Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-03-04

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ERIE, SOUTH DAKOTA,
When you bury the hatclet with
some people, mark the grave.
Congress viii meet on the 18TH OF
March not only to revise the tarin,
but to do whatever it proIanrIy
pleases.
Some people, like flowers, are beau
tiful only in their nativity. Many
heart, transplanted to the city, has
Withered and died.
\ dispenser Of drink me quickly
glye-me-Some- more, in Blunt offers
81, 800 for the exclusive privilege of
running a saloon in that nourishing
town
The farmer makes a mistake when
he experiments with alfalfa on low,
badly drained land. Drainage is of
the first Importance and it is much
safer to put alfalfa on the top of
Butte than in slough Good up
land, we'll drained is the ideal alfalfa
land.
"There is no real storm on the
map, said the weather man last
night, land Pierre's chances for a
storm are no good. The clouds
rolled away last evening and are
scheduled to stay out of range of
vision for at least thirty-six hours.
The plan for the proposed improve
ment of the capitol grounds has been
Il potent factor in inducing legisla-
tors to support the bill. It's attrac-
tlvenesS has impressed itself on all
who have examined it ond admiring
members are found about it CON
stantly.
a romance eliminated today by the
issuance of marriage license to
Ambrose Forsithe, aged 52, stock
raiser at Pierre, and Miss Fanny
Henthorne, forty-hve years old, Of
Castle, Ireland. twenty-five years
ago the couple were sweethearts in
Ireland. Forsithe sought fortune
in America.
After a strenuous session of re-
trenchment and economy the SiXtieth
congress will go out of business with
the record for the largest appropri-
ations in the history of the republic,
What would have happened if the
members had really tried to spend
money is painful to contemplate.
The south Dakota legislature is fast
drawing it's session to a close. When
they session shall have been complet-
ed, the records will show that it CON
Sldercd Il great number Of bills Of
divers kinds. 1t has passed mum
Der OF important measures which
were III tulillment Of the party plat
form. On The whole its record has
been good one
hy unanimous vote the house COM
mlttee on coinage in congress has
voted down a motion to replace the
Indian head on the l-cent piece with
the head Of Lincoln. 1t sayors of an
archy to place any individuals ef1igy
on coins, and congress from it's earli-
est days has steadily refused to do it,
when the suggestion has come up. 1t
sounds a little far-fetched, but it is
true democracy.
subscriber came in Thursday to
pay his subscription-ha the money
ready and we were already figuring on
Deeisteak for supper, when we looked
up his account, and found it paid in
to the next year. There are many
kinds of dissappointment in this
world and but for varities of Joy, but
we are always ready to look up an ar-
count even if we don't always make
good.
Startling things are told about the
things which women are destined to
wear as headgear this spring and
summer. At first glance the hats are
startllng-even to women who are
used to wearing queer shapes-but
when placed upon a properly prepar-
| ed cOitfure, one with the low roll and
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