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


Verne Cotton of St. Laurence, is a
patient at the hospital.
E. II. Wood of Washington, is in
the city on real estate business.
Patrick Conroy, a pugilist of Leac,
died last week at his home in the Hills
country.
Mrs. Frank Donohue has returned
from a visit with relatives at Des
Moines, Iowa.
Wheat prices are falling today. The
grain gamblers evidently saw the hand
writing on the wall.
Mrs. Chapman came up from High
more Tuesday for a visit with her son
H. F. Chapman.
Mrs w. ]. Mundt returned yester-
day from a two weeks visit at Aber-
deem and other points.
Misses Edna Bioberg and Sadie
Sterud visited with the latter's sis
ter, Miss Helen, at Blunt Sunday.
Mrs. Stevenson of the Colonial Par
Tors. arrived home yesterday from a
several days business visit at points
east.
Karl Graf, who some time ago dis
posed of his ranch near Canning, lett
Sunday for a visit at his old home in
Ohio.
Miss Katherine Marso and Mrs.
Stanley Stevenson will go to Blunt
next Thursday, where they will take
part in a musical to be given by the
Tue sday club.
Mrs. VIM. Zwicky and little dangh.
ter of Rapid City, were Sunday WISH
tors in The city. the guests of her
husband, Lieut.. zwicky, who is sta
toned here with Company l.
Food Commissioner Crary has refus.
ed requests of South Dakota bakers
that on account of increasing costs they
be permitted to dispense with the wrap
ping of all loaves of bread made.
Fire. of unknown origin, is burning
over the south pasture field of Mr..
Gowdy's this afternoon. The earth is
covered by a heavy growth Of grass and
fears are entertained that much dam
age is certain to follow.
Blunt Advocate: A. G.. Stewart
and the other county commissioners
were here Sunday viewing the pro-
posed new roads from the northeast.
Time will tell which they thought
the most feasible road,
Committees at Rapid City have well
in hand arrangements of the South Da-
kota Firemen's association meet to be
held in that city in June. Firemen at
tending the tournament will take with
them ten bands, so there is certain to
be ample music.
ME-. and Mrs. A. G.. Ferrin and
daughter, Miss Dorothy, left this
morning for a visit at the home of
the formers parents at Cherokee,
Iowa. Mr.. Ferrin is suffering from
a slight pressure on the brain and
will undergo an operation.
Ii you are a farmer, or a gardener,
or n in need of any article of hard
ware, Louis G%reenough can supply you
with every want. He is a liberal fell
low, ever with every article priced as
low as safe business will permit, and.
those who buy from him once soon get
the general habit.
Committees of Businessmen at Rand
City are perfecting arrangements for a
patriotic day celebration, which is to
be held in Rapid City in connection with
the Memorial Day exercises on Nav
81. The two combined will make the
occasion n of the greatest patriotic
demonstrations in the history of the
Black Hills.
The temperature rose today to 70
which is the first time this month that
it has reached that point. The weather
map indicates that the cool wave has
peer broken, and that seasonable
weather may be expected in this section
for sometime to come. and with warm
weather and a generous fall of moisture
occasionally for a month the outlook
for crops will be fine.
G. M. Coates was in Pierre yester-
day for a few hours. Mr.. Coates had
beer out looking up the wealth of prop
erty owners residing in the unorganized
portions of Hughes county, and drove
to Pierre to get a horse shod he had
beer driving that favored a foot. He
is county assessor, and we suspect he
had given some fellow, perhaps a tax
shifker, a hot chase. Be that as it
may. Mr.. Coates is a competent ma n,
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