Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-31

ing of alfalfa and corn, the Missouri
valley is bound some day to come in
to it's own.
Those British soldiers are marvels.
Each is to eat plum pudding New
Year. Personally, we'd rather take
chances with a 32. .centimeter shell
than with an English plum pudding.
Senator Gus Helgerson of Dawson
county, has asked his friends not to
urge his appointment on the board of
charities and corrections. There are
% applications for appointment on
the board.
Iowa plans to take care of 1OO, 900
Belgians, and believes that there is
room for that many on the farms of
Iowa. If such is the case South Da-
kota could take care of the entire
Belgian colony.
Fifty thousand dollars in gold was
distributed among the employees of
the gold mining companies in the
Cripple Greek district. The dona-
tions were on graduated scale, from
| five to fifty dollars.
For the first twenty days of this
| month, the balance of trade in favor
of this country wasss7o, 200, ,ooo-three
and one-half millions day as against
two millions a day during October
and November.
Pope Benedict's intercession with
the warning powers in behalf of peace
on Christmas day caused no halt in
| the bloodletting operations in Eur
ope, fierce battles transpiring at both
| the eastern and western points of
| contact.
| The small grain grower may have
observed that we'll titled corn field
is more likely to produce a crop of
| small grain than land handled any
other way. Reflect upon this until it
| soaks in. It, will make money for
| you.
Two more ships cleared from the
| port Of New York the middle of the
week, laden almost exclusively with
food contributions for the suffering
! people of Belgium. These two ships
carry S650,0O0 worth of wheat and a
few automobiles for the American
ambulance hospital in Paris.
The tilt in the price of wheat was
brought about by two causes the
practical certainty that Europe will
not be able to produce anything like
a normal crop next season, and the
unpromising outlook for our own
winter wheat acreage. The South
Dakota farmer who shas held his
wheat, is now In clover.
In the face of the promise of the
weather bureau for fair Christmas,
a snow storm swept across the north
ern ATTITUDES of the eastern states, a
storm that came without warning and
ragged with violence. December is
atoning for the mildness of the
mouths that preceded it in the pres.
entation of wintry weather.
Huron Huronite: One Jules John
son, of Fort Pierre is said to have
q lnounced that he will run for con
gress in 1915, being convinced that be
is possessed of all the qualifications
Possibly the year 1916 may be an of
year for the Johnsons and that some
other evidence of fitness for office viii
then be required.
The annual meeting of the Blacl
Hills Society of pioneers will be,helC
January 23rd in the assembly hall O
the Deadwood Business club. Ths
Black Hills pioneers are becoming
fewer in number each year, owing tt
deaths, but those yet in the land o
the living Eare among the most ener
getic of the residents of the Hills
and always turn out to make the an
nual meetings success.
Japan has sent arms and munitions
of war to Europe to the value of $1O,,
100000. America has sent many
times that amount. Munitions sent
and to be sent, from this country have
| already reached the value of $500, 600,
600. The comparison is readily sug.
gestive of what this country could dc
in the event if 1t we're called upon to
supply equipment for it's own armies,