Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-05-12
The LOCAL NEWS
A Weeks Record of Local Hap
penings Occurring in the
City
BASEBALL SEASON ON
Social Affairs and Departures and
Arrivals of Your Local
Acquaintance
BASEBALL SEASON ON

list this week making out bills for for.
elgn subscribers, and in the course of
that proceed ing has taken occasion 10
cut off bunch of dead beats without
even wasting upon them the price
of a stamp with which to mail them a
bill, experience of the past three years
having shown that their honor is too
caIloused to respond to a prod from a
distance. Several of these are minis
ters and doctors and other professional
men who were formerly prominent in
Pierre, and it is interesting pastme for
ye editor to look back over the files and
read the touching comments upon the
departure of these spongers "from our
midst Almost without exception they
had ever been upright and honest
prominent in affairs that tended towaru
the npbulding of the city and the bet
terment of society,"" and what was
our loss was someone's else gain,' ct
cetera ad disgustum. It must be that
there was some faulty judgment on the
part OF the one who penned these part
ing bouquets or else the departing ones
fell into bad ways later OH for they
the few this item has reference to-
have degenerated into irreclaimable
buncoers. 1t is with some satisfaction
that we blue pencil their names on the
mailing list, thus severing the last tie
that connected them with this city
where the moral tone seems to have
been sufficiently good to have kept
them floating above the quagmire OF
financial irresponsiblity in which they
are now wallowing.
The baseball fever has struck Pierre
with considerable force and claims a
large number of victims, none of them
being more seriously affected than
Manager Erickson, Captain Purcell
and Secretary Williams, The prospects
are all that could be asked. A gooo
sum of money has been raised for. 8
starter, the new maroon suits will ar
rive this week, the ground has beer
put IN the best Of shape under the su
pervision of Manager Erickson, the
diamond has a bunch of candidates ev
cry evening, and Monk, the mascot. is
full of business hustling mitts ano
bats. 1t is not the intention to carry a
high salaried team, but to organize as
good a one as possible from among the
home boys, which it is believed will be
good enough the way matters look
now. Among the newcomers that have
landed in Pierre the past year are g
number of boys who are very much al
home on the ball field, and it will moi
be surprising if there is but little more
than a.remnant of former teams repre-
sented in this years aggregation. LII
fact Capt. Purcell is just now wonder
ing if he can successfully control his
team by telephone, or from the side
lines and grand stand.
This is the time of year when the ole
awnings are being brought out and the
new ones put up, and few of the mer
chants in their efforts to exclude al
sunlight from their show windows
place the coverings SO low that a per
son who is tall enough to vote can't pas!
under them without brushing off hi
hat unless he doubles up like a jacl
knife or sits down and slides through
This is mighty disagreeable. 1t is ;
form of obstructing the sidewalk ant
is more of a nuisance than having tn,
way blocked with boxes. If the pro
prietors of business houses are not con
siderate enough to place the awning
at a reasonable height the matter migl,
he regulated by the council.
Chief Rohrer is just now having hi
annual spring fit about things obnox
ious or in any way Objectionable an,
all kinds Of trouble is in store for OF
tenders. Rubbish heaps, dogs devoi
of the proper badge OF license to prov
about the streets, and cows with !
fondness for lawn grass will from nov
on be under his Watchful eye, and an
and all beasts found deporting them
selve in manner not consistent wit
the dignity of capital city will, with
out regard to race, color, or previon
Icendition of servitude. be impounde
strictly according to the statutes, il
Charley's capacions barnyard, fror
where they can not be ransomed 70
less than one buck. 8
| AS was mentioned in the last issue
during the week May 1922 the Cathe
lilies will hold fair and they ask cor
ltributions Of s;sleable articles from al
who arc interested in any one or all Q
the good works in which the Catholi
society is engaged. Previous fairs bel
by this society have been successft
and this one will be equally Or more s