Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-05-17

Plans for the observance of Memor.
ial Day are we'll under way.
D. Il. ~Gropengeiser came over from
Onida Tuesday on a short business visit
Mrs. Harry Feeney and little son
LETT Monday for their home at Har.
rold.
w. N. VanCamp, insurance com.
missioner, spent Sunday at his home
at Highmore.
M. g. Helm, superintendent of the
city schools, went to Gettysburg the
first of the week.
r. f. Mcclure returned Monday
from a business trip to points ir
North Dakota.
Mrs. Thos. Brown arrived home
tuesday from Chicago, where she had
been on Il visit to a son.
Mrs. Guy Bush and children left
Monday for North Dakota where she
will make her home.
Miss Alma Staben went out to the
home of her parents hear Milesville
last week for a short visit.
A marriage license was issued YES
tereay to Miss Hazel Shoop and Err.
nest j. Holland, both of Vinton.
Mrs. Barton arrived Monday from
Boston, Mass for a visit with he,
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. b. Wadleigh.
The members of the Monday Musi.
cal will give a concert at the Auditor.
lum Monday evening. Free admis
sion.
Mail Carrier Kelley and G. B. Slough
are at Deadwood where they were
subpoened as jurors in the fedora
court.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Gardner anc
Mr.. and Mrs. M. o. Langeland outoec
to Onida Sunday, where they spent
the day with relatives.
Walter Flanagan came up from Hur
on Sunday to accompany his little
daughter home. The little miss hae
been a guest at the McCarty home.
O. S Hawkins and family are pre-
pairing to 10 to Sioux City, where
he will be connected with the branch
Office of the Capital Supply Company
Miss Helen Walker arrived las,
week from Tracy, Mimi. and viii
make her home here with her sister
Miss Gladys, who is employed at the
local telephone exchange.
The music pupils of Mrs. Fl. F
Chapman gave a farewell recital a
her home Saturday afternoon. Mr.
and Mrs. Chapman will move tt
Sioux Falls about June LIST.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. M. Ramer departed
Tuesday for their new home at Siou,
City, where Mr.. Ramer sell school fur
niture at wholesale. Miss Almeta Ra
mer will remain in Pierre until abou
July 1.
Mrs. Billinghurst, Mrs. Fuller ant
Mrs. Hyde entertained a number O,
friends at the St. Charles last Friday
in honor of Mrs. F. M. Byrne ant
Mrs. e. p. Farr, who will soon leave
the city.
Sturgis Press: State Auditor 7. E
Handlin and wire were arrivals on the
noon train Sunday from Pierre. Ed i.
here on private business. He is getting
the back to the farm fever and expects tt
buy a farm near Sturgis.
Among the applicants who have sc
far received appointments to the Off
GERS training camp at Fort Smelling
are: Leslie Parry and Walter Smith
of this city; Harlan Whisman o
Huron, and Wright Tarbell of Water
town.
M. B. Showers, a former travelling
salesman and travelling out of Sioux
oiSys VIZ was HullC Wei hIlOWH IL
Pierre, met death last Friday by E
premature discharge af dynamite on hi
farm lear Virgil, S. ID. AS he was
only a few feet away from the charge
when it exploded, his body was liter
ally blown to Fragments.
Reports from various sections of
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the Black & Yellow trail indicate
that much work is being done to i'm.
prove the highway and prepare it fol-
the heavy travel which has already
opened and will continue throughout
the summer. The first auto enroute
from Chicago to the Yellowstone
park went over the trail last week.
Mobridge Democrat: A specia
train, consisting of four coaches, din.
ing a and baggage car. passed
through this city yesterday en- route
to Marc Island, California. Aboard
the train were several hundred re-
cruifa from tho marina hronch n!