Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-02-16
Did you get q Valentine?

e. W. 46ylOT came ia ITOm fulllp
Monday.
Mrs. Henry Karcher entertained at
cards Saturday.
G. T. Dixie and family were up
from Huron Saturday.
Harry Beach of Sioux Falls, was
Pierre visitor Saturday.
W. L. Sharpe Of oacoI1ia. was visit
ing relatives here Saturday.
c. V. Wilson of Highmore, was in
Pierre on business Monday.
Merrill Bancroft of Watertown, is
the guest of his father, w. F. Ban
croft.
II. Il. Gunderson, brother of Attor-
ney Gunderson, arrived Monday from
Hewitt. Wyo.
Miss Leola Hull underwent an
operation for appendicitis at the hos.
pital Saturday.
A. F. Dotson went to Mitchell Fri
day to attend meeting of the state
funeral directors.
Seth Bullock, United States mar
shall for South Dakota, is in Omaha
on official business.
F. E. Battin expects to leave Mon
day for Ottumwa, Iowa, near which
place his parents reside,
Misses Della and Bernice Smith
closed their visit in Rapid City yes
day and returned to this city.
The Rebekahs gave a valentine
sociable at their hall last evening.
A large attendance was reported.
Mrs. John Newcomb left Tuesday
for her home at Pedro, after visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Vessey, who
have been guests of the r. S. Vessey
family, left Monday for their home at
Trip.
The Journal of Education. publish.
ed in Pierre, and edited by Prof M
M. Kramer, has entered upon its sec
ond year. 1t is healthy and inter
esting yearling.
1t is rumored that the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul road has pur-
chased the right of way from Faith,
its present terminus in Meade coun-
ty, to Belle Fourche, and will build
the extension at once.
The acetylene people have shipped
a big powerful light into the capital
for demonstration purposes and want
the headlight bill amended so as to
include gas as we'll as electricity for
the headlights used on locomotives.
Thomas Beck and Oscar Evenson
of DeGrey each lost horse last week
by poisoning from the Paris Green,
, through neglect the empty barrel had
not been removed from the field
. where the poison had been used last
summer.
Those who six months ago predicted
fall in the price of lands west of the
river, widely missed the mark. In
stead of falling prices the rule has been
upward, and lands in all sections west
of the river are changing ownership at
small advances.
Farmers attention. No other local
market will pay you what we will
for your wheat of milling varieties,
we also are paying the highest for
durum wheat, corn, oats and speltz
If in need of seeds of any kind, see
US before purchasing elsewhere. We
can save you money. Capital Milling
Company. If
South Dakota railroad circles are
astir over the rumor of the building
of the Milwaukee extention from
Mitchell. The line will be built
from Mitchell to Madison, through
Kanova into Watertown, and will
connect with the H. and D. division
of that road somewhere in the vi
cinlty OF Webster.
John DeBoer, father of our towns.
man, G.. L. DeBoer, was in the city
Tuesday from Hull, Iowa. John De.
Boer is an extensive land owner il
the Hawkeye state, and WAS here il
search of large farm location.
The Mcclellan estate, which is be
ing fought over in Minnehaha coun
ty, was before the supreme court
yesterday, in which the supreme
court holds the state has no right tc
intervene in the matter of the ap
pojntment of an administrator in the
case.
| The masquerade ball Tuesday even
ing, given by the hook and ladder
company, was one of the successful
events of the season and was lsrgely