Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-07

The G. A. r. encampment for 1911
will be held i'll this city.
Business matters called1I. P. Erick-
son to Minneapolis the first of the
week.
Track-laying on the Onida and Get
tysburg line will be completed next
Wednesday.
| T. j. McCalmont made business
trip to Blunt today, where matters of
importance called him.
John Eeinan went to Redtield Sat
urday. He was accompanied home
Sunday by his sister. Miss Christine.
The work of ballasting the roadbed
from Blunt to Onida has been COM
menced by the Northwestern COM
pany.
Salem was visited by Ss5 900 fire
yesterday. The fire was started by
the explosion of an oil tank in a hard
ware store
State Engineer S. Fl. Lea has been
making drawings for number of
concrete floor bridges which are to be
put in by Deuel. county.
| The state land department has re-
ceived a clear list for GAO acres of
common school indemnity lands in
the Belle Fourche land district.
Brick is now being laid in the
walls on the Hyde hotel block.
1t is the intention of Mr.. Hyde to
complete the building in December.
Exconation work for the telephone
company block was completed today.
Iron and steel to be used in the
constructions of the block is on the
ground, and Contractor Anderson
will Immediately building operations.
The annual meeting of the South
Dakota Association of Ben Franklin
clubs will be held at Huron July %
and 20. A good program has been
prepared and a large attendance of
the master printers Of the state is ex-
pected to be present.
Mrs. Emil Hanson of Centerville,
was fined in justide court to the
amount of $40 and costs four selling
rotten eggs to one of the merchants
of that place. Information in the
case was filed by the State Food and
and Irur Comp,ico
Geo. Paddock and Ralph Bagby
have formed a partnership in a ring
throwing game with which they will
go on the road and dispose of large
number of arrow heads which MI.
Bagby has picked up in western Sully
during the last Is years, using the
arrow heads as prizes. -Onida Watch
man.
E. G. Issenhuth of Redield, has
been appointed to the state executive
board of the Red Cross society. This
board is appointed by the national
organization. This is the first time
that South Dakota has had such an
organization. The Board stands
ready at all times in case of unex-
pected accident or disaster to take
steps to provide for the sufferers.
Huron Herald: coming in
; on the North Western train from
Pierre last night, professional pick :
pockets secured from passengers a
total Of $3.50 in checks and cash
Two men from the western part OF
the state were victims and company
of probably three crooks were in the
plot. The pick pockets escaped with
out detection, although the company
is known, and the probabilities are
are that they will be located unless
they are already out of the state.
A severe hailstorm, beating the
corn to stubbs and hammering the
small grain, swept strip of country
north of here along the county linz
: last evening. So fsr as is known i
; covered strip about two miles wide
and ten miles long. The hail fal
was sufficient to make the prairie
white, and piles of hail could b.
fouod where it had washed in hea p:
on the prairie the morning following
) the storm.
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