Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-09-01
ROYAL WELCOME.
SIOUX FALLS BESTIRING ITSELF
FOR ROYAL WELCOME TO
THE EX-PRESlDENT
WILL SPEAK in BIG tent
Committee Has Provided a Monster
Canvas Pavilion for the Occa-
sion and Weather Can
not Interfere

| sioux FallS-HOn IheOdOre ROOSe-
welt, who is to address the people
of South Dakota in this city the third
day OF September, will speak at 5
4 o'clock in the afternoon and will de-
liver his remarks from a platform be-
meath tent
w. G. Cook of this city, chairman OF
the republican state central commit
tee, yesterday received a telegram
from Mr. Roosevelt, in response to one
which had been addressed to the for
mer president, by Mr.. Cook, asking II
5 o'clock would be satisfactory and if
a tent would be sufficient covering,
while he is speaking.
| The response to this telegram was
brief and characteristic. 1t was:
give o'clock satisfactory. Tent sat
isfactory, too. (SigneD
Roosevelt
The people of this state are anxious
to hear Colonel Roosevelt, upon what
ever topic he may decide to speak and
there is no doubt in the mind of any
one that he will say something of in
tereSt
The executive committee of the
general committee on the South Da-
kota reception to Colonel Roosevelt,
when he reaches Sioux Falls on his
western trip, one week from yester-
day, at meeting held at the auditor
ium yesterday afternoon, decided to
invite Clifford Pinchot, formerly chief
forester Of the United States govern
ment, and James r. Garfield, former
secretary OF the interior, who are
with Mr.. Roosevelt, on his western
trip, to speak at the banquet which
is to be extended Mr. Roosevelt, at
the hotel Cataract in this city, in the
evening of Saturday
The executive committee, at it's
meeting yesterday, also limited the
number of plates at the banquet at
200 and decided to invite all the pub
lie officials of the state, senators, con-
gressmen, judges of the supreme court
and the governor, and all republican
candidates for state Offices, to attend
the banquet.
The demcratic candidates for state
office will also be asked to attend that
festal affair
All the prominent newspaper men
of the state and lawyers, irrespective
of their political Affiliations will also
be invited
The idea that this reception to
Colonel Roosevelt is a South Dakota
affair, is to be carried out to the linn
it by the executive committee.
A large reception committee, COM
prls1ng more than one hundred
names, is headed by Mayor Burnside
The following official program has
been arranged for the recetion to the
guests of next Saturday.
a. m. Saturday, September 3.-The
sub-reception committee, consisting
of w. G. Cook, chairman, Mayor Geo
w. Burnside, H. R. Dennis, Judge j.
W. Jones and George A. Pettigrew,
will leave Sioux Falls to meet the
Roosevelt train at Sioux City and ac-
company the same to Sioux Falls.
Morning = Reception of visiting
guests by general reception commit
tee at depots. Music by local and
visiting bands.
Afternoon prior to o'clock-Street
concerts by Watertowr. Lennox and
Sioux Falls bands, and street drill by
military companies.
p. m.-Assembly of general recep-
ton committee, bands, military escort,
members of the G. A. R. mounted,
citizens and the public in general at
the Omaha depot to meet ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt and party upon the
arrival of the special train which
will bring the party from Worthing-
ton.
4:30-Procession will form and
march from the Omaha depot west on
Eighth street to Phillips avenue,
north on Phillips avenue to Seventh
street, then west to Main avenue,
south to Twelfth street, east to Phil
lips avenue, north to Ninth street.
thence west on Ninth to the speaking
tent at the corner of Minnesota ave-
nue..
p. m.-Speech by ex-Pres!dent
Roosevelt at tent.
p. m.-Music by bands. Fireworks
on the streets. Vaudeville and mu-
steal attractions at the tent.
9 Fl. m.-Banquet in honor of Col.
Roosevelt and party at the Cataract
hotel.
Colonel Roosevelt will stop in Sioux
City, Ia, just long enough to make a
few remarks and will hurry from that
point to Sioux Falls, in order to reach
this city early and give the people OF
South Dakota plenty of time in which
to greet MIN ana near WAaC ne mas
to say.
The committee on street decorations.
has made arrangements for the most
elaborate and beautiful street adorn-
ment and illumination that has eyer
been undertaken by South Dakota
city.
Just as well arrange to drop every
thing and come to Sioux Falls on Sat-
urday next, because there will be no
one at home anyway. Everybody Is
coming to Sioux Falls to see and hear
the foremost citizen OF the world
h vermillion Property owners along
the Vermillion river north have hit up
on scheme for carrying off surplus
water and draining a large area Of land
that IS now almost worthless. They
Dlan. to build a mRmmoth ditch rynnipr