Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-09-26

Howard Fuller lett Saturday on q
business trip to Sisseton.
G. W. Derby was in the city Mon
day from Peabody, Kan.
The county board of commissioners
meet next Tuesday. in regular quart
erly session.
Ralph Longstaff left Sunday for
Huron, where he went to pay q visit
to his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fergus Boken Of
Mason City; Iowa, are guests of rela.
tives in the city.
Miss Ruth Hyde left last week for
Los Angeles, CAL. where she has begun
a collegiate course.
John Deel returned Friday to his
his home at Boone, Iowa, after sum-
mer's stay in Pierre.
| The Bachelor Boys gave dance Fri
day evening at the st. Charles to a
number of their friends,
A. G. Brink went to Sioux Falls the
first of the week to look after his COM
mercial interests in that place.
Mrs. j. E. Truran is receiving a
visit from her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. T.. Weatherby of Pomona, Cal.
E. w. Peck, the Minnesota State
Secretary of the Y. M. c. A., spoke at
the Methodist church Sunday morn
ipo.
The All Stars succeeded in winning
the game of foot ball played Monday
with the High School team, the score
being 8 too.
A surprise party was given Miss
Helen Donahue Sunday evening, by a
number of her friends, to celebrate
her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. e. Howard enter
tanned number of friends at dinner
Sunday, in honor of their thirty
eighth wedding anniversary.
A number of friends of the Misses
Marion Ihli and Flora Harvey, sur
prised them Saturday to celebrate
both young ladies birthdays.
j. K. Cressey, representing the
New York Mutual Life Insurance
Co., was in the city the first of the
week in the interest of his company.
| A driZZling rain which bowed out
September 20, the last day of summer,
changed to swirl of snow shortly
before daylight. The storm is the
earliest snow of the season for a de-
cade.
The Indian Industrial schools now in
session in Pierre, are crowded to the
capacity of the building. A hopeful sign
that, when. the Sioux knock at school
house door and request admission.
1t will probably be a week or ten
days before the supreme court of the
state makes public its decisions in
the political cases that were argued
before that tribunal this week.
The Okobojo Times announced last
week that a postoffice had been estab-
lished at Little Bend, and named Bind
er, in honor of Joe Binder, who was
one of the first settlers at the Bend.
H. P. Knox has been appointed post
master there.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Huffman State Bank at
Huffman, Marshall county, with a
capital of $4,000. Incorporators: G..
| F. Anderson, Aaron Anderson, e. A.
Movius, j. II. Movius. Ed. j. Radine,
M. T. Nelson.
Car apples are beginning to show
up in this market thus early in the
season. People were pretty badly
stuck with car apples last year and
as a consequence are not jumping to
these alleged bargains as they might
be expected to do.
John W. Walker, pracsicing at
torney in Brookville, Pa, was in
Pierre the first of the week, paying
taxes and otherwise looking after
property interests here. This is his
first visit to the far west, and he ex-
pressed the belief that we live in the
best agricultural section on the globe.
The time to harvest seed corn for
next years planting is now. Experi-
ence has shown that it is best to har-
vest seed corn and hang it up the last
week in September or first few days
in October. The question is, will it
! be done now, or will we wait until
much of it is frozen as was the case
two years ago, and again last year?
Announcement is made that the
News Publishing company of Water
town has enlarged its plant and added
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