Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-08-25
DR.. w. H. Tilden returned today

Miss Cora Mccoy of Miller is the
guest Of Miss Eula McCord.
R. G. Peter left today for Emery,
called there by the death of q rela
tive.
Mrs. Anna Sharpe of Oacoma has
taken a position with Sutherland Il
Payne.
M. A. Quimby has announced that
he is candidate for states attorney of
Sully county.
Chas. Dalton has accepted a posi-
ton with the Sully County State
bank of Onida.
Mrs. j. E. Truran and children re-
turned today from an extended visit
with the formers parents in Wiscon-
sin.
The department of insurance has
licensed the American Bankers, life
insurance company of Chicago, to do
business in this state.
Harold Pioneer: Joe Marso will
probably establish hay record for
this county, as he expects to stack
500 tons of his barn.
Mrs w. j. Parry and family arrived
yesterday and will occupy the cottage
in East Pierre recently vacated by
Mr.. and Mrs. Thacher.
Jack Frost appears to be inclined
to camp in this neck o the woods. ;"
If he would brush by and not return
for 80 days he would confer favor
on the farmers.
The postoffice department is forcing
the weekly papers to cash basis.
Regulations to that effect were made
a couple of years ago. Inspectors
are now enforcing the regulation.
One of the mysteries beyond So
luton by the masculine mind is why
a hobble skirt cost just as much as
one using fifteen or twenty yards in
accordion pleating. A man seems
to be Just as well off if he dosn f
know the difference between them.
| Harold Journal: Sam McGaffie
was in town this week. Said he
didn't know of an enemy he had in
the country. Just wait till he serves
year as commission. He will beat
our time if he pleases everybody that
wants all the outlandish things done.
The Sioux City Journal jokingly
says: The South Dakota press is
pluming itself on the fact that there
isn't single printer in the state peni.
tertiary. The Journal has already
said that the printers up there are the
sharpest fellows on earth.
David Hill, for sometime janitor
of the Hyde block, is in the hospital
suffering from a wound upon the head
Hill and fellow laborer quarreled
and later indulge in fight, shove
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wound, but it is not thought he is
dangerously hurt.
The people of Philip are moving
toward securing an artesian we'll fol
that place, AS Philip is one of the
liveliest towns between Pierre and
the Black Hills, there is no question
that the huslers of the town viii
secure the flow in case they are not
at too great an elavatson to allow the
water to come to the surface.
The business houses of this city
and practically all of the western
part of the state have been compelled
to use electric lights practically all OF
Monday, as the state has been cover.
ed with such cloud of smoke from
the Montana forest fires as to com
pletely shut out the sun. The smoke
has an acrid wood smell and is close
enough to cause irritation of the eyes
Of many.
The new city gas we'll which ha s
just been completed to add to the gas
supply, is one of the best ever sunk
here. 1t is piped eight inches in sizt
to the bottom and is throwing an
immense flow of artesian water
This is being allowed to run free fol
a few days until the we'll clears Itself
of sand when it will be piped into The
gas receiver, and the gas separated
from the water for commercial use
The heavy flow was secured at {
depth Of about fourteen hundred feet
The Northwestern Railway compan,
sunk its most expensive artesian vel
in the western part Of the state a
Wasta, keeping a drilling crew a
work for over two years at that place
After securing water it was found t,
of such character as to be of littl