Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-11
G. W. Lnm,ey went to MINI sapolis

On Saturday.
G. II. Burke returned Saturday from
a business trip to Sioux Falls.
D. @. Jordan; he sells farms and ranch
lands In central South Dakota.
Mrs. Mary Doughery and Miss Min
ME Willis of Rock Valley, Iowa. filed
on land in Stanley county this week.
Chas. Z. Hyde went to Aberdeen on
Saturday, to look after land interests.
Miss Dorothy accompanied Mr.. Hyde
to Huron.
Mrs. Nj. E. Howes and Mrs. H. s.
Howes, mother and sister of Mrs. G. H.
Ainsworth, arrived Saturday from Ash
ton, and will remain for sometime.
State Auditor Hirning writes that it
is necessary for him to take his wife to
Rochester for an operation. She has
been in the hospital at Aberdeen for
some time.
For the first time the ranchman is
considering the ACCESSIBILITY Of building
a creamery. His figures indicate that
he has permitted a handsome sum of
money to slip past him unnoticed.
The story of the missionary out at
Hayes who did up the drunken cowboys
who ATTEMPTED to compel him to drink
is receiving wide circulation. The
world admires man of pluck whether
he he soldier or preacher and that
young missionary has the true stuff in
him
Gov. Crawford made the following
appointments on Tuesday as members
of the State Board of Osteopathy Ex-
aminers: G.. G. Redfield of Parker, for a
term of one year, MARY N. Farr of Pierre
for term of two years, and w. V.
Goodfellow of Groton, for period of
three years.
A daily mail service, sby pouches, is
established between Fort Pierre and
Midland. 1t is not likely thata messen-
ger service will be placed on that line
until it is operating all the way to h Q
Black Hills, but daily mail along Bad
river will be a boon to the people of
Stanley county which they will appre
ciate.
Potatoes are becoming very profit
able crop, and nowhere does the crop
yield larger returns than in South Da-
kota We are very proud that the
most desirable tubers are grown in our
own northwest, with the consequent
result that they are in great demand for
table use in cities. The south has to
look to the north for seed, and from
this northern grown seed is supplied
the general spring demand.
The idea of establishing creameries
is a taking one with the new settlers
west of the Missouri river, who have
come from creamery sections farther
east. Alarge central creamery is being
constructed at Fort Pierre and is back
ed by a strong company for handling
it, and will be in operation by the mid
die of the summer. Other creameries
will be established at towns west along
the line of the Northwestern road.
Sioux Falls Press: "John Fl. Laughlin
of Pierre, deputy United States marshal
sat all alone in the lobby of the Cataract
hotel on Sunday, thinking of the folks
at home and how empty his church rev
must seem to the parson without him
when he happened to remember that
that date was the twentieth anniversary
of his wedding day. He obserN ed the
day quietly and resolved that he woulc
be very careful not to be away from
home on future similar anniversaries
1t is now expected that the Indian
roadmakers who have been building
roads all over 9 Cheyenne ri v e
reservation the past few years will b G
| given an opportunity to show theil
white neighbors in western Stanle.
county what they can do in the way O.
road work. They will, at government
expense, construct a roadway fron
Cherry creek sub agency to the neares
; point on the Northwestern extentiol
| to- Rapid City, probably Philip, flon
which they will haul freight for tina
j agency.
In the recent examination there wer
two applicants for life certificates, tw
for state, 1874 for first grade and 52l 70
, second grade, making total Of IS
applicants. OF these there were issue,
two life, two state, IS first grade an
1888 second grade or a total number o
Z 422 certificates issued. Seventy of tn
! first grade applicants were grantee
second grade, eight were rejected alto
gether, and 229 second grade certificate
we're rejected, making total of %
who failed entirely. A trifle less than s
per cent Of the applicants passed.
Contractors who expect to bid on tn
construction work Of the new capitt
!. ara arriving in the city tn Inok IN