Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-09-03
Walter Rose left this morning for

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Louis A. Munson returned Monday
from a business trip to points east.
V. V. ketchum and wife left today
for a visit in Chicago and Ohio.
Miss Mary Walton returned Mon
day from a visit with relatives at
Huron.
Miss Caroline Bergeson returned
Monday from an extended visit at
Lake Preston.
Miss Lille Alquist returned this
afternoon from an extended visit in
Nebraska.
Miss Agnes Smith returned this
morning from a visit in Washington
and also Yankton.
Miss Muriel and Russell Eakin of
Blunt, will attend the Pierre High
school this year.
w. L. McNiel and wife left this
morning for St. Paul, where they will
make their home.
Pierre Brink has accepted the posi-
tlon as night clerk at the St. Charles,
with Arthur Hegglund as day clerk.
Miss Ella Osgood of this city, and
Bert Johnson of Summit, N. j., were
married at Independence, la, Sept. J..
Hon. John E. Kelley was a passenger
for the east Tuesday. He went to Col
man, where he owns a fine S0O-acre
farm.
G. j. Corrick, painter and decorator,
has secured a contract to repaint the
public school building at Philip, and has
begun the work.
e want farm loans. Our rates are
0, than you can get elsewhere. Drop
III and see US before you make your
10 n Pierre Banking & Trust Co. If
Frank N. Beacon left Tuesday for
Huron, where he solicit sales of musical
merchandise, having entered into the
employ of the Brown Music company.
Ed. Sutton, who has been at the
hospital the past month, being i'll of
typhoid fever, expects to leave in the
morning for his home in Sully county.
Miss Agnes Solberg returned this
afternoon from a visit at Harold.
She was accompanied home by the
Misses Alberta and Edna Hall, who
will visit here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter S. Rowe will
take their formal departure from Pierre
within a few days, going to Eugene,
Ore, where they have planned to cast
their lot.
The prairie chicken crop in this sec
ton of the state is fair this year. but
the crop of hunters is expected to be a
hummer, as indicated by the number OF
licenses issued.
Many P~ierreites attended the reunion
of early settlers, held at Onida, on Fri
day last. l.. L. Stephens of this city
made al address there that day that
served to throw a whole lot of gooc
cheer into the occasion.
S. A. McGaffee came to Pierre or
Monday and attended a meeting of the
County Board of Commissioners hello
Tuesday, of which board he is a mem
Der. lie report stock looking well and
that corn has beaten frost to the home
plate.
Huron Huronite: The state historian,
Doane Robinson, referring to the files
of the Yankton Press and Dakotan, the
first daily in the Dakotas, writes that
the initial number was issued on the
26th day of April, 1875, which gives the
paper a lifetime of 80 years.
Peter Youngberg, member Board of
County Commissioners, came in from
Blunt on Monday. He says farmers in
that locality have been fairly well re-
warded for their labors this year, and
that in a commercial Blunt people are
more prosperous than for years.
Louis Benson, senior member of the
law firm Of Rice & Benson, at Elan
dreau, this state, wat in the city Mon
day. Mr.. Benson made an argument in
a case before the state supreme court;
and is one Of the ablest lawyers within
the range of our acquaintance.
The Fourth regiment band of the
South Dakota national guards of Wa
tertown will this year fill its ninth an.
nual engagement as the official band OF
the South Dakota state fair during the
week Of September IA. This musica
aggregation, under the leadership OF
| Will Peck, formerly of Pierre, has more
than a South Dakota reputation for its
efficiency, having been the official banc
at many political and lodge gatherings
of this and other states.
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