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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
FALLS FROM HIGH BUILDING

f. +. Pierce, an elderly citizen of
B~rookings, fell from the third story
Of the new boys dormitory, which is
being built near the college by the
A. NJ. Wold-Mark Construction com
pany, last Saturday morning about 9
o'clock and was severely injured. For
a time after the accident his life was
despaired of, but it was found later
that his injuries would not prove fatal.
His right wrist was fractured in the
fall and he received many other
bruises. No internal injuries have
been as yet diagnosed. At last re-
ports he was resting comfortably with
only occasional spells of pain. The
community is unanimous in hoping for
Mr.. Pierce's speedy recovery with no
permanent i'll results.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
c

Some startling facts are brought ont
by the Investigation of the state d..
partment in connection with the at
tendance in the rural schools OF
Brookings county. In the enforcinc
of the compulsory school law the de
partment carefully went over all the
attendance records of the various
schools in this county for last year
1t was found that 70 Toys and AZ
girls were present less than 100 days
during the entire year. The average
attendance for these 70 boys was only
SO days for the entire year, The AZ
girls averaged only rs days. All Of
the boys were Is years or younger
II Of them being only ten years old
and II were but thirteen years old
The greatest number of the girls were
II and IL years old.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
COLLEGE PRESS MEETING

Thirty-three student and faculty
representatives of eight student pub
LEGATIONS of the leading educational
institutions Of South Dakota met here
Friday and Saturday as guests of
State college. This meeting of the
South Dakota College Press associa-
ton was a noteworthy N in several
respects. In point of attendance and
number of schools represented it was
probably the most successful gather
ing in the history of the association.
Members participated in the discus
sions perhaps more freely than ever
before. Every subject considered
dealt with the college paper, staff, and
their problems.
For the first time, prize contests in
front page makeup, news content and
constructive editorial writing were
held, every school with a single ex-
ception entering the contests. The
Industrial Collegian, State college.
won first prize in the page one make
up and news content and the Phreno-
Cosmian Dakota Wesleyan univer-
sity. first in the editorial contest. The
Prize winning editorial vas one en-,
titled, Get That Guy" and was writ
ten by Laren Spear. The Exponent,
Northern Normal and Industrial
school, won second in the front page
and news content classes and Huron
college second in the editorial class.
The Yankton Student, Yankton col
lege, was given honorable mention in
the news content class.
Members of the association were en-
tertained at a dinner Friday evening
and several amusement features fol-
lowed: Among those attending the
meeting were: Marion cambridge and
Carey Welsh, the Volante, University
of South Dakota, Vermillion; Clayton
Schmidt and Prof. J. c. Lindberg, The
Exponent, Northern Normal and In
dustrial school, Aberdeen; l.. Guy
Brown, The Phreno-Cosmian, Dakota
Wesleyan university, Mitchell; Robert
Lusk, The Student, Yankton college,
Yankton; Carl j. Swenson, the Sioux
Falls Stylus, Sioux Falls college, Sioux
Falls; Herman Sweet, Stanley Arnet,
Resale Challcombe and Prof. ID. ].
McGrew, The Alphomega, Huron col
lege, Huron; j. p. Snyder and Prof.
j. A. McLearie, The P~ahasapa Quar-
terly School of Mines, Rapid City; H.
Howard Biggar, the Dakota Farmer,
Aberdeen; George Biggar, Irwin
Haahr, Pearl Pratt, Einar Anderson,
Lorenz Lippert, Arthur Simon, Eliza,
beth Brown, Carl Denies, Jesse Soul
ley, Earl Welty, Norma Robbins, Elsie
Fryer, Edwin Wilson, Ralph Peppers,
Howard Powers and Vida Belk, The
Industrial COllegian, South Dakota
State college. Bookings.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
WATERFOWL LOSES OUT

Watertown Rotary club lost out and
BrOokings won in the best feed and
entertainment ever given by the local
Rotary club. Not to be discouraged
by the fac. that the visitors from Wa
tertown did not show up as scheduled
last Friday, the Brookings bunch as
sembled at the home economics de-
partment at State college and INDUCED
in a real banquet served by the cook
ing class and the instructors. The
table was decorated in A very attrac-
tive manner becoming to halloween.
The toothsome edibleS were served in
three courses. Rev. II. W. Fulweiler
presided as POSTMASTER, which Office
he filled with grace and ability. Mrs.
r. c. Rogers, f. H. Sexauer, r. c.
Rogers, Mrs. E. II. SeXauer and Paul
butcher responder to toasts in a happy
manner All present Joined in sing
ing songs and otherwise livening up
the party with jollity and mirth. After
the banquet the party adjourned TO
the armory where two teams with
Lew Martyr and John Sponsler as cap.
tain played a game Of indoor base
ball. AS was expected the best team
won. score 16 to Z, and it might be
added, parenthetically that Johns
team lost. Two members of the mu-
sic faculty, Miss Johnson and Miss
Rink, rendered sweet music which fell
upon appreciative ears. The ball
game was followed by dancing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
STATE OF TRADE

The state Of trade over the country
as reported by Bradstreet's for last
week was irregular. Cross currents
make report less one-sided. A slight
rally in retail buying due to cooler
weather or acceptable price cuts.
Farm products show quite general ad-
vances in price. Wholesale trade re-
ports ~"nibbling" demand. Industry
q~uieter and unemployment greater,
while employed labor is more efficient.
Clearings smaller. Failures fewer.
Stock markets lower with call money
higher. Prediction boom predictions
modified. Weakness in prices notable
in coke, iron and lumber. Too late
for building activity this year. Labor
costs still high. Wheat exports large.
Food index remains the same.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
TO HEAR j. STITT WILSON

J. Stitt Wilson, for three years
time has been lecturing on social and
industrial problems in this country
and in England, will deliver a series
of four addresses On Constructive
Christian Democracy" at State college,
November 8 to II. The lectures are
under the auspices Of the college Y.
M. c. A. During the past two years
Mr.. Wilson has spoken in the largest
colleges and universities Of this
country.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
LIQUOR VIOLATORS FINED

Judge w. NJ. Skinner of the circuit
court opened a session of chambers
court yesterday morning in the Brook.
ing county court house. Three prose.
cutions for violation of the state pro-
hibition law against Ole Olson, Esten
Vognild and Severt Sneve, all of Sinai,
were heard and the judge imposed
fines of 5000 and costs upon each.
Further prosecutions under this stat.
ute will be tried today. The court
also listened to two divorce suits, and
a case regarding a mechanics lien.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04

G. W. Austin and family went to
Watertown Friday to spend the week
end with relatives and friends.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04

The city library will not be open
until FIVE o'clock on Hobo day.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04

Ira Bodine Of Huron, spent Sunday
visiting relatives in this city.
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shelter from the rain was that of
the village drugstore. This was
perched on the side Of hill that
sloped down to the bank of the river.
The front of the frame structure was
flush with the cement pavement. At
the rear rough limestone masonry of
what should have been the cellar
was exposed, like the teeth of an
old man whose gums have receded.
In this basement was the sleeping
apartment of the proprietor, also
cooking range, and in the center of
the room table. Here meals were
served to few of the village bache-
lors, the barber, whose shop adjoined
the drugstore, and the proprietor's
son, who was the pharmacist. The
proprietor himself was the restau-
rant cock.
The fishermen found the way to
this place, eased off their packs and
then listened to the music of eggs
and ham frying in a pan, accom-
panied by percolating coffee, and to
hungry males who have been eating
canned camp fare of their own fix
ing for several days this, as a tune
is sweeter than "Horne Sweet
Home"
The proprietor wore a soiled
apron the strings of which were
tied on level with his armpits. for
The reason that they could not span
his waist. His hairy forearms were
as muscular as a blacksmith's. and
he seemed strangely out of place
puttering around the kitchen stove.
When the ham and eggs were gone
he produced some wonderful ice
cream from a chamber that had been
cug out of the earth beneath the
front of the drugstore. lie ex-
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ception of objects caught up in swift
fingers, and, among the men, the
inner coat with double Innings used
for the same purpose.
But most of these inventions have
long been discarded, and to-day the
essential requirement of q good
worker is patience and the ability to
take care. A shoplifter of expert
ence and judgment will try, first of
all, to get to know by sight every
detective employed in the store. He
will select the article desired and
then wait his chance to steal without
danger of detection. This means
time and patience, but usually the
object is worth it, and one good
theft successfully carried out is
worth many which are risky and
trivial. All this, of course, refers to
the professional and skilled worker;
Of the amateurs something will be
said later on.
Another favorite trick these DAYS
is the changing Of store labels. This
is popular practice among women.
The worker equips herself with an
assortment of stock labels or tags
I belonging to one store, and then sews
them on the articles stolen from the
other. In order to accomplish this
she retires after each theft to the
women's rest room, where she affixes
the bits of paper to the purloined
wares and wraps thenx in paper
with which she has provided herself.
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.H WO embroidered plodders,
whose fannel-shirted shout
IA ders strained forward to re-
sist the siXty~pound pull of
the straps of the Adirondack pack
baskets that rode their weary backs,
dumped their sodden lumberjack
boots heavily on the cement side
walks of a mountain village one
rainy day last summer. Their bait
was wrong and they had turned
their backs on the chain of tiny
lakes they had been fishing unsuc-
cessfully for several days.
In their hands they carried bait
cans and still others clattered
against their camp equipment as the
baskets shifted to the roll OF their
walk. They had helgamites by the
score, having purchased these black,
pincer-headed multi-legged lures for
five cents each from natives who
| S1liSu CllSul CODDleS. DuC Cne pass
and pickerel had spurned all that
were offered. These amateur fisher
men had yet to learn that "dob-
bic" is worthless when stuck on the
hook like ordinary bait, but usually
is most efficient when harnessed to
the hook by a couple of loops of
black thread.
The bass and pickerel had also re-
fused to become interested in the
crawhsh which the fishermen had
bought as GRABS" from mountain
jewellers at four cents each.
The city fishermen knew what they
needed. They wanted yards and
yards of fat, maroon angleworm.
But they had lost hope of getting
them.
The only open door that offered
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"get away with that sort of thing.
but his "gall" was equal to the situa.
ton, and on one occasion he talked
SO eloquently about the big order
he intended to place that the general
manager of one of the big stores in
vited him out to lunch.
"There was another swell, won-
an this time, who claimed to have
title that had been conferred upon
her by the King of Spain,' said
Murphy. "She came to New York
last fall from somewhere in South
America, I think I don't know
anything about the authenticity Of
her title, but there was no doubt but
that she had money. Not long be-
fore she was caught stealing she
sold house she owned for $3.50, 900
and contracted for the erection of
another to cost 81 ESQ. 600.
Notwithstanding her wealth, she
would steal silk underwear, pocket
books, ETC., which she gave to her
friends asrpresents. She pleaded IN
comfortable impulse, or something
like that, and escaped with a sus-
pended sentence"
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shoplifters to carry on their traffic.
A favorite artifice among women in
former days was the underskirt with
huge pockets. Stolen articles could
be slipped into these pockets through
Sits in the outer skirts and goods
valued at hundreds of dollars could
be slowed away in them with the
greatest ease. The secret under
skirt became so we'll knowp to detec-
tives, however, that it's use was dis
couraged and it is rarely employed
now.
Then there was the handbag with
the collapsible bottom, which could
be put on top of an article; the muf
with capacious recesses for the re-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

never occurred to you that worms
were worth cultivating?"
Without waiting for his audience
to shake their heads negatively he
went on:
II first discovered that you could
fatten angleworms and keep 'em
happy like dairy cows when / was
working as a young man down at
the corn meal mill. Meal that sifted
out of sacks formed a thin layer
on all the ground around the mill,
and that used to be the best place
in the world to get night crawlers
after a rain. The corn meal, which
they swallowed the same as dirt,
made 'em so fat they had to enlarge
their holes.
"Not all of the men around there
realized that it was the meal flour
that fattened the worms and made
EN- big. But figured it out, and
AFTER L opened up this place and be-
fore we had the sody fountain I
used to fatten worms by sitting
corn meal over yard or so Of damp
earth"
The rain slackened and the fisher
men were slipping their arms
through the straps of their pack
baskets. With such worms they were
prepared to take all the fish in the
Adirondacks.
"Goodby," said the old man, as
they started out. IF you ever think
Of scheme that will help me mar
ket my angleworm idea, let me
know, and if you should catch any
four-pound bass I could use one. "
His benefciaries recklessly prom
ised him a nine-pounder and hiked
off toward the 1ishing grounds, the
bait bucket supported between them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
The Present Epidemic Of This Kind
Of Crime Attributed to the Worlds
MORAL Breakdown

cd of working in other cities has
been marked by the fact that she
always took her husband and child
with her. There was nothing in
their appearance on these occasions
to make one suspect they were out
on a looting expedition. The wom-
an is fairly good looking, neat in
dress and quiet in behavior The
husband is tall, with frank features
and looked on these outings like a
business man who had left his Of
fee to accompany his wife and child
on shopping tour. The child was
prettily attired and lent touch Of
domesticity to the pilgrimage.
According to the detectives, the
woman, who is the leader and brains
of the trio, always laid out the plan
Of operations; and once arrived at
the store selected for the days oper-
atoms would assign places on the
outside where her husband and child
were to wait for her. The woman
would then go into the store, where
she employed various devices to get
what she wanted, whereupon she
would return to her husband and
child and deliver into their keeping
the goods she had stolen. Frequent
ly she would make several trips, re-
turning each time with the results
of her forage to her husband and
child. This woman had been arrest
ed in other cities and her method of
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and praise Of an angleworm Bur.
bank. Presently the old man struck
an attitude like Balboa discovering
the Pacific, one arm forming a right
angle with the mattock, the other
pointing to the king of angleworms.
At space rates this twisting, squirm-
ing bait would have represented a
fortune. He was so large he de-
served to be copyrighted or patented,
and in lieu of such formalities his
new owners cried, "The saints pre-
serve us!" and heaved him into the
bucket.
The old man was looking furtively
about to see that none of the neigh
boring villagers had observed him,
but the rain was keeping them in
doors and the secret of the worm
ranch was safe. The old man ex-
planned that it was his custom nor
mally to get his worms at night with
the aid of pocket flashlight.
"Now, them" he instructed, "to
keep 'em alive cover them with
crumbly black earth and keep it
damp. Not wet, just damp. The
worms will last as long as your
fishing trip"
When they were back in the
warmth of the cook stove once more
and the old man was smoking the
most expensive cigar his visitors
could buy from the old mans drug
store stock, he said to them:
"If you want good Strawberries
you don't pick wild ones; you get
cultivated ones. It's the same with
apples and it's the same with angle
worms. Those worms l just dug are
cultivated angleworms. Maybe it
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18

paper and bound with Irvine. Under
casual inspection this box seemed to
be closed on all sides, but by a SIM
pie trick one of the ends worked on
a flap past which it was easy to slip
the stolen articles. One woman
would pick out a fine silk garment
which was easy to fold, and casually
compress it into the smallest possible
size while pretending to look over
articles on the counter. Her sister
would keep watch at the elevator to
see if any member of the store force
was looking. Then at an opportune
moment the article would be whisked
with lighting speed into the inno-
cent-looking box, which, with it's
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encrusted mattock and went out to
the rear of the building, while two
hopefuls crowded on his heels. He
began to rake aside an accumula-
ton of tin cans that bordered a tiny
rivulet Of grayish, hubby water
that trickled over bed of cinders
and rubbish toward the river.
He turned over a clod of the
soggy rubbish with a sweep of the
mattock and there was revealed a
monster worm. If fivver tires were
red-well, anyway, when this worm
had been broken out Of his clod he
wriggled so furiously that the fisher
men were almost timid about picking
him up. This particular worm was
more than foot long and thicker
than a carpenters lead pencil. He
possessed the proportions of a gar
ter snake.
The old man turned over another
clod. and there was another worm, a
fair sized mate for the other. An
old galvanized iron bucket was i'm
pressed as a prison for these crawl
ers, and in no time at all it con-
tanned couple of dozen of the big
gest angleworms in captivity.
What makes 'em so big?" asked
one of the delighted fishermen.
cts the sody water" explained
the old man. "This is the drain
from the drugstore sody fountain,
The water is full Of waste syrups,
lots of sugar. 1t makes the worms
fat. Just wait, I'll get you a real
big one in a second"
Spurred by such a promise the
fishermen, with hope once more alive
in their breasts, We'd with one an
other in expressions Of wonderment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
Some of New York's Expert Shoplifters
Realize $4,000 Year by Their Thefts

working was pretty well known; but
SO skillful had she always been in
disposing of her stuff before being
caught that she invariably escaped
with fine, or managed, with the
aid of lawyers, to defeat conviction.
When the news reached the head
quarters of the Stores Protective
Mutual Association that this $50 1000
a-year worker had arrived in New
York several men from the force on
hand were at once assigned to trail
her. This surveillance, Murphy ex-
planned, would be kept up unceasing-
ly IS. long as she remained in the
city or until enough evidence was
obtained to justify her arrest.
Ask Long Sentences
eve are trying, so far as pos
sible, to get enough evidence in these
cases to obtain long term sentences"
said Murphy. "Long term sentences
are the best check to shoplifting thus
far discovered We have managed
in this way to discourage the profess
SIGNALS, at least, and there are indi-
cations the experts are backing up"
Something might be said here of
the relation that exists between the
Stores Protective Mutual Associa-
ton and the detectives employed in
the stores themselves. Each big de-
partmeat store, as may be known,
has it's own force of operatives, who
patrol the aisles of the various de-
partments, but who never leave the
building. These internal agencies
number from ten to twenty male and
female operatives. All arrests in
side the building are made by them.
The Stores Protective Mutual AS
ISOLATION covers the general field. It
shadows suspects from the time they
leave their homes, keeping watch
over their movements as they go
about the city. In this way they are
able to warn member store when
one of these professional thieves en-
ters the building.
1t also takes advantage of it's for
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deal only with the heads Of depart
ments Of stores, and, while talking
to them of large orders mounting
into the thousands, would manage
to set aside valuable garments
which he would smuggle out later.
Not wishing to take the risk Of
trying to dispose of the articles
and thus realizing on the theft, he
would bring them back day or two
later, saying that he had bought
them but had found them unsatis-
factory. He would ask that he be
credited on the books of the store
with the amount of the alleged pur-
chase, and afterward would pick
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-18
A Big Operator

But in shoplifting, as in the lawful
vacations, much depends on the in
dividual himself. Murphy smiled
reminiscently as he recalled one
''Pelf-Hawk," man who passed
himself off as a buyer representing
a large Western house and who op-
Grated in New York on large scale
before he was "put away" This
man was a fashionable dresser and
lived at the best hotels. He would