Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-09-23
Gas Belt Exposition Oct. 4 to 9,


AT any rate, it may be said for the
farmers that if the prices are run up too
high they can quit buying.
The real estate market has been act
I've enough to put about every other
man in the business the past two weeks.
The formal opening of the Moores'
dry goods house will take place on
Friday of this week. All the best
and most seryiceable goods are there.
G. M. Livingstone is entertaining
some Des Moines parties, who are
looking over this portion of the state
with view of purchasing farm lands.
A delayed item may yet tell of the
appointment Of Prof. j. E. Sliddee as
supervisor of penmanship in the pub
Ii: schools. The board of education
gave him that position two weeks ago.
Sully county people brought in
Wednesday a splendid display of
grains and vegetables, and more are
to follow. Sully's display at the Gas
Belt Exposition will eclipse anything
of like nature ever seen in central
South Dakota.
Exhibits for the Gas Belt EXPOSE
ton, to be held in this city, October
to 8, are coming in daily More and
better grain exhibits may be seen
i'll Pierre during this festival than
were ever shown throughout the
length and breadth of South Dakota.
The next big thing in South Dakota
will be the corn palace which is to be
held at Mitchell The present prospect
is that the crowd which gathered at the
state fair will be duplicated at the corn
palace. These two state gatherings are
getting to be established with South
Dakota people and everybody feels
! that they must attend.
Crops are going to market these
days and good solid cash is being re.
ceived by the farmers for their prod
ucts, but none of this money comes
from the catalogue and mail order
houses who are so anxious for the
farmers trade. Their game is al
take and no give, they want your
money, but they have no money t.
spend with you.
| September has it's lingering lights
and lessons all along the way-it is {
world of enchantment and delicate
color no pen can picture, while walk.
ing encircled with harmonies, listen
ing to small voices of unwritten son1
as they hum and murmur in our ears
| 1t is a glorious season of matches
days and heavenly nights-a fitting
adieu to the wealth and fullness O,
summer before yielding to the frosts
and SHOWS Of the long and dreary
winter.
On Saturday Alfred E. Hegglunt
expired at his home in this city, afte
an illness Of four months. TIL,
funeral services took place from th,
family residence. Members of tn,
local orders of Eagles and veterans
of the Spanish American war attend
ed the service in body. His remain
were laid to rest in Riverside GENE
terry. He is survived by wife an,
three children, a father, two brother
Edwin and Arthus, and two sisters
| Mrs. Milo Brown and Miss Esthe
, Hegglund.
Watertown Opinion: Doane Rob
: inson has made gum shoe canvas
of the state preparatory to estimatin
the population of the leading cite
Of the state as will be shown by th
federal census next year. Mr.. Rot
inson thinks that Watertown ha
I. grown more rapidly than any othe
city in the state, fact which ha
: modestly been claimed by Watertow
4 people, but vociferously disputed b
r rivals, less fortunate in their attrat
/ tiveness as a city of homes. If til
a federal census bears out the predi,
q tions Of Mr.. Robinson, some balloon
will take horrifying collapse.