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

WY mpuftoh vent to WatertOWn
Saturday for a visit with friends.
Miss Ruth Halves returned Monoav
from a short visit with friends in Huron.
VIII Robinson came down from Red
field Sunday for a visit with homefolks.
j. f. Trurrn and daughter. Miss
G~enevleve, went to the Black Hills
Sunday.
Miss Francis Gearhart came in
from Philip Monday for a visit with
friends.
Miss Helen Sterud came up from
Blunt Saturday for an over Sundays
visit at her home here.
Mesdames A. E. Lucas and e. P.
Them arrived home Saturday from
an outing at Hisega.
f. R Gardner and daughter came
up from Rec Heights Monday for a
visit at the Rathmell home.
ID. +. Turner, contractor and build
ef, has gone to Washington Springs
to look after contract work.
Mrs. Pauline Coons arrived Monday
from st. Paul, called here by the death
of her father, Chris Mollock, sr.
L. A. Bourke came in from his
farm near Okobojo Monday to visit
his wife, who is a patient at the hos.
pital.
Mrs. VIII Troy and daughter and
Miss ArVilla Edgar arrived home Tues
day from a two weeks outing in the
Black Hills.
Leslie Parry left Mondry for Des
MONIES, where he has taken up his
duties as lieutenant with the soldiers
at Fort Dodge.
Mesdames j.. T. Nelson and II. A.
Ustrud are entertaining the Lutheran
Aid society at the home of the former
this afternoon.
Sppt. Crandal and wife and daughter,
Miss Dorliska, of the Indian school, re-
turned the first of the week from a Wis.
it in Minneapolis.
w. +. Adrian and family are moving
to Redfield, Mr.. Adrian having accept,
ed q position with an auto company in
that good old town.
The cream station at Fort Pierre
was damaged by fire Monday. The
prompt action Of firemen prevented a
spread Of the flames.
Attorney j, e Payne came up Mon
day from Vermillion to look after mat
ters before the supreme court and to
visit his brother, B, S. Payne.
Miss Charlotte Wales returned to
her home near Seneca Monday after
a short visit with her aunts, Mes
danes McCord and Fl. L. Williams.
The marriage of Willard Windsor
Of this city and Miss Lois Cook of
Clarinda, Iowa, took place in Pierre
Monday. They will make their home
in Pierre.
Misses Doris, Margaret and Anita
Briggs departed Tuesday for there
home ST Missouri Valley junction,
Iowa, after q weeks visit at the d,
w. Lyman home.
Miss Maude Murphy and mother
came over from Onida Friday for a
visit with friends. Miss Murphy and
Miss Harriet Anding left Saturday
for an outing at Hisega.
Threshing in the county is prog
ressing rapidly and some pretty fair
yields are reported. On the whole
the farmers of Hughes county will be
better off than they at first thought.
If the weather man is on our side
in this var he will see to it that frost
does not appear for a month yet. The
bulk OF the corn crop will need fully
that long to mature, while some of il
will need much longer.
N. 2. Nielsen, long a shoe repair mar
in the Wear U-Well shoe store has pur
chased the business interests carried by
w. j. Harris. MIR. Nelson is an ex-
p%erlenced shoe mar and solicits a share
of your patronage.
Boosters for the Stanley county
fair are busy getting things in shape
for the success of the event. The
dates are September 1921 and in al
probability the attendance this year
w~illexceed that of former years,
Pierre young men at the officers
training camp at Fort Smelling appear
to have Jared quite we'll, as most o:
them were given commissions in the
United States army, while others
will act as assistant instructors fol
the second class which will soon take
up the work.
About two years ago the old family
shotgun belonging to Jim Neary was
accldently discharged when Jim wa,
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