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

!, SOUTH DAKOTA. I
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osne. Claus is going to endeavor to
SCI 100000 worth of clothing to
! before December %.
9l5 corn crop will total !, 900,
o-t sAels, according to a report of
| the department of agriculture.
A.. hlps and politicians are alike
IN tit they always let the explos-
ions occur for the fellows lower down.
BY Z majority vote of 81 900 Ohio re-
naii.4 in the wet column; the prohibi-
tionis lost the state in the late elec.
| ion.
Oc- Der was a pretty good old
month, and we are anXiously watt
ing f~c the hunch that November is
goins 10 be equally AS good.
Inheritance taxes to the amount of
S3S, ,243 were paid to the state by the
various counties for the last fiscal
ear.
And now italy wants quarter of
billion dollars. If we ever foreclose
our srGr loans, We'll become the
United States of America and Europe.
One OF the largest yields of oats
reported in South Dakota this wear
wes raised on the Ed Fensks farm
near Mound City, where field YIELD
ed an average of 10 bushels per acre.
If canal slides could be command.
cred for purposes of defense at just
the nom ent victorious enemy fleet
was entering the Panama waterway
we shoo'd have preparedness to per-
lection.
The first wireless telephone mes
sage has Ueen sent from the navy de-
parfman' at Washington to the navy
yard at New York The head of the
navy department. expects ere long to
be abio u sit in his Office and talk to
the com "'anders OF ships everywhere
in tile world.
Governor f. M. Zeba:h, "squatter
governor of Dakota territory for
mar rs, and Mrs. Ziebach cele-
or@tGd Noir 60tn wedding anniyers
AZ, do Slnner last Saturday. The
2oyorgo IS S5 years of age and has
beer {. .,,sident of South Dakota some
SO yea
II rE ag the war party in Greece
d.. s prevailed over him and in
e. ro (, its effectiveness by dis
SOW - rliament, the king of Greece
"ll It rebellion among his sub
lae nay react upon him and his
"",4-, ,'he people of Greece are
a participation in the war in
the balkans.
nosits in the 1913 national
ne country were SO, 229 ,000,-
/ W. pn@ last statement exceeding
~ @e5 10, 600 the highest amount
ever n"avlously shown. We print
| this heu..ose it alwaas makes a fellow
| fee! pre- ~oeE Eous to read big figures
| even if ..s own account is in red ink.
New J orh has been trying for sew.
erai months to make new constitu-
ton, C-3 was finally constructed
which WIS designed to ride interests
going III osite directions, and the
people last Tuesday very promptly
| rejected the document. The state,
| therefore, IS no nearer an adequate
constitu on than it has been for the
| past fifty years.
Twenty women and girls were
burned to death in a factory fire in
New York on Saturday. The United
States is d fortunate country III that
| it is not mixed up in the world war
| hut the fact that its men are not be-
| ing killed Oh the battle field is no ex-
| euse for Americans to roast little
children in burning school houses. or
women and girls in burning factories.
The American farmer produces
| most of tha wealth of the country and
does most Of the voting. Strange he
shouldn't be permitted a look in on
| billion dollar loan at per cent espec-
tally those Of him who can give gilt
edged security. 1t must be that the