The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-29


at the State fair by boosters for hydro
electric gathered from all quarters O.
the state. The following officers were
selected: President, j. w. Parmley
Ipswich; vice-president, A. w. Camp
bell, Aberdeen; secretary, Julius
Skaug, Mobridge. Directors: Thos. j
Frick, Yankton; John T. Belk, Henry
julius Skaug, Mobridge; George w
Wright, Huron; J. w. Parmley, Fps
wich; John Nicol, Wetonka; F. w
Schriber, Herreid; j. c. Dennison, Yer
million.
Mrs. Mark Abein of Ethan, took a
ride last Saturday which she hopes she
will have to repeat as long as
she lives. During a terrific windstorm
which swept over that part of The
state Saturday afternoon, Mrs. Abien
took refuge in her barn. Hardly had
she stepped inside when the wind tilted
the structure on it's side and sent it
sailing away owe the fields, and finally
dumped her rudely in a corn field sew
eral hundred feet from where she
started. Mrs. Abien escaped with a
number of minor bruises.
AS the result of a petition signed by
patrons of the Baltic consolidated
school district, demanding the ousting
of H. A. Ustrud from the principalship
of the school, and the wide publicity
given the action, despite the fact that
the school board refused to consider
the petition. Ustrud will start a num-
Der of court actions for damages, it
is said. The suits will amount in the
aggregate to about 100000. Ustrud
asserts his reputation as a teacher has
been damaged as the result of the pub
licity given the attempted action Of
the school patrons. Mr.. Ustrud for
merly was superintendent of public IN
struction in South Dakota.
Leo Schaefer of Trip, who was ar
at Maplewood, Ia, by Sheriff
Dingler and charged with %abducting
Bessie Creech and Mary Gubele,
Mitchell minor girls, was sentenced to
the state reform school by Judge Ole
of the juvenile court. Mr..
Schaefer insisted when he was arrested
that he was more than IS years old,
but when his brother arrived here to
help him, he was forced to admit that
he was not yet II. Schafer thought by
assuming all the blame he could pre-
vent the girls from being punished, but
they both were sentenced to the state
training school also. Schaefer and the
Creech girl tried to elope and be mar
ried, but when they reached Sioux City
the girls ran away from Schaefer.
With a drill to begin operations near
within the next ten days,
one to start at Blunt at the same time
and drills operating at Standing Butte
and near Leslie, that portion of the
west of the Missouri river out
side the Black Hills foothills will be
given a widely extended test as to
the existence of oil in the state. The
only M Of these projects east of the
Missouri is at Blunt, all the rest be-.
Ing west. The work at Scenic and
also covers the more south.
ern portion of the western part of the
state, and If there Is any general oil
basin west of the Missouri some Of
these drills should reach it or indi-
cate that it does exist to a greater or
less extent.
Fur goods valued at between 81, 900
and $4,000 we're stolen from the
& Kurtz store at Aberdeen
Saturday night by robbers who effected
an entrance through the door and
escaped III an automobile.
After an all day chase, which had all
features of a movie thriller. two
robbers who looted a clothing store at
Waubay were rounded up and captured
by members of a posse. The pursued
and pursuers were in automobiles. The
footing of the clothing store
at Waubay was suddenly terminated
when the night officer of that city found
two robbers at work. He promptly
fire on the men. The bandits
fed from the store and escaped in an
auto which they had left standing at
the rear of the building.
Jewels and furs valued at SIS, 900
were stolen from the apartments in the
Moe hospital at Sioux Falls occupied
by DIR. and Mrs. A. J. Moe Saturday
night, while they were spending the
night at their country home near the