Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-04-28

Professor Lowell says that Haley
comet is making great spurge or
little substance. q prevalent symptom
of the times.
Bosses of the Elgin butter trust fix
the prices daily by ballot, Electing
us consumers as suckers is one con.
tinual round of pleasure, ehp
Stanley county seems to be showing
up pretty we'll for county just be
ginning to take on population 1t has a
floating debt Of $132,000. and $93, 500
outstanding bonds.
Coal bins that had been closed for
fhe summer and wood piles that had
been laid away for winters use were
brought ia'o sudden demand by the
unexpected charge from balm summer
to frosty winter last Saturday and
Sunday.
James S. Havens, Democrat, was
elected Congressman in the thirty sec
ond congressional district of New York
by 8, 900 majority over Geo. " Aldridge
Republican. This is the first Democra
tic Congressman elected in this district
in over twenty years.
Now an Illinois farmer comes for.
ward with what is practically cobless
variety of corn. In this case the grains
grow directly from the stem, and the
resulting waste is said to be much less
then in the cob kind. Will the evolution
proceed until the husk are also elimin-
ated?
Some Of the farmers in western
Stanley county, where the snow fall
was light the past winter, say the
fields of winter wheat they sowed last
fall have to reseed with spring wheat.
but wherever the snow was deep there
has been no such complaint.
Now that the government census is
on Aberdeen, which has been claim
ing population of fifteen to twenty
is real conservative and
estimates from that town say they
have nine or ten thousand. A num-
Der of other cities in the state that
have been indulging in wild claims
are also due for a hard fall.
The supporters of the anti-license
cause at the recent election at How
ard are facing damage suit. Mrs.
Bolster, widow of Henry Bolster,
who was drowned shortly before cleo
tion day. claims that the anti i-license
people spread the report broadcast
that her husband came to his death
while intoxicated, She claims that
Tie city Of Aberdeen is good proof
of what city may accomplish when
it's citizens are ever alert in it's be-
half and when it's moneyed men are
not niggerly in using their money for
public enterprises. When Aberdeen
goes after anything it gets it and the
result is city OF six thousand beam
ing with business and prosperity.
The money appropriated by the last
legislative session for defraying the
expenses of conveyance Of convicts
to the penitentiary, has been exhaust
ed and sheriffs who have taken men
to the twine plant from this time on
will have to wait until another legis-
lative session provides the money to
reimburse them for such expenses as
they may incur in the discharge of
their duty.
The killing of the foliage by last
weeks storm proves, so Prof. Kerr
tells us, that climatic conditions in
this section have changed very little
in the last hundred years. He says
that the journal of the Lewis and
Clark expedition. which came through
Dakota in the spring of 1904. tells Of
the killing of all foliage by heavy
frost on May Z, and that the leaves
were at that time as big as dol-
lar
Worthington, Mimi, now has but
one newspaper where year ago there
we're three and the strange part of it
hat the Globe is the one to survive.
t appears to be settled policy that
owns of less than 5000 population
sannot support more than Que paper,
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