Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-05-21
VIM. Harry was down from Oko.
hOjo yesterday.

ueT HOme al Lennon.
J.E. Sloat of Gettysburg, is a Cap.
ital city visitor today. :.
Hugh Mcclure left Tuesday for
Mitchell, to remain a few days.
Additional lights are being added to
the plant of the city at Fort Pierre,
Mrs. j. E. Calhoon is here from
Midland visiting with relatives.
MI. and Mrs. Jas. MCGEE and chill
dren are here today from Gettysburg.
Mrs. Phil DuFran returned TODAY
from a visit with a sister at LeBeau.
Josef Stainer has completed his
work on the Capital Avenue bridge.
Il. E. Benjamin, agent at the N. w.
at Deadwood is a Pierre visitor to-
day.
Miss Inga Kleven came in from
Capa Friday for a visit with Pierre
friends.
Miss Clarice Hanon underwent a
slight operation at the hospital this
morning.
F. S. McDaniels, of the Dakota
State Bank at Blunt, is a Pierre visi-
tor today.
N. II. Murphy of Sioux Falls, is
visiting with his father, N. Murphy.
of this city.
q. M. Burlad of Grand Island
Nebr., is in the city today on bust
ness matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Barber and
Miss Opal, of Fielder, were over Sun
day visitors in Pierre.
Mesdames Fox and Grenard will
entertain the Senior class at a launch
party this evening.
w. b. McLain arrived this morn
ing from Danville, Ill.,, to look after
some business matters.
Mesdames Dudley, March and Farr
went to Redfield Tuesday to attend
the state w. R. C. meeting.
Mrs. Chas. Elrod returned this
morning from Minneapolis. where
she had been visiting a daughter.
One may talk about pretty pictures,
but no picture is quite equal to the sur
rounding farm country as it is today.
The Pierre Indian School defeated
the team from Cheyenne Agency yes
terday, by a score of thirteen to seven.
Jas. Mckay returned this morning
from his regular trip west in the in.
t%erests of the Albright Wholesale
Co.
Frank Rozelle will entertain a few
gentlemen friends at a stag party this
evening complimentary to j. r. Nor
rison.
Mrs. G. r. Hussey arrived this
morning from Los Angeles, Cali, for
a visit with her daughter, Mrs. E. P.
Them.
M. %. Meade is in Sioux City on a
cattle purchasing trip. He is prepared
to purchase a solid train load for ship
ment to Pierre.
A fall of rain fell yesterday served
to give vegetation a strong boost to-
ward maturity. Alfalfa is knee high
and growing fast.
Clarence and Ray Pole of Kirley,
were in the city Tuesday to meet their
brother, who had arrived from Au.
dubon, New Jersey.
Another soaking rain visited this
locality last evening, and it is keep.
ing the farmers busy getting their
crops in between drops.
The completion of the concrete
standard next to the big steel flag
pole for the mounting of the cannon
is at its end, The cannon was re.
ceived from the Rock Island Arsenal,
Miss Marguerite Borst, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Borst, and J, r.
Morrison of this city, will be united
in marriage at the home of the bride
on June 3rd.
Sixteen saloon keepers in Lead have
petitioned the city commissioners there
to reduce their license from the present
$11O0. They cite the high cost of living
as the principal reason for the proposed
reduction. The commissioners took
the matter under ~advisement.
Harry Nelson of Shiloh, Sully
county, after closing out his interests
started with his family and house.
hold goods to hunt a new location
farther west, but did not get very
far. He had gone but a few miles
when he came to the location of q
neighbor, who thought he wanted to
try a new country, and offered to turn
over his farm and stock at a price
which appeared to suit Nelson. and
the pilgrimage ended right there SO
far as the Nelson family was con
cerned, and taken up by the other
household, and Nelson yet remains az
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