Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-15

that their ancestors came to America
to escape Imprisonment for poverty
Crop prospects in central South Da-
kota were never brighter than they
are right now. Crops are further ad-
vanced than on this date many pre-
vious year, and are growing fast.
Corn is three feet high and is looking
fine.
| 1t takes rich man to draw check,
a pretty girl to draw attention, a
horse to draw a cart, a porous plaster
to draw the skin, a topper to draw a
cork and an advertisement in your
home paper to draw trade. Send in
your ad. for the drawing.
Every man who sells pipe from
now on in South Dakota is violater
of the law. The last legislature put
this into the anti-cigarette law and
while this portion of the law will
never be enforced, it will give some
fellows chance to get even with an
enemy, as will the anti-treating law.
Unusual energy is being put into
the preparations for the state fair and
an exposition is promised for this fall
that will equal anything in the north
west. The state has literally endow-
ed the fair. 1t is the peoples own
opportunity and institution, the
states harvest home and it should
have the patronage it's character
merits.
Vice President Sherman is an
nounced as one of tho speakers at the
South Dakota State Fair at Huron
this fall. "Sunny jim" will no doubt
prove a big attraction to the people
OF the Sunshine state and the fair
management are to be congratulated
on their good fortune in securing a
speaker of such national prominence.
For the first time in the history of
the county buyers are in the field to
purchase the wheat crop not yet har-
vested, for delivery when threshed.
In some sections of the county $1.35
per bushel is offered for the wheat.
and in others the offers range from
$1.25 to S1.30. Buyers are not max
ing much headway, as farmers are
disposed to await developments.
We notice that several of our South
Dakota brother editors are investing
in automobiles. That denotes pros
perity. And some others say they
are going to invest in airships. When
the price Of airships becomes cheap
we will lose no time in paying a visit
to our castles, which we have long
owned but have never got near
enough to enter.
At a meeting of the Board of Re-
gents for State Normal schools Fri
day night several new teachers were
elected for the various schools, and
contracts were let for heating and
plumbing in the different schools
The board completed it's organic alton
by electing E. G. Erickson of Elk
Point, president, and A. j. N orby of
Sisseton, vice president. A secretary
will be elected at the Aberdeen meet
ing.
The man who pays an incr eased
price for suit of clothes next fall on
account of the new tariff schedule can
take some comfort in knowing that
diamonds and yachts pay small ad-
valorum tax under the new schedule
while old paintings, found only in the
homes of millionaires, comes in duty
free. The money kings and corpora
tions have been we'll taken care of by
Boss Aldrich and his crowd.
just as the revenue officers were
about to enter moonshining on the
governments card index as an extinct
industry, illicit manu- facture of
liquors suddenly increased fully SO
per cent in Alabama, Georgia, Ten
nessee and other southern states, and
Knox Booth, one of the most widely
known internal revenue officers in the
south, says the arid condition under
probition in these states is the cause.
The state treasurer is receiving a
number of applications for hotel and
opera house licenses under the new
law, but has put one phase Of the law
up to the attorney general that being
the standi lg Of the certificates issued
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