The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-12-23
STATE NEWS

STATE NEWS
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Christmas should mean more this
year to j. L. Heron than heretofore.
He has been serving a nine months
sentence in the state penitentiary for
adultery but word was received that
Governor NorbeCk had issued to him
a Christmas pardon, following a time
honored custom Of chief executives to
set at liberty some one among the
prisoners who appears to merit their
freedom. So Heron will have the
right to return to Brown county a free
man with a chance to serve society
better hat he has done in the past.
officers throughout the Black Hills
are keepnskY2fch for Mrs. Fred L.
Grub, W lew days ago escaped
from p5Sy \of officers at Sun
dance, Where she vas being
befk Of a bond of $1,000 as
a W Cohne & Russell store
robbV dndance some time ago.
1t is sd the woman came 10 the
Blacl on horseback and may be
in hiding IN some remote portion of
the hills. tsome believe she may have
taken a train nj of the country.
Nevertheless, a persistent search will
be made in every nook and corner of
the Black Hills for her.
The South Dakota Sheep and Wool
Growers association will hold a con
vention in Huron February "a. Elec-
ton of officers and the big banquet
will be features. The Commercial club
has volunteered to help entertain the
visitors. A ,number Of the prominent
growers of Beadle county volunteered
to furnish mutton for the banquet.
The South Dakota rural credits com
mission is being flooded with applica-
tons for loans. During the first ten
days in December a total of 357 appli-,
cations were received requesting an
aggregate of 81, 619, $50, and others
continue to pour in. The commission
has approved loans t~otaling 5000, 900
since January /, 1920, and Is doing
everything possible to relieve the
farmers at the present time, but Is
about at the point where another
block of bonds must be sold to OBJ
tain money for lending. In the past
the commission has succeeded in plac-
ing the bonds at a moderate rate Of
interest, and does not anticipate any
great difficulty in a new issue. How
ever, the rush for loans will cause
delay in the passing upon the appli-
cations.
A state drainage commission to
have general charge of drainage work
in. the state and provide for uniform
regulations governing the Sioux, Jim
and Vermillion river valleys Is to
be proposed before the January leg
islature by representatives of the
James Valley Relief association. Res
olutions have already been adopted
for presenting to the governor, asking
him to incorporate the suggestion in
his message to the legislature. 1t is
planned to have a strong lobby at
Pierre urging the necessity of uniform
flood relief.
Unknown persons last Wednesday
night broke into the w. A. Hubner
store in Avon and carted away mer-
chandise valued at $4,000. Blood
hounds were taken from Mitchell and
put on the trail Thursday afternoon.
No trace of the highwaymen has been
found.
The state of Ohio called upon Pro-
fessor Quinn of the American branch
of the state educational department,
to go to that state at their expense
to tell what is being lone in hat line
in South Dakota. While In Ohio he
was one of a committee on American
ization work who called upon Presi,
dentelect Harding.
Belle Fourche is preparing for a
municipal Christmas tree this year.
which will be the first that the city
has ever had. The festivities will be
the direction of the American
Legion post and the different churches
Of the city.
Four masked men shortly after 800
last Friday morning, raided
the Lake county Jail in Madison, drove
Jailer Thomas Sullivan into the base
ment at the point Of guns, and es-