Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-12-24
Firemen,s Annual Ball January Is.

S. P. Stevenson of Yankton, is in the
city. the guest of his brother, Stanley
Stevenson. IS
Chas. Brink of the p. r. C. line, left
yesterday for an extended visit at his
home in Iowa.
Miss Katherins Albert arrived Tues
day from Milwaukee and is a guest at
the G. G. Bennett home.
Dexter Moulton of Chicago, is spend
ing the holidays here with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. r. Moulton.
Carol Mccoy arrived home the
first of the week from St. Paul, to
| spend the holidays with homefolks.
j.. c.. Stoner of Lennon, passed
Pierre Friday enroute to Highmore,
where he was called by the death of
his mother.
Christmas programs were given in
the various schools yesterday, which
marked the closing of the schools for
| the holidays.
Miss Anna HOLSTER, a teacher in the
high school, left yesterday for her
home at Woonsocket, where she will
pass the holidays.
F. L. Villas will go to Sioux Falls
on Saturday on a goods buying trip.
There he will meet representatives of
wholesale firms.
j. T. Smith of the First National
Life Insurance company, left yester-
day for Yankton, where he intends to
pass the holidays.
Traffic by team, upon the ice began
Monday. Since which time hacks
have made regular trips between
Pierre and Fort Pierre.
The International Sunday School
association plans to send a bible to
every soldier of the warning armies.
See Exodus Xxx, 10: "Thou shalt not
3, kill"
Miss Ellen Kasberg. who is attend
ing school at Sioux Falls, and Alvin
Kasberg of Sioux City, were arrivals
yesterday for a visit at their home
here.
A meeting of the Fourth District
Medical association was held in this
city yesterday. The visiting physi-
clans were b%anquetted in the evening
at the Depot Cafe.
The Sonenschein cattle rustling
case will be tried before Judge Nc
Nenny at Ft. Pierre Monday. Ed.
Carr is also under arrest on the same
charge, and Jack Borden, whom the
police have implicated in the crime, has
evaded arrest.
Among the school faculty who are
spending their vacation out of the city
are Miss Kalder, Woonsocket; Miss
Green, Aberdeen; Miss Johnson. Yank-
ton; Miss Funken, Hermosa, and Mr..
| McMasters, Belle Fourche.
The northern Black Hills has ex-
perienced ten or twelve days of zero
weather during the past two weeks,
together with a slight snowfall. The
fall in temperature appears to have
been general throughout this region,
the mercury registering as low as 30
degrees below zero in some places.
Judge James McNenny came in
from Sturgis Monday morning to be-
gin the hearing at Fort Pierre of the
case in which A. P. Helm is charged
with the murder of o. G. Hunter, the
Northwestern railway agent at Mid
land, a couple of months ago. Helm
puts up a claim of self-defense after
Hunter had attacked him with a
heavy stove poker.
Chas. Porter, who had grown gray
in the cow boy service in the western
part of the state, died at st. Marys'
Hospital yesterday. He was a rugged
mar during the period he rode the
range country, but old age and men
tai exhaustion carried him across the
great divide. He was aged GO years;
more than fifty years of his lifetime
be had been upon the ranges.
During the year Just past Lawrence
county has expended about SIS 900 in
the construction of good roads, which
it is believed is a record unequalled
by any other county in the state
While the mileage of road construct.
ed. was not great, the work was per-
manent and consisted of much rock
work over mountain passes and
makes considerably over $3.50, O0O
spent in this county on good roads
within the past two years.
Spearfsh Mail: Rumor q y that a
corps of surveyors have been at work
in Spearish and Redwater valleys
during the past week or ten days, but
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