Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-07-15

W. E. Kinney of Sioux Falls, pass
ed Monday in the city.
Valentine Buell. has returned to the
city from a sojourn at coast points.
Mrs. FL. G.. Freeman left Sunday
for a sojouru through the Black Hills.
Mrs. l.. Swoboda is ill at the hos
pital with an attack of typhoid fever.
The Hughes-Stanley county teach
ers institute opened at Fort Pierre
Tuesday morning with q large at
tendance.
Chris Revell and l.. B. Hill arrived
from Lead Sunday for a visit with
Geo. Fallon, secretary of the state
securities commission.
Mrs. j. E. Nipple and sons, Miss
Aida Billinghurst, Wilbur Mundt,
Harold Brown and Don Dougherty
have gone out to Hisega for an outing.
The county examinations over the
state for teachers certificates will be
held the 22d and 23d of this month.
with a large number of applicants
likely to try for certificates.
The first dividend of 20 per cent to
the creditors of the Hughes County
bank at Blunt, which is in the hands
of the state banking department, will
be made Saturday or the first of next
week.
Harold Journal: Joe j. Marso re-
turned Tuesday from Chicago where
he marketed four cars of cattle Mon
day. This is the first shipment for
the year and the stuff loaded was of
good quality.
A slough OF the farm of VIM. Cass,
of near Webster, was completely
drained by a small tornado. Cass
had been puzzled for weeks to know
how he could drain the slough in Or
der to cut hay.
j. G. Alexander, expert accountant,
was taken i'll with an attack Of appen-
Edicitis Friday and on Saturday left
for his home at Mitchell. He was
accompanied as far as Wolsey by DIR,
Sanford, where he was met by 8 phys
ician from Mitchell.
Strayed or stolen. from the Carson
pasture, Pierre, one light bay geld
ing, 8 years old, wire mark on left
back joint, also wire mark on front
foot, both heels white, weight 1000
pounds. Reward to iinder.-FRED
HEBELER, st. Charles Hotel, Pierre.
Marley Haverly, who has conduct
ed the Haverly cafe the past several
months. has sold q half interest in
the cafe to Clarence Krimbill. They
have leased the Capital store build
ing and are getting in readiness to
open up in larger quarters, thus Civ
ing Pierre n of the best cafes in
the state.
The Custer office of the national
forstry service has just completed
the largest task of reforestration ever
undertaken in the Black Hills in one
season. This was the replanting of
an extensive area in the Roubaix
district which had been swept by a
disastrous forest fire. The forest
service officers officers covered ap-
proximately 1000 acres by direct
seeding and in addition $1,000 trees
were planted.
On Tuesday last George Coates re-
ceived the intelligence hat a brother,
Chas. A. Coates, aged as years. had
been instantly killed Sunday night in
the city of Rochester, N, Y, having
been run over by a trolly car, At the
time Mr.. Coates met death, he was
crossing over a net work of tracks
and was watching the movement of cars
IN front of him and had no knowledge
of the fast approaching car that cut
him into fragments.
Crop conditions in the central and
western portions of the state, especi-
ally the small grain and hay, was
never in a better condition for this
time of the year. Winter wheat is
we'll headed out and many fields are
nearing the day FOR harvest, as also
is winter rye. Spring wheat is in
heavy bloom and gives indications
for a heavy yield, while the first cut
ting Of alfalfa is generally il the
stack and the second crop is making
a rapid growth.
Among the Pierre teachers who are
attending the institute at Ft. Pierre
are: Louise Jordan, Virginia Moore
head, Anna Pietrus, Hazel Pinckney,
Hazel Ulrey, Carlos Westover, Win
gra Westover, Katherine McCabe,
Ray Butler, Grace Hartwell, Celia
Samuelson Ethelyn Walsh, Theresa
Beckett, Susan Christianson, Julia
Christianson, Sara Beckwith, Helen
Cox, ID. Crandall, A. E. Draper, Lee
ona Davis, Gertrude Harvey, Alice
Hartwell, Rose Hengel. Mae Hegg-
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