Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-12-28

New corporations are the Armour
Mill Co. at that place and the Knowl-
ton Manufacture Co of Canton. The
latter company will manufacture gas
and gasoline engines and tractors.
The Northwestern is offering rate
of fare and third, round trip, to
Sioux Falls from any points in South
Dakota for the South Dakota Conserva-
ton, Dry Farming and Good Roads
congress, Jan. 9 to II.
The general land office has ruled
that mans family may live on
claim without him and prove up all
right. This leaves the head of the
family free to make living else
where while his family is proving up.
For the November teachers examin-
ations, there were 1913 applications, of
which there were 157 certificates gram
ed, 33 rejected, and three yet pending.
There were granted four state certifi-
Gates, So first grades, 80 second grades,
and 16 third grades.
South Dakota publishers, on the
average, put out the best newspapers
for the money OF any state in the
union. If you don't believe it just com
pare your local weekly with the one
that comes from your old home town
in the east -Brookings Register.
| Trade unions throughout the y nit
ed States have adopted resolutions
threatening to withdraw from the
National Federation of Labor, unless
Samuel Gompers resigns. Displeas-
ure over the attitude of Gompers in
| the Mcnamara case is assigned as the
reason.
1t is expected that Assistant State
Engineer Rex Green, who has, dur
ing the past week been surveying the
state encampment grounds at Water
town for the war department., will re-
turn at once togo out to the bad
| Land" irrigation meeting to be held
soon at Scenic.
John Widow, publisher of the vi
! borg Enterprise, has announced his
candidacy for representative in the
legislature from the Turner county
district. There is the best of legis-
lative timber in Mr.. Widow, and the
Free Press hopes that he will be
! chosen without opposition.
The Wabash railroad has gone into
the hands of receiver, and one of the
Gould properties is held up to the pub
lie gaze. 1t is too bad that the men
who do the work upon the road could
not have the receivership of it. But
then. it is not wise to give things to
those who create them, is it?
1t is customary each year at this
I, time for many to remark that from
now on the days will be getting longer.
| While the earth is about three million
| miles nearer the sun at this time than
it is in June, the suns rays strike us at
so low an angle that the heat is partly
dissipated in the atmosphere.
LOOMS S. Gull again steps into the
1 political limelight and announces with
commendable frankness that he is not
asking for the endorsement of his can.
didacy by the Taft Huron convention.
He says he takes the call for the con
ference at its face value, which is a
meeting of South Dakota republicans
to boost for the president.
| Probably the only case of it's kind
in the history of the navy department
developed the other day when Thos
Harrison, chief clerk in the naval
observatory, asked to be transferred
to position with less salary for the
good of. the service. Mr.. Harrison
has been an empioye of the depart
ment sixty-three years. gong to the
navy the year following the Mexican
war and has served continuously ever
since. Old age has come on him,
however, and feeling his usefulness
waning volunteered to ask for re-
lduction in pay and less responsibility.