Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-09-18

Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Dalton left
Monday by auto for LeMars. Iowa.
Harry Robinson went to Vermil-
lion Friday where he will study law,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Klespie have
moved to this city from Chamber
lain.
Miss Rssa Hengel has commenced a
term of school in the vicinity of Har-
rold.
Arthur Hegglund has accepted a
position a. day clerk at the st. Char
les hotel.
Mrs. j. S. Sebree returned last Fri
day from an extended visit at Denver
and Omaha.
Mr.. end Mrs. Arthur Farmer went
to Lake Preston Monday for several
days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. d. Jennings re-
turned Saturday from a several days
stay at Huron.
Miss Iva Baker has gone to Nit
chell, where she is attending Dakota
Wesleyan college.
Mrs. F. P. Grandle of Canning,
visited several days last week at the
j. w. Grandle home.
Miss Catherine G~reenough went to
Canning Saturday, near which place
she will teach school.
DR.. and Mrs. H. T. Kenney returned
Monday from a visit at Watertown,
Huron and other points.
o. S. Basford and wife left last
week for Redfeld where they have
taken up their residence.
Ralph Evenson, pharmacist at the
Schubert pharmacy, returned Monday
from a visit at his home at Volga.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Cassill returned
last week from a several weeks visit
with relatives at st. Charles, MINI.
Friday evening a number of friends
were entertained at the Corson home,
complimentary to Miss Helen and
Edmund Jacobsen.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Darner arrived
last week from Grafton, N. D., and
will make their home here. Mr..
Darner has accepted a position with
A. C. Brink.
Several farmers in Hand county
have lost hogs from cholera the last
week. Some claim that it is different
from the ordinary ailment of that
nature, but it takes off the swine
about the same.
M. Simmons Of Chicago, was in the
city several days last week complet-
ing arrangements for the location of
a wholesale whisky house in Pierre
The business will be under tile man
agement of Al Hildebrandt.
Sheriff Frank Noonan of Deadwood
passed through Pierre yesterday fol
Sioux Falls, having in charge VIM,
Yeager, Klaver Haver and Arnold
Harvey, who are to serve terms in
the penitentiary at Sioux Falls.
A prairie chicken flew through the
window Of DR.. Richards residence at
Clear Lake, and the doctor enioyed
prairie chicken for dinner, but il
cost him SIS to replace the window
and the chicken made quite expen.
sive eating.
The management of the Steele and
and Gowdy ranch on the old Fort
Sully reservation are seeding one
hundred acres to winter rye, as it
was proven by tests last winter that
it would live through, and come out
finely in the spring even without a
snow blanket over it.
Superintendent Helm of the Pierre
schools reports the enrolment of the
schools of Pierre for the first week to
eighty in excess of the enrolment for
last year for week. About half of this
increase is shown in the high school,
and the rest in the grades, The en-.
rollment for the first week going up to
$40, which will be increaaed late.
State immigration Commissioner
McCaffree has made up a state exhibit
from the displays at the state fair,
and will make 4 tour of eastern fairs
with them, first going to Detroit at the
Michigan state fair, and on sto central
New York, and back by way Of Indi.
ana and Illinois exhibiting the products
of South Dakota to the people of the
east and central west.
In the death of John Magruder at
his ranch in western Sully county last
Saturday, q negro, who became locally
prominent about five years ago, has
gone. Magruder came here from Mis-.
souri, and purchased alarge ranch 70,
about 8 ,000 and began farming on q
large scale, purchasing a tractor pillow
and sinking an artesian well to furnish
power for gas to light his buildings.
He leaves a large family, mostly grown
children.