The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-08

~SenSeIeSS. MI. SlSSOn lay IN the Hel(
for several hours before he recovered
sufficiently TO drag himself to tn,
house half a mile away. His left arm
was paralyzed by the shock, but he i!
gradually recovering the use of tina
member. The harness was stripped
completely from the horses. The fam
lily was in Redfeld at the time attend
ing the circus.
Mitchell is to have a country club
At a meeting held last week a perma
nent organization was formed and the
following officers and directors elect
ed: President, DR.. G.. G.. Kimball; vice
president, J. +. Anderson; secretary
Paul Young; treasurer, Joe Belts: ad,
d"itional directors, Charles Shannon
William Smith, Robert Burns. These
officers will hold over until the annual
meeting of the club. Plans were dis
cussed, and it was decided that
grounds should be procured at once,
and a club house costing in the neigh
borhood of $500 should be immed-
lately erected. A golf course will be
laid out under the direction of Prof.
Fred Bartsch, the golf expert Of the
Aberdeen Country club. This course
will be in readiness for play early next
spring. The membership of the club
will be limited to 100, and already
nearly this number of signers has been
secured to the charter roll.
Old time residents of Faith were
shocked recently to hear of the suicide
of Joachim Bruhin which occurred in
Los Angeles, Cal, several days ago.
Mr.. Bruhn left Faith about a month
ago, having been advised that his
mental condition demanded that he
get away from business cares and
financial worries. Before the man
took his own life he wrote several let.
ters, giving explicit directions as to
what should be done with his property
"in case anything should happen" The
deceased resided near Faith for about
eight years and has always been an
exemplary citizen and a good neigh
Dor. 1t is thought that he took the
European war very much to heart, as
he had two brothers upon the German
firing line. The body has been shipped
to Faith and interment will be made
in the local cemetery.
While Miss Helen Clark. daughter of
Mr., and Mrs. N. w. Clark of Redfeld,
was peaceably entertaining a young
man caller the other evening during
a thunder storm, a bolt Of lightning
struck the house, entering the room in
which the young people were sitting.
knocking the young uncon-
sciOus. The family revived the girl in
a short time, and today she is little
the worse for her experience. Plaster
was knocked off the walls, and wall
paper was scOrched by the violence
of the bolt, but no fire resulted.
Judge Elliott of the United States
district court for the district of South
Dakota has just handed down a de-
cision to the affect that every home
stead owner is entitled to a home
stead in the value of $4,000 when the
value of the land exceeds 5 5000 above
the mortgages on it, should he seek
liberty from his debts in the bank
ruptcy courts. The judge further held
that the bankrupt has the right to Sc
lect the land on which the dwelling
house is situated, in the value of S.
600. If the homestead and other lands
are sold to satisfy the mortgages, the
other lands must be first sold to salts
fy the mortgages and the homestead
can only be resorted to when the other
lands are not sufficient to satisfy the
mortgages. If more is realized than
is necessary to pay the mortgages,
liSh lhC oulu vi Po,OOV lluSL uISJ De
paid to the bankrupt as his homestead
exemption, before the rest can be ap-
piled to payment of his general credi-
tors. The decision of Judge Elliott re-
verses the holding of Jemru A. Null
Ter who as referee in the case of John
j. Steensland. a farmer in Lincoln
county, held that the value of the land
and not the value of the claimants in
terest in the land was the measure of
the amount of land which could be
set off to him as his homestead. This
decision would have the effect of de-
priving all of those who have mort
cages on their homestead quarter Sec
ton of a proportionate amount of their
homestead, and in many cases destroy
the homestead exemption entirely.
L. Markeseth, formerly treasurer OF
Bossko township, Roberts county, is
being held to the July term of circuit
court under $1,000 bonds on the charge
of embeZzling $1.S75 from the treas