Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-17

The tragedy of "Santa Claus and the
Pocketbook" is now being enacted.
Attorney B. S. Payne went to High
more Tuesday to look after legal bust
ness.
F. j. McCalmont and family have
moved to the Newbanks residence on
Prospect Street.
Frank Cock of the live stock sanitary
board, was an arrival Tuesday from
his home at Belle Fourche.
Mrs. H. I. Kenney left Tuesday for
Sioux City, where she will remain with
homefolks during the holidays.
The city schools will close next
Wednesday for the annual holiday
vacation and reopen January 4.
Arthur Livingstone came down from
Cnida Tuesday evening, to pay a visit
to his brother, G. M. Livingstone.
Henry Hanson of Corson county,
sent to the state penitentiary on a
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT, has been
granted a pardon by Gov. Byrne.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Anderson arriv-
ed home Tuesday from Kansas, where
they were called by the death of the
l%atter's mother.
Miss Minnie Anderson, daughter of
State Auditor Anderson, will be mar
ried at her home in Mitchell next
month to Joseph WEIGH of Pipestone,
MINI.
Punch boards, with all their popu-
lar features, are now a thing of the
past in Pierre. Dealers were given
until Saturday night to remove the
same.
Yesterday morning was the record
low temperature for the winter to date,
going down to 20 below zero, by the
government station record. The river
is closed at this point.
South Dakota needs a breed of
chickens that will lay eggs in abund-
ance at holiday time, instead of
standing around eating their heads
off and giving no returns.
The marriage of Miss Lois Nichols
and Herman F. Chapman, both of
this city, will take place next Thurs
day at the formers home at Vermil-
lion. They will be at home to their
many Pierre friends after January
fifteenth.
Last week articles Of incorporation
we're filed for the Farmers State Bank
of Bancroft, with a capital of S10,-
600. Incorporators, C. I. Liddle,
Peter Schultz, t. j. Fiittie, Iroquois;
Harvey Best, DeSmet; w. j. Agnew,
Bancroft.
The University of South Dakota
will hold her first annual Congress of
good roads on December 21-22-23,
1914, at Verml]lion, when speakers of
national and state reputation will de-
liver lectures on all phases of good
road making.
The annual tax sale for the year 1914
took place Monday at the Office of the
county treasurer. The amounto of prop
erty sold was less than the amount
usually offered at like sales. The bid
ders were out in full force.
o. E. Sweet of Rapid City, a mem
Der of the firm of Williams s. Sweet
of that place, has accepted the posi-
ton of assistant attorney general I'M
G. C. Caldwell of Howard, attorney
general-elect. Mr.. Sweet will move
his family to this city during the
| present month.
Bids will be opened at the state
land department December 23, for
about 175 cords of damaged by fire
last spring on the state section on the
Missouri river, about three miles
down stream from Rousseau, the
exact location section SO, 11O-77.
The Congregational Sunday School
has elected officers for the year as
follows: Supt., G. w. Sayres; Asst.
Supt Mrs. G. M. Livingstone; Sec.
Mrs. G. L, Hyde; Treas. w. j. Har~
ris; Chorester G. S. stevenson; Or
ganist, Katherine Straight; Asst. Or
ganist, Lois Nichols.
DR.. Wipf of Freeman, a former state
senator from Hutchinson county, has
been taken to a hospital at Yankton,
following an automsbile accident Mon
day which resulted in his sustaining a
serious injury of the head. The car in
which lie and three others were riding
dropped ten feet into a ditch, pinning
him underneath, but the other occu-
pants escaped injury.
The Lincoln School circle of the
Parent Teachers association elected
the following officers at their meet
ing Friday: President, Mrs. Chas.
McCaffree; vice-president, Mrs. Oh.
Lugg; secretary, Mrs. Ernest Fisher;