Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-14

senate was not in session.
The carer Colonel Roosevelt gets
to home, the more noticeable becomes
the nervousness in opposition quar-
ters about the future of the bull
moose party.
1t is hardly a safe act to start from
home or a place of business NOWADAYS
without a rain coat. But the rain is
welcome, and we are glad to see the
grass and vegetation grow so rapid
and luxuriant.
The spring weather seems to be re-
sponsible for an increasing number
of automobile accidents. In n day
early last week there were four fa-
talities alone from the turtle.turning
machine in Iowa, and all of them
were the result OF reckless riding.
1t was the high cost of living that
changed Spearfsh from a wet to a
dry town. The salonkeepers over
there a few months ago raised the
price of beer from sc to Zoe per glass
and the Spearfish gentry considered
that pure extortion.
b new law regulating the prac-
tees Of fishermen says that a person
must not catch a pike less than eight
inches long nor any other game fish
less than six inches long. This law
adds to the zest of the sport. Swim
ming around measuring the fish be-
fore catching them is immensely ex-
citing.
The nomination of j. G. Bassett of
Aberdeen, president of the Aberdeen
National bank, to be a director of the
ninth federal reserve bank district is
especially pleasing to Aberdeen bust
ness interests and bankers. The Alb
erdeen clearing house ASSOCIATION
adopted resolutions warmly endors-
ing Mr.. Bassett for that place.
Ford, the famous automobile man
facturer, allows each man in his en-
ploy to take a vacation once a year at
his (Ford's) expense. A New York
bank is now competing with Ford. 1t
announced recently that every man in
the organization must take a vacation
at the bank expense. Looks like the
world was growing better, doesn't it?
A year and a half ago, w. H. Bon
ham sold the Deadwood Pioneer
Times and slipped off the editorial
harness,eafter 35 years of labor. Last
week Mr.. Bonham bought back the
property aud will soon slip into the
harness again and resume the grind.
Few newspapermen SO long enured to
the work remain permanently out of
it, though many make the attempt.
The directors of the Woonsocket
water carnival are busy making pre-
parations for the third annual water
carnival which will be held there on
June il, Is and 18th this year. This
novel event is growing in popularity
throughout the state with each sue.
ceeding attraction, and the 1914 car
nival promises to surpass either of
those previously held.
There will be a largely increased
acreage of alfalfa near Philip this
year. During recent years this has
proved the most reliable crop in that
locality. This year the state has CIV
en- impetus to the movement by the
establishment of four or five expert
ment farms of approximately twenty
acres each in various parts of that
county. devoted largely to alfalfa.
The Chicago Inter Ocean. after a
career of nearly half a century, has
been merged into the Record Herald.
which is itself a merger of three pa
pers, n of them being the notorious
Chicago Times. The Inter Ocean was
sold under a judgment and bIought
$50, 900, James Kelley, manager of the
Chicago Tribune, being the purchaser
Of the Inter Ocean and the Record
Herald.
An announcement published in the
Pierre Dakotan tells of the sale of the
John Longstaff interest in the State
Publishing Coz publisher of The
Dakotan, to T. B. Roberts and his
son. By the sale, T.B. Roberts, ST.,
becomes the owner of one.half of the
stock. T. B. Roberts. ir.. of one