Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-11-09
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NO MORE OF EARTH
Wednesday evening relatives in
Pierre were notified that S. G. Deweli
had been stricken by death while
passing along a street In CenterYiiie,
this state. He was the publisher OF
the Independent at that place.
Mr.. Dewell was publisher of the
Free Press, and served nine years as
postmaster in this city. Mr.. Dewell
resided in Pierre for about 20 years,
and is kindly remembered here by
many, The remains of the deceased
arrived today, and funeral will take
place from the Dewell home, burial
was made in Riverside cemetery.
Mrs. j. c, Russell and daughter of
Midland, are in the city for a short
stay,
Judge Hughes will open a term of
the circuit court in this city Tues
day, Nov. 21st.
Mrs. Robt, Youngs left today for
Pennsylvania, where she will join her
husband and make their home.
Among the Blunt people who pass
ed Monday in Pierre were Mr.. and
Mrs. Granger and Misses Muriel and
Leila Eakin.
The Free Press goes to press late
this week TO enable us to give our
readers the returns of Tuesdays
election as correctly as obtainable.
The counly board of commissioners
will meet on Tuesday next asa board
of canvassers, at which time the votes
cast at the late election will be count
ed.
Many are the hunters but few the
ducks report the sportsmen. Yet
they have by no given up hope.
Wait a couple of weeks and they'll
come they say. The great nocks that
flew north unmolested last spring
must return with their progeny and
before going to the southland they
are sure to spend ONE time in their
long-favored haunts. the ponds and
lakes of the Missouri along the South
Dakota shores.
The vital statistical reports filed with
the state department for July and Au-
gust show that whooping cough was
three times as fatal as infantile paral-
ysis, the showing being IS deaths from
the former and only five from the latter
complaint. Twenty drownings, three
suicides and two homicides are reported
for the two months. The heaviest
> death records were. Enteritis, AZ; tub
erculosis, 406; cancer, 43.
Despite popular opinion to the 20
trary, Thanksgiving day as an insti-
4 tuition is not peculiarly American.
For history shows that all ancient
, nations used to celebrate some feast
of a thanksgiving nature, while most
of the tribes of our American Indians
had a big gathering and a harvest
feast years before the white man ever
set foot on the shores of the new
world. BY the Greeks ard Romans
the festival days in honor of the god
desS of agriculture were times OF
rustic sport, of professions through
the fields and the decorating of the
home with fruits and flowers. The
people OF Egypt enjoyed a time o
y feastiDg after gathering in their har
o vests and laid the fruits of the yea
on the altarsof the Goddess Isis.
An operate company of sixty ar
lists, three carloads of scenery au(
= baggage, a repertoire of the world!
greatest operas, all sung in English
two casts of famous operate prin
cipals, a large and perfectly balanced
chorus, and a complete orchestra 0
y carefully chosen instrumentalists
The above are a few facts relative t.
the forthcoming visit of the Chicago
U English Opera company. The organi
7 cation, which is stated to be the NOS
perfectly equipped operate o~rganiza
/! ton the states, will be heard at tn,
! Grand on Thursday, November l6
{ when they will present Verdi's spec
~tacular opera Aida" Ia Offering
this attraction to their patrons, tn
management Of the Grand are pre-
senting to the public one Of the fin
est operate companies to be heard.
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