Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-30

j. I. Flanagan has returned from
trip near Grindstone.
l.. A. Temmey and family were in
from Onida on Monday in their auto.
The board of education met Tuesday
to open bids for the construction of
new school building.
The Capital City Crystal Water COM
pany are now domiciled in their new
Quarters on Dakota avenue.
G. M. Livingstone will go to Sully
county on Saturday, where he will
close up another sale of lands.
Miss Schofield, who has been visiting
at the home of S. G, Dewell, returned
today to her home at Lincoln, Neb.
The county teachers normal institute
from Stanley county will be held at
Fort Pierre commencing next Mon
day.
Miss Minnie Livingstone and brother
Arthur, of Onida, are visiting at the
home of their brother, &. M. Living
stone and wife.
The measure is opposed by the big
bankers in the east, for the reason that
the guarantee makes the small bank
equal to the big banking houses in
point of safety to depositors.
Mr. Il. o. Besancon, editor of the the
Blunt Advocate and Mrs. Mary Hol-
mes were married at Blunt on July %,
Rev. Albert Wilson officiating. May
their proudest hopes be fully realized,
is our wish.
The Pierre police received a message
from Mitchell the fore part of the week
asking for information regarding rela-
tives of a mulatto who was killed at
that place Tuesday. The whereabouts
of relatives being unknown in this
city.
The formal opening of the Capital
Furniture Store will occur on Thurs
day of next week, when magnificent
display of goods will be made TO
this the people Of Pierre are cordially
| invited.
According to the returns made to
the state equalization board, Stanley
county is getting up among, the big
ones, in wealth as well as in terri
tory. Its rise is swift The assessed
valuation of the county has gone up
to more than four million dollars, of
which million IL half has been added
the past year. The real estate valua-
| ton of the county has doubled since
| last year.
f. N. Stewart, assistant superinten-
dent of the Dakota division of the
North Western railroad, is at present
experimenting crew of men who are
working from the James Valley juno
ton west to Pierre and the Black
Hills. This crew is laying gravel and
heavy steel on the west line of the
North Western, preparatory to the
heavy traffic and and heavy use to
which this line will be put in few
years.
G. l.. Johnson, of Laurel, Sully
county, has been experimenting with
popcorn for several years, and finds
it to be one of the best paying crops
he can handle. He raises from IS to
40 bushels per acre, and cuts it with a
corn binder, Smelling it by running it
through threshing machine. The
average price at which he sold his
product last year was three cents a
pound. He has twenty-five acres of
this crop this year, and is carrying
700 bushels of old crop in the bins on
his farm.
The state assessment board has been
considering railway and express as.
sessments the past week, and while
no final figures have been made it is
safe to say that these classes of pro
perty will get a strong raise over the
figures of last year, in which practi
cally every mile of road in the state
will get it's raise. When the fina
figures are given out they probably
will show some Of the mileage of roads
) in the state placed at 1000 mile fo,
assessment purposes. The expires!
companies will also get good stiff
raise over last years figures.
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