Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-08-31
NEW

Pierre. S. D., Aug. 26.-A new news
paper will be started at Sioux Falls,
called The Community Builder. The
company Is Incorporated for $25, 900:
with James c.. Clark, Eva C. Clark and
George Grimes as ~incorporators. Other
new corporations are:
Incorporation Bureau OF Philip
Lawrence. Huron; capital stock $685.
900; ~incorporators G. M. Lawrence,
Phil Lawrence and Fl. j.. Holmes.
The Gretna Grain company. Bowdle;
II. c. Balu, Henry Raude and Eliza
beth Baude, incorporators.
Midwest Auto of Pierre:
capital stock, $40, 900; incorporators,
Bernard McCallag, Winifred Ewert and
Theodore Sheehan.
Haal6on Land &c Cattle company. OF
tumwa; capital stock, 500, 900; II. A.
Shafer. nj. c. Sherwood, and A. l..
krause, incorporators.
Dams Plumbing company, Eermilion;
capital stock, $4,000: Thos. D. and r.
Reece. and e. l.. Reece, i~ncorporators.
DR.. ELLWooD C. PERlsHo
TO WE'D MISS iNEz BEEBE
Ipswich, S. d.. Aug. 26.-Mrs. Marcus
F. Beebe, of this city has announced the
engagement of her daughter, Miss Inez.
to DIR. Ellwooi c.. Perisho, president of
the State college at Bookings. The
wedding will be solemniZed at an early
date.
HOT SPRINGS - Arrangements have
been completed for the 14th annual con-
v~ention OF the w. c. T. u. district or
ganiaation, comprising Custer and Fall
River counties, and the Pine Ridge indian
reservation, which will open in this city
next Monday ana continue until Tuesday
night. Mrs. Lora s. LeMance, national
w. c. I. u. organizer and lecturer, will
be present and will make addresses at
several of the business sessions. She was
a w. c. I. u. missionary in Alaska for a
number Of years. and brought back with
her a very interesting collection of curios
from that far off land, and has a fund
of unique experiences with which to
| amuse and entertain her audiences. The
annual sermon of the convention will be
given by the Rev. r.. p. Johnson, Of Buff
falo Gap.
IPSWICH-Thra shing in this neigh
borhood has just started and yields are
better than was expected two weeks ago.
! No hard wheat has been thrashed and
| the yield will be small on ~accounrof rust
damage. Estimates run from rree to
| nine bushels per acre. The following are
reports from early average fields: Engler,
so acres rye, 21h bushels per acre; $50
acres rye thrashed 2.O6S bushels, OF 1914
bushels per acre; 3o3 bushels barley on
4 VI SASt > tl IN / ooilGlS .
one field of oats yielded So bushels per
acre; large field OF durum wheat, 10
bushels per acre. Auchampach, $500
bushels barley from 100 acres. Corn is
denting and with three weeks. of warm
weather will be heaviest crop ever raised.
Frost will do great damage If early.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. probable solution
ana the most probable so far offered, of
the mystery surrounding the finding of a
/ hnpap yIa1efpn paar hcco last C,,,,lo,
is that it is likely that some member of
\ party OF traveller. of an early period
'ollowing the old trail from Fort RAN
ial1 west, became sick and died on the
way n was buried near the '.trail' oy
his friends who afterwards proceeded on
their way toward the setting sun. In
vestigation has shown that the body was
buried about the usual depth. and that
the water had cut through the grave
some OF the bones of the skeleton being
found on one side OF the wash and
some on the opposite side. No marks of
violence Were found.
MILLTOWN-Winiam Rairdin. a farm
er living near town. was Il heavy loser as
the result of a fire on his farm. His
dwelling house and all its contents. in
acluding q new piano, We're burned, 1t be-
ing impossible to save anything from the
l,burning structure because of the rapid
spread of the flames.
FREDERICK-As the result of a meet
Ing held here by a large number of farm
ers. what will be known as the Brown
County Drainage association was organ
lied. Tha purpose of the organization is
to. secure better drainage for this part
CT the Jim river valley. The association,
expects to reclaim several thousand acres
Of valuable farm land and place 1t In con-
dttion to produce crops.
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