Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-09-10
The state fair opens Monday at Huron.

The state fair opens Monday at Huron.
Frank Grandle was here from Can
ming the first of the week.
Harold Rose will be a student at
the Yankton College this year.
L. E. Snyder and son were over
from Onida the first of the week.
Miss Kathleen Swartz will attend
the Wesleyan University at Mitchell
this year.
Mrs. Elsie Bartlett returned the
first of the week from a visit in the
Black Hills.
Miss Louise Matthews has return
ed from a visit in Chicago and Min
nesota points.
Rev. Wilkinson. pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, is numbered
among those that are ill.
Mrs. H. G. Smith arrived home TODAY
from Columbia, this state, where she
paid a visit to a daughter.
Misses Alice Hartwell, Helen ia
cobsen aud Hazel McCalmont will at
tend the Huron College this year.
Albert and Edward Hengel left
Sunday for Vermillion, where they
will resume their studies at the Uni
versity.
Mrs. E. F. Swartz, accompanied by a
daughter, Miss Kathleen, left today for
Mitchell. where the latter will begin a
collegiate career.
w. j. Hooper, E. G. Barnum and
O. ID. Olmstead of Winner, were in
the city Tuesday. attending to some
business matters.
A small blaze in the basement of
the G. III. Burke home Monday eve
ming, caused considerable excitement
although a little damage being done.
Mrs. E. P. Farr and Mrs. Rev. Smith
left today for Mitchell, where they
went to attend a state meeting of the
w. G. I. u, as delegates from Pierre.
ii. r. Horner arrived home Tuesday
from a stay of three months at his sum-
mer home in Wisconsin. He is improv-
ed in health and feeling the best ever.
John E. Kelley, register of the U. S.
land office, is expected home tomorrow.
He has been looking after the thresh-
ing of grain upon his farm in Moody
county, this state.
Onida Waterman: w. S. Dudley,
manager of the st. Charles hotel and
H. NJ. Reed, the jeweler, accompan-
led by their wives, motored over from
Pierre for a short yisit Sunday.
Judge Hughes began a regular term
of the circuit court at Onida on Mon.
day. Attorneys B. S. Payne, Glenn
w. Martens and l.. L. Stephens are
looking after the interests of clients a,
this term.
Blunt Advocate: DR.. HOLSTER was
over from Pierre on Friday on profes.
sional business. IS. j. Wood and Will
Bailey were over from Pierre Saturday
on an auto trip after material for the
Hughes county exhibit at the state fair
R. 0. Richards, Independent candi
date for governor of South Dakota
opened his campaign on Labor Day
with three speeches. Mr.. Richards ex
poets to be out most of the time from
now until the end of the campaign.
Pat Sullivan, who has an eight-acr,
field of potatoes near Colome, sent
a consignment to an Omaha custome
of 200 potatoes that weighed exactl,
PIP pounds. From actual measure
ment the potatoes r yielding %
bushels to the acre.
, Blunt Advocate: N. o. Dristy wa
in town Tueseay and left a few sam
j, pie ears of his corr at the Hughe
County Bank. Mr.. Dristy's cor,
field was a most promising one thi
summer and the product is as goo
as promised. He certainly has a fin
crop.
The proposed Black Hills trai
| from Deadwood over the Northwest
ern to the state fair has been aband
oned, all because the promoters d.
clined to guarantee 225 meals on tn
. diner at ST each. AS years go by, tn
: North Western system becomes MOI
porkish.
r The war comet has a%ppeared-if yo
J are superstitious. 1t may be seer
6 the constellation commonly called tt
Big Dipper, the two other stars of whic
point to the north pole. It's trac
brings it to the south or belo
: the pointer stars along in the middle
month. The time to view this heaven
visitor is early in morning from thrt
: to four o'clock.-Deuel Co. Advocate.
d On the Waletich farm, four mil,