Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-10-02

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protective league is we'll afoot.
Editor %Besancon, of the newsy Blunt
Advocate, was a welcome Sunday
caller.
Hon. George A. Pettigrew of Sioux
Falls has been elected associate worthy
grand patron of the grand chapter of
the Eastern Star of the world.
Neither of the newly discovered COM
cts is yet creating much of a stir, nor
either likely to unless it shall give some
promise of making amends for the
HALEY fiasco.
Mrs. Henry Karcher entertained a
large circle of friends at her home
Tuesday evening in honor of her sis
ter, Mrs. Causton Brown of Salt Lake
City, who left yesterday for her home.
The Cherokee Qowa) Democrat OBJ
serves that if a young mans hair is
curley and he wears pink socks a girl
doesn't car whether his head is filled
with sawdust or mush.
There are some persons who insist
that getting in debt is a good thing to
make a Ia hustle, but the bill COL
lector knows that the man in debt
spends most of his time hustling from
him.
An automobile manufacturer predicts
the coming of machines that can travel
200 miles al hour. 1t is not the coming
of them so much as the going of them
that will interest the people on the
ground.
Mrs. M. N. Farr, president of tho
local w. C. T. u, Mrs. Lizzie Laugh
lin, Mrs. W. j. Mundt and Mrs. G. C.
Whitcher went to Watertown yester-
Iday to attend the state w. C. T. u.
convention.
H. c. Smith, residing near Sansarc,
Stanley county, came in from that
place Monday. He reported settlers
there as getting along nicely, and
that the creamery there is doing a
profitable business.
Blunt Advocate: j. A. McGaffee
was over from Harold Friday to at
tend quarterly meeting of the M. e.
church ......A. Wheelon of Pierre,
was a visitor in town Tuesday and
and went out to Breton for a visit at
X. M. Foote'S.
At the meeting of the city commits
sion Monday night, the resignation
of j.. G. Damn, as commissioner, was
accepted. A petition has been circ1-
lated for the nomination of H. F.
Craig to the position.
Blunt Advocate: There two silos
in Hughes county, one of them built
at the Indian school by the govern
ment. What's the matter?. John
Yung bought a meat market equip
ment of Howard Bros. and took it to
Onida the first Of the week where he
will open a shop in his building.
Hunters are warned not to shoot
the p%heasants which have been dis
tributed through the country by the
state game department. These birds
have been placed over the country
for the purpose of propagating the
species and with the idea of furnish
ing the real sport and fine eating for
tie hunters in future years.
S. N. Halliday, president of the
South Dakota Sunday School organi.
cations, with Mrs. Mary Foster Bryp-
err, one of the national secretaries of
this work, made an official visit ia
Pierre, meeting with representatives
of the five churches and their Sabbath
schools for the years work. Definite
plans for class work, study, ETC., will
beNframed.
Preliminary arrangements are be-
ing made for the annual convention
of the South Dakota Educational as
ISOLATION, to be held in Sioux Falls
on November "a, 25 and 20. The in
vitation of the Sioux Falls CONNER
cial club to the teachers at their
meeting at Mitchell last year was &C
cepted, and this fall the big body of
educators will go there for their
convention.
The State Board of Pardons has re-
commended a pardon for Gordon Nc
Nabb, sent up from Lawrence county
on a forgery charge; a reduction from
a life sentence to twenty-five. years
for Frank Kottiling, SEM from Brule
county on a charge of murder; and a
reduction from five years to two and
one-half years for Wayne Watson,
sent from Aurora county on a statu-
tory charge. The application Of VIM.
George, sent from Hanson county on
a charge of cattle rustling, was denied.
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