The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1899-02-10
Over the Hflls to Pierre

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visit to the state capitol, where
the South Dakota Press associa
ton had a mid winter meeting or
the 1st and I'd inst, and hao
the satisfaction of looking upon a
South Dakota legislature with its
working clothes on while it was
turning the mill that grinds out
the laws under which we live
and move and have QUE being.
The mill had hardly got up its
motion during our visit but was
gathering power for d grist that
was to be run through later
The lower house as is well known
is presided over by one of our
Grant county representatives,
and from all we could observe or
learn from others Mr.. Somers
makes a most salts factory and
successful presiding ot1i Ger,
handling the business of the
| house in a manner to win the
general approval of his asso-
ciates. Mr.. Schaffer our other
representative is one Of the
members of the house who is al
ways at his place when there is
business on hand, and is recog-
nized as one of the most efficient
and careful members of the
house, giving every proposition
that comes up careful scrutiny
and consideration and casting a
well considered ald intelligent
vote upon all proposed bills and
measures. We also found Sena-
tor Bouck at his post attending
to duty. As those who are ac-
quainted with him would be apt
to surmise, Mr.. Bouck is one of
the influential members of the
senate, and has the con idence
and esteem of his associates and
is regarded as one of the level
headed members of the senate.
Among others of our Grant
county people whom we met
We're M. }. L. Lock hart, j d.
Smull and George Barney The
former recently purchased a
grocery and crockey establish
ment in Pierre, and had just got
started IN mis- new business when
we We're there. He has a well
stocked store and has prospects
of doing successful and profit
able business. Mr.. Smull is
clerk of the house committee on
appropriations, one of the most
important Of the committees, and
has his family with him in Pierre
He states that the bills already
in, including the standing ex-
penses amount to over 81 ,6OO,-
600, and it will be the duty of
the committee to pare these
down to the capabilities of the
revenue of the state. Mr. Bar
ney is located as clerk in the
land commissioners Office, and
as smiling and affable as when
he was taking in rejected wheat
at the Empire elevator and palm
ing it off on the elevator company
for No. | northern. Among 9th
er familiar faces we met at the
capitol were those of The Roberts
county contingent, David East
man, the state land commission
er, Represen tatiye Lien of Sum
nit and G. +. Porter, the latter
being sergeant at arms OF the
senate. One of the Brown coun-
ty members Of the house is a
gentleman who is we'll known
to the older residents of Milbank
and Melrose, Mr. Ed. Moulton
now running a large farm near
Warner, but who was a resident
here for a number of years ia
the eighties, and who was inquir-
ing after all his old Grant county
friends.
Among other pleasures Of the
trip we had a most enjoyable ex-
perience IN meeting among the
press gang an old friend whom
we had not seen for some q |
years, and who with the writer
was a printer boy in his teens
learning the 'sart preservative'
in the office of the old Enter
prise at Muskegon, Mich The
gentleman is Mr.. Will H. Rodg-
ers, now manager of the Sioux
City Newspaper Union, but we
remember him as little mild
hammered kid; whom owing
to our seniority Of a year or more
in age, we became to a certain
extent responsible for, morally
and physically, and with whom
we entered into treaties often
sive and defensive against tyran-
ical and abusive foremen and
drunken printers. The recalling
of old times and friends and