Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-10-03
Frank Allen came up from Harold

Frank Allen came up from Harold
today.
Ihe County Commissioners are in
session this week.
Mrs. E. S. Uhrig has returned from
visit at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Leo Boland arrived home the first
of the week from, Hot Springs for a
visit.
j. ". Cox, representing Perkins
Bros, of Sioux City, was in the city
Monday.
Mrs. Huffman of Blunt spent few
days with Miss Grace Cellars the first
of the week.
d. F. Carlin of the Cheyenne Agen-
cy was in the city Tuesday attending
Federal court.
Ferguson Brothers Stock Co., will
appear nightly next week at the
Grand opera house.
Miss Clara Farmer has resumed
her duties as stenographer, at the
First National Bank.
Aberdeen News, 2: l.. M. Patter-
son left yesterday for Pierre, where
he will serve as bailiff during the
October term of federal court.
Idaho women propose to nominate
a feminine state ticket. Here is
emancipation for you.
Larry Maher of Meers, returned to-
day from the harvest fields in the east
ern part of the state.
G. M. Livingstone, has severed his
connection with the Harold journal.
and returned home today.
Miss Pauline Sutherland has open
ed the kindergarten in Miss Stod-
dard's studio, in the Pierre St. block.
The Huronite: Senator Coe l. Craw-
ford departed last evening for Kansas
City and Seneca, Kans,, where he will
make speeches.
Senator Coe 1. Crawford arrived
here last Thursday, and passed the
day circulating among his friends.
Business matters brought him to
Pierre.
Ben Blair came down from Fair
bank the first of the week. He is a
witness on the part of the United
States in the black hand letter case,
Gene Canaan being the defendant.
Cyrus Wade of Ft. Pierre, C. j..
Harmon of Marion, John S. Pyle of
Huron, r.. e. Wiley of Kimball and
ID. E Campbell of Aberdeen, were
in the city Tuesday to take the State
Bar examination.
County politics, especially on the re-
publican side of the house, seem to be
The democrats are organ
lied and doing some work every day.
With election only little more than four
weeks ahead, matters political should
soon begin to hum.
1t seems to be quite fashion now
adays for candidate to distribute
his portrait and post them about the
town, This would be hard on home
ly fellow, and hard on an unworthy
fellow seeking office for in that case
it would be constant reminder of
his unfitness.
We are in receipt of paper called
Truth about God and life," and
proclaims, what it calls "Kerrs great
discoveries in nature" The discov-
cry is that there is no God, NO soul
aDd no after life. To offset Kerr's
discovery we have one of our own,
that is that Kerr is blashemer and
a fool.
Hon. Geo. w. Egan was among the
distinguished men in Pierre yestert
day, from abroad. Like all good men,
he brought his wife with him. They
made the trip by auto from Sioux
Falls to Pierre in ten hours. Mr..
Egan argued case in the supreme
court, and started on the return trip
early this morning.
There is now assurance IN the signs
that are hung in the sky that the kind
of weather that belongs to this locality
at this season of the year will render
October glorious. Most of the last half
of September brought experiences Of
snow aud frosts and chilling rains that
are not the legitimate portion of this
fragment of the universe.
Once again the active suffragists of
South Dakota have entered upon cam
paign in behalf of new constitutional
amendment that will confer the ballot
upon the disfranchised sex. They are