Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-09-13
Attorney Zell Guthrie transacted bus
mess in Aberdeen on Saturday.

Attorney Zell Guthrie transacted bus
mess in Aberdeen or Saturday.
Walter Travis vent to Yankton on
Saturday to again take up his college
| studies.
Mrs. John Hoist aud Martha Hoist
of Blunt, were Pierre visitors Tues
day.
Secretary of State Rood and wife
left this morning to be at the fair for
a short time.
Miss Helen Sterud was an over
Sunday visitor at her home in Pierre.
Blunt Advocate,
Mrs. j. ii. Gropengeiser and daugh.
ter, Miss Bessie, of Onida, visited with
friends in the city Saturday.
G. e. Granger and F.. A. House
were Capital City visitors between
trains Wednesday Blunt Advocate.
A. A. Calhoon was in the city Sat-
urday from Blunt, to attend the we'd
ding of his nephew, Vincent S. CAL
hoUn.
Misses Blanche and Annie Sutherland
of Glenn Ellyn, H., departed Saturday
for their home after a several DAVIS
| visit at the Travis home.
Hans Ustrud of the railroad de-.
partment expects to leave in the
morning FOR Parker, where he will
be joined by Mr.. Sweet of that office.
There is to be a special election in
Iowa on Oct. is to vote upon making
the prohibition of liquor selling a
part of the constitutional law of the
state.
Herbert c. Hoover, food dictator,
is preparing to launch a campaign
against the high meat prices unless
the meat packers reduce the price
! voluntarily.
] License to wed was issued this
morning by Clerk of Courts j. E.
Slindee to Louis A. Rousseau of
Eagle Butte, and Miss Bessie May
Dupris of Dupris.
The value of the South Dakota crop
this year is just three times what il
was last year, according to state sta
tisticians. This Will mean some mon
ely for the farmers to spend.
James Ryan was in, Pierre Tuesday
from his ranch east of Blunt. The
yields of grains upon his ranch this yeal
were very satisfactory to Mr.. Ryan.
while stock has grown and fattened be
yond early expectation.
Earl Mosteller and Miss Mable
W~estover, two of Hughes county's
estimable people. were united in
marriage Wednesday They will be
gin home life in this county and the
Free Press hopes that fortune will
attend their efforts.
l. u a pun LliIO, uuoOl WIN Wl0V
conditions, for that Elm Grove, West
Virginia man who found the petriiet
remains IL a being with horns t
claim that they are those of the devil
Satan is still alive, and seems to b.
doing some business.
Wise ones are now prophesyins
that corn will be selling for consider
ably below the dollar mark before
any of the new crop is marketable
They are figuring on a decline of hall
or even a cent a bushel during thu
next thirty or sixty days.
The State Fair closes Friday. Re.
turning visitors at the fair seemed
pleased to say that it has been a big
show from the opening day. Exhibits
were fine, while the live stock show wa
the biggest and best eve seer in thu
state. The daily attendance was large
The Stanley County Fair Association
for 1917, opens at Fort Pierre on Sep
TENDER 18th and closes September 21st
Stanley county has the crops this year
and the fine stock and may be depended
upon to put up a big show. Many will
attend from this county, who go to see
what our nelghbors are doing.
Though corn is not sufficiently ma.
tuTed to start on the selection of seet
for next springs planting it is no
too early for the farmers of South
Dakota to be making preparation fol
that all-important work. Seed saved
before killing frost is dependable
while that saved after a frost is MOI
always to be relied upon.
If Jack Frost can be held back il
the Northland a few weeks longe,
the American corn crop will be ma
tured and there will be in sight plen.
ty of foodstuff for our armies and the
armies of our allies. Corn not only