Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-02-04
Mask ball February II.

flerre visitor.
Rev. I. Il. Hagen of Huron, is in
the city today.
The Neighbors Card club was enter
tanned Monday evening at the Binford
home.
F. r. Hewlett and bride of Rapid
City, spent the fore part of the week
in Pierre.
Mrs. w. H. Waters and Mrs. f. F.
Waite,came up from Miller today for
a visit with.Senator Waters and wife.
The heavy fall of snow Monday and
Tuesday. accompanied by brisk winds
and a repetition of that weather for
today, has greatly Inconvenience
travel.
Officers of the National Guard of
South Dakota have been ordered by
Adjutant General w. A. Morris to re-
port for the annual mld-winter meeting
at Redfield February l3, 14-15.
Rumor has reported the engage.
ment of S. E. Grams, state fire mar
shall. to Mrs. Delta Fox of Redfield,
formerly of Pierre and a daughter of
0. s. Basford, former insurance com.
missioner.
A good heavy snow in this section of
the country is one of the encouraging
features of the situation, so far as the
farmer and ranchman are concerned.
1t will help to give everything a good
start-off in the spring.
Homesick for his old haunts on the
reservation, Thomas Strange Horse, a
Sioux Indian, left his bed in a SAM
tarium at Sioux Falls Tuesday. saddled
his pony and rode to the home of his
forefathers, where he died o afterhis
arrival.
The national weather bureau is pro-
nounclng anathema OF the ground hog
and its deluded followers. But the
ground hog will get in its work wear
after year, although it is generally CON
coded that there is no such animal in
the plains country.
MIR. and Mrs. Henry Karcher and
Mr. aud Mrs. B. A. Cummins have
issued invitations to a dance to be
given at the st. Charles next Thurs
day evening. The affair is given In
honor of Miss Aline Cummins and
Miss Marguerite karcher.
ID. A. Stoyer has just made the
sale of a quarter section of unimprov-
ed land in Stanley county. The
amount received was 50, coo. There
now seems to be a growing demand
for South Dakota land, both as in
vestment and farming purposes.
The farmers and hunters residing
near Newell, are going to hold a Jack
rabbit hunt in an effort to secure a
carload of jack rabbits to be shipped
to the starving BelQians. If they are
unable to ship the meat to Belgium,
the rabbits will be sold on the New
York markets and proceeds sent to
Belgium.
For Sale-160 acres good farm land
in Stanley county, South Dakota; Is
acres broke, small house, water at
II feet, 5 miles from postofice, IL
miles from good school. This farm
lies few miles from big alfalfa farm
and is surrounded by good, prosper
Gus farmers. For further particulars
address Box 49,, Pierre, S. Dad
vertisement.
Chas. McCaffree, immigration com
missioner, has been elected p~sesident
of the National Farm Exchange.
which has for its purpose me distri-
outing OF laborers to western states.
The exchange was organized at Oma-
ha Monday, when a meeting of labor
and agricultural representatives from
twelve western states was held.
George N. Giddings, who mysterious
ly disappeared from Deadwood last
November, is believed to have COM
mitted suicide. In November last 8
man who was later identified as Melvin
Evans of Eureka, Kan, committed
suicide neal Lead and was buried bv
the county. Clyde Giddings, son of
the lost man, had the body disinterred
and identified it as that of his father.
President Elwood G. Perisho. of
state college and President Robert l..
Slagle of university of South Dakota
are both here looking after the inter
ests of their respective schools. Sen
ator Miller of Brookings has intro
duced three bills appropriating 800
600 for a veterinary building; S., 900
for a farm implement building; s75.-
0c0 for the girls new dormitory at
state college.
Daily Huronite, 8: When passenger
No. 514 arrived this morning from the
| west, the engine looked as tho,,oh II