Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-21

they might as we'll have remained there.
The Aberdeen Daily News is out for
Frank P. Glasner, for the Office of Sec
retary of state. Mr. Glasner is con-
nected with the state land department,
and is an able meritorious fellow.
The Watertown Public Opinion is
grieveously sore becaus President Taft
is not to make stop at Watertown.
Cheer up, brother; the Pa of this re-
public is out hitting the high places
only at this time.
The supreme court of Illinois has de-
cided that saloon keeper who keeps
his place of business open on the Sab
bath is not good, moral character, is
an undesirable citizen, and therefore,
not eligible to citizenship in the United
States.
October %, is the date upon which
President Taft has fixed to be in
Pierre. Hundreds from abroad are
certain to be here that day to see,
and to listen to what the Pa of this
country has to say.
The Madison Outlook says that
"there are a good many republican
papers in South Dakota that do not
know just where they are at Why
limit it to South Dakota? AND why
to republican newspapers Sioux
City journal.
Brooks comet, on which the astrono-
mers of the world are focusing tele-
scopes, is now visible to the naked eye,
and is increasing in brightness. On
Sunday last the comet reached point
nearest to the earth, 1000, 900 miles.
Governor Vessey told the confer
ence of governors at Spring Lake
that he believed in woman suffrage
because he left woman on the job to
run the state while he was away, and
he expected things were going along
out there in pretty good shape.
Sugar and coffee are still moving up
the scale of prices. According to a
wholesaler, this is but the beginning of
a steady advance in the price of sugar,
and it is predicted that before another
year it will sell at cents per pound,
the highest price paid iii the past 25 Is
years.
Ezra Winters of Bingham, Mich,
a farmer boy artist, won $4,000
prize with his painting. "The Arts"
has married the model who inspired
his brush and will take his bride
abroad on a honeymoon trip. The
old saw about truth and fiction ap-
parently still holds goods.
Governor Vessey has selected as
delegates from this state to the third
national conservation congress,
which meets at Kansas City on the
27th of this month, C. H. Lien, of
Sisseton; George R. Farmer of Madi-
son; G. A. johnson of Fairfax; R.
o. Culbertson of Mitchell; Harry
Wentzy of Rapid City; Frank A.
Fischer of Fort Pierre; Noah New
banks of Pierre; NJ. 2. Bee be of Irs-
wich.
The first responses to the Comp
troller of the Currency's call for
statement of the condition of nation
al banks at the close of business on
September are going in from the
larger cities. They show large in
crease in individual deposits over
figures for the same time last year.
The three eastern cities of New York,
Boston and Baltimore, alone, which
has just reported show an aggregate
increase III lnd1Vldual deposits OF
S175, 1929, Isl. .43.
Five vacancies in the house Of re-
presentatives, -all caused by death,
are soon to be filled by elections.
The deaths were: A. G. Mitchell, re-
publican, second Kansas district; G..
D. Kipp, democrat, fourteenth Penn
sylvania; II. g. Loudenslager, repub-
lican, first New Jersey; G. w. Cor.
don, democrat, tenth Tennessee, and
Thomas 2. Latta, democrat. third
Nebraska. There is not likely to be
any political change in the election
Of their successors.