Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-04
Thos. II. Leach was in the city Mon :
day from Harold

j. III, d. BLACK was IN the city Iues |
day, from Sioux Falls.
Miss Marguerite Karcher is spending
vacation days in Pierre.
D. A. Singer, a representative citi
zen of Blunt was in the city Tuesday. |
Miss Grace Evans, who has been i'll
for some time, has almost regained her
health.
Mrs. G. II. Burke and daughter jose |
phine went TO Sioux Falls Tuesday, to
visit friends.
Miss Dorothy Hutchinson is home
from Iowa and will spend her vacation
days in Pierre.
County Commissioner Metzger, of
Canning, arrived Tuesday, accompa
MED by his wife.
f. n. Stewart division superintendent
of the Northwestern railway, arrived
Tuesday from Huron.
If the conductors and tralnmen do
strike it won't make much difference
whether the fare is 2ls or 3 cents a
mile.
Farmers are already in their fields
sowing in anticipation Ola bumper
1907 crop" May their hopes be realized
to an overlooking measure.
G. b. Billinghurst left today for Ash
ton to join Mrs BiIlnghurst and Miss
Anna who have been spending the week
in That city, visiting relatives. They
/ intend returning Saturday.
Misses Pearl kitteson and lnez Den
nison, TEACHERS in the city schools, are
| their vacation at their homes in Aber-
. deem. Both have done splendid work
i'll the schools during the past year.
!. Fine spring weather has prevailed all
this week, a continuation of The warm
wave which prevailed the latter part Of
last week, and the farmers have been
busy in the fields all of the week
A Madison stock shipper made a
trip to Milwaukee to see why he could
not get cars, and on returning said the
trouble must be in the power depart
t ment, as he found the yards full Of
5 "empties,"
: The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has made an advance Of 20 per
s cent in its charges for transmitting
messages. These piping times of pros,
D perity have their advantages and
1 disadvantages
The foundation Of one of MI New
banks houses on Prospect street is well
: under way, aud excavation for The sec
= ond has been commenced, Mr. NeWbanks
is pushing the work as rapidly as pos
sibe and is having the water pipes put
e in.
: The threshing crew got through with
: Clyde Shodmaker's wheat last week
IS and he reports yield of 70 bushels
y A pretty good Weld considering that ,
y large amount was wasted being TO,
: damp 30 thresh out good Relianc,
6 Record
- The threatened strike Of railroad EN-
- ployes will not occur. The better sens
y of both employees and employer has pre-
- vailed and a great strike has been pre-
Il vented. This result is largely due e.
70 the common sense Of the railroad engin
J GERS ard trainmen throughout th
country.
The contract for the new creamer
building al Fort Pierre was let las
y Friday for So, O74 The main buildin
y will be BOX 80 feet, constructed of con
ID crete and cement blocks with corruga'
Il ed galvanized iron roof and will be c
9 the most modern and sanitary pattem
- Judge f. r. Aiken of Sioux Falls
here before the supreme court to argU
~ a motion for new trial in the case {
~ State VS.. Mrs Lapne. The defend al
was convicted Oh the charge of man
- slaughter in the Lake county circu
- court year ago, but the case was ar
:, pealed to the superior court.
nd A general council of Cheyenne Il
dams is to be held at the agency, beg il
of ming April Is, for the purpose of di
-, cussng and voting on the propositic
,ar to leasing a portion of their reservatit
- to the Utes, now at Fort Meade 1t
. ;, expected that some 1900 Indians W
=, take part in the poW-Wow
nd A Larson, representative of ii
lev Chas. " Grndeil Co., a leading co
IRE tracing firm of Chicago, is in the eli
rt looking after the prices of m aterial +
ms the new passenger depot Mr.. Larson
Of the first of the contractors to appet
ths and,is authority for the statement tn
are the depot will be brick structure,
the feet by $50 feet.
md Hereafter Mr. Neuhauser, owner
ing The European house and Pierre Hot
will have management of both hous
ia except the first floor of the Pierre II o
,cb which has been leased to ID. A. LaMo
90. recently from Clinton, Iowa, who "
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