The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-07-04

Dell Rapids. Paul Permom Salisbury,
Huron. Glenn Robert Lockhart, 909
Northeast Third street, Watertown.
Norman Maloney Dawson, Deadwood.
Merle Beaumont Whitman, WATERFOWL.
Roy Chase Follett, Sioux Falls.
In response to an appeal by Secre-
tary Lane that plans be made for re-
claiming arid, swamp and cutover
lands for returning soldiers, Senator
Sterling, Of South Dakota, has intro
duced a resolution appropriating ST..
600, 1000 for a survey of the land to be
made under the direction of the in.
terror department.
Action taken by the council Of defense
of Hutchinson county is expected to
prevent the members of the populOus
Mennonite colonies in Hutchinson
county from moving from South Da-
kota to western Canada, as it was re-
ported they contemplated doing. At
a meeting of the members of the coun-
ty council of defense a resolution was
adopted setting forth that it was the
sense Of the council that the Hutchin-
son county draft board be requested
not to issue permits to leave the coun-
ty, state or country to any man of mil
itary age. This action, it is believed,
will effectually dispose of the question
of issuing permits to the MennOnites
to go to Canada. If their young men
of military age cannot go with them,
the older c~olonists, it is thought, will
abandon their plans to leave South Da-
kota and go to Canada and make no
further move in that direction until
after the close of the war.
The Douglas county council Of de-
tense, among other important matters,
has placed a ban on daylight billiard
and pool playing in the towns of Ar
mour, belmont and Corsica. The
council of defense adopted a resolu-
ton asking the councils Of the three
towns not to issue licenses for pool
and billiard halls between July l and
December l, of this year, except to
such pool and billiard hall operators
as will agree to keep their places of
business open only between the hours
of 5 p. m. and IL p. m. of each work
ing day. The purpose Of this is to
prevent able bodied men from playing
pool or billiards during working hours
each day, when their services can be
utilized in various forms of war work
on the farms or elsewhere.
Carl B. Randkley, of Iowa City, Ia,
who recently was decorated with the
French croix de guerre for bravery
and intelligent work under fire in
France as a member of the Iowa uni
, v~ersity ambulance section, is a native
of South Dakota, having been born at
Lake Preston. His father, Andrew
Randkley, and his mother were among
the early pioneers of Lake Preston.
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triotic people of De Smet this year
abandoned their customary June field
day celebration, deciding that there
was a better place for the money or
dinarily used for the celebration. The
money thus saved will be utilized for
various war activities. Following the
action of the residents of De Smet, it
is thought the annual Sports day cele-
bration at ~Iroquois will be abandoned
this year.
Four Frankfort, S. D., men have just
been arrested on a charge of having
furnished false afidavits to exemption
boards to enable drafted men to evade
military service. The men are c. A.
Kleppin, cashier of the First National
bank, of Frankfort; Albert Refven and
NJ. A. Gillespie, merchants, and F. M.
Kuhns, a farmer. All pleaded not gull
tv and furnished bonds for their ap-
pearance in federal court.