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

q Ylslt at Sioux Fails and Sioux City.
MI. and Mrs. Fred Erwin and chill
dren of Sioux Falls, are guestst at
the Mckay home.
Will Moorehead left Monday for
Deadwood after an over Sundays
visit with his parents here.
Mrs. l. b. Linstad arrived1 home
yesterday from an extended visit
with a daughter in St. Paul.
H. B. Anderson, state auditor, re-
turned today frem a several days
visit with his family at Mitchell,
Mr.. and Mrs j. B. Lockhart of Cen
terville, arrived Monday and are guests
at the Lockhart home in this city.
Miss Hazel Stevens arrived Monday
from Sioux City, having been called
here by the illness of her mother at the
hospital.
Chas. Gardner of Rec Heights, can
didate for chief clerk in the house,
was an arrival yesterday. He was
accompanied here by his wife.
An examination of applicants for
the practice of medicine in the state
will be hold by the Switchboard of
Health in this city January u.
Miss Andrea Lanegroff left yester-
day for Rapid City, after a several
days visit with friends here. Miss
Lanegroff is a teacher in the Rapid
City schools.
Mrs. F. Kenna and daughter of
Dendwood, are guests at the H. Full
ton home. The ladies were former
Pierre residents.
Miss Lydia Downer, formerly of
this city, and Frank Hetfron of Dead
wood, were married at that place last
week. Mrs. Hebron is the daughter
of Mrs. Fl. d. Jennings of this city.
The authorities of Aberdeen are in
search of Gardner b. Splitter, a young
locomotive engineer, who disappear
ed from that city since December %.
When last see Splitter was prepar
ing to go to Crandall, where he was
to have been married that day to a
young lady Of Crandali.
Mrs. Harry Lamb of Mcintosh, is
in the city today to appear before the
State Board of Pardons regarding the
application of her husband for a oar
don. Lamb was convicted on the
charge of making false reports to the
state banking department and given
a penitentiary sentence.
A story which comes from Miller
is as follows: A visitor here from
Nebraska in examining the water
that flowed from an artesian we'll was
greatly surprised to find mosquitoes
floating on the warm stream. The
eggs must have been Matched by the
warm water and the mosquitoes fell
back frozen as they attempted to fly.
Monday the ladies of the Catholic
Altar society gave a farewell recep.
tion at the academy building in hon
or of Mrs. j. P. Smith, former presi-
dent of the society. Mrs. j. T. Scholz
the newly elected president, after a
most appropriate address, presented
Mrs. Smith with a beautiful lace CEN
ter piece, in remembrance of her
many friends in Pierre.
The Sunday School of the Evangeli-
cal church have elected officers for the
year as follows: VIM. Miller, superin-
tendent; Mrs. Dexheimer, assistant
superintendent; Floyd Robinson, sec,
rotary; Ruth Ryan, treasurer; Mrs.
Samuels, organist; Ruth Miller, librar-
ian; Mrs. Calhoon, superintendent Of
Home department; Mrs. John Rollins,
teacher adult bible class.
One hundred and twenty officers, re-
presenting the forty-two school dis
tricts of the county, met in Mitchell
Monday for their annual gathering
Discussion of school problems and of
interests common to the schools and
their districts occupied the attention
of the two sessions of the day. The
chief speaker wasiState Superintendent
G. Il. Lugg.
The State Bar association will meet
in Pierre January Is and ID. The presi-
dents address will be delivered by
Hon. Dick Haney of Mitchell, former
ly of this city and president of the as
ISOLATION. Attorney H. &. Fuller of
this city willread a paper on ''Respon-
sibility of the Press for the Prevention
of Impartial Trials in Criminal Cases"
The annual banquet of the association
will be held on the evening of the 14th.
The sessions will be held in the Su-
preme court room.