Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-11-14

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Blunt the first of the week.
What is better than kiss? High
School Girl-Don't you know your mul-
duplication table?
1t would seem, however, that a corner
in turkeys must be made somewhere if
we are to have any turkey at all
Miss Hatch, Superintendent of. our
county schools, Isl looking after educa-
tional matters in the eastern portion of
the county.
1t is getting just a tritle colder each
day now. Tuesday morning the gov
eminent thermome registered 6 de-
grees above zero, the lowest it has gone
so far this season.
Governor Crawford has selected as
delegates to the National Drainage
Congress to meet in Baltimore, Nov.
25: James s. Fargo, John P. West
land, Vermillion; Nicholas Nelson, Vi
borg.
Tuesday evening the Opportunity
clul entertained their lady friends at a
sumptuous banquet at the Riverview
Motel. Plates were laid for thirty two.
Otto A. Linstad acted as toast master.
The state insurance department has
granted authority to do business in this
state to the Mutual Insurance company
of South Dakota. The new company
has just been organized in this city.
Passengers who came in from the
west Sunday evening reported the hills
about Philip covered with snow that
morning, the first fall of the winter
1907 1903 in the western part of the
state.
| Frank Ripley of Okobojo, who has
been at Rochester, Mimi, returned
home Tuesday. Mrs. Ripley who was
operated upon is reported to be getting
along nicely, but will remain there
several weeks.
Blunt Advocate: A case for hearing
in Justice Besancon's court last Satur
day brought about twenty people from
the west side of the county. Attorneys
Payne and Gunderson were the coun
sellors. The case was settled before
trial.
The sale of delinquent tax titles in
| tbic oo,,rtu short ono hI,t tE
plenty of bidders, and very few pieces
went at the maximum interest allowed
by law, most of the tracts being bic
down to ten per cent or lower by eager
bidders.
Dora Thorn, which will be produced
at the Pierre opera house on Friday
evening, is Berta Clay's greatest story
and is most enchanting story. The
company that give this play have some
excellent speciality artists and make
the show taking one, full Of life ant
music.
Last Tuesday night fellow by the
name of Hans Peterson was thrown
from his horse and was rendered uncon
scious. The horse slipped on the cross
ing between IL. r. Horner's Residence
and the court house. He was taken tt
his home in the Goodner auto south
east of town.
! With favorable weather continuin.
throughout the month the contractor
on the sewers expect to complete th
work as soon as December L. The con
tractors are home people, and have s
far put in a splendid system, extending
t two miles, and ten blocks of concret
Q sewer. three to five feet, since July.
The Pierre and Fort Pierre Bridg
Railway company has received a pas
senger coach--number one-which wi
be mustered into service between thi
0 city and Fort Pierre. This service wi
t be often enough each day to make 1T a
attractive of getting from one side Q
}, the Big Muddy to the other, and will b
i the first to start from the new passen
ger station.
: The supreme court yesterday granite
y new trial on writ of error i'll the Gas
of the State VS.. Howard A. Jones, fror
: BeadIe county. Jones was convicte
;. in the Beadle county circuit court on
= charge of enbezziement of the funds c
the Gund Brewing company of whic
he was the local agent. On convictio
. he was given sentence of two year
) in the penitentiary
Fred Edabert, farmer living abol
!. ten miles north of this city, reports ths
on Saturday he killed COW which We
in the last stages of hydrophobia. II
animal was bitten by a stray dog fe
days ago, but nothing was thought
Y the incident until the COW began to az
- queerly about ten days ago, and fnall
became SO violent she was placed in
It box stall until the symptoms became
T, we'll developed that there was no long
he any doubt as to the cause Of the troub
1t when the animal was killed