The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-08


The people of Iroquois are tempo
rarily without electric lights and
power as the result of a fire, which
destroyed the building occupied by
the electric light plant and badly
damaged the machinery. The oil.
buring engine was being used and the
fire started from the exhaust pipe
and pit, the flames creeping up be
tween the walls. There was insur
ance of $1,000 on the building and
$4,000 on the equipment.
1t is reported that the right-of-way
is being looked up from Mystic to
Nahant, and from there to Horton
and Upton, Wyo., for a railroad to
connect with the Burlington line, and
that a preliminary survey is being
made. The project is reported 20
have the backing of Rapid City PEG
pie with the idea in view of con
Meeting the coal, oil, farming and
grazing country OF eastern Wyoming
with western South Dakota and eX-
tending the market for Rapid City
business.
RoadwOrk on the Sunshine highway,
north of Westport, has been aban-
doned for this year, owing to Difficult
ties between the people of Westport
and the state highway commission in
regard to route to be- laid through the
town. The present trail has five turns
in two blocks through Westport, which
the state officials refuse to sanction
for a permanent highway, and until
this matter is Enlightened out, it is
probable that the Aberdeen to Fred
erick stretch will not be completed.
Another proof of the prosperity of
South Dakota is TO be found in a re-
port just compiled from the prelimi
nary figures of the 1920 census of ag.
r~iculture. This report shows that
there are automobiles or auto trucks
on 90 per cent of the farms in the
state; that SO per cent of the farmers
have telephones in their homes; that
water is piped into 13 per cent OF the
states farm homes and that two Of
every twenty-five of the farm houses
in the stat are modern in every re-
spect There is a total of 1855 farms
in the state and 5S.352 of these boast
one machine, which is used for pleas
ure. while there were 1853 trucks in
use al the time of the census. South
Dakota farmers, in addition. owned
1909 tractors, and led all other states
in this item.
Because there have been so many
bank robberies in the small towns in
this section Of the state during the
past W or three months, bankers
in Artesian believe they have hit upon
a plan which will safeguard them
selves and their customers money.
Most of the robberies this summer
have occurred during the noon hour.
when the bank force was depleted,
usually only one person being in the
bank. Consequently the Artesian
bankers have determined to lock their
vaults and their doors at II and not
open until Loo p. m, giving the whole
force a luncheon hour at the same
time.
Jens Setbacken Of Lake Preston,
arrested fol disposing of property
on which the Hamlin County State
bank held a mortgage. The bank
caused his arrest. He waived exami-
nation in a local court and was bound
over 10 the circuit court. The pen
atty, on conviction, for such an of.
Tense is Imprisonment in the peni
Tertiary.
Fire destroyed the opera house at
Humboldt, together with a large mum.
Der OF farm implements stored in the
basement Of the building, causing a
loss Of $4,000. which was partially
covered by insurance.
At a special election held in White
Lake bonds Of $4,000 for the improve
ment and extension OF the local mr.
nicipal water works system, and s25,.
600 for installing a sewerage system,
carried by good majorities.
The contract for the erection of the
new unit of Battle Mountain SAM
tarium in Hot Springs has been let
1t is understood that this unit will be
north Of the administration building.
1t will have a capacity of 100 beds.