Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-02-13
Miss Rilla Mccoy of Miller. is visit
ing relatives here.

Will Starkey has gone to Grand View.
Idaho, where he has accepteda position
| in q bank.
F. i. Villas returned this afternoon
from business trip to st. Paul and
Minneapolis.
j. E. Mallory returned the first of
the week from Montana, where he
has property interests.
j. E. Payne, brother of our towns
man, B. S. Payne. was in the city
yesterday from Vermillion.
Sullv News: o. E. French, M. L.
French and Len Haverly went to Pierre
yestesday returning HON today.
Henry Wegner is home from bust
ness trip to st. Paul. While away he
bought large invoice of automobiles.
Eugene Huntington, deputy collec-
tor of Internal revenue, is in the city
today. Official business called him
to Pierre.
Huron Huronite: 1t is beginning
to be whispered the South Dakota's
attorney general is the most opinion
ated man in the commonwealth.
Louisville Courier journal: The
fate of many democrats nowadays is
to be doomed for job, to loom as a
probability, to be doomed to disap-
pointment.
Invitations are out announcing the
approaching wedding of Miss Anne
Billinghnrst and Howard G. Fuller,
which will take place February 20, at
the j. e. Nipple home.
1 Chas. Brown was in the city yester-
day from Midland: he is interested in
the hardware trade there. He stated
that but little land is changing owner
ship in that locality.
"A stay of proceedings for twenty
days was granted Tuesday to Mr.. Hyde.
The order was granted to give Mr..
Wickersham time to consider the APP
plication of the formor.
| Fire Thursday noon destroyed the
old Depot hotel, the Chicago 4
Northwestern depot, baggage rooms,
etc, at Huron, causing a loss APP
proximated at from $25, 900 to $3O, 900
being partly covered by insurance.
The fire started about ii 20 this fore
noon near the leating plant. AT 1920
the fire was under control, although
the entire building was hopeless
damaged.
| Gettysburg boomers are soon to be-
begin the work of sinking deep well
in the hope of reaching flow of oil
The 30, 600 acres wanted to secure the
| first experimental or test oil we'll is
almost in sight, and that the. first we'll
will probably be sunk either at the old
townsite of Forest City, on Little Chey-
enne creek, or up on the prairie south
of Forest City.
Congressman Martins enlarged
homestead law passed the national
senate Monday. 1t had previously
passed the house and now becomes a
law. The bill gives homesteaders on
western dry lands right to secure
800 acre farms through five years resi-
dence. 1t is expected the increase in
the amount of land will result in more
rapid settlement and development.
| Onida Waterman: The stockholders
and directors of the First State Bank
| held their regular annual meeting Tues
day and effected several important
changes in the personnel of the officers
of the institution. A large part of the
stock which has been held by A. w.
Ewert and V. V. Ketchum of Pierre,
was transferred to j. a. Gropengieser
of this city. and E. D. Sutton of Laur-
4 ell, two of the other directors. With
this transfer Mr.. Ewert retired as
president of the bank and Mr.. Sutton
was elected to the position. j. E. NAL
lery resigned as cashier, and M. r.
Brown was raised to that position.
improvement work on the Nilsson ri
river in this vicinity is giving employ
ment to large nutnber of men. The
government work on the west bank
is being pushed to get material haul
ed to the location of the work while
1T can be crossed on the ice, and the
Northwestern Railway company is
pushing along it's work short dis.
lance east of the city while they can
haul willows from the west bank OF
. the stream. The railway finds need
to protect the bank for long dis
lance to prevent moving their ira ok
1 for the second time time on account
of encroachment of She stream, and
s the government work is FOR the gen.
eral purpose of protecting banks and
forcing the stream, and the govern
3 ment work is for the general purpose
of protecting banks, and forcing the
s stream into q narrow channel.