Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-21
Donald McCord arrived home Sat-
urday from Burnstead, N. D.

DR.. H. T. Kenney went to Owanka
Sunday, returning home Monday.
Miss Maud Williams returned home
Saturday from an outing at Lake Ok
oboji, Iowa.
Jas. Starkey left Sunday for Ro~
chester, Mimi, to me his duties
in a bank there.
Miss Elizabeth Eckles returned to
Huron Sunday after a visit with her
parents here.
Emmett Smith went to Wisconsin
points Monday where he will visit
with relatives.
Mrs. Clint Streeter came up from
Huron Saturday for visit with Mrs.
Arthur Farmer.
Lyman Boucher left Sunday for his
home at Aberdeen, having spent sew
eral weeks here with friends.
Mrs. j. B. Newman, mother of Mrs.
w. S, O'Brien, left Sunday for a visit
at Chicago and Illinois points.
Mrs. Albert Shaw and daughters,
Miss Florence and Mrs. Laura But.
terfeld, of Huron, spent Sunday with
Pierre friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Campbell. VIM.
Rider and Miss Quinn returned to
HigLmore Monday after a visit at
the Dotson home.
MIR. and Mrs. w. I. Walker, who
have been guests at the Judge Corson
home, left Monday for a visit in
Iowa and Minnesota.
Mrs. G. H. McFarlan and children
arrived Saturday from Chatsworth
Iowa, for a visit with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hutchinson,
Misses Katherine and Agnes Bright
of Minneapolis, arrived Monday and
Will visit with their sister, Mrs.
Ralph Longstaff, for two or three
weeks.
Half an inch of rain fell during a
wind storm all over this section Sunday
night and on some Sully county ranches
buildings were blown down. The crops
were helped.
Lucy e. Thatcher, public school
librarian at Lead, arrived Saturday
from Wisconsin,, aud made a short
visit here with Miss Boreson, state
librarian.
M. V. Lee and family have moved
to this city from Milwaukee and are
occupying the E. H. Wood residence.
Mr.. Lee is manager of the accident
department. of the First National
Life.
Miss Louisa Heck left Saturday
for a visit with relatives at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and will then go to
Neleigh. Neb., where she will teach
school the coming year.
Miss Lura Marsh. a 13-year old girl
whose parents live in Blunt, was
drowned in Medicine creek near that
place Friday evening by falling from
a raft on which she was playing with
a party of girls.
r. F. Lyons, Alan Bogue, Walter
Cheever and o. B. Linstad, members
of the state investigating committee,
left Saturday for the Black Hills,
where they will visit the several state
institutions.
The state officers and others entit-
led to legislative blue books are get
ting those volumes now. They have
been delivered by the printer to the
secretary of state and are being dis
tributed.
No more games of baseball may be
played or Sundays, is the decision of
the attorney general, regardless of
the fact that no admission be charg-
ed or even a collection taken up for
the expenses of the teams.
Frank Carson and daughter, Miss
Katherine, and Mrs. S. B.. Carson
and daughter. Miss Fanchon, came
down from Cherry Greek by auto
Sunday, where the two latter ladies
have been on a visit. Mt. Carson
and daughter returned home Tues
day.
Deputy Auditor Joe Murphy has
been subpoened by the investigation
committee. who left Saturday to assist
in the investigations in the Black
Hills at the different state institu-
tions. Mr.. Murphy accompanied the
commission out west.
The governor has approved and has
filed the bond of j.. F. McEwpn, de-
putty public examiner, who has charge
of the office. Public Examiner Wing
Geid finds it necessary to be out over
the state upon bank examinations
and other official duties the greater
part of the time.
The crops IN this section are the
| best they have been in three years, is
the opinion of the real farmers, and
the c%ross-country travellers. The
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