Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-11-18

r.. Garrett is in the city today from
Blunt.
Eugene Tillman is i'll at the hos
pital with an attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. Humphreys and daughter left
Tuesday for a short visit in Minnea-
polls.
Miss Sophia DeLand leaves today
tor a several days stay in Minnea-
polls,
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Hirniug have
gone to Alexandria for a visit with
homefolks.
JAS. Cox came in from Sioux City
with a shipment of cattle for his
ranch near Wasta.
Mrs. o. N. Hoyt has returned from
an extended visit with relatives at
points in Iowa.
Mrs. Cbas. Fisher arrived home
Tuesday from a visit at Vermillion
and points in Iowa.
Conductor and Mrs. Crotty have
gone to Dubuque, Iowa, for a several
weeks visit with relatives.
JAS. Temmey and A. V. Livingstone
of Onida, were calling on friends
here Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mrs. j. F. McEwen has gone to
Cnthbert, this state, where she is
visiting at the home of a son.
Sunday morning brought to this
locality a touch of winter, the mercu-
curry going down to Is above zero.
Mrs. j. W. Grandle will entertain
the Eastern Star Social club at
Temple Court tomorrow afternoon.
Already the markets have been
stocked up with chickens, geese and
turkeys for the Thanksgiving trade.
The Christmas shopping rush will
soon be on. The stores hardly know
what to do with it, or what They'd do
without it.
The Ladies Aid society of the Bap-
tist church will hold a cooked food
sale at the Thomas grocery Saturday
afternoon.
Special meetings will be held at the
Baptist church every evening next
week. President Roxvix of Sioux
Falls college, will preach on Sunday
evening.
Protect your income by taking an
accident insurance policy with the
Continental Casualty company C.
M. Livingstone, Agent, Pierre, S. D..
Advertisement.
WITH the hunting season about to a
those and the ponds and water holes
presenting a deserted appearance, the
focal nimrods are about to settle
down in peace and quiet.
The Highmore News, which was
recently sold to Frank Glasner, for
mer secretary Of state, has been sold
to the Highmore Bulletin. The two
papers will no doubt be consolidated.
Judge Hughes convened the adjourn
ed term Of the circuit court here Tuea-
day morning. Tuesday sswas spent in
the assignment of causes for trial and
in hearing motions, .taking'defaults, etc.
Jurors appeared Wednesday when sthe
trial of causes was begun.
October Is to %, was celebrated as
Edison Week" over all the United
States ami the Edison Photograph
company put on a window display
contest for the best decorated window
displaying the Edison p~honograph,
and Mr.. Hegglund of this city was
pleased to receive notice this morning
that he had been rewarded fourth
prize of $40 90.
Tt is rulnored that South Dakotans
in the vicinity of White Rock, Roberts
county, will unite with residents of
North Dakota and Minnesota in a big
damage suit to be brought against the
state of Minnesota because of damege
to crops in that section, arising from
from waters drained through the Min
nesota bitches. The suit, it is said, will
be participated in by all the people in
jured in the floods and will amount to
several thousand dollars.
Howard Democrat: An observing
farmer says: There are some curious
things about corn and one is, where
do the red and speckled ears of corn
come from when you don't plant any
but white corn2 Why don't we find
a ear with an odd number of rows
on it? You can End a four-le leaf
clover but never find an odd row on
an cal of corn. 1t it always ID, 16 or
20, or some even number. We'd like
to know about corn mathematics and
what objection nature has to odd
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