Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-09-08
Jay Reeves has left for Fargo, N

at Onida.
The state fair opens at Huron on
Monday next.
John E. Kelley of Flandreau, was
in the city today.
G. w. Lumley is slowly recovering
from his recent illness.
j. P. Erickson and family have re-
turned from q trip in Michigan.
Col. Orr Of Brookings, transacted
business matters here on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schaaf are away to
st, Paul, they will pass the week at
the state fair.
The ducks season opens Saturday
and many of the nimrods are oiling
up their guns.
There is a whole temperance SER
mon in the saloon keepers advertise
for sober barkeeper.
Of course, you will see the advertise
ment of the Tony Clothing Co. 1t is
so large one cannot avoid it.
A fast game of ball was played at
Draper Oh Sunday. Draper defeated
Fort Pierre by score of to-.
A. P. Osgood underwent success
full operation for cancer at the hos
pital at Hot Springs last week.
Mrs. w. H. Cashier returned today
to her home at Minneapolis after spend
ing several weeks with her mother
here.
The county board of commissioners
were in session Tuesday. A grist of
unfinished business was disposed of. A
few bills were allowed.
Clair Besancon, publisher of the
Blunt Advocate, was in the city
yesterday The Advocate is bright
and newsy paper,
Josh Wise says: ga mans notion
of tightening woman's burden is to
carry the parasol so she can use both
hanbs to pack the baby.
Nothing doing now in the holiday
line until good old Thanksgiving
which, by the way, isn't SO far away
as it seemed last Christmas.
Fer Sale-Two well located resi-:
dence lots in Pierre. price s4O0. O(
Also Upright Grand Piano. nearly
new.-Claude T. Walker. Alb Euclid
Ave.
During the year delinquent foreign
insurance companies have cashed liber
ally. More than s20,S22.00 was paie
in fees, and SIS, 734,37 was turned in a!
taxes
The constitutional amendments
and the referred laws which are to b,
voted upon this fall comprise thre
pages like this, printed in fine typ
and will take several hours of tn,
voters time to digest.
Robt. S. Vessey, governor; S. G
Policy, secretary of state; O. G
Dokken, commission of public lands
John G. Herring, state auditor
Doane Robinson, historian, were il
Sioux Falls on Roosevelt day
All reported a big joyous gathering
If you have a longing for "spuds
and need them as principal part O
: your daily living, the announce
ment that they will be worth a snu
sum this fall and winter, will not sc
, we'll. But we can't help it. The Gro
in this locality is short, and in man
other parts of the state is not as good
1t is unusual at this time Of year t.
be paying 40c per peck for potatoes.
{. A lease has been filed with tn,
secretary of state, by which tn
James River Valley & Northwestern
Railway company makes lease TO
two years of it's line in Hughes
Sully and Potter counties, betwee
Blunt and Gettysburg, to the North
f western Railway company. AS th
t presidentsand secretary signed tn
J lease also like officials of the North
J western Railway company, it is no
r likely that the lease will mean an
: great change in management.
2 The labor unions of the countr
3 deserve credit mark for the man
ner they adopted in observing labo
day. Usually the members of tn
0 trade unions get out and parade tn
| streets on this annual holiday, but i
: the majority of cases this year tn
: parade was abolished and hug
/. picnics were substituted. The pic
3 nices were attended by the union me
t and their families and good program
8 of music, addresses and sports wer
, the features. The parades tire til
s men out. but the picnics are sourc
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