The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-25

Geo. Alton is here from Pipestone
and will remain for a week or two.
Mrs. Alton is at Huron and Howard
has gone to war.
Miss Clara McAdam, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. o. A. Hagen,
for the past couple of weeks, returned
to her home at Swea City, Iowa, this
morning.
E. B. Wiley went to Rochester,
Mimi. this morning to consult the
physicians of the Mayo clinic regard
ing his physical condition. His
friends hope that their verdict will be
one favorable to him.
Miss Mamie Youngberg left this
morning on her return to her duties
as a nurse at Battle Creek, Mich. She
was called here by the illness of her
father, and could not remain away for
a vacation this summer, as usual.
Col. William Lassiter has returned
to the college, called here from his
vacation, to pass on the applications
of men who desire to enter the Off.
GERS training camps. His stay is in
definite. but will coincide with the
necessities of attending to these appli-
cations.
Mrs. E. P. Hall and daughter, Miss
Mabel, were visitors in the city over
Sunday on their way to their home
at Deadwood from a visit to southern
Indiana. The daughter, known here
as Miss Wanda, has been married
and moved to Indiana, and her moth
er and sister were there paying her
a visit. While in the city they were
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
l.. Chappell.
Mrs. Myrtle Blakely-Kueller recent
ly received word that her husband,
Stanley B. Kueller, Organization 18th
Construction Company, A. S. S. c.,
has arrived safely overseas. Since
enlisting as a private in the ground
mechanics division of the Aviation
Corp, Mr.. Kueller has been honored
by being chosen as a member of a
group of one hundred and ten skilled
mechanics who we're picked men Sc
Ilected from five different regiments
and were detailed to do skilled labor
in France, in response to a special
call issued by General Pershing.
John Murphy and Harvey Perkins
returned this week from their auto
fishing trip to the lakes of Minnesota.
They have expressed disgust with the
friendliness of the fish at Green Lake,
saying that they are not at all soci-
able. But a trip to another lake fur
Their on gave them plenty of sport.
They must have had a good time,
from the color of their skin and the
size of their muscles, and a little
active exercise is good for men en-
gagged in ~sedentary pursuits. We can
testify to the fact that they had more
than "fsherman's luck" as two fine
bass graced our table as the result.
That the action of Geo. P. Sexauer
in asking for an extension of time for
his son, f. II. Sexauer, in which to
get ready to obey the draft call does
not meet with approval on the part
of some in the community was evi-
denced Tuesday morning when it was
daubed over portions of the mill OPP
Grated by Sexauer & Son. Z. II. Sex
auer has a statement in this issue of
the Register in which he gives his
side of the matter. No one seems to
have seen the painting job done and
while there is much conjecture and
speculation with some guesses, no one
can be charged with the blame or the
praise of the act, according to which
ever way you look at it. Mr.. Sexauer
called on the mayor of the city the
next morning to protect his property,
out was ADVISED Dy MIN Una ne COulO
not find men to take such employ
ment. The air was full of talk yester-
day afternoon as to other proposed
methods Of expressing disapproval by
the people who believe that justice
has MOI been done, but nothing hap
pened. Mr.. Sexauer in the meantime
had called on the states attorney and