Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-05-18
Campbell Brothers Circus Is
Billing the City for the First
Day Of June.
Various Matters Of Local In
terest Gathered During the
Week Gone BY,

of Campbell Brothers circus, was in the
city Saturday. Monday night car No. |
was attached to the passenger train,
and the city has been billed for the cir
Gus on Thursday, June /. Charles ID.
Hammond is in charge of the advertis-
ing arrangements and besides being an
old newspaper man is a practical
print r, which was shown by his get
ting out some neat printed matter from
the Free Press Office, where he set up
the work and ran it off the press. The
Campbell Brothers circus has twice
shown i'll Pierre, and each time met
the unstinted praise of everybody who
saw it. Some claim that the Campbells
!. give as good a show as the Ringlings,
4 and like the latter they cut out all
gratis and skin games. They will not
allow the fellows who operate brace
games and touches" to accompany
them, which makes them all the more
popular with the public.
Rollo Lyman, who with his mother
went to Cambridge, Mass, last year
after the death Of his father, t. take a
professorship in Harvard university.
has been re elected to the position, but
has resigned to become one of the fac
ulty of the University OF Wisconsin.
Pierre people will watch the success of
Prof. Lyman with the most kindly in
terest, and wish he and his mother the
best of earth, as they are both vel |
known and respected by everybody in
this city.
Roy Dorothy, who has been the eff
cient bookkeeper in the Bank of Com
MERGE for some years, babe his friends
good bye yesterday and started for his
new location as cashier in a bank at
Concully, Wash. He will be united in
marriage today to Miss Emma Yoder,
at her home at Kaspar, Sully county,
and their journey to the coast will
be in the nature of honeymoon
trip. Both young people are well
known and respected i'll Pierre, and
everybody wishes them al the best in
life. '''''3''7 ~
The quantity and character Of build
ing and other improvements now going
Oh in Pierre are greater than any the
city has seen since the boom days in
the early eighties. New residences and
other substantial evidences that Pierre
is growing greatly these days can be
seen in every part of the town. When
the work gets farther along the Free
Press intends to give statement show
ing the number, cost and character OF
the building operations.
The Capitol Commission has con
tracted with Messrs. Bell & Detwiler
the Minneapolis architects, to draw the
plans for the new state house on the
same lines of the Montana capitol only
making it larger building These are
the men who got up the plans of the
edifice in our sister state. They vii
have the drawings complete in a month
when they will return to Pierre ant
take charge OF the work on the base
ment and foundation.
1t is curious fact that since tn
meters were put in at every house II
the city using water there has been NJ
shortage on the hill, where over hal
the time heretofore the hydrants hay
been dry. This curious state OF affair
affords only one explanation, which
that those who have paid for water il
the past as so much per annum are
little more careful Of its use since it ha
to run through meter, and be paid TO
by the gallon.
The old settlers met Tuesday nigh
and decided to have picnic and gel
eral reunion on June IA, with ride u
the river on the steamboat to some spC
to be designated by Rev. L. L. Rigg
Another meeting is called for June
to perfect the plans, and Fl. r. Horne
HI. E. Cutting, and N Newbanks hay
been named q committee to look ate
things. No one not having come to tn
country earlier than 1882 can join tn
crowd.
After the trial of the case OF tn
state against G. Z. Besancon whlc
ended in the circuit court Monday, tn
court directed the jury 20 bring in.
verdict against Besancon, which r
moves him from Office and gives Il.
Tarbell, appointed in place of Besal
con, possession. The grounds for tn
decision were malfeasance and otht
Irregularities of Besancon while cler
of court.
The High school pupils who went
Yankton to take patti in the declam
tory aud athletic contests came hon
with good laurels. Miss Amy Farm
won third place i'll the deciamatol
contest. In the athletics Jeffrles ";
second in voting, Oldtield SECOND ]