Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-14

Inside Watch, James Hutchison; Out
side Watch e. w. Van Ness.
The local lodge of Eagles has elected
as officers w A. Metcalf, w. p. f.
Heitzelman, V. w. p; A. w. Ewert,
Treas; Ii. S. Anderson, Sec; Jas. Pur-
cell, w. Com: A. AIilbrant, w. Chap;
X. l.. 9okum, c. I'll. Rohrer, A. Brig
noli, trustees.
Miss Ethel Walker, former stenog-
rapher in the governors office, was
married at Clark on Thanksgiving day,
to Franklin Walter Halbkat, of Web
ster. The young couple spent several
days in the twin cities as part of their
honeymoon.
The capitol commission left for Bed
ford, Indiana, Saturday morning, on
business pertaining to stone to be used
in the construction of the new capitol.
Pie Bedford stone is the finest of its
kind to be found anywhere in the coun-
try.
G. A. Lewis, of Madison, who has
been i'll Pierre supervising the found
alton work of the capitol Oil behalf of
the capitol commission, has returned
home to remain until work is resumed
on the structure in the spring.
john E. Nipple has sold to Judge
Fuller corner lot on summit and
Highland avenues. The house thereon
will be removed by the former owner
and Judge Fuller will erect fine resi-
dence of stone in the spring.
Col. Stewart, who is discharged from
the Rochester hospital where the ope-
ration was performed on him, speut
yesterday in the city The colonel
shows the effect of his sickness but is
rapiuiy recovering =====
Miles, the man charged with wire
tapping and securing money fraudu-
lently from a Gettysburg bank, has
been found guilty and sentenced to two
years i'll the penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
The twenty-tifth anniversary of the
founding of the Copgrepa tional church
of Pierre will be observed at the church
parors tonight. A program suitable
for the occasion will be given.
A ranchman named Ambrose Farmer
residing near Farmingdale. eighteen
miles OF Rapid City, was found dead
one day last week, 1t supposed that he
committed self-destruction.
The borings for hard pan for the rais-
son work of the new steel bridge show
that hard shale strong enough for
foundations can be had at forty feet.
at the location of the bridge.
Alex Shoemaker, of Grindstone, was
held up on the sandbar while coming
across from Fort Pierre tuesday night,
l,by two men. He evaded Them and
escaped with all his cash.
The editor Of the Capital Journal
reports some one pilfering his hard coal,
and wants to exchange several felines
making their home with him for the
coal hooked.
DR.. Lawrence Isgrig and wife, of
!! Minnear oils, arrived in Pierre Tuesday
morning, in response to a message an
nouncing the illness of his father, Eli
Isgrig.
Real estate dealers report strong pre-
monitory symptoms of boom in resi-.
dence property. The demand for this
class is becoming plentiful and insist
/ ent.
Miss Della Shank, of the Gas Belt
| Land office, departed Tuesday for
visit with her parents at Lennox, and
will remain over the holiday season.
Mr. and Mrs. Philips and grand
daughter, of Egan, who spent few
days III the city visiting friends, left
for home Monday morning.
Candy from Sac a pound up to Low
ney's Bon Bons at 2ll Pierre street.
a. FL. Ainsworth and wife, of Twin
Brook, have arriyed.i in Pierre, Mr.. Aims