Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-05-18
Commencement day is not far away.

HI. w. TWeedle, dentist, was an east
bound passenger Tuesday.
John /. Newell under underwent q eper-
alton at Omaha Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. DeHart came up
from Canning Tuesday.
Homer Cochrane of Manila, was .
capital city visitor Tuesday.
August Wulff left Monday on va
cation trip to points in Iowa.
The state brand commission will
meet in regular session May 20.
Jesse G. Bryant Of Meers, was the.
guest of Pierre friends Monday.
The Trinity Guild gave social at
the Lane home Tuesday evening.
Mr.. A. Orvedahl and family went
to their homestead near Faith Mon
dav.
o. S. Basford, state insurance com
missioner, spent yesterday in Sioux
Falls.
The Woman's club held it's annual
meeting in the M. E. church parlors
this afternoon.
j.. w. Weaver left yesterday for
Belle Fourche, where he will remain
during the summer.
j. E. Mallory left Sunday for Wan
kau, Wis, called there by the illness
of his aged mother.
And South Dakota will again be
found at the head of the wealth pro-
| ducing states for 1910.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney of Giddings,
are in the city, guests of the A. p.
Whitney family in East Pierre.
Miss Jennie Tillman went to Sioux
Fails Monday to be in attendance at
meeting of the Rebekah order.
Rev. III. L. Russell delivered the
| baccalaureate sermon at Ft. Pierre
Sunday, number of Pierre people
attending.
This evening at the Baptist church
Mrs. Zehner, a chautauqua lecturer,
will deliver an address. No admis-
sion will be charged.
State Auditor Anderson was an ar
rival from Mitchell Tuesday to at
tend the meeting of the capitol COM
mission to be held tomorrow.
| Tuesday telegram, announcing the
death of a brother, called the Misses
Elizabeth and Katherine Ryan to Hes
shey, Wis.
| DR.. S. B. Stegeman and wife were in
the city Tuesday from Onida. Doctor
is succeeding well at that place. where
aside from practice he is engaged ir
the drug trade.
!. Articles of incorporation nave beer
filed for the Farmers State bank OF
Lily, Day county, with a capital OF
$4,000. Incorporators, James Ander-
son, l.. S. Westby, o. A, Fossum ane
others.
In the supreme court on Tuesday
opinions were handed down as fol
lows: By Whiting-State vs. Mike
Meade, Roberts, modified. John A
Laughlin VS.. A. B. Larson ct al
Moody, affirmed.
The band boys gave an open all
concert on lower Pierre street Tues
day evening. A lengthy program wa
rendered, which shows that the boy
are coming TO the front under thei
new instructor.
Alfred Anderson is just home from
a business trip to Ackley, Mimi, il
which locality he acquired land in
terests last year. While there h,
sold a 100 acre tract and purchase,
: five quarter sections. He report
conditions in the gopher state as be
ing very good.
The sum paid into the hands of +
F. Brinker, commissioner of schoo
! and public lands, since March /, 1911
8 upon leases of school lands alon
r amount to $S3, 900. This sum is muc
l greater than that received, from lik
g source, by any state in the union.
The election of mayor and two men
bers of the city commission occurre
f Tuesday; but few voters exercised tn
e right of franchise. No contest was or
: L. L. Stephens was chosen mayor
). Louis A. Munson and Chas. E. Hano
e were elected members of the commits
n sion, each receiving full vote.
The county board Of commissioner
convened Friday in special session t
i refund the bonded Indebtedness {
e the county. General routine bus
J. ness followed, and the session close
n with the allowing of few claim
d against the county. The board wi
il meet in special session June 80, whe
k permits to sell o-be-joyful will j