Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-07-06

n dN y leES ptIStu Will lSSlcCSlotis Wy (
peal talent, all of the best, including a
fiolm duet by Mele>a and Orville Schu-%
bert, recitation by Louise Gleckler a
piano solo by Flossie Cole, and song
n which Miss Sammis and Thomas
Askin joined, Ell tiled 'sNow Thou Art
eime Forever" The concert was highly
satisfactory and greatly enjoyed.
At the home of Mr. aud Mrs. Frank
l4ii4ibrldge Monday evening o cured
| he wedding of Frank Lu Lillibridge
TO Miss Allethi Pearl Pryor, Rev. Thos.
Askin officiating. The groom is q
young nran whs has grown up ia this
hity, and is popular and of sterling
Qualities. The brides home is in Sis
6etcn, she having come To- Pierre last
winter to work in a law office She is
"a young lady of the best traits. The
newly married have gone to Asseton
for wedding trip, and visit to the
lbEides parents.
Pierre is branching out. A corpora
|tion has been formed to colonize North
land South Dakota lands, in Emmons
|county, near bismarck aud elsewhere
The ineorporators are j, l.. Lockhart,
A. D Hengel, j. p. Erickson, 9. b.
|Billinghurst, r. r. Kerr 1t is also I'M
|dsrstood- that John Sutherland and Il.
w. LumIey are interested in the bust
mess.
A binder named Van Higbee, who
worked for the State Publishing COM
pany several years ago, and managed
to beat pretty neMly everybody he had
dealings with, is being sued for divorce
by his wife, according to the Minneap-
oils journal. His wife, nee Edith ".
Nelson, married him in Pierre, and was
milliner here at the time.
The proprietors of the gasoline
launches plying the river to Fort Pierre
have cleaned up a good many dollars
carrying the curious sightseers over
the river during the flood. 1t is trip
that is well worth making, and shows
what the Missouri, or even the Bad
river, can do, when it starts out for a
high old time.
The big posters announcing cele-
. braton at Fort Pierre were headed,
sHeap Big Time" Well, Fort Pierre
4 mad the time referred to all right, but
/ not in the order of a celebration. Pierre
people extend sympathy for the loss
and misfortune that has overtaken the
lively town across the river in the flood
that has so damaged the place.
Mayor Ewert and Alderman Glow
have returned from Winona, where
they inspected the sewerage system
with view Of putting, in the same sys
tenn of sewers ia Pierre, the conditions
being practically the same in both cities
The result of their Investigations viii
be explained to the city council at the
next meeting.
4 Saturday, articles of incorporation
1 were filed with the secretary OF state
1 for the North and South Dakota Colo
nization Company of Pierre, capital
lied at 100000. The directors namec
are j. l. Lockhart, A. ID. HengeI, j. L
4 Erickson, and e. b. Blllinghurst, O.
| Pierre, and II. f. Kerr, Of Brookings.
| The wind Tuesday afternoon was ;
| corker for an hour or so. 1t broke of
| limbs from trees all over town, over
turned small buildings, and was accom-
panied by heavy rainfall. The thun
:. der and lightning made enough nois'
and fire for any fourth Of July pyro
teclmic display in the United States.
u Arthur Austin, the young man VIII
was drowned in Bad river neac Midlan
Sunday, in the flood, came from CLARK
I His body was brought in and deliyere
4 to Undertaken Dotson yesterday. |
l was found several hundred yards belo,
the place he went in, lodged in bushes
z In the case of Jane E. Waldro
against Black Tomahawk, involvin
Y the land adjoining Fort Pierre, Judg
Garland has given decision in fave
z of Mrs. Waldron. This is the case thu
( has run the gauntleG of the courts fc
Y the past fifteen years.
The regular meeting of the M. b.
\ lodge will be Wednesday evening, Jul
IL, and another class will be adopte
into the order on that evening. A
members are requested tC be presen
II A social time will be had after IL
N business meeting.
III East Pierre people are complaints
\ of loose stock roaming at will over Il
Il yards and premises. A good pls
\ would be to notify the chief of poll
' and have all cattle and horses turnt
loose on neighbours yards brought dow
to the city pound.
II Sheriff Logan went down the riv
i Saturday to overhaul some thieves wi
II had stolen a boat belonging to Phil al
IA Leon Chaussee. The latter went alo1
II with him, but the thieves were n
i overtaken as far down as Big Bend,