Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-06-10


See the Virginians on Saturday next.
G. E. Peterson is in the city today
from Canning.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Lewis are in
the city from Belle Fourche.
z. j. Corrick Will go to Canning
Sunday. where he will finish UP a
painting contract.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Jas. Clark of Redield
were among the arrivals in Pierre
yesterday.
Mrs. Walter Spencer and Miss
LISA Haverly of Agar, were shop
ping in Pierre yesterday.
Mrs. Mary Quirk of Highmore,
neither of Mrs. Forrest Auldredge,
arrived Friday for a seversl days
| visit.
Ray Lewis came up from Miller
last week for medical treatment. He
was suffering with an attack of APP
pendicitis.
The month of June is proving itself
very impartial. 1t is dividing ITS
joys between the ice mar and the
coal man.
Walter Travis, in company with an
aunt, Mrs. Il. ID. Murrin of Lead, has
gone to the Pacific coast for a several
weeks vacation.
Miss Fannie Quirk of Highmore,
visited in Pierre over Sunday, a guest
at the home of her sister, Mrs. For
rest Auldredge.
Early this morning the p%osto0ice at
Faulkton was broken into and rob-
bed of $4,000 worth of postage stamps
and a small amount of money.
Mrs. Flora Fuller aud Miss Gather
ing SwartZ returned home today
from Mitchell, where Miss Catherine
has attended school the past year.
James Starkey is expected home
Sunday from Rochester, Mimi, for a
visit at his home here. Mr.. Starkey
holds a position as teller in a bank at
that place.
The amount taken in at the Cleanup
dance given at the auditorium last
Thursday evening was $50, which after
the expenses were cleaned up, was d.
vlded up between the Capital City band
and the committee of the flower show,
From the Black Hills to Sioux Falls
and from Aberdeen to Yankton, Che
state is soaked with grand rains
which have fallen freely during the
last two weeks. The pastures are.
rich and heavy, the alfalfa has either
been cut OF is ready for it, and the
corn is for the most part ready for its
first cultivation. Everybody in the
territory is looking for a grand crop
this year.
The Fourth Infantry band station
ed at Watertown, was mustered out
Saturday by Captain Paul FL, Beck
man, post quartermaster, upon ord
ers from Adjutant General w. A.
Morris. The band had failed to en-
list its members into the service, had
failed to render reports as required,
and had refused TO go to camp at Red
field this year.
Members of the Commercial club
and the directors of the Star cream
cry are looking into the matter of re
opening the creamery at an early
date, and from an average viewpoint,
this would be more than a paying
undertaking if handled by experience
ed hands. Enormous shipments of
of butter fat pass through this city
daily to eastern markets. which
otherwise should find q ready market
in Pierre.
jim Rogers, a typical globe t%rotter,
arrested here Monday, had a we'll equip
ped pantry hidden away under his coat.
Among the articles found were four
potatoes, a beer bottle filled with milk,
LOAF OF bread. two rolls, salt, pepper,
a raw onion and dressed chicken. One
couldn't have beaten it into that chap
with a club that he wasn't at the front
entrance to the land Of plenty.
VIM. Harrison, who passed last
week in Pierre, representing himself
as an agent for the society of Ameri-
can Indians, was brought back to
this city from Huron today by Sheriff
Quinn on a charge of obtaining goods
under false p%retenses, preferred by
a local merchant. Harrison, who
was married a short time ago to a
Blunt lady in this city, is supposed to
have left his wife at Blunt, and while
at Huron made efforts to obtain more
goods on credit, always showing
credentials to assure his identity. He
will no doubt be given a hearing to