The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-10-24

morning IOr sparta, WIS, cdlleu llelc
by a telegram announcing the serious
illness Of a sister.
Patrons of the Hotel Dyckman,
Minneapolis, are assured a cordial
welcome, uniform courtesy and the
best Of service always"
John De Boer came up from Sioux
Falls the first of the week to attend
to some matters in connection with
the r. X. De Boer estate. Mr.. De
Boer has a brother at Sioux Falls VINO
is quite seriously i'll at this time and
not expected to recover
People of the city who furnished
rooms to the Students Army Training
Corps at the opening of the term
should send statements of the amounts
due them to the Y. NJ. G. A. office,
phone 331, in case they have not al
ready done so. The college authori-
ties wish to thank the people of the
city for their assistance in this matter.
Rev. B. A. Benson has had a letter
from Clarence c. Thompson, one of
the Co. &C" boys now with the 147th
f. A. in France, and he writes that he
has been spending a %furlough period
in the French and Swiss Alps. He had
a pleasant trip and enjoyed himself
hugely, his health is good and he has
been in the thick of it during the big
drives.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. II. /.
Flittie will be grieved to learn that the
remains of their infant son vas
brought to Bookings for burial on
Monday. Mr.. Flittie is still in Camp
Fremont, but expects soon to leave for
France. Mrs. Fittie, who was unable
to accompany the remains, is making
her home with her parents, Prof. and
Mrs. Gilliland of Mitchell.
Mrs. Gertrude %Skildrum, mother Of
Mrs. Ole Amundson of this city, de-
parted this life at the home Of her
daughter in South Brookings on last
Thursday and was buried Saturday at
the rural cemetery in Moody county,
fourteen miles south of this city. Brief
services were held at the house and
also at the grave, conducted by the
Rev. B. A. Benson OF the Lutheran
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. r. Mead )ws, accom-
panied by that gentleman's mother,
Mrs. Frank Meadows and Mrs. Fred
Schale, spent Sunday in the city visit
ing at the home of Mr.. Meadows sis
ter, Mrs. j. L. Tree. Mr.. and Mrs.
Meadows are the parents OF Mrs. Ivan
Cobel and during their stay in the city
visited at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. w. Cobel. They returned to
their home at Watertown in the VEN
ing by auto.
In a talk with John Culhane, ST., the
other day we learn that his son, A. F.
Culhane, who is at Camp Lewis,
Wash, has passed the examination
has been promoted to the rank Of
first lieutenant. Another son, James
l.. Culhane, with the troops in France
engaged in radio work and has written
home lately of a promotion in rank.
These boys seem to be carrying out
the traditions of Brookings county
and making good as they help win the
war.
Guy f. Poole, born at Aurora and
who has lived much of his life in
Brookings from whence he entered the
employ of the C. & N. w. Railway,
died at his home in Huron on Sunday
of pneumonia. His serious illness was
mentioned in last weeks Register. lie
leaves a wife, three children and his
mother and three brothers and a sister
to mourn the passing Of a life well
spent in the service OF the railroad
and in acting as the representative Of
the conductors in many problems
that were considered by their national
organization. He had suffered much
from illness, having been operated on
twice, but had seemed to be in rugged
health for a while past. He ha1 a
host Of friends in Brookings and they
will have the deepest sympathy for his
bereaved relatives in this time of sor-
row. He was a son Of Mrs. Ormenta
Poole Of this city, who was in Huron
during his last days, and a cousin of
G. E.. Poole and E. q. Poole. His
brother Roy is now in France, and OF
his twin brothers, Floyd andLloyd. one
Is now in the Marines and the other
is about to enlist. The funeral occur
red In Huron on Tuesday of this week.
Mrs. w. J. Wilson, who died of pneu.
monia at Boulder. Colo, on October
10th while she and her husband were
OF a trip west for the beneft OF Mr..
Wilson's health, was buried October
18th at her old home in Spencer, Ia,
where her mother still resides. Ollie
q. Shorb was born at Spencer. in 1883
and had lived in Iowa all her life until
after the death Of her first husband
she came to Bookings three years
ago to make her home. AS Mrs.
Hendricks she made many friends.