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Evening journal., 1918-10-08
MILITARY GUARD AT
WITSIL FUNERAL

The funeral OF Corporal Lawrence r.
Witsil, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wit
sill, who died at Camp Meade last Fri
day, was held at 4 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon from the home Of his parents,
No. 7O6 West Twentieth street. Inter
ment was made at Riverview Cemetery.
A military guard from Camp Meade at
tended the funeral.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
FLU" ADDS TO HUNS WOES.
By the United Press.

BY the United Press.
GENEVA oct sone hundred eighty thousand new CASES
of Spanish influenza the army a'eorini
to official dispatch received Berlin today.
A Vienna dispatch say, Hungarian newspapers report w.
cases in Budapest
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
TODAY,S TEMPERATURE.
sun AND TIDES.
Mouth OF the Chrisliana.
LOST AND FOUND.

Cf0LEN~YELLow AND WHITE FE,,
- male collie dog; answers 10 name of
Betty, property Of W. r. s. Glass. Lyric
Theatre. Party who stole dog IS known
and unless returned within FIVE days pros
.cution will follow Return to Mrs De-
aney, PA East Third street. Wilmington.
octJ-6t.
Continued on Page Twelve.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
WOMEN CANCEL MEETINGS

Noble Grsnd Mary Y. Adams. OF
Naomi Lodge. r. d., No. 3. /. o. o. F..
announces to members that there viii
not be any meetings OF the lodge until
the ban placed on public gatherings by
the Board Of Health has been lifted.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
EXPRESS COMPANY ASKS HIGHER RATE.

BY the United Press.
WASHINGTON oct s-Hearngs before the Interstate Com
Commission opened today the application Of the
American Railway for its rates
The sufficient produce
proximltey si2OooO0o revenue
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
MARYLAND BOYS wOUNDED,

The names Of William II. Troger, Of
White Hall. Md, and John r. Windsor,
OF Nottingham. Md, both privates. are
reported in today's casualty list as hav-
ing been severely wounded in France.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
by the United Press.


WITH THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY.
Oct. S.-The Germans are squeezed
tighter in the Argonne pocket. as the
result of the capture OF Chatel-Ihehery
and the heights west Of the Aire In yes
terday's furious all day battle.
Hills $50 and pa were stOrmed, rob
bing the Boche of dominating positions
overlooking the Aire and simultaneously
closing in tighter the east flank of the
ArgOnne salient
The enemy artillery ON the heights
west of the Aire was captured In less
than Ave and One-half hours eficr the
American attack started. One division,
in the last couple days captured eight
as and seventy-ilve machine guns, in
10 a Belgian field piece which
was being used by the Boche.
A considerable movement nOrthward
of German artillery and supplies has
Continued on page two)
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
By the United Press


WASHINGTON, Oct S.-Presiden Wilson understood
this afternoon have reached conclusion his reply the
Teuton notes The State Department give the
conference at o'clock at which hour anticipated the reply
outline of it would be forthcoming.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
AMERICANS SQUEEZE FOE in ARG0E POCKETRB ARMY BEFORE NSH
FIRM REJECTION OF
KYTEUTON NOTE
MAY BE THE ANSWER

President Discusses Offer from
EUery Viewpoint Before Making
Reply to TeiitOns. AnsiUer May
Go FOrtUard Today. Turkish Offer
Not Yet Received by Washington.
Churchill Asks, is NeiU German
Government One of Repentance
or MdneuUer?
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
6 MEN LOST In
COLLISION AT SEA
BY the United Press.

BY the United Press.
WASHINGTON. oct. s.-Six men were
lost when the steamship Westgate was
sunk in collision with the steamship
American, the Navy Department was in
formed today.
The American Is proceeding TO port
with the survivors.
The collision occurred about 500 miles
from the American coast.
The Westgate, $500 gross ton cargo
ship, was in the naval overseas trans
portation service.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
BY the United Press.

WASHINGTON, Oct. S.-The Italian
steamship Alberto Treves was torpe-
doed October 3. about 300 miles from
the American coast. the Navy Depart
ment announced today.
Thirteen survivors have been picked
up by the steamship Orixaba. Two
other boats with q men are missing.
The Treyes was vessel OF 1898 gross
tons and was owned in Genoa.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
T5ixE THfnTfffFf B5.sTF=s

By the United Press.
NEW YORK Oct s-rhriynve bodies have been taken from
the ruins Of T. A. Gillespie loading plant at Morgan J. dso5ci
early saturday by explosions according to announcements made
today
The total number Of missing the disaster is placed at
xf OF III. 700 buildings comprising the plant thirtynve
were totally destroyed officially stated
Gasp- rejecting theory that the initial explosion o
Cured in the amoto kettles loading expressed the be-
lief the disaster might due nadverten act the
part Of one o the operators.
Evening journal., 1918-10-08
YANKS-BRITISH
HIT HUNS AGAIN
ON Wide FRONT
Make Progress on 25-Mile
Line Between St. Quentin
and Cambria
French co FORWARD
NORTH OF Rheims
BY the United Press.

BY the United Press.
LONDON, Oct 6.-British and Ameri-
can troops attacked between 81. Quen-
tin and Cambria before dawn this morn
ing, Field Marshal Haig announced.
Despite a heavy rain satisfactory"
progress was made
'In successful local operations yes
terdsy in the neighborhOod Of Mon,
Brehaln and north Of Beaurevoir, Amer
lean and English troops took $50 pris-
oners," the statement said.
shortly before we attacked between
ST. Quentin and Cambrai. In spite OF 9
heavy rain which commenced last night
and Is still continuing. First reports In
dIcate satisfactory progress was made. "
The battlefront between st. Quentin
and Cambria Is about 25 miles long.
Recent dispatches showed the Ameri-
cans operating in the BeaureyOlr-MOnt
region, at the farthest point OF the
Allied advance.
By the United Press
PARIS, Oct. s.-French troops ad-
vaneed about a mile In the region OF
north of Rheims yesterday reaching the
village Of Conde. at the junction OF the
Suippe and Aisne, the War Office an
nOunced today.
Bazaneourt, eight miles northeast OF
Rheims, was captured and Isles-Sur-
Suippe. a mile east OF BaXanc0urt, was
penetrated.
''In the region of 1t. Quentin there
was artillery activity last night" the
said.
"On the Suippe front we reached the
borders of COnde We also penetrated
and took Dazancourt
lespite violent but unsuccessful Ger
nan counter attacks"
Evening journal., 1918-10-08

A feeling or security goes with
CLOVER DAIRY MILK.-Adv.
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hhA MAKE NO MISTAKETHE WAR is NOT WON=BUY BONDS Ahh
WEATHER

Fair and slightly warmer to-
pight and Wednesday; light
eost tonight in exposed
olaces; light variable winds
bacoming south.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12

living son, and my living daughter
were born, and where they are being
given the same educational facilities
that | had.
my country: The place that took
me, the son of a poor Swedish immi-
grant, and lifted me to positions of
responsibility in the state of Mime
sofa and which has given me so much.
my country: Which did so much
for my father, and so much for my
mother, so much for my sisters and
brothers, and for me, and which has
done so much for you and your peo-
pie.
My country, at war with a foreign
power, is entitled to my support and
your support; and any man born here,
or who came here, who does not give
the full measure of his support to my
country in this crisis, is not a true,
honest citizen of the United States"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12

ley Jr. Company is noted, as evidenced
by the copy" now running on a fire.
quent schedule in the Register, wei.
come, Mr.. Wrigley, and we hope our
local merchants will be heartened by
his energy.
Also, Mr.. Wrigley, may We commend
your attitude of injecting a strong pa.
triotic note in your advertising, in
stead Of the usual sales talk about
"Wrigley's" being great for appetite
and digestion? We understand the
soldiers and sailors are taking most
of your output and that we at home
will have to chew our Wrigley's a lit
tie longer. All right. The flavor
lasts" anyway, and We won't have
TO go completely without, judging
from the stocks of your goods our
merchants are apparently able to
maintain in spite of wal and high wa
ter.
We agree with Gen. Sherman in his
definition Of war, and we also agree
with Mr.. Wrigley in his statement that
We must win this war and that until
we do nothing else really matters.
In this connection, may we be per.
to remark that newspaper
space is receiving earnest attention in
these days of momentous news, and
that the columns of the Register are
just as valuable as they eve were, if
not more so, in stimulating good will
and in maintaining the prestige of the
the trade marks and the names
set forth herein.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
THIS o A

Whenever the German falls back
some fool hollers peace" Whenever
there is a proposition in the papers
reported as coming from the Teutonic
nations for a conference on peace
aims, then some other weakened
party yells there is peace in sight"
II you want to know what the boys
who are fighting think about this mat
ter read the following from their pa
per published by them and express
ing their opinions, the Stars and
Stripes Is their organ and represents
them. We must get their view point
if We would face them like men:
"Peace-with part of the loot still
in his possession! Peace-with only
a thought of German gain or German
victory through craft or deceit! Peace
with the hidden knife ready for its
sudden and ~treacherous thrust.
Peace! In the A. E. F. there will be
no thought of peace, no whisper of
peace, no dream of peace until the
Hun is beaten to the dust.
The fighting lines sweeping their
way forward through machine gun
fire are not talking of peace.
THE fighting lines and the workers
through the s. o. S. are not thinking
of peace. Their single thought and
dream is victory. They see ahead
through the battle smoke only a saw
age enemy to humanity whipped until
he is ready to quit and take up his
share Of the work for civilization.
Let the weak hearted, who are
dreaming Of a compromise
Let the pacifists, who are talking
OF peace by agreement
Let the side liners, who have had
enough war
Let the secretly inclined pro-Ger-
mans. who think this great tragedy
should end without a decision
Let them one and all know once
and for all that for the A. E. F. there
is no such word as peace with the
Hun unbeaten. The man who talks
of peace today. except through VIC
tory and uncor ditional surrender of
the Germans, is a traitor. He is only
fit to face the firing squad"
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A PLEA FOR

A mar of foreign parentage, Chas.
e. Elmquist, who lives in the St. Croix
valley of Wisconsin, writes the fol-
lowing thoroughly loyal resume of the
situation of many of the citizens of
the United States. 1t will be well
worthy of study by those of foreign
birth:
Most OF US car trace our ancestry
to people over the water. There are
very few of us who are native Amer
leans. But all of us live here, all of
us believe in our country, and all of
us are willing to sacrifice all we pos
sess that our country may live and
that civilization may be preserved.
MY country is at war, and your
country is at war.
MY country: The place where l
was born.
My country: The place where as
a boy played up and down the hills
and valleys Of ST. Croix Falls, Wis,
and was happy all the day long.
my country: The place that pen
ed up to me the doors of the common
school, and enabled me to get the
same education as the boys of the
rich.
my country: Which gave to me
the opportunities Of the high school,
and of the university. and permitted
me to get those accomplishments
which have fitted me for some of the
more important work in this country.
my country: The place to which
father came in 1868 from Sweden,
and where he worked for a year and
a half on the construction crew of a
railroad, to earn money enough to
send across to Sweden to get my moth
er and my four sisters and my broth
err.
my country: The place to which
my mother. and my sisters, and my
brother, and my father came, expect
ing to live a better and a happier life.
my country: The place where l
married the girl of my hearts choice.
the place where my little boy was
born. and the place where he rests
beneath the sod.
My country: The place where my
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
NURSES ENROLL

In order to comply with the urgent
demand for nurses abroad and the
consequent necessity of filling theil
places at home, the Red Cross is ask
ing for every one available to enrol
at once. Those 10 years old or ovel
wishing to go to a nurses training
school will please enroll with Mrs
r. l.. Patty, or at Tidball's Pharma
cy.
Every graduate nurse, whether
married or single, actively engaged
in nursing or retired, is asked to en-.
roll for service either military or
home defense, with Mrs. A. S. Hard
ing, who will also enroll those desir-
ing to take a short course in Home
Care OF the Sick"
We expect to start this home course
consisting of fifteen lessons in prac-
teal nursing, as soon Is the text
books arrive. The instruction will be
in charge of a competent graduate
Red Cross nurse. We are hoping a
response to these three calls
the patriotic women of Brook
ings county.
Mrs. A. S. Harding,
Chairman Brookings County Chapter
Red Cross.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
II CROW'S-NEST

Facial C~amouflage" is what they
call it now, the excessive use Of face
powders. Insofar as 1t is meant to
deceive the use of the term is appro-
pirate, but as to its effect in produc-
ing low visibility it is not a success
1t is going to cost some young women
a lot of money to keep it up when the
new war tax goes into effect.
@ @ @
The sugar card regulation is pro-
ductive of some amusing features.
When a family gets its exact number
of cards and a visitor happens to drop
in for a few days stay it often re-
suits in a shortage of the family's
sugar supply towards the end of the
month. Instances are reported where
families have been without sugar for
several days until the new cards were
available.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
II ENviED

Stars and Stripes (France)-Your
old pal who is cussing his luck be.
cause he is on the Mexican instead
of the Lorraine border writes to you:
Gee, but you boys must be going
fine. from all / hear! Gosh, how
envy you!"
That friend of yours who is fight
ing the war OF the navy side writes:
Gee. but you guys are lucky to be
able to get a crack at EN- at first
hand! Gosh, how I envy you!"
Your kid brother writes: Gee, I
wish l was a soldier. too, with the
A. E. F." And so 1t goes.
There never was an army in history
more envied by the people that sent
1t forth than Is the A. e. f. There
Is not a single American. IN the SER
vice or out Of it. who would not change
places with any one Of us at a mo-
ment's notice. There lie not q single
soul In the states but looks to us.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
RED CROSS WORK REPORT

The following is a report of the
Red Cross work shipped for the
months of July and August and made
a shipment of tw~enty-nine boxes to
the headquarters at Minneapolis:
Argo Auxiliary-49 pairs socks.
Aurora Branch-131 paper-backed
pads. 18x23; 40 paperbacked pads,
10xlS; SO cotton pads, 14x20; 25 com
presses, SKI; 50 triangular bandages;
10 abdominal b%andages; 55 many
tailed bandages; 10 comfort bags; 20
bed shirts; 38 pairs socks.
Brookings and Library Auxiliary
JAG cotton pads, SKIP; 654 cotton pads,
14x20; 2 paper-backed pads, 10x18;
317 oakum pads, 10x1S; SS1 COM
presses, SKA; 1876 irregular sponges;
122 drains; 200 front line packets
rs property bags.
Laketon Auxiliary-45 bed shirts;
16 comfort bags; 10 pairs socks; 70
oakum pads, 8x12.
Oak Lake Auxiliary-14 pairs socks,
II bed shirts.
College-29 cotton pads, SKIP; IS
oakum pads; 26 p~aper-backed pads:
z split irregular pads; IL scultetus;
20 shot bags; Ill congresses, SKA
95 wipes, AKA; 118 irregular sponges;
80 wipes, 2x2; % 3-yard rolls.
Bruce-275 congresses, SKA; 100
cakum pads, SKIP; 3 scultetus; 1925
irregular sponges; s triangulars: 10
boys suits; % bed Jackets; 81 bed
shirts; 4 dresses; 81 pairs socks.
Bushnell-206 congresses, SKA; 30
large paper-backed pads; II muslin.
envelopes; % triangular bandages;i
"a pairs socks; 10 bed shirts; So wash
cloths.
Elkton Branch-86 pairs socks: 4
sweaters; IA shirts; 20 hospital bed
shirts; IL boys Belgian shirts; II
ladies' shirts; 10 bed jackets; $50
congresses, SKA; 1913 gauze drains;
"a oakum pads; IS triangular band
ages; 8 many-tailed bandages; 20
scultetus.
White Branch-100 pads, 8x12; $50
irregular pads; 243 irregular sponges;
s army pads; LOG cotton pads. 14x2O;
500 congresses, SKA; 1854 irregular
sponges; 8 muslin envelopes, 80
oakum pads; iO4 bed shirts; 4 quilts;
5 pinafores; 1873 pairs socks.
Volga Branch-S6 pajamas; $50 bed
shirts; 104 pairs socks; l pair wrist
let's; l scarf; 961 congresses, SKA;
102 cotton pads. 14x2O.
Oslo Auxiliary-12 pairs pajamas;
Is pairs socks.
Sinai Branch-255 congresses, Ski:
169 wipes, AKA; 295 irregular sponges;
Is packings; 10 muslin envelopes; 60
pads. 14x20; so pairs socks.
Lake Hendricks sweaters; 8
pairs socks; / wash cloth; refugee
garments.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
MUST KEEP 1T GOING IN SPITE
OF THE WAR

III you wanted to sell a secondhand
automobile, or rem a house, you
would put an advertisement in the pa
per and run it a few times or until
you sold the machine or rented the
house, and then you would quit.
If you were manufacturing goods or
running a store, you would maintain
your advertising continuously, because
you would not be aiming to make one
sale, but many-as many as you
could. All right. Now comes along
a war and upsets your supply of raw
material. or made-up goods, or maybe
the government takes yer your out
put or curtails 1t, thereby either ON
plete)y or partially eliminating your
civilian trade. Would 1t be worth
while to continue your advertising?
That is the question that many Of our
big industries are facing. What are
they doing? With hardly an excep.
ton they are continuing. Not with
a view Of influencing immediate sales.
Not at all. But, realizing that pres
ent conditions are going to melt back
into history at no very distant date
they are keeping alive their names
and regulations. If they discontinued
think OF the millions of dollars OF
goodwill value back OF all those trade
marks and names would be lost. or
greatly reduced. Preservation is ma
lures first law. Preservation OF pres
tige Is likewise the first law of bust
meas.
Among the larger industries to
maintain. and In fact increase. their
advertising this fall. the VIM. wrig-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
ABOUT NEW STUDENT ARMY

The faculty of State College has
voted unanimously to turn over the
girls dormitories as barracks for the
Students Army Training Corps. Girls
will DON in town. Their patriotic CO.
operation in putting up with slight in
~conveniences to help win the war is
asked by Acting President G. L..
Brown in a special letter to girl stu
dents, calling attention to the fact
that the War Department requires stu
dent soldiers to be housed together.
The college anticipates no shrinkagc
in attendance of girls because of this
condition, especially in view of the
fact that the home economics courses
for girls will be featured more than
ever before. Men in the vocational
section of the S. A. T. c.. will be
housed in the new wing of the admin
istration building.
So many inquiries relative to the
Students Army Training Corps have
flooded into the presidents office at
State College that it has become nee
essary to detail a special man and
three stenographers to handle cores
pondence and mail out circulars. This
increased interest in the S. A. T. c..
is due partly to the advertising cam
paign carried on by the college last
week in the newspapers of the state.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
ANOTHER BOY WOUNDED

In the Saturday afternoon papers
the name of Geo. /. Lunde was given
as among the missing in France, but
the Monday papers corrected this by
saying that he was wounded. 1t is
much nor comforting to know that
a man is wounded and among his
friends, than to be possibly a prison
er to the unspeakable Hun. Lunde was
in the draft and lived in Oak Lake
township about two miles from the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12

The original South Dakota plan to
register all males up to 65 years old,
has met with such approval by the
Provost Marshal General that the
state will not hold such a registra-
ton today, but every state in the
union will be called on to have such
a registration day later. When that
is over all men between IS and SIS
years will have been card indexed
and the manpower of the nation pref
ty well inventoried. The adoption of
the idea originating in the state is a
compliment to the brains of our citi-
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12
MR.. TAFT'S EXAMPLE

Lincoln Journal-From an office
whose windows give a glimpse Of the
white house a former master of the
white house this week decreed that a
factory in Schenectady, N. Y, must
raise the wages of its scrub women
from $3.50 a week to $10.50 for five
hours work a day. Week after week
former President Taft, in his capaci-
ty as one Of the two chairmen Of the
wal labor board, works away quietly
at his task Of ads"e+ing labor diff
ficulties in order that the wheels Of
industry may not be stopped by labor
Quarrels while the war is on. His
training as a Judge gives him peculiar
capacity for this work, and his fam
Gus good humor has been particularly
effcacious when. as often happens,
employers and employees come before
him in a state of hot antagonism to
each other. Only occasionally does
the board of which Mr.. Taft is a men,
Der fail In its efforts to adjust labor
troubles. The ~reactionary attitude Of
the president Of the Western Union
Telegraph company caused one such
failure recently. and as a result the
telegraph and telephone lines of the
country are now in government con.
troll. This ex-president. working
faithfully at what his hand has found
to do in the way of war service, is
one OF the evidences of the democra-
cy 1T the heart Of America.
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@w. s. so

The Sioux Falls Press has been
purchased by w. C. Cook, former
owner, who now succeeds the man
who bought him out. c. L. Dotson
has been in the newspaper business
for seventeen years and his with
drawal marks the passing of an able
writer and keen business man. Mr..
Cook is well and favorably known to
the fraternity and will give the peo-
pie of the state a good paper.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12

This department Is edited by Mrs. Ria L
Ziegler and anyone having social news OF
interest Will confer a favor on the Register
by 'phoning Mrs. Ziegler. 316.
B. r. A.-Seven ladies which we
will call B. F. A., were royalty enter
tanned by Mrs. Nels Gullick on Mon
day afternoon. Pleasant social visit
ing over knitting and a delicious two
course luncheon proved very effec-
tive diversions.
Deaconess Aid Society-Mrs. c. D.
Kendall was the gracious hostess for
the Deaconess Aid Society on Tues.
day afternoon and the usual routine
of business, knitting, etc, were en-
joyed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-09-12

every day, for inspiration and exam
pie.
What do they envy us? Not our
good looks or our youth or our clothes,
but our opportunity for service, where
the service will count the most in the
deliverence of the world. 1t is a
pleasant thing to be thus envied. 1t
is pleasanter still to be worthy of it
and the admiration that provokes it.
To be worthy Of it lies within the
reach of every man Of us.