Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-02

again have the privilege of writing
+ February 30 The calendar makers
favor dropping tins odd day in the
of time. 1t will be tough
on those who happen to claim this as
their birthday.
The surrender of one right by any
to the aggressive de-
mands of another government is usu-
ally followed by further demands.
The time to stand up for ones rights
is when the first transgression is at
tempted.
Judge w. w. Soule, in an inter
view in the Rapid City Journal, en-
tered an absolute denial to news
paper stories that he was candidate
for tine democratic nomination for
IN opposition to Harry L.
Candy.
An editor of an Iowa exchange asks:
"If only the good and pure in mind go
to heaven, what is to become of the
doctors, lawyers, merchants, editors,
bankers, farmers and the rest of the
common herd? And where, Ohlwhere,
will the politicians go?"
The state board having the author
ity to fix the prices at which the bind
err twine manufactured at the Sioux
Fails penitentiary shall be sold, has
fixed the price at cents per pound
for the coming season. The price of
twine is higher than last year owing
TO an advance in the price of raw ma
ter1al
Mobridge grocers and butchers are
considering the adoption of central
delivery system whereby one concern
will deliver all orders for all the firms
in town instead of each individual
firm maintaining delivery service of
its own They believe the new plan
will cheaper the cost of delivery ser
vice TO patrons,
The democratic petitions for the
johnson Candy convention candidates
were filed Saturday with the secretary
of state by George Philip of Ft. Pierre.
The petitions for the choice of Wilson
for president, Marshall for vice presi-
dent, and ten national delegates are all
that We're fled. This is the first politi.
cal fling Of any sort.
a new tuberculosis sanitarium is tC
be erected at Custer, to be known as
the Black Hills Tuberculosis sanitar
ium The institution is to be manag
ed by private particles and has a capi
| tai of $l00 600 The incorporation
are j L. Stewart, Spearfisb; w. A
Sivertson, Custer and A. w. Harpe
OF Minneapolis
| "A w EWert, state treasurer, Wht
will have charge of the Cummin
campaign for the delegation fron
this state to the republican nationa
convention, reports that he will ope
| headquarters in Pierre shortly an
that the campaign will be carried o
from here to secure the delegatio
for the Iowa candidate.
The true shamrock to an Irishma
is the plant known by that nam
around the spot of his or his father
birth, but the botanists has as muc
trouble in identifying it as he has
identifying the Mayhower of New Ems
land, a name applied in different local
ties to trailing arbutus, to saxifrag,
TO hepatca and to many other plants
The Fatherland presents ma
showing the conquests of the Centr;
Powers in Europe cover more are
than the combined area of England
Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. TT
same paper might have gone lit
bit further and stated that the allie
\ conquests in Africa cover many tim
1 more area than the combined are;
of Germany and Austria. The co
/ clusion from one comparison wou
be Just as accurate as from the othe
An exchange gives an account
a Hugging society, the first meeti.
I of which netted the church $68.
says the bachelors for miles arou
Joined and were active members. T
\ schedule of rates were: Girls under
years, 15c for hug of two minute
girls from 16 to 20, soc, girls from
to 25, T5c; schoolma ANS, 40c; anoth
/ mans wife, S100; widows according
4 looks, So to SO; old maids, Sc or t.
! for a nickel, with no time limit. Mil