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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-06-06
Local and Personal
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j. F. Brooke. Local and News Editor, Phone Ii

Paul butcher left Monday evening
for a business visit to Wisconsin.
Watch our window for specials on
Home needs. Cornell Electric Co.
Miss Martha Lindsay left on the
morning train Wednesday for a visit
to her home in Redfleld.
Monday evening Mrs. R. A. Storm
and daughter, left for Morrill,, Wis,
to make a visit with relatives of Mr..
Storm, who live there.
Miss Mildred Schoenwether left the
latter part of the week for Columbit
River, Wis, to visit for some time with
her uncle, w. A. Dutton.
| am over-stocked with lawn now
ers. In order to reduce stock to prop,
er size will sell all lawn at
reduced prices for 10 days. j. L. JAR
Wis.
Mrs. c.. J. Bro of Lake Preston,
passed through Brookings Monday
evening on her way to visit in Wiscon-
sin. Mrs. Bro is a sister of Mrs. A. j.
Schoenwether.
Mrs. w. l.. Mall and children left
last Thursday for Belle Pain, Iowa,
for a visit with relatives and friends.
They will later join Mr.. Mall in the
new home at Huron.
Miss Bernice Happier, mother and
sister departed Wednesday morning to
spend the summer at Waterloo. The
sister, Mrs. Bagley, of Cedar Rapids,
has been visiting in Bookings for
some little time.
Miss Kate Slightham, who has been
teaching in Wisconsin, arrived in
~Brookings last week to enter the ex-
tension work. She is the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. S%lightham, former
residents of the city, now residing in
Minnesota.
Miss Winifred Catlett returned Sun
day from Grand Rapids, Wis, where
she has been teaching in the city
schools. She was joined in Minneapo-
lis by Miss Margaret and they spent
a couple of days visiting and returned
together.
Harmon Kopperud and j. Raymond
Triton, both 1918 graduates Of State
College, arrived IN Brookings Tuesday
in charge of a group of boys from their
counties. Mr.. Kopperud has enlisted
in the aviation and expects to leave
June 10th for Berkeley, Calf.
Miss Mabel Bitterness returned Tues
day evening from Mortified, Mimi,
where she has been attending st. Olaf
College the past year. Miss Florence
Bitterness, who vas also at st. Olaf,
went around by way Of Garretson to
stop off and attend the wedding of d
friend.
NJ. Z. Culhane has received a letter
from his brother, A. F., who has been
at the training camp at Camp Custer,
Mich, saying that he has received his
commission as a second lieutenant and
been ordered to Camp Lee, Va. He
tells, among other things, of the great
things the Red Cross is doing for the
soldier boys.
Professors H. B. Mathews, B. B,
Bracket, J. A. Bonnell and H. G. Sol.
berg went to Minneapolis Monday
evening and will spend several days
getting an insight into the methods
and plans in vogue at the University
OF Minnesota and Dunwoody Institute,
for the training of the soldiers that
are to be sem to State College for in
struction. Tuesday evening four more
of the faculty left for the same pur
pose.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-06-06
CARD OF THANKS

To our neighbors and friends we de-
sire to return our sincere thanks for
their kindness and sympathy manifest
ed at the death of our beloved husband
and father. Also for the beautiful
flowers.
Mrs. Geo. Chapman,
Claud Chapman and Family.
Mrs. VIM. Sloan and Family.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
TIOGA BUSINESS MEN
HOLD ANNUAL PICNIC
Tub Race of Councilmen
Among Features-Cirl Rum
ner Breaks Arm

tub race between three Common
Counciimen Of the Forty-third Ward
was one Of the features Of the patriotic
field day outing of the Tioga Business
Mems Association this afternoon at
Hunting Park.
The contestants were Thomas Bluett
Henry Wolfe and William Scargle.
There were many other exciting events
for all. No one seemed to mind the
heat, and many good records were made
in the sack. potato, egg and spoon and
other novel events.
During a seventy-five-yard dash for
girls Margaret Donnelly, fourteen years
old, 1922 Kerbaugh street, stumbled and
fell and broke her arm. She was taken
to st. Luke's Hospital.
Several thousand residents of North
Philadelphia attended the big picnic, and
each received a souvenir
The souvenirs, contributed by the
business men, included everything lIse-
tul and ornamental.
The proceeds will be used to provide
comfort kits for the soldiers of the
ward and also to give them a good
send-off when they leave for .camp.
The committee in charge is com,osed
or Michael Walker. Edgar R.. Hobsor
and John Shuster -,
Tonight there will be a big Libert,
sing as a concluding ceremony
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
FRENCH MARKING TIME
BRINGING UP SUPPORTS
Special Cable to Epening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1918, BY Neto York Times Co.

With the French Armies, Aug. IA.
As Indicated by the communique the
battle has entered a new phase, phase
Of German resistance, and the French,
to some extent, are marking time to en-
able supplies and supports to be brought
up.
In the first army the situation has re-
mained to all intents and purposes sta
tionary but work Is being carried on ac-
lively on the roads by Italian laborers
and French engineers, who are busy re-
pairing bridges and generally facilitating
the advance.
Montdidier is little more than a heap
of ruins, even the cellars having been
destroyed by gunfire
A significant note throughout the
army is the absolute French predomi-
nance In the air. No German airplanes
being brought down, while on the major
.sportion Of the front the German artillery
1s silent On the French front generally
/ II can be stated that enemy aviation has
Fshown little activity.
The enemy is showing signs -ot recov-
and has brought up fresh reserves, which
are trying to re-establish the broken
morale of the German troops in the sec
tor and hold to the old positions Of the
1915 line.
There is one well marked and very
encouraging feature in which for the
most part is a stabilized situation. In
the Thiescourt sector the line runs to the
west of the st. Claude farm and around
the Belle Assisse farm. At the ST. Claude
farm the Thiescourt position is seriously
compromised on the west. for the farm Is
q good mile west of Moreuil. while near
Belle Assisse farm the French have sue
ceeded in obtaining a considerable foot
ing on the southern portion of the noun
famous mass of Thiescourt
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
King PINS MEDALS
ON OUR FIGHTERS
British Sovereign Decorates
Generals Pershing and
Bliss and l9 Others
UNPRECEDENTED EVENT

With the British Army on the. Picardy
=. battlefront, Aug. Is tdelayed). ....
For the first time in history United
States soldiers were personally decor
sted by the King of England today.
Honors were conferred upon General
John J. Pershing, the American COM
mander-in-chief; General Tasker H.
Bliss, four lieutenants and fifteen SOL
diers, amid impressive ceremonies.
The decorations were In recognition of
bravery shown by the Americans when
they helped the British capture Hamel
(on the Picardy 'front.' from the Ger
mans on July 4.
A rousing reception was given to King
George by the doughboys. There were
flags, music and cheers and an impos-
ing detachment of American soldiers and
British officers stood by while the cere-
monies were in progress.
The Americans stood In line while the
King fastened the medals upon the la
pels of their coats, afterwards shaking
them heartily by the hand and con-
graduating them upon their bravery and
patrlotiSin
Nine of the honored Americans were
in the hospital where they received their
insignia.
Afterward a number OF Australians
were decorated.
The nineteen Americans Of the rank
of lieutenant and downward who were
honored were:
Lieutenant Frank Schraw. Lieutenant
Albert G. Jefferson, Second Lieutenant
Harry Yagle, Second Lieutenant Michael
Komorowski, Sergeant James E. Krum
Private Christopher Keane, Corporal
Thomas A Pope. Corporal Andrew C
Shabinger, Corporal Lester c. Whitson
Corporal Raymond H: Powell, Private
William F. Linsky, Private Harry Shell
ly, Corporal Albert c. Painsipp, Private
Fred r Wilkins, Sergeant Frank A
Kesjane, Corporal John DeSmidt, Ser
geant A. Erhard, Corporal II. Zyour'
and Corporal j. Sweredo.
All were from the Middle West, chief
ly In the region of Chicago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
DECLARES BOLSHEVIKI
DECEIVED RUSSIANS
By the United Press

Washington, Aug 14.-Russian peas
ants are. rapidly awakening to the
danger Of German aggression and will
soon renew the war in the belief of lead
ing Russians here, including Alexis F.
Staal. prominent in the Kerensky gov
ernment, who has just escaped to Amer
lea after months in hiding from the
Bolsheviki in Russia.
THE Russian people are being unde-
ceived as to the purposes of the Ger
mans in making the Brest-Litovsk
treaty" Staal said today. They were
misinformed by the Bolsheviki at the
time the treaty was signed and did not
realize that it was against their inter.
est.
When they are fully awakened as
they probably will be by the new Gov.
ernment, they will be glad to renew the
fight against Germany If 1t seems tech.
nically practicable from military point
of view"
Mystery surrounding the new pro.
visional government in the northern
provinces was cleared by Staal ~ "
Tchaikovsky, Liberal leader nationally
known in Russia, Is president Other
members of the government are former
delegates to the, constituent assembly
who were elected last November under
universal suffrage and, therefore. ac.
cording to Staal represent virtually ali
classes of the Russian people.
Tchaikocsky, who is nearly seventy,
has been a lifelong leader in movements
of the Russian people and was one of the
fathers of the revolution. He is a friend
of Kropotkin, the famous Russian radi-
cal, and also of Kerensky, who Is soon
to go to Archangel to help establish the
new government.
Russians here expect Tchaikovsky's 5
government to spread throughout Rus
sia. Kerensky is expected to lend his
support.
Staal was chief attorney of the Court
of Appeals in the Moscow district under
the kerensky regime.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
GERMAN GAME is UP"
CAPTIVE OFFICERS SAY
"Can't Win Now" Shows Depression Caused by
Defeat-Transport Is Foes
Big Problem
By WALTER DURANTY

are inevitable when any extenslve
transport operation Is in progress. Al.
lied airmen are ever on the Watch anc
the moment a tie-up occurs II Is sls-
nailed to the airdrome and bombing
squadrons assail the point immedi
ately. No discipline can face a mass
attack from the air and the resultan,
confusion often blocks important
functions Of railroads or highways for
several hours.
1t is essential unless the morale o1
an army is to crack completely that
the wounded be evacuated from the
danger zone without delay. Nothing
depresses soldiers SO much as the
sight of injured comrades uncared 1oi
or in pitiable circumstances, for eacr
man thinks that may be his fate be.
fore long. Imagine the task of re
moving 10000 wounded along a DOM
barded transport system!
New Forces Are Needed
Meanwhile, new forces of resistance
must be grouped in the rear to mee'
the unremitting pressure on the pat.
tlefront. That sums up the .tactica
position at this moment. The enemy
Is clinging desperately to ground witf
every available man, gun and machine
gun " SlNS thhS w
solid resistance later, probably fur
ther back.
The Allies in return are occupied
in reducing the front-line positions as
rapidly and inexpensively as possible
The battle for Thiescourt Wood MOS
sif, called little Switzerland, whicf
is now in progress is a mos'
salient example. This Massif defends
the Roye and Lassigny line in the cen.
ter.
The first move of the French was
to advance along the Matz Valley
north Of the Massif to Canny-Sur
Matz which is dominated by the Loges
Wood. Here the Germans launched
furious counter-attack Monday after
noon, accompanied by a very heav!
bombardment, in which gas predomi
mated. The French managed to retair
their hold on the greater part OF the
wood, but further progress was SLOWED
up for the time being by the enemy's
superiority in numbers and weight O.
artillery.
Further south the French took Curry
and held it against strong attacks
It's occupation gave flank protection
for the next move, an attack on th'
Saint Claude Farm, on the edge o
the western crest Of the Massif, tt
which 1t Is the key.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
us. TROOPS HOLD
LINES ON VESLE
Beat Off Foe in Six-Hour
Fight When Two Attacks
Meet
ONCE FORCED TO RETIRE
By EDWIN l.. JAMES.

Special Cable to 'Evening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1918. bu' NeD York Times Co.
With the American Army in France.
Aug. IA. 49,.
With the evident desire to maintain
their front along the Vesle, perhaps
more for propaganda purposes than
strategical reasons, the Germans Mon.
day launched two violent attacks
against the Americans north of
Fismes. One of these attacks met an
attack which was being made by the
Americans and bloody fighting fol-
lowed. The net results Of six hours
of fighting leaves the line just where
1t was before. One hundred and nine.
ty-two dead Germans were counted in
! = small region where temporarily they
forced their way into our front line.
We launched an attack of a local
nature just before dawn. Our force
had moved forward about a kilometer
when at 8 O'Clock they met a German
attack in force which, as the artillery
work gave evidence, had been prepared
before. The two forces met and before
superior numbers we retired to where
we started from. The Germans kept
up their artillery work on a large
scale until 10 o'clock, when they
launched an attack of a violent nature
against the line between the Bois du
Diable and Fismette, using much gas
| and fame projectors. The Americans
had gotten up re.enforcements. The
German onslaught carried them a few
| yards inside our line, but they were
repulsed with considerable losses and
we maintained our lines intact.
The Germans had been ordered to
retake Fismes. orders which, of course
were not carried out, Some of their
| snipers, under cover of darkness, got
across the Vesle into the outskirts OF
the town, but they were eNterminated
by our men. -''
The enemy kept up a harassing ar
tillery fire all day, which continued
Monday night. Considerable gas was
sent over.
German aerial activity continues
marked. With an apparently limitless
supply of planes they for the time have
air superiority over the Americans or
the Vesle front. '' .-F '.'~>'sa.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
AMERICAN WOUNDED NEGLECTED
BY GERMANS, WHO LACK SUPPLIES
Britsher, Who Escaped From Boche Prison Camp Gives
Vivid Description of Treatment by Foe-Now Safe
in American Lines
BY EDWIN L.'JAMES

road system built by the Germans in the
Soissons- Rheims salient was constructed
by 1000 Russians and a number of Eng
lish prisoners of war. He said the Eng
liSh also were used for harvesting the
wheat, back of the German lines.
asked Purvis to tell me exactly what
the Germans fed him. He said that at 4
o'clock In the morning, when they started
to work. they received one pint of "cof-
fee" made from hawthorne berries. Al
o'clock that got one pint of soup made
from dried vegetables, and at 6 o'clock
coffee" again Each day they re-
ceived three-fourths of a pound of black
bread. which smeled like swin and felt
like rubber.
THE boche is In a terrible predica.
ment." he said. They use substitutes
for all foods and for everything except
three things-men, guns and ammuni.
ton. Thank God. they can't get sub.
stitute for these"
Purvis said that the morale of most OF
the German troops was deteriorating
He also said that the success of the
Americans was worrying them.
Exciting Time in Escaping
Purvis and his partner had an exciting
tihit vi august q, wnen Jney
started out to work, 1t was nots ye
light. He and White slipped into some
bushes and hid In a dugout all day
That night they walked toward the
south. They kept this up until Monday
morning, when they got in front of the
American lines.
Dressed in dirty German prison garb
they looked in the early morning ligh
like German infantrymen. An American
doughboy rushed at Purvis with a
bayonet. Purvis grasped the rifle anc
got it away from the American, wht
leaped upon him with his fists. Will
White looking on, they rolled about il
, the mud until their profanity causes
each to recognize that the other was no
a German, for Purvis thought that afte
his seven days flight he had run into :
German patrol. while the doughboy
thought he was trying to repel a Ger
man attack. When they recognized on,
another the American escorted the tw,
Tommies back to his mess and fed them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
CALLS THRONE CRAZE,
4 POLICY OF CRIME
BY the Associated Press

Amsterdam. Aug. l4.-Discussing the
Vaccinations going on in Finland and
the Baltic provinces to provide thrones
for German princes, the Socialist news
paper. Vorwaerts, OF Berlin, gives out a
note of warning.
'"The new thrones to be erected in the
east are not only threatened from with
in, but from without" the newspaper
says. ''rhe world war Is not yet ended
The new monarchies are based on the
quicksands of the Brest- -Litovsk peace
and he who desires TO make the Russian
border provinces a branch establish
ment of the German dynasties must con-
sequently acknowledge as their aim the
military domination of the world by
Germany
This craze for thrones in the east
shuts the door upon a peace by under
standing and stakes everything on q
military decision, The question inevitably
arises whether the situation in the west
justifes such policy"
Elsewhsre = this ise9e vsEwssrts
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-14
Special Cabletto Evening Public Ledger
COPYRIGHT. 1918. bv NeU York Times Co.
With the American Army in France,

SpecIdt CdbfetfO Erentng PH0HC LedgeT
CopprIoht, 1918. by Neso York Times Co.
With the American Army in France,
Aug. IA.
While the German Imperial propa-
gandists are spreading lies alleging mis-
treatment of captured German wounded
by the Americans, I got some first-hand
information today about how the Ger
mans treat American wounded
My information comes from Corporal
NJ. p. Purvis, Of the British army. who
was captured at Craonne on May 27 and
who, escaping, entered the American
lines near Fismes Monday. The prison
camp in which he was held Is at RAM
court. thrty-five kilometers northwest
of Fismes and near the main railroad
which ran from the German Soissons-
Rheims salient. The work he did took
Purvis onto this railroad. He said he
saw American wounded men on fiat cars.
They told Purvis they had been wounded
seven days before. Purvis said G5O
words deleted here).
The Germans were very short of
medical supplies and all they had were
used for their own soldiers. There were
no anesthetics for the wounded prison
| ers They haye almost no cloth bandages
but paper ones are used instead, even
! for their own wounded. X
--GHwounded. American prisoners also
are treated terribly, as are the English.
| Around the prison camps he had seen a
number Of signs "Gott Strafe Englan nd "
After the Americans helped to drive
back the Germans from the Marne, some
| of these were changed to "Gott Strafe
| America"
Russian Captives Not Freed
Corporal Purvis was bank clerk be-
fore the war and is an intelligent man.
I believe the utmost reliance can be
| placed in his story All he said was cor
roborated by Private Isaac White, of the
British army, who escaped with Purvis
Purvis also revealed that while Ger
mans who were captured by the Rus.
slams are fighting for Germany in Rus
sia, the Russians who were captured by
the Germans were kept In prison camps
and used as laborers by the German
army
Purvis said that the elaborate rail-
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FOE HURLS $4,000
RESERVES IN BATTLE
BY the United Press


With the British Armies In France,
Aug. 14.--Crown Prince Rupprecht's
hold on the west side Of the Somme and
the Nesle-Noyon Canal remains extreme
ly uncomfortable.
The British Fourth and the French
First and Third Armies maintain their
heavy pressure from Albert to Ribecour,
and. although General Won der Marwitz
ana General Won Hutier are profiting to
the fullest possible extent from the old
Somme lines. along which parts of the
Battlefront now run, their armies are
daily smi,ten by the Allies heavy artil-
lery.
Almost third of the thirty German
divisions identified on this front are
from General Won Ludendorff's precious
~ guarded reserves. (Thirty divisions
comprise 4e5, 600 men, The reserves,
=therefore. number las ,000.) Despite the
high commands recent order to conserve
Man-power to the limit, no alternative
UAs open but to throw every available
naan. including orderlies, cooks and Off
cers' servants into the line to slow down
the Allies advance or perish.
But for the desperate measures ap-
piled to secure at least temporary re-
lief far greater disaster would have
e1oosd in upon the Germans and every
thing west Of the Somme and the Noyon
Canal would have fallen
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FIERCE STRUGGLE
OVER ROYE ROAD,
Germans Make Obstinate
Stand in Woods With
Machine Guns
BRIDGES ARE DESTROYED
Foes Resistance Stiffening,
but Allies Are Gradually
. Improving Positions
By HENRY W, NEyINsON


Special Gable to Evening Public Ledger
Copyright. 1913. bv NeD York Tsmes 90.
With the British. Armies, Aug. II.
again made a long Journey through
Amiens. down the straight road that
ieads. to Roye. though one still has to
stop some miles short of the town
because the enemy holds the ridge
and the wood commanding 1t.
1t appears to me that for distinc-
ton the recent push Of four days
should be called the battle Of Roys
ROAD for, although the southern
boundary Of the Fourth Army's action
mad been in the neighborhood Of that
road, yet the cooperation Of the
French beyond, and as far as Mont.
didier, makes the road a kind Of cen.
tral radius to the great arc from Der
nancourt, on the Ancre, southwark.
When l passed over it the road was
quieter, and for the last few miles,
from about Quesnel onward. it was
almost ominously deserted. The soil.
tude warned one that the enemy's re-
SANsNhSo was idIueIllIS ana INaL MS
artillery or machine guns commanded
the main approach. This warning
was soon justified.
A series Of overgrown trenches
crosses the road, marking the Allied
lines after the battle Of the Somme.
Standing in old No Mans Land,
some distance in front Of last years
trenches and about four miles from
Rovet, one could understand the situ.
alton fairly well. Close at hand upon
the eft or north of the road were
some small woods that conceal the
villages Of Parvillers and Damery;
and that the enemy still occupied both
was evident from an occasional sput.
ter of machine.gun fire in our direc.
ton.
almost omniously deserted. The soil
tack from Parvillers toward Lesquo.
noy, which lies barely mile west of
it, but, as a soldier coming out from
the line remarked to me, HE wasn't
no good against our barrage."