Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-02-15

Friday.
S. P. Jones was over from Onida
Tuesday
Hose company No. 8 will give dance
at the Locke on February 20.
Miss Stella Burke of Huron, is a
guest at the 81. G.. Smith home.
| The merry Men" entertained at the
John Hirning home last evening.
| Floyd Butler of Wall, was in the
city on a short business trip Friday.
The State convention of the Y. NJ.
C. A will be held at Huron May 1.3.
| Rev. Dye of Harold, conducted ser
| vices at the Lutheran church Sunday.
| Mr. and Mrs. w. O. Manley of De
Grey, were shopping in the city Friday.
DR.. H. K. Warren of Yankton col
lege, addressed the pupils of the high
school Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. Haswell went to
Seneca Friday for an over Sundays
visit with sister.
e. G. Weber, state hotel inspector,
was an arrival from Huron on Sat
urday afternoon.
Lee Nelson, who attended the funer-
al of his father here last week, left
Friday for Minneapolis.
Emil Peuschel returned last week
from two weeks visit with home
folks at Gracevile, MINI.
O. B. Linstad went to White Butte
Saturday, where he took testimony in
case before Judge Carpenter
The northwest has a generous COW
ering of snow. 1t bespeaks abundant
moisture and big crops in the fall of
1912.
Harold Breeder went to Vermillion
Friday, where he will take up his duties
in the law department at the state uni
versity.
White River. the county seat of
Mellet tie county, will be the filing
place for the April filing of the new
homesteads.
That newspaper story of Colorado
woman finding a $50 bill in the fam
lily Bible may awaken new INTEREST," in
searching of the scriptures.
Sioux Falls Press, 13: Doane Robin
son of Pierre, state historian, arrived
yestesday and will spend several DAYS
in the city attending to business affairs.
7. 81. Hagen, superintendent of the
Sunday schools of the state Baptist
association, preached an interesting
sermon at the First Baptist church on
Sunday.
Sunday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A.
DR.. A. H. Youngs delivered an address
before the members taking as his sub
ject, care You Square Plug in a
Round Hole?"
We are verging on towards spring
rapidly and we will not probably
have much more cold weather. An
other harvest will no doubt bring
good results.
e. r. Brewster of Platte was look
ing after property interests here last
week. He says that farmers are very
prosperous in the section of the state
in which he resides.
The government has made arrange
ments with agricultural colleges in the
various grain states to test free of
charge all seed for farmers and the
State college is now prepared to do
this work.
Hicks, the weatherologist of St.
Louis, saws that normal rainfall
will return to the northwest this sea-
son, which confirms the opinion gen
orally expressed that South Dakota
will have her old-time bumper crop.
We sure need it.
[ Friday evening the young ladies of
the Congregational church organized a
Kings Daughters society They
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Miss Ruth Peterson; vice. presi-
dent Miss Margaret Lockhart; secre-
tary, Miss Agnes Smith; treasurer,
Miss Ruth Hyde.
The members of the Degree of Honor
and A. o. U. w. enjoyed an elaborate
spread last Thursday evening. Supreme
Master Workman w. N. Narvis of
Muscatine, Iowa, Grand Master Work
man Olaf Nelson of Yankton, and
Grand Recorder Neill of Aberdeen were
the guests of honor.
Harold Journal: Word has been
received from Pierre stating that
Mr.. Summerside has been quite i'll at
his home since his departure from
here last Tuesday He has had an
operation performed for an ahcess