Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-01-07

SNJO In DAhO "A,
The year 1915 should be a great
year for the South Dakota empire.
Happiness costs nothing, and is
worth everything. Why not use it
literally throughout 1915?
Winter weather in the winter sta-
son is the right thing at the right
time. Better now than in late March.
Wonder if the fine weather is the
result of the weatherman' s resolve to
do better during January than he
did during December?
There are all sorts OF people in the
world, including the human hog who
eats five times a day and roars about
the Evils of the Liquor Habit.
Former State Senator John McCul-
len will very likely be appointed post.
master at Miller. The term of the
present postmaster expires in Febru.
ary.
Tie Yankton college endowment
campaign was success and the
necessary $780, 900 needed to secure
$40.0 900 gift from James J. Hill of st.
Paul, was subscribed.
The authorities of eastern South
Dakota are making an attempt to
break up gang of thieves who have
been robbing stores in that section
for the past two months.
The mysterious cornstalk disease
in Douglas and Charles Mix counties
is depicting the herse herds. 1t is
estimated that in these two counties
alone over 500 horses have died from
the disease.
Chairman Lockhart of the republican
state committee called the committe to-
gether in this city yesterday, the main
purpose of the meeting being to take
steps toward framing new primary
law for the state
That peaceful industry has it's hor-
rors as we'll as war is shown in the
casualty lists of American mines and
quarries for 1918, issued by the Unit
ed States Bureau of Mines. This
list gives 3, 651 men killed in the year.
The beginning of new agricultur-
al era is opening in very large por-
tion of the great northwest. Real
farming and live stock production is
displacing the grain farming to a
much greater extent here than is gen.
orally supposed
A new bank is to be opened in
Bancroft, capitalized at Sic, 200. The
stockholders will be w. j. Agnew of
Bancroft, president; H. NJ. Best of
DeSmet, cashier; and Peter M.
Schultz, 7. L. Flittie and C. 7. Lid
die of Iroquois.
After over a years absence, due to
his physical break down. Congress-
man Eben w. Martin, of the third
South Dakota district is now in
Washington, where he will serve out
the balance of his term until March.
He did not seek reelection and will
be succeeded by a democrat
There is strong pecuniary evidence
that the state of South Dakota is
awake to the need of good highways.
During the year 1914 there was lev
led for road taxes $579,9 ,948 and for
bridge taxes S716,55 Only seven
counties failed to make road levies
and ten made no bridge levies.
Few changes were made in the direc-
torates of st. Paul banks at the an
nual meetings of stockholders last
week. Reports of the business the
past year showed remarkable gains in
the case of each bank and the usual
dividends were declared with larger
amounts carried to the surplus funds
than ever before.
With the fashions of 1880 coming
back into style again. there may come
a time when the Oldest inhabitant
will hold crowd of men spell-bound
when he tells them of the sights
man could see on a sunny day away
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