Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-11-04

Miss Frances Calhoon of Blunt,
University.
Blunt Advocate: Charles E. Grew,
VIM. Roach and Ed Bloom shipped
ten cars of fat stock to Sioux City on
Saturday.
A scientist is confident that Ameri-
cans are fast becoming a nation of
weakhngs. This kind admonition should
cause those with that tired feeling to
perk up a bit.
w. A. Fischer of near Canning.
suffered the loss of his barn, sheds
and a large stack of alfalfa hay by
are Friday of last week. The loss
carried no insurance. I
Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Marietta paid us
a fraternal visit last Friday. Mr..
Mariette is the editor of the Blunt
Advote, splendid paper, and he is
succeeding beyond expectation.
About 2,loO bushels of wheat was
sold on the Pierre market during the
week at prices ranging from 75c to
soc. Cats iud d ready sale al soc
and rye TIC; hay per ton, SIS to &6.
James Howard, a young son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jas Howard of Blunt, had
the misfortune to break both arms
Saturday while playing with COM
| na nJnns Tho 1o1 uo hrNt,rht IN
Pierre by DR.. Hart yesterday and an
x-ray examination was made of the
injured parts.
George w. Egan arrived here Tues
day, coming from his home in Sioux
Falls, to argue a case before the su-
preme court for a client. Mr.. Egan
stated that he would be "a candidate
for governor, and that he would soon
open a speaking campaign. He will
deliver a lecture in Pierre early in
December.
Authorities differ as to the pros
poets for the coming winter in South
Dakota. Farmers report that the
husks on the corn are unusually
thick, which is taken TO mean there
is a long, cold winter ahead of us.
Others say the winter will be short
and will start late, that farmers will
have an abundance of fine weather in
which to complete their fall work.
BY the state commissioner of in
surance, newspapers are asked to
warn their readers to exercise espec.
ial care in guarding against prairie
fires. Vegetation is unusually rank
this fall and it will furnish an abuni-
ance of fuel for running fires. The
statutes prohibit setting fire to grass
or stubble unless on a tract surround
ed bya fire break at least fifty feet
wide, and fine and Imprisonment is
the penalty.
Caught under a mower and the
team tangled in the harness piled up
on the machine was the close call to
serious injury on the part of Henry
Hudson, a rancher on the Cheyenne
river. He received a number of bad
bruises and a lacerated arm. He had
started to unhitch his team from the
mower, and were frightened and
started to run, in attempting to stop
them he was caught and dragged
under the machine, but held to the
lines and the team tangled in the
harness and fell over the mower,
! where they remained until the neigh
bors came to the rescue.
Redfeld Press: G. Nj, Livingstone
of Pierre, was a visitor at the Press
+, Office on Saturday of last week. Mr.
Livingstone had arrived in town ear.
ly Saturday morning with the car OF
fish brought from Lake Alice. He
asserted that there was very little
. lore available OF the transportation
y of bull heads and that the present
{ were in the nature of an experiment;
Il that at the time the fish were takel
9 from the lake the parties in charge
L concluded that they could be trans
ported to The car without water, but
! AS they all stuck together and hac
e 10 be soaked apart, this method OF
{ conveyance was abandoned.