Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-07-20

Chas. Pruess of Wendte was a Cap
ital city visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Fred l.. Villas and children left
Sunday for an outing at Hisega.
Grace Satterlee left Tuesday for a
visit with a sister'a at Aberdeen.
Miss Gertrude Thomas of Moen-
vile is visiting IN the city today.
Tony Hengel went to the Hills the
first of the week on a pleasure visit.
If you have not insured your crops
against hail, see Fl. E. Cutting,
Pierre.
Miss VERNE Battray of Blunt, is
here taking the teachers eXamina-
tions,
Miss Ora Bradbury of Onawa, Ia,
is a guest at the Judge Whiting
home.
The county commissioners COM
pleted their work as an equalization
board and adjourned.
q. j. Corrick went down to Can
ming this afternoon, where he had
some painting to do.
Miss Emma Stainer will leave Sat
urday for Cheyenne Agency, where
she has accepted a position as steno-
grapher.
The joint teachers institute, for the
counties of Hughes and Stanley. will
open in Pierre a week from Monday
next.
There will be a bowery dance Sat
urday night five miles down the river
on Dry Ran, and a number of young
folks are planning on going,
A nearly total eclipse of the moor
took place Friday night. The shadow
began to appear on the lunar surface
at about 1890 and did not wholly dis
appear until nearly three O'Clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B.. Lee and
daughter, and Miss Freda Kindley of
this city and Mrs. Youngs and
daughters of Michigan left Saturday
for a visit in through the Hills.
Blunt Advocate: l. j. Brown ship
ped nine cars of cattle from here Sat,
urday and five from Eakin to Chica-
go market. Mr.. Brown and son, Ed,
went with them.
Representative James r. Mann in
PRODUCED in the House late Tuesday a
resolution providing for an investiga-
ton of the price of print paper. The
resolution would empower a committee
OF five members to determine the cause
for the advanced price of paper.
The 1916 cattle season has opened ,
and it is expected that the shipments
will be large from Belle Fourche.
The horse shipments continue steady
as the buyers for the French govern
ment continue to accept animals
which are shipped to the Atlantic
coast and reshipped to Frapce for
cavalry mounts.
Miss Helen Cox and Dick Odle, two
popular young people of this city
we've united in marriage Monday at
Rapid City. Miss Cox taught here in
the public schools for several years
and was a considered one of the best
teachers in the school. Mr.. Odle was
a former wne of the Scotty Philir
smoke house.
Profits totaline S11, 200 we're earned
by the municipal saloon which is op.
Grated at Sturgis during the year end,
June 80. This was shown by annual
report of the Sturgis Municipal com
pany, which runs the saloon. The
company has no outstanding indebt-
edness and took up 81, 900 worth OF
city warrants during the year.
Local real estate men, newspaper
offices and other institutions have
just received a voluminous amount of
literature setting forth the manifold
merits of South Dakota as a place to
be happy in, and to make money in,
and to enjoy splendid health in, all
at the same time, issued by the state
department of immigration.
Increased advertising by the com
mercial clubs and railroads, com.
bined with real summer weather.
which in the east has developed ex.
tremely high temperatures, have re.
suited in sending to the Black Hills
the largest flock of tourists that has
ever found its way there. The intiax.
which has only started, promises to
assume the proportions of an invading
army before the middle of August,
A dense and costly smoke showed az
Tuesday east of Pierre, marking the
location where the Suburban Acreage
company were burning fifty acres OF
alfalfa which had been cut and allowed
to lie on the ground only long enough
a