Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-10
Chas. Dalton Of Unida, visited with

Chas. Dalton OF Onlda, visited VIII
Pierre friends over Sunday.
The East Pierre Womans club. was
entertained Tuesday at the Wilson
home
Frank Glasner returned Sunday from
Tyndall, where he went to attend the
funeral of his mother.
The farmer who is milking a few
good cows this winter realizes the
comforts and the benefits of a steady
income.
Henry Kletch of Peoria, returned
Monday from Perkins county, where
he went a week ago to make an in.
vestment in real estate.
Joe Pitlick sold three loads of al
falfa seed on the Pierre market Mon
day, Ten bushels per acre was the
yield of his alfalfa crop this year.
Ned Wilkinson, a rancher on the
Cheyenne river, reports a yield of
ten bushels of alfalfa seed to the acre
on a tract of thirty acres, which
mea ms a good income from that farm
with the seed selling over ten cents a
pound.
Coach Dillon of the B%rookings high
school has given out a list of foot ball
players from over the state as selec-
tions for an all-state team. Among
those honored were Smith, Laird,
kantowski and Heck all of Pierre.
Horse uuyers for the English and
French armies have been in the state
buying horses. A hundred have been
shipped out and are on their way to
the front already. One hundred dol
lars per head is the ruling price paid.
At a meeting of the Parents Teach
ers association held at the high
school Friday evening, an outline of
work for the new year was planned
and officers were elected as follows:
President, NJ. A. Adams; vice presl-
dent, Mrs. d, w. March; secretary,
Mrs. E. Jacobsen; treasurer, Miss
Dolve.
A number of deputies, who have
been employed in the county offices
at Fort Pierre and whose homes are
now within the new counties of Jack
son and Haakan, are now hustling
for positions as officers of the new
counties at the election which is to
be held in January.
Governor Byrne has appointed
Tuesday, January 26, 1915, as the day
of election for the organization for
Haakon and Jackson counties, which
are the divisions of Stanley county
voted upon at the last general cleo
ton. The original Stanley name will
be left for that portion along the Mis-
souri, river.
John T. Nelson, who has filled the
position of deputy secretary of state for
the past three years to a dot, will IN
tlnue to act in that capacity under the
incoming secretary, Frank Rood. Mr..
Nelson dispatches business with all pos
sible haste and is daily first on the job
and last to close the office for the day.
Argus-Leader. 8: George Thomas,
who was recently brought here from
Pierre, pleaded guilty when arraign-
ed today before Judge Elliott of the
United States district court on a
charge of selling liquor to indians.
He was sentenced to pay a fine of
800 and to serve 80 days in the Min
nehaha county Jail.
Over so per cent of the applicants
for teachers certificates at the No.
vember examinations failed to secure
the coveted authority to teach. There
were 1888 applications, and of these
405 secured second grade certificates;
225 third grades; nine primary certi-
ticates and 693 failures. Six are be-.
ing held in the department.
A meeting of the Womans Mission
al SDSiSby VI liz MSlllOulSJ ClluTCn
was held at the Parry home last week.
The election of officers for the year was
as follows; President, Mrs. Sebree;
vice president, Mrs. Machamer; secre-
tary, Mrs. Feiok; treasurer, Mrs. Ea-
kin; secretary of mite boxes, Mrs.
Ramer; superintendent of Tithing de-
partment, Ida Nelson.
South Dakota hens are apparently
on a strike, the experience among
chicken producers being the same,
that hens are not laying. few hens
in every flock work every other day
and that is the extent of egg produc-
ton. Packed eggs are the only kind
available, although they may sell for
strictly fresh, right from the nest.
G. G. Escherhassen, residing in
Hand county, has plead guilty to a
| charge of killing game ont of season