Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-05-22
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here with his brother, Lawrence, who
recently had his foot amputated. n
Nj and Mrs. Walter Brandhuberl
left Monday for Deadwood. Mr..
Brandhuber will serve as q juror in
the term of federal court.
II. R. Horner has caused extensive
improvements to be made to his prop
erty. the Grand Pacific building. and it
now presents fine appearance.
Gollmar Brothers circus will not come
to Pierre, June IL, as heretofore an
nounced. The reason given for cutting
out Pierre is the loss of tent and other
property by wind in Nebraska.
The baccalaureate sermon of the high
school graduating class will be preached
b. Rev. R. L. Kelley in the Met hcdist
Episcopal church Sunday evening. May
Is. The class desires large number
to come out to this sermon.
An aviator who will start out on
an oversee flight in the face of re-
fusalto accompany him with q patrol
boat. deserves better luck than Aug
Justine Parla had when he failed to
land in Havana. Sioux Falls Press.
The physicians of the city are in
receipt Of the program Of the thirty
second annual session of the South
Dakota Medical association which will
be held in the law building at the State
university at Yermillion on May "a, %
and %.
Frnnk Gunsalus has announcer his in
tention to rebuild the electrict light
plant at Blunt, and in addition thereto
will erect fire proof building 4OxlOO,
which will be used as . garage. The
fire loss, $4,000 under policy. upon the
former plant, was paid in full M onday.
The fifth annual meeting Of the South
Dakota state grange will be held at
Brookings on June II. 10 and 10. The
meetings are to be held at the School
of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and
every body is welcome to the public
meetings.
Phil Du Fran is again owner Of the
Grand Pacific Saloon; and, he has came
back to Pierre to remain. Workmen
are charging the bar room and other
wise making interior improvements. A
handsome outfit of bar fixtures is soon
to take the place of those heretofore in
in use there.
Secretary Kingman of the fiftieth
Gettysburg celebration
committee arrived from Selby Thurs
day, and with the members of the
committee had conference Satur-
day with j. A. Chandler Of the Mil
waukee road and F. E. Donnegan of
the @. s. N. W. relative to the Get
tysburg'trip.
Over in Beadle county the assessors
saw they will double the assessm emit Of
last year, and call that par value. In
Minnehaha county the 1912 valuation
has been multiplied by 81, and that
will be called par value. The question
of full value will show q wide variation
over the state and the boards Of equal
ization will find plenty to do this year.
Congressman Charles H. Burke is
home for a few days only during the
recess in the house, till June 2. The
several operations he has been COM
PEELED to undergo seems to have had
the desired effect, and Mr.. Burke is
looking'much better than he did when
he left for Washington on his last
trip. He looks very much like a
senator.
While the government operates a
telephone system upon the Cheyenne
River reservation which places all
the snb-agencies in touch with the
main agency, private corporation is
asking for right Of way for a line
from the main agency opposite For
est City to Timber Lake, by way of
LaPlant, and the Indians generally
are ready to grant the right of way
asked for to secure the privilege Of q
telephone when they are off the gov
eminent lines.
Housewives of the state should sup
ply themselves with copies of senate
bill 90 which was enacted and went
into effect as an emergency law on
the seventh of March. This law fixes
the standard Of legal weights and
the fruits and vegetables
In common use as we'll as al! grains,
and with the legal weight table and =
set Of scales they can tell if they are
getting the legal amount for which
they are paying their grocers.
Work Of transferring lands from
the state to the general government
and from the government to the state,
on exchange of forest lands in the
Black Hill has been taking the usual
leisurely course of government bus.
mess, but the receipts by the state