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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-06-13
RED CROSS NOTES

The executive board of the Brook.
ings County Red Cross met in the Red
Cross rooms at the court house, June
4, at 4 o'clock. Those present were
Mrs. Harding, chairman; Mrs. SEVERN,
secretary; Mrs. Stoll, Mr.. Haroldson,
of Bookings. Mrs. Hoff of Volga, and
Mrs. Swartling of Sinai. Bills amount
ing 10 $1,934.89 were allowed.
The committee in charge of the
Iowa picnic, to be held June II, had
requested the local organization of the
Cross to take charge of the re-
freshment stand. A committee of two,
Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph, were appoint
ed to superintend this matter. Pro
ceeds of the sales are to go to the
Red Cross work.
The question Of purchasing all sup
plies from Division headquarters was
discussed. In view of the fact that
Independent purchasing by the Red
Cross Chapter has brought about a
difficult situation in the markets for
gauze and wool, it was moved and
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LETTER FROM FRANCE

Edwin L. Void, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
I. NJ. Void, now in France with the
lOlSt Engineers. writes the following
entertaining news from the BOYS at
the front:
Dear Mother: Just a few lines TO
let you know | have received one of
your letters at last. 1t was one you
sent me at Washington Barracks on
Feb. 16. but | was glad to get it, |
can tell you. | expect some addressed
to this regiment in a short time as
one of the boys that came across with
me got four today. He lives in Bos-
ton, so his folks heard from him a
week before mine got to you. 1t sur
makes a fellow feel good to hear from
his friends back there.
| was surprised to hear that Mr..
Coleman was improving, as | thought
his case was hopeless. He Is certain
ly lucky TO have such a plucky little
woman.
Well. this isn't as bad as you would
think, and we are al as hard as nails
now so w can keep happy in spite
of everything. We have a pretty good
place here-a Y. NJ. C. A. and Saliva
ton Army, sc we have a place to loaf
III the evening-read. write, etc. 1
can tell you We think a lot Of the Sal
walton Army owe here and the plucky
girls that have come here to carry
1t on. | saw a truck load Of Red Cross
girls yesterday on the road home from
work and they were all smiles as il
they were on their own back porch
at home. If a fellow like myself could
be yellow after seeing them over here
well, l certainly would despise him.
Well, you all knew how | felt about
this war after the u. s. got into it.
hope everyone feels as | do, that
| am glad | am able to serve the only
country worth living in. Your son,
Pvt. Edwin l.. Void,
Co. "E" 101st U. S. Engrs., American
f. F., France.
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COMING FUEL FAMINE

Chicago Tribune-It is wise to urge
every consumer to order his coal i'm
mediately. 1t is wise to urge and to
enforce every possible measure Of
fuel conservation. They will all be
bitterly needed. But it is also wise
and necessary to point out that the
whole blame for the fuel famine, which
is now already looming must be laid
at the door of the United States rail
road administration.
A fuel famine is almost certainly
coming because not enough coal is be-
ing dug to supply the needs of the
country during the coming year. The
coal is not being dug because the rail
road administration does not send to
the mines enough empty coal ears to
haul = away. There are other causes
which contribute to the loss Of produc-
ton, but they are minor. Most of
them grow directly out of the short
age of coal cars at the mines.
John p. White, former president of
the United Coal Miners union, now
labor adviser for Fuel Administrator
Garfield, says the 100000 members of
his organization are eager to work full
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FROM FLORIDA CAMP

Jack Nrenegor writes a short letter
to the Register from the camp near
Pensacola, Florida, where he is sta
toned, as follows:
Dear Mr.. butcher: You may be
interested to know that | am getting
along first class since | was indicted
INTO service and am very much pleased
with the way things are here. First
class grub, etc, and a very nice bunch
of fellow bandmen, who show me all
the courtesy they can for an amateur.
They are all men of wide experience
and some have been in service nearly
thirty years.
The fort here is a very pretty place
and is Of great interest. 1t is very
common to see forty or fifty sea
planes overhead at any time of the
day and one gets so you pay no at
t@ention to them.
Have seen several submarine chas.
ers at a distance and have also taken
a ride on the Gulf on one of the big
boats. There are about five thousand
army men here and five thousand navy
men, n about 1900 seaplane men.
There is a ship-building concern
here, also of great Importance. The
weather here stays between 80 and 80
degrees and they say it gets warmer
in the summer. They call it spring
now. Makes me think of the coal I
burned last winter.
Please send my paper and a couple
OF back ones if you can, would like
to know what is going on up north.
Trusting this finds you as busy as
ever, am, very sincerely yours,
Jack Vrenegor,
Sth Band Fort ~Barrancas, Pensacola,
Florida.
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offertory and Miss Grace Makers rem
dition of Perfect Day was delightful.
Immediately after congratulations the
wedding party returned to the brides
home where a delicious wedding
breakfast vas served to the immedi-
ate relatives,
The bride has been a successful
teacher in the Bushnell school for sew
eral years. Her friends are legion
and her place in the hearts of her
pupils will be hard to fill. The love
and interest of the former pupils of
the bride were shown in many ways
especially at the depot when they put
on a flag drill making a double file
through which the wedding party
walked to the train.
The groom was for several years
a resident of this county and is a
young man of good habits and high
purpose. He is well liked and has
proved himself worthy the girl he
has won. This young couple start
on LIES journey together, with the
fluctuations Of all who know them.
Many beautiful and useful gifts were
presented them which will serve as a
constant reminder of absent loved
ones. They departed Immediately for
new home at Lucerne, Kansas,
which they will live. We extend our
hearty congratulations on this happy
event of yesterday. ***
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NTERS

Wednesday morning at 1870 a very
pretty wedding occurred at the church
of st. Williams in Aurora when Alice
Mae, second daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
James Bane. became the wife OF VIII
liam Winters of Lucerne, Kansas. in
the presence of about one hundred
guests, Rev. +. X. Dooley officiating.
The bride was attired in a gown
fashioned of white chiffon over. white
net and carried a bouquet OF Brides
roses. She wore a veil caught with
lilies of the valley. Her sister, Miss
Ellen Bane was bridesmaid. Her
dress was green crepe de chine trim
med with rose buds, and she carried
arm bouquet of Sweetheart roses.
Vincent Bane, brother of the bride
as best nan Miss Rose Lynch
of Bookings, and Mrs. Gail Seas,
cousin and sister of the bride, served
as 'ushers.
The music was rendered by St.
Thomas choir of Brookings. Mrs.
Ella Evans sang Ave Maria at the
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL

Frank Sherwin returned yesterday
morning from a business visit to Min
neapolis.
Miss Nettie Bogstie left this morn
ing for Grover to spend ONE time
visiting her aunt residing there.
Mrs. w. l.. Paul and Miss Winnie
left Sunday for Mound, MINI, on the
shores of Lake M~innetonka, where
they will visit for a month or more
with Mrs. Paul's sister, Mrs. Roth.
Mrs. ]. f. Heardley arrived Tues
day from Pipestone, Mimi. and joined
her husband here. They have rented
the Williams cottage, corner Third
street and Fifth avenue. Mr.. Heard
ley is the tailor at the "Cleanest
Cleaners"
Miss Agnes Hall of Minneapolis,
field secretary for student work of the
Y. w. C. A., and Miss Rhoda Foster,
field secretary for county work, are
in the city this week counseling with
the teachers at the institute regarding
the work that can be accomplished
through the school system co-operat-
ing with the Y. w. c. A. in moral
teaching.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. S. Wyckoff left
this morning for Marathon, Iowa, be-
ing called there by a telegram an
nouncing the accidental death of Ma
Particulars Of the fatality were not
given. Mr.. Hawke has spent lots of
time visiting Brookings and has many
friends who remember him as the
youngest looking ninety-year-old per-
son around here.
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time, Sundays and holidays to get out
the coal. Endorsed by leading coal
mine operators, White declares that
want of cars to haul coal is keeping
thousands of miners idle nearly half
the time in most of the western and
southwestern coal fields.
The $1,000 miners of Illinois alone
says White, who mined only go. 900 900
tons or coal last year, can dig $50.
100000 tons this year and are anxious
to do it. They cannot get the cars
to haul the coal.
II there is a disastrous coal famine
next winter the public NAV as wei,
get 1t clear now that it will be caused
by the failure of the railroad admins.
tration to furnish the necessary coal
cars this spring and summer.
That there will be such a Goa fam.
inc is clearly indicated by the fact
that the weekly production of coal so
far this year has fallen a million tons
a week behind the estimated require
ments of the country.
Meantime the man is a fool who
does not order at once all the coal
he will need for the next year. Even
If it is necessary to borrow the money
to pay the bill he can find no better
investment.
Get your coal in now or get ready
TO freeze next winter.
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on execution of the official sugar GER
tificate issued for this purpose, which
will be supplied by the dealer and
must be returned by him to the Fed
eral Food Administration within one
week of its execution. There are no
exceptions to this rule.
c. n. Herreid,
Federal Food Administrator for South
Dakota.
Aberdeen, S. Oak.
June 18th, 1913.
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GENERAL FOOD REGULATIONS

Wheat Flour and Substitutes-Deal
ers must not sell more than 2412
pounds of wheat -four to town Gus
toners, nor more than SO pounds to
rural customers, except west Of the
Missouri river Except Gregory coun-
ty) where rural customers may OBJ,
tain up Is one barrel. In all cases
they must sell an equal amount of the
Substitutes" with all wheat -four
sold.
The sale of wheat flour and the sub
s~titutes must in all cases be substan-
italy n transaction.
Cornmeal, made by farmers at home,
may be treated as a substitute, but
the customer must satisfy the dealer
in writing that he has such cornmeal
and will use it for human consump-
ton pound for pound. with all wheat
flour purchased. Such statements
mus. be kept on file by the merchant.
There are only fifteen substitutes
for wheat -four. These are: Buck
wheat flour. corn meal, corn flour, edi-
Bile corn starch, potato flour, sweet
potato flour, hominy (dry, not canned)
corn grits, barley flour, o y bean
flour, f~eterita flours and meals, rice,
rice flour, oatmeal, rolled oats.
Breakfast foods, canned goods, etc,
unless they are specially named in the
above list Of substitutes must not be
considered as substitutes.
Wheatless days (Mondays and Wed.
nesdays) and meals (every evening
meal) apply only to public eating
houses.
Individuals are urged to use wheat
-four only at the rate of six pounds
per person per month.
M~eats-There are now no meatless
days or meals, but the Food Admins.
tration requests that the consumption
of all meats. including poultry, as
nearly as possible be reduced to two
pounds per week per person over four
years OF age. The two pounds repre-
sents the weight of the meat pur-
chased from the dealer and not the
weight of the meat after excluding
bones and trimmings.
Sugar-Sugar should be sold to
town and city consumers In not more
than five pound quantities; and farm
and rural customers in not more than
ten pound quantities; except west of
the river. outside of Gregory county,
sugar may be sold to rural customers
residing within twenty miles of the
nearest store or trading point in not
more than twenty-five pound quanti-
ties, and to rural customers living
more than twenty miles from the
nearest store or trading point in not
more than fifty pound quantities.
individuals are expected to conserve
sugar in every way possible and are
restricted to three pounds per person
per month for all uses. Public eating
houses are also required to conform
to this rule.
Sugar may be secured for canning
and preserving purposes only. in addi.
ton to the amount secured for ordi-
nary household purposes. In a quanti-
ty not to exceed twenty-five pounds
for each household for the season up
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CLOSING NOTICE

To the Merchants: At the request
of the Iowa Association, | would sug-
gest that the business places of Brook
ings be closed on the afternoon of
Monday, June 18th, from one to five
o'clock, in order that we may assist
our farmer friends in making the
Iowa Picnic and Red Cross Sale a
grand and complete success.
AS many of the members of this
association are close ~neighbors and
friends of Brookings and liberal pat
rons of our merchants, it will be no
more than fair courtesy for us to help
them make this patriotic demonstra-
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carried that it be the unanimous
opinion of the executive board that 1t
is more patriotic to purchase supplies
through division headquarters than IN
dependently, until We are informed
that the conditions warrant doing 9TH
erwise.
The meeting adjourned.
Mrs. H. c. SEVERN,
Secretary.
Donations received during may:
Anonymous, $1.50; Eastern Star (for
Apri), $500; Lutheran League col
lection, $S1.55; Royal Neighbors,
$16.76; Methodist Ladies' Aid, $500;
Miss Cory, $1.00: Trenton district
school, $101.25; Lutheran church or.
gan fund, $26.55; union services NJ. E.
church, $31.43.
Brookings Red Cross is short On its
order of irregular sponges and paper
backed pads. 1t is urgent that more
time be given to the work in the sur
gical dressings classes that we may
not fall short of our allotment.
The monthly allotment for knitted
garments puts B~rooFings County
Chapter down for $50 pairs of socks
and 10 helmets each month for June,
July and August. This is a call for
II "a .-l hi. -. - IT.
we fill our quota.
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CHURCH NOTES


There will be preaching service in
the Baptist church Sunday morning,
but no service in the evening. A good
attendance Of the members is desired.
Everybody is welcome.
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ton an event long to be remembered
as of the best gatherings of peo-
pie held in the whole county. | cor
daily invite you to join in this mani
festation of our good will and friend.
ship. w. II. Leighty, Mayor.
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HER DESCENT ALL RIGHT

Mrs. Lowerstrat-"Is there any
doubt about her having descended
from the Pilgrim Fathers?"
Mrs. Uppercrust-"There may be
some doubt about the genealogy but
there is no doubt about the descent"
Judge.
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BACCHUS ALSO RAN

Il am afraid that your son is a fol.
lower Of B~acchus," said the preacher
who was calling o mold Gotrox.
"A follower" exclaimed old Co
trox. "Why, he caught up with that
guy Bacchus and passed him years
ago!"-Milwaukee Sentinel.
The evening leader., 1918-09-06
RED CROSS FEEDS ALSATIANS
Three Thousand Who Escaped in First
Weeks of War Are Being
Cared For.

Washington.-Three thousand loyal
Alsatians who escaped across the from.
tier in the first weeks of the war when
the battle line swayed back and forth
across southern Alsace, are now being
fed with American food They are
quartered in nineteen villages safe on
the French side of the war zgne where
American troops are now stationed.
They lost all their property three
years ago and what little money they
had was soon exhausted. With the in
creasing cost of living and the inability
OF their French neighbors to continue
to help them, their situation became
desperate. In answer to the appeal
from French societies interested in
them, the American Red Cross has Just
shipped food to the nineteen villages to
provide half the daily rations of these
5000 Alsatians for ten months.
The shipment included 13, 200 hounds
Of condensed milk, 13,200 pounds Of
flour, 1.100 pounds of sugar, 5000
pounds of dried peas, 2,2O0 pounds Of
rice and 5000 pounds of timed meat,
The evening leader., 1918-09-06
SpO|LING HUNS SLEEP
DesuitOry Combing Distracts
Antiaircraft GunnerS..
Drop Two and Fit Away; When Fritz
Settles Down, Wake Him
Up Again.

Behind the British Lines in France.
One of the most exciting tasks to
which airmen are. assigned is 'desul-
tory bombing over one spot for an
hour or more. The object is to dis
tract the attention of the antiaircraft
defenders of given district.
A machine carrying dozen or more
bombs is employed for the work. The
airman, a pilot and an observer ap-
proach their target cautiously. With
engines throttled down, the craft glides
nearer and nearer.
Below all is quiet. No German
searchlights are sweeping the sky.
When the attackers are almost over
their object rocket rises and bursts
into cluster of red stars.
The machine has been discovered.
At once six or seven searchlights throw
their beams aloft. The pilot looks at
his watch; it is time to begin bombing.
He flies steadily on, although bar
rage of bursting shells lies now in
front of him. The observer looks
through the wires of his bomb sight.
He thrusts his lever forward and re-
leases two bombs. A few seconds
later he sees the flash of their explo-
sions, and hears two dull roars. He
signals to the pilot and the machine
sweeps away from the fiery ring of
shells and searchlights.
A few miles away the airnlanp flies
to and fro at top speed. The puzzled
searchlights vainly feel the sky in all
directions and then, one by one, are
switched off.
Then the pilot quickly returns to-
ward the target. Another bomb is
dropped. AS it explodes the search
lights reappear and the barrage is re-
newed while through the shell bursts
are threaded the chains of green fam
ing globes so much used by the Ger
mans.
Again the machine flies away and
this time to bewilder the soldiers be.
low, the observer fires white Verey
light, which slowly drifts down and
fades out. All the searchlights follow
it until it dies.
Repeatedly the airmen return to the
attack. Bombs are dropped at inter
walls until the end of the hour, when
the machine departs, Pickering fires
and clouds of smoke telling of the
havoc wrought by the bombs.
The evening leader., 1918-09-06
BRYAN AND DEWEY ENLIST
John Hopkins Also Recently Joined
United States Marines at Kan.
sas City.

Kansas City, Mo.-William Jennings
Bryan, George Dewey and John Hop
kins recently Joined the United States
Marine corps here. Lieutenant Horn
botsel, In charge, says he is now look
ing for Woodrow Wilson to enlist.
Bryan is farmer hailing from
Waxahachie, Tex, weighs 1873 pounds.
and was pronounced a perfect speci-
men of manhood.
Dewey halls from Niobrara. Neb,.
and his actions were prompted by a
marine poster on which Admiral Dewey
told of what he thought of the Marine
corps.
Hopkins claims no relation TO the
famous man for whom the famous med
,ical college and hospital We're named.
He explained his action by merely say
ing: II can fight and l want to-
The evening leader., 1918-09-06
DON'T TAKE AN UNFAIR AD-
VANTAGE.

At the citizens meeting Wednesday
night, the new shipbuilding managers
asked the people to help the enter
prise by MOI raising prices out OF rea-
asson because of an unusual demand
u fault with many places favored by
some enterprise that suddenly brings
in a lot of new people and big pay
roll. Property in Tarpon Springs has
been and is very low in price consid-
ering it's bis business from three large
industries-sponge, fish, and ship
building-al.d its unexcelled attrac-
tions for residence winter ana >, -
mer. Compare the prices asked for
lots and rental property in other coast
towns Of about 4,000 population and
there can be no charge that property
in Tarpon Springs is high, bat COM
paratively low in price. But be sure
of this: it won't be any cheaper.
The evening leader., 1918-09-06
FRENCH LAUNDRiEs ARE FINE
American Soldier Says the Only Trou-
BILE Is Getting Your Own
o Clothes Back. -+E~

New York.-"French village laun-
dries are wonderful places to the
American soldiers" writes r. J. Kirk,
a former Pacific Coast newspaper man
now doing duty over there, to an old
time friend here.
"In fact, every French hamlet has
a municipal washhouse," he continues.
sit is generally stone shed built over
running stream. Here the old
French widows wash the American
soldiers clothes. Soldiers are sup
posed to wash their own clothes, but
not many of them do it unless it is a
long way from payday, or else they're
leaving most of their francs with the
paymaster in the shape of Liberty
Bonds, wives allotments or similar
payments.
$50 most of the 'soldats Americaine'
let the old French women do their
laundry. They do it good enough and
cheap enough, but getting back what
the soldier sent there to have washed
is another problem. The old ladies
take the socks, olive drab shirts and
underwear of half company, souse
them all together in creek, drag them
out, hit them with a paddle on the
wooden horses, then pile them and
tell the soldiers to come and get them.
VOLTA, Messieurs' (There they are,
gentlemen).
The first man to arrive gets q full
wardrobe. In fact, if he happens to be
bit INSCRIPTIONS he's likely to get
enough duds to last him over the win
ter. The last man need not go at all;
he'll have only his bill to pay"
The evening leader., 1918-09-06
NUMEROUS MURDERS
AND ROBBERIES IN
MEXICAN OIL FIELDS
CONTINUED from page ID

Continued from page ID
j. H. Brooks and Charles Horsman.
occurred June % in the Panuco river
region. The two men, field employees
of the Aguila Oil Company, have just
been discharged from the hospital at
Tampico. They were shot several
times and hacked with machetes.
According to travellers stories,
foreigners in the oil region are forced
to perform their work in desolated re-
gions without protection, not being
permitted to carry arms. In many of
these outlying districts, they say, is
much anti-American feeling, which is
constantly inflamed by German a
gents.
Except for one weekly paper in
Tampico, published in English, there
are no pro-ally publications in the oil
regions, the field being monopolized
by pro-German sheets. 1t is ex-
termely difficult, according to the
travellers, to get the real facts of the
oil region situation into print
The Mexican government troops, they
asserted, contrary to official state
ments, have not succeeded in subduing
Manuel Pelaez, the rebel leader re-
ported allied with the forces of Felix
Diaz, and Pelaez still continues to
levy tributes on the companies south
of Tampico, driving away any govern
ment troops that might attempt to
hinder his operations.