The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-08-22

G. A. Richard of White was a Sun
day visitor, calling on friends in the
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Woodruff and
children spent Sunday visiting rela-
tives at Tracy.
Dexter Cole returned home Sunday
evening from a visit made in eastern
Minnesota with friends.
Bookings Lodge l. o. o. f. will en-
terrain the Oddfellow soldiers of the
training school at State College at so.
cial session on Saturday evening il
the lodge rooms.
Miss Gertrude Deeth, who has been
visiting her friend, Edna Riley and
her grandmother, Mrs. Mary Deeth,
returned to her home at Minneapolis
on Saturday evening.
Edward Nelson, who has been an
assistant in the Western Union office
for some time, leaves the employ of
the company this week and tomorrow
goes to Huron to enter the employ of
the c. & n. w. Railway.
The young son of John Fairness, liv-
ing south Of Aurora, was thrown from
a binder Monday and had his arm
broken in two places. Prompt atten-
ton by a doctor makes his prospect
for a speedy recovery good.
George Sogn and family of Inwood,
Iowa. autoed to Brookings Sunday and
spent the day visiting at the home
of DR.. and Mrs. Ct. II. Bulbrandsen,
being old friends and neighbors when
the latter family lived at Canton.
Charles Raker, the White banker,
who went with the draft men to Camp
Dodge, is reported as being quite i'll
at the camp hospital, in a letter from
Further particulars as to the serious
ness of his illness have not been
learned.
Miss Ethel Garfield, who has been
one of the teachers in the Brookings
public schools, took the examination
for rural carrier a short time ago and
her standing was so good that she
was appointed on direct recommen-
dation from Washington. She takes
route No. /, that runs southeast of
the city.
DR.. j. r. Jackson left Monday even
ing for Red Oak, Ia, where he will
visit a sister and then go to Kansas
City to visit other relatives. The doc
tor is getting well slowly and as he
is unable to attend to his patients,
he concluded that he could rest as
well at his old home as here. He will
not be back for several weeks.
G. II. Hyde, known to everybody
in Brookings as "Harra,' has been
appointed a sergeant at Camp Dodge,
after acting as a corporal ever since
his arrival there with the drafted
men. Harra has had military training
and was a member of the college con
tingent in the Reserve officers Train
ing Corps. He is due to climb higher
within the time necessary for addi-
tional promotion.
A message Tuesday to DR.. A. w.
Hyde advised him that his son, Sergt.
L. G. Hyde, who has been stationed
at the Overland Building school in
Minneapolis, was ordered to the of
icers' training camp at Camp Lee,
and left the same evening for that
destination. Lloyd has evidently been
showing the real stuff in his duties
in the Twin Cities and this assign
ment to a training camp means his
promotion in due time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Halligan, and
children, who live west of Flandreau,
came up by auto to Lake Campbell
on Sunday and met Mr.. and Mrs. j. J.
Connolly, who were accompanied by
Miss Florence Fogarty and Miss Anne
Connolly. Together they had a fine
time at the lake swimming and fish
ing and the Bookings contingent did
not return home until a late hour.
Miss Fogarty had the misfortune to
painfully cut her foot on a clam shell
while in bathing, but is again able
TO attend to her duties at the Nolan
Drug Store.