Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-17

South Dakota has corn, and there
Will be no squealing if it is hoped
on by the elements.
The Missouri river reached Mon
day the 1lfoot mark, with promise
OF higher level before the end Of the
Week. The indications are that the
June rise has begun.
Harris Heath, a farmer near Arling-
ton, has an infant daughter who will
escape part of the troubles incident
to babyhood, as her first teeth were
found to be cut at birth.
Articles of incorporation have
been filed for the Holabird State bank
at Holabird, with capital of SIS 900;
lncorporatore: c. NJ. Herrig, Wall
Lake, Iowa; E. F. Herrig. Holabird:
Ross Sitford, Jerome, Idaho.
Our trade with Canada shows gains
| over last year. Our trade all around
is little better, also. We're gradu-
ally getting tirmer grip on that pros
perity which slipped away from us
not many months ago.
A statewide league of high schools
has been organized for the purpose of
holding inter-school debates. 1t is
believed nearly all the high schools
OF the state will join. The movement
originated at Vermillion.
A South Dakota made plow has
| been shipped to South Africa for ex-
perimental use in blowing for the
dry farming now in vogue there.
This is doing pretty well for young
and small Sioux Falls factory.
The newspaper publisher is not in
business for his health. If publicity
is worth anything to the man who
seeks it, it is worth paying for, and
the editor who fails to collect what is
due HIM will never get on in the
| world
The great building boom which
seems to be on the increase has com
menced to be felt in carpenter cir
cles, there being scarcity of such
help. 1t is expected there will be
loosening up within the next thirty
days as there are said to be forty
building jobs nearing completion.
The government steamer McPher-
son, bound down from Bismarck
with Captain Schultz, in charge of
work on the upper Missouri, stopped
in Pierre Friday. The trip is to out
line the improvement work which
will be done on the upper river this
year and which includes considerable
work at this point.
The despised cottonwood is still
doing business all over Dakota and
is in reality our most protita BILE crop.
At fifteen years fairly cared for
grove of cottonwoods will return q
value not equaled by anything beside
that we can plant. Besides that, it
is helping out the rapidly diminish
ing timber supply of America.
Many south Dakota farmers whose
financial condition enabled them to
carry over large quantities of last
seasons crop of wheat have protited
greatly by the high price of wheat
this spring. Hundreds Of them have
marketed from 1000 to 5000 bushels
Of last seasons wheat at prices rang
ing from Sl1O to Sl.25 per bushel.
The Dominion of Canada and Aus
tria are practically independent gov
ernments, their subserviency to the
the British empire being more theo-
retical than real. Nevertheless the
loyalty of the two countries to the
great empire can never be questioned
. when both step forward with offers Of
battleships to aid the mother coun
try in maintaining her supremacy or
the sea.
President Taft was beaten the other
day in a very exciting golf game
There have been various rumors
about the presidents wher eabouts or
the tariff issue; but on the golf issue
there is no doubt whatever, he is
attentive to the game, but not wholly
successful. The last point indicates
one of the differences between the
new administration and the old one
If anyone ever had the nerve to beat