Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-25

N. w. Walters is here from Miller.
H II. Stons is in the city fIom
Thos, Hale arrived today from
Rapid City.
John LOBBY and vile are the guests
at the Pearle Dotson home.
b. f. Ives. of Huron, numbered
among the visitors here to DAY.
S. w. Clark, attorney general of
Dedtield is sojourner in our city.
Geo. Schneider of Rapid City, is re-
newlng old acquaintance in the city.
Mrs. 7. s. Cassil left this morning
for st. Charles, Mimi, to visit her par
ents.
Mrs. E. f. Lyon departed yesterday
for Pike, N. Y, for a visit with rela-
tives.
In the game of ball played today be-
tween Pierre Midland, the latter won
by score of 3 to 1.
A. G. Brink returned Tuesday from
Kaukakee, ILL.,, where he visited his old
home and friends.
Miss lima Schubert has let the con
tract for thu erection of dwelling on
her lots west of the NJ e. church.
The remains of Alden Gleason. of
Rapid City will be brought here to-
morrow morning for burial. Interment
will take place from the Woodmansee
residence at 2 o'clock.
There has been so much wet weather
this spring that the festive mosquito is
too active for comfort. A lighted ".soss
Stick" carried in the hand and waved
in the air is the latest fashionable i'm
plement of warfare used as prevent
alive from attach.
Congressman Parker who, for the
past week has been i'll at st, Joseph's
hospital, Deadwood, has been practic-
ally given up by his friends. Since
Tuesday he has been in a comatose
condition and it is the opinion of ply
sicians that his recovery is extremely
doubtful.
Reports from Herrick, this state, in
the famous Devils Nest" say that Oil
men have acquired leases to 5000 acres
and are trying to get $4,000 acres Oil
has been found on farm near Herrick
and now active work will begin at Dor
ing to determine the nature and extent
of the strike.
The arteian we'll outfit which has
sunk wells in western Sully county, has
been taken to the Magruder ranch fo
the purpose Of putting down well
Magruder is one Of the colored colon,
settlements in the western part o
Sully county, and is investing owe
forty thousand dollars in his ranch anC
improvements,
Among those from this city who at
, tended the G. A. r, reunion were: j
f: S. Sebree and wife, Albert Wheeler
, and wife, A. B. Nelson, E. z. Farr ant
/. wife, VIM. Summerside and wife, Per
. ry Oldfeld aud wife, Mrs. rhos. Brown
/ 5. F. Jarvis, John Rose, Henry Potter
3 Chas Slough and Frank Lillibridge.
The only crop shortage in South d.
kota this year is that of school teachers
While the returns are not all in fror
the different counties, on the teachers
$ examinations of this month, those tina
u are reporting do not show that any gre;
number of applicants were out. Stat
Superintendent Ustrud says the indie
i lions are that the shortage of teache
S will be more severely felt in the sta
% this year, than it was last year, whe
9 many of the country schools we're n,
opened until late in the fall on accoul
# of the lack in teaching force AS teac
:, ers are not SO numerous, and schDo
d more SO than last year, the country di
D, trlcC Wnlch gets a teacher early in Il
! season will be IN luck, The markr
J board to look over the papers has beg,
i. its work, and in addition to the for
v: of the department, those who are he
r, are Miss Katharine Huntington al
W Grace Peterson of Sioux Falls; Carroll
Bartholomew OF Elk Point; Mrs. &c
Grace, of Lead; Messrs j. j. Hatcher
r. Of Clear Lake; Arthur Chittick,
- Murdo; G. j. Anderson, of Oacom
% % Asher Schlafer, Of Vermillion; and
:. A. Main, of FIandreau; and Jose
. Swenson, of Marion Junction.
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