 4th Infantry had a better record on
the Mexican border than Captain An
derson, and his work with Company
&C" convinced BrOokings people that
he would make his mark in the fight
ing. He has only started and the Reg
lister believes that when he gets back
to the front with his new battery that
he will continue the good work that
the fighting with the Marines around
Chateau Thierry and the drive to Sois-
sons.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
MAKE NEW CITIZENS

Yesterday Judge w. II. Skinner, ac-
companied by his st~enographer, A. I.
Hopkins, and a government agent, j.
N. Greeley, spent several hours at the
court house making new citizens of
men who had their first papers. There
were seven on the list who are in the
service and they will be naturalized
at the camps where they are training.
The following seven men are now full
fedged citizens of their adopted cOun-
try, and while they would be just as
loyal without the papers. it makes
them seem more like the real thing
in citizenship: Thomas Bang, Joen
Wobbema, Jasper Madsen Kjellsen'
Oscar w. Anderson, Christian Peter
Christianson, Hans Anne Veenbaas
and Helmer Olaf Hanson. The Regis
ter congratulates these men on their
full admission to the privileges of an
American citizen, and no doubt they
feel grateful for the full honor.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
OPENED
BIG ATTENDANCE
TIE s A. T. c. QUOTA OF STATE
COLLEGE FILLED FIRST
DAY OF TERM
FIVE HUNDRED SOLDIERS ON CAMPUS
Old Glory Raised, Band Plays Star
SpangIed Banner And Oath OF A.
Iegiance Taken BY Students

Tuesday on the State College cam
pus was the big day of the year for
the institution. Flag day exercises
were the order of the day and at elev-
en- o'clock in the morning the soldier
students, both collegiate and vocation
faculty Of the college in attendance.
The orders of the day and a message
from President Wilson were read to
the assembly by Capt. r. w. Hotch-
kiss, the commandant. The flag was
foated to the breeze promptly at II
o'clock and the band played the Star
Spangled Banner, with soldiers and
civilians standing at attention. The
oath of allegiance was then read by
the commandant and taken by all of
the new soldier students. DR.. George
Lincoln Brown, acting president Of
the college, gave u short address Of
welcome to the boys in which he ex-
pressed his delight at the opportunity
now afforded the college to help make
men ready to serve their country in
times Of need and stress. II. w.
Dwight, president of the Regents Of
Education, made an address that was
full of good things for the men to
know and full of encouragement 10
them in the work that they are I'M
dertaking. Regent j. w. Campbell of
Huron, was also present as a repre-
sentative Of the state in the opening
Of this important year in the history
Of State College.
On account of a desire to permit a
more thorough drying of the walls
of the new wing of the administra-
ton building, S. A. T. c. men are be-
ing housed temporarily in the homes
Of Bookings. When the distress call
was given for rooms on Saturday
morning, the loyal housewives of
Bookings responded with enough
rooms before noon for the 275 boys.
The enrolment and organization of
military and college work was accom-.
plished with but little confusion in
spite of the difficulties presented. In
a few days the mechanical detach-
ment of soldiers will be transferred
to the administration building, leav.
ing the dormitory barracks free for
the S. A. II. G.
The attendance of girls is more sat
isfactory than was anticipated by the
college authorities in veiw of the fact
that they are obliged to room in pri-
vate homes. However, Miriam Ger
ZACH, the new dean of women, has
the situation well in hand, having Sc
cured good rooming places centrally
located lei a rooming and boarding
house which serves as a community
center for the girls.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
TOWNLEY SPEAKS HERE

A. c. Townley, N~on-partisan leader,
and NJ. p. Bates, the league candidate
for governor, spoke at the Opera
House last Friday afternoon. There
had been some talk of f%orbidding the
speeches in order to make the day a
train that vas coming at night. But
as it was apparent that to do SO might
lead some to sympathiZe with the
league as prosecuted, no prohibitory
action was taken by any of the au-
thorities. About four to five hundred
people were in the assembly hall and
heard the gentlemen. Mr.. Bates adj
dress was an appeal to the members
to stick" and stick tight. 1t was
rather short. Mr.. Townley recited the
fact hat he was chased out of Britton
and that they run to save the men
who held the guns from committing
a crime. He told of the leagues work
and great accomplishments, laid a lit
tie stress on the perfdy of those who
Z ~ SduoC, odlu lIOtlllHS
against the war, but rather told those
present that they would have to sup
port the boys yer there, with their
dollars and with their crops. A fair
share of the time was given to an ex-
PLANTATION of himself and his ideas.
which when diagnosed were only the
same idea that in many former years
has been preached to the farmers of
the country,-to get together and or
ganize and regulate the prices at
which to sell the commodities that
they raise. No answer was made to
any newspaper charges that have
been made against Mr.. Townley, and
from first to last there was nothing
said that could be used to bar him
from speaking anywhere. Those who
attended the meeting expecting some
thing radical or insurrectionary were
disappointed, as taken all in all it was
a very tame meeting.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
OLD PIONEER DIES

Oscar Bunday, who was an early
pioneer of the county, died a week
ago at the home of his son, Washing
tor Bunday, at Flat Willow, Mont.
He was an uncle of A. e. Bunday of
this city, and will be remembered by
many Of the older settlers as a man
of great strength and large build. He
was born in New York state in 1881,
and later moved west to Wisconsin,
where in 1855 he was married and
two sons, Washington and George,
were born. In 1878 he moved to this
county and took a homestead about
four miles northwest of Bruce. He
lived IN the farm and in Bruce until
1906, when he went west to join his
son In Montana. His son, George, Is
still a resident of Bruce. The Regis
ter joins the many friends that he
had made in a long and useful life in
paying honor to the memory Of this
staunch old man. Mrs. Bunday died
In 1905, and is buried at Bruce, while
the interment OF Mr.. Bunday occurred
1t Fiat Willow.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
VETERAN FIGHTER HOME

Brookings had the honor this week
Of welcoming home the first one of
her fighting boys from the front in
France. Capt. w. r. Messerschmidt,
who left here last summer as the Sec
ond lieutenant of Co. c, has been or
dered home, promoted and sem to
Camp Funston to command a battery
in the Goth F. A. now training there.
Will Messerschmidt, as we all know
him here at home, has come through
all the fighting around Chateau Thier-
ry without any sign of a scratch. His
battery was on the firing line all the
time, mostly in support Of the 128th
Infantry, a regiment of Pennsylvania
Guards. Most of the time their work
was in delivering barrages for the ad-
vance of the troops. but one day they
spent hours pouring straight fire into
the enemy. The regiment, the 147th
F.. A., went over as a member of the
41st Division, but was soon transferred
to the 32nd Division and it was in that
division that they have done all of
their fighting. Col. Wales is in COM
mand of the field artillery brigade and
1t. Col. Hazel has been in command
of the regiment. Captain Messer-
schmidt remembers the fight and the
day when our two Brookings boys,
Matson and Beuhre, were wounded,
but they are in another battery. He
said that when he left the front the
talk was hat they were not seriously
hurt. The captain looks as If
agreed with him he MT 81 Nis.ors Ind
opinion +. pepafse sttery that goes over
to Francs under his command will be
trained to know what they are doing
every moment. He is one of the best
examples that B%rookings has in the
army of the fitness and fneness Of
her soldier citizens. He takes with
him to his new command the best
wishes Of a host of friends.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
LOCAL BOARD BUSY

The local draft board is very busy
these days getting ready for the ex-
of the men who are in
Glass /. Meetings are being held in
the three congressional districts of the
boards located therein. In this district
the meetings were held yesterday at
Aberdeen and Brookings county is rep
resented by DR.. A. H. Stoll and F. T.
Baker. The purpose is to standard
iZe the rulings on claims for eXemp-
ton and prevent a difference in the
application of the laws in the differ
ent counties. The district board Of
the state and the adjutant general are
attending these meetings to promote
that end. Induction into the navy
and marine corps, as well as the army
will probably be open in a short time
and men then will have a preference
in service. OF course the ratio for
these two will be less than for the
army and only a limited number can
be so inducted. The board expects
to begin examinations of men in about
a week. Two hundred and twenty
five men are already, by their ques-
tionnaires, voluntary in Glass /, out
of a possible registration of $50 in
the ages that had missionaries sent
them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
LIMITED MEN GO

The limited service men whose
names were given in last weeks Reg.
lister did not all go to Jefferson Bar
racks, Mo Gerhard Oyloe is i'll, con
fined to his bed with pneumonia and
j. S. LAWN of Elkton was also i'll
Four men left in charge of Ray X,
Atkinson of this city, as follows, ia
cob j. Hanson, Elkton; F. A. Towey
Elkton, and Rudolph Bursvold, Airing
ton.
The other two draft calls for Tues
day and for next Monday have been
postponed as orders have been re,
ceived by the local board not to send
men. The prevalence of influenza al
the camps has compelled the war de
partment to stop the e%ntrainment OF
men.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
~SHIPBUILDER U

Prof. and Mrs. A. J.. Willis and
child, returned last week from Phila-
delphia, where the professor has been
engaged all summer in the drafting de-
partment of the big government ship
building plant at Hog Island. While
in Philadelphia they resided with the
professors parents, and during the
time they were in the east, Mrs. Willis
made a visit to the home of her par.
ents. Mr.. Willis enjoyed the work
and it was a very valuable experience
in connection with the big work go
ing on in the building of ships.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
STATE OF TRADE

The state of trade over the country
reported by Bradstreet's for last week
indicates continued activity. War
business leads. Non-essentials furth.
er restricted. Civilian demands irreg-
ular. Salaried classes buy carefully.
Wage earners free purchasers. Draft
help up by epidemic of influenza and
some exchanges closed. Women's
wear shows most activity. Immense
railway movement of grain and lum
Der brings about ~embargoes. Corn
safe from frost. Record area going
into winter wheat. Vast preparations
for Liberty Loan campaign. Stock
market, rationed as to money, fails
to reflect allied successes.
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A SAD ACCIDENT

Last Saturday, Clyde. the ten-year-
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Bunday
of Hetland, was killed in an auto ac-
cident, when in driving a Ford car
he and two other boys attempted to
race with a boy on a pony on the
country road north of Hetland. In at
tempting to pass the pony, the car
went into the ditch, turned turtle, and
threw Clyde out on his head, crushing
his skull. The funeral was held at
Hetland and was attended by Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Bunday Of this city, Mr..
Bunday and the boys father being
brothers. The two other boys in the
car with Clyde escaped without any
serious injury.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
MRS. c. D. DEWING DIES

Mrs. c. D. Dewing passed away yes
terday afternoon about four o'clock,
after being very i'll for several weeks.
She has been in i'll health for some
years. and lately has been very much
worse. The funeral will tomor'
row, Friday morning. from the home
on Third e and Williams street,
at 10:30. and the Rev. Paul Roberts
of st. Paul's Episcopal church will Of
hciate. Interment will take place In
Greenwood cemetery.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
MOVES BACK TO COUNTY

Henry Schmidt, who sold out in
Brookings county two years ago and
went to Spearfsh. in the Black Hills,
has returned to the county and will live
near Bruce on a farm he has rented
He was in this city yesterday morn
ing with a carload Of goods on his
way to his new home. His many
friends are glad to e the family back
among their old friends.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-03
LIBERTY
LOAN IN COUNTY
REPORTS ENCOURAGING THAT
eROOkiNGS COUNTY WILL
DO HER DUTY
SEVERAL PRECINCTS NOT YET REPORTED
One Day Drive And Readiness OF Peo-
Pile To Sign The Cards Indicates
. That All Are Loyal

The county chairman, M. E. Gull
hane, cannot give out any figures as
to the amount Of Liberty Bonds
bought in BroOiings county. as a mum
Der Of the precincts have not yet sent
In any report. The general idea of
having the subscriptions closed up In
n day worked well in the county
and there was an almost unanimous
readiness to have the ard ready when
it was called for by the collector. It
is certain, however, that the one day
drive plan will enable the Ninth Fed
eral District to be able to clean up
on the matter far ahead of the other
districts where such a plan was not
In operation. At least two-thirds Of
the county is in and from this to judge
the balance Is bound to bring the quo
ia UP over the top. This of course
is true il some of the people and some
Of the precincts do not fall down and
do not do their duty in the buying.
The percentage of complaints are few
compared with the number of sub
scriptions, and these are being han
died by the board of review in such
a way that 1t seems as IL there could
not be one refusal in the county. In
reviewing these allotments, changes
were made, some were lowered and
some were raised. New people whose
names were not down, came in volun-
tarily and signed for the amounts that
they should take. To the explanations
of the board as to the way in which
the matter was to be adjusted there
was but one real mutiny. and that
was apolOgized for the next day and
the party did his duty like the good
Brookings city there are a number of
small buyers who have not yet been
e e and in cleaning up these odds
and ends of the campaign it may take
the balance Of the week. It Is hoped
that by next week the good new may
be assured that Brookings county has
done the best she knew how.
Nothing can more clearly emphasize
what this action means to the boys in
France. than this little poem, written
to help boost the sale of bonds:
WHAT is THE LIBERTY LOAN?
It's forts and it's ships and it's shin
ing guns.
It's s%quadrons that sweep the a
It's all of the circling band of steel
That shall keep all the home shores
free.
It's grub and it's warmth for the sailor
lad
Far out on the wintry foam.
For the brave jack tar, as he fights
afar,
It's the good old Money from home"
It's rife and helm and it's bayonet,
It's shovel and shard and shell
For the soldier boy in the olive drab,
Out there on the edge of hell.
It's the soaring wings of the whirring
planes
That battle on high alone.
For the lad who is daring "Over there"
It's the good old Money from home"
It's succor and life for a bleeding
world.
It's the glimmer of Peace at dawn.
It's the strength Of a mighty arm to
strike.
It's the CLEAN of a great sword,
drawn.
But. more than all. it's the pledge of
love
To the lads whom we call "Our own"
To the boys on land, afioat, on high,
It's the good old Money from home"
Ralph E. McMillin.
---W. s. S.
Evening star., 1918-09-24
Story illustrates Point.

A little story will illustrate. Not
many days ago, an American officer
came back from France. where he had
participated in the u-Thierry
drive He wore three wound stripes on
his right arm and two service chew
rons on his left arm. Although year
above the age of the first draft IN
Evening star., 1918-09-24
TRUSTING IN SENATE VOTE,
SUFFRAGISTS PLAN GLEE
Upper House to Go on Record
Thursday-Women to Aid
Loan Thereafter.

Already it has been decided that
whatever form jubilation over the
passage of the federal suffrage
amendment. should the Senate vote
favorably Thursday, may take for the
two million members of the National
American Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton. it will be turned to the imme-
diate account of the pending liberty
loan drive. At Suffrage House, the
headquarters of the national associa-
ton, confidence that the amendment
will be passed on Thursday mounted
so high today that jubilation plans
were considered very much in order.
There was unanimity Of opinion that
woman's hour of triumph should mean
new fund Of enegy let loose for the
fighting fourth" and a detailed plan
to that end is being worked out.
Members of the national association
who are in Washington today intent
on the passage of the amendment are
but awaiting that passage before
speeding away on liberty loan work.
Nearly all the suffragists at Suffrage
House are women high in liberty loan
councils. In all a dozen members of
the nationals board hold important
positions on war committees. Suf-
fragists all over the country see a
special coincidence between the ex-
pected vote on the 26th and the open
ing of the liberty loan drive on Sep
tember %.
1T means" says Mrs. Gait, the ma
tionai ASSOCIATION president, "a vast
fund of energy released for the needs
of the war, once the handicap of
disfranchisement is removed from
women"
Evening star., 1918-09-24
HURT, BUT DIRECTS MEN !
UNTIL LIFE Is TAKEN
Lieut.. Col Pike Shows Unusual
Fortitude and Bravery With
American Forces.

By the Associated Press. ;
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON
THE LORRAINE FRONT. Friday, Sep
-tember 2o.-wounded In the arm dur
ing the battle for Wanderers. Lieut..
Col. Emory ]. Pike Of Des Moines, di-
visional- machine gun ohfcer. insisted
upon remaining in command on tho
field, and did SO until mortally wound
ed by a shell several hours later. This
was on September Is. and the officer
died the next day and was buried in
French cemetery nearby.
Officers say that Lieut.. Col. Pike
consolidated the machine gun posi-
tions when the situation became seri-
Gus for the Americans, making possl-
BILE the capture of Wanderers without
serious losses to his own forces.
Lieut.. Col. Pike, who was a West
Pointer. received his mortal wound on
Hill AT while assisting a wounded
private to a place of safety. After
his first wound he not only continued
to command, but wrote messages for
regimental headquarters relating to
the progress Of the battle.