Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-07-21
Gil. Fan us Ioudart

W.
Mrs. Mason Samco came up from
Canning Tuesday.
Geo. Coulter of DeGrey is attend
ing institute here this week.
The first regular train was run
from Belle Fouche to Newell yester
day.
Editor Clement of the Java Harold
was calling on friends in the city
yesterday.
Rapid City's new postmaster, Virgil
L. Price, died at his home in that city
| yesterday.
The building vacated by Merchant
Lane is soon to be occupied by F. l..
Villas, druggist.
Miss Mirrel Street and Miss
Thelma Elliott are Visiting friends
in Aberdeen.
Lack of rain IN South Dakota and
Montana is still keeping the Missouri
river at low stage.
Rev. Knuth left Tuesday for his
home at Eden Valley, Iowa, after
visit with Rev. Mueller.
Volume 1, No. 1, of the Agar Argus
has reached this office. 1t is a newsy
and we'll printed newspaper.
Mrs. E. f. Dorothy and daughter
and son left Tuesday for Ute, Iowa
where they will visit relatives.
L. E. Snyder and family of Onida,
have returned from two weeks
outing at Hisega Lodge near Rapid
City.
G. M. Livingstone went to Sully
county today with party of land
| buyers, who were here from Wis
cOnsin.
! The teachers Normal institute for
! Hughes county, began two weeks
session on Tuesday. The attendance
| is large.
In selecting a new secretary of the
interior the president would prefer
to find someone who has already been
Investigated.
1t is believed that John T. Nelson
will become assistant secretary of state
and that he will assume such duties
about August /.
A. G. Brink has large force Of
men making hay, on lands which he
owns east of city. Mr.. Brink intends
to gather 1900 tons.
The Farmers State bank at Agar
will begin business soon, with Guy E.
Mitchell, jr., president; f. D. Nit
chell, vice president; K. V. M itchell,
cashier.
Hihgmore Bulletin: A Mr.. Swan
son of Pierre, was city yisitoFlast
Saturday. He was looking over the
field with view of putting in an
electric lighting plant.
Bob Matheson has purchased the
Stout barber equipment and intends
to move the same from the National
Bank of Commerce building to his
Pierre Street building
James A. Stuart, formerly city
editor of the Aberdeen Daily News,
has taken the agency for the northern
half Of South Dakota for an eastern
life insurance company.
At a meeting of the board of
education this week, G. A. Young
and son were awarded the contra ct
to put in the plumbing furnishings
into the new school building
A. C. Brink is having substan tial
cement walk laid along his prop erty
on Pleasant Drive. He is also MAX
ing repairs to and repainting his
dwelling house in the city-and he
owns forty.
Ex-Lient. Gov. George w. Snow,
: of Springfield, has announced that
the monument i'll honor Of the first
school house III South and North
Dakota will be erected in the old
town of Bon Homme, near Running
Water.
The total number of automob lies
in this state are 6,49S, and of this
number 1886 were registered for the
first half Of 1910, and 252 since the
first of July. This would hardly
indicate that shortage, or hard time
!, is affecting the automobile market
seriously in this state.
A young man named Edward
Mccormick while bathing in the
Belle Fouche river near Vale with
several friends, was drowned yester-
day afternoon. Mccormick evidently
could not swim and dropped into an
unknown hole in the stream. His
home is said to be in Vivian S. D.