Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-08-30
LOCAL NEWS

lion for q visit with relatives.
Miss Adelaid Ayres went out to
Hlsega Sunday for a short outing.
Mrs. z. 81. Burke entertained the
Trinity Guild at her home Tuesday
evening.
Miss Pearl Hunkins left last week
for a visit with relatives at points in
Minnesota.
G. G. Whitcher and wife returned
last week from a visit with relatives in
New Hampshire.
Bernard McCallag returned Saturday
from Sioux Falls. where he attended a
convention of Overland dealers.
Ex-Gov. Byrne and son, Emmons,
came oyer from Faulkton Friday for
short stay in the Capital City.
j. e. Handlin, state auditor, and
wife, returned Monday from a short
visit to their former home in Sturgis.
Neal Davis came up from Brook
ings Monday for a visit with relatives
here and at his home near Okobojo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Williams have
planned to go to Hurley next week,
the home of the parents of the latter
Harry King came down from Aber-
deer on Sunday for a visit with his wife
and to get acquainted with his new born
son.
Miss Lois Blowers, sister of Mrs.
c. FL. Anderson. left Saturday for her
home at Ames, Iowa, following a sew
eral days visit here.
The marriage of Miss Sarah Neu-
hauser of'this city and Silas B. Tharp of
Lawrenceville, ILL.,, took place at Rapid
City last Thursday.
Troubles and mules should always
be approached from the front, says
one of our exchanges and we readily
agree on the subject.
Miss Isabel Smith departed Satur-
day for her home in Nebraska after
a short visit at the home of her sis
ter, Mrs. w. j. Harris.
Edwin Jaynes left Friday for Chi
cago, where he joined his brother AL
fred. and returned to their duties in
the coast defense work,
Supt. M. C. Helm arrived home
Sunday from Aberdeen, where he has
been one of the instructors at the
Normal summer school.
Mrs. George Walker departed Mon
day for her home at St. Louis, follow
ing a several weeks visit at the N. e.
Howard home in this city.
ga Position or Your oMney Back"
is u new policy. Write for full
particulars. Humboldt Business Col
lege, Minneapolis. MINI.
The Pierre Cannery commenced the
canning of tomotoes Monday. The
company has some thirty acres in
crop and the yield is said to be good.
Oryille Satterlee arrived Monday
from Norfolk, Neb., for a visit with
his brother, A. G. Satterlee and fam
lily. He departed yesterday for his
home.
Attorney Virgil Laughlin arrived
Saturday from Trip for a short visit
with homefolks before leaving for Fort
Smelling, where he enters the officers
training camp.
This is the time Of the year when
farmers should see to it that their
fence rows are rid of the weeds, when
the weeds growing along the roadside
should be cut. To let them grow to
seed is a crime.
Miss Emma Lewis went to Redfield
on Monday, where she will attend the
Sphinx county teachers institute. From
that place she will go to Aberdeen to
again take up her educational work in
the schools there.
p. Il. Jergens, ticket agent here for
the Northwestern for some time, left
Tuesday for Omaha, where he has
accepted a like position. Mr.. Jer-
gems has many friends here who re-
greet his departure.
The examinations for grade pupils
who failed to make their grade at the
close of the last school year and who
are making up their back studies
will be held at the nigh school build.
ing tomorrow and Saturday.
The annual conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church convenes in
Pierre on Wednesday, October 10.
A public reception and paternal
greetings will be held on the evening
of October 8. Special efforts are be-
ing made to build up a strong con-
ference program.
The Sioux Falls Journal pays the
following compliment to a former
Hughes county gentiemen:-Claire
BaaancOn. who has haen citv editor