Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-08-09

miss Mary Walton has returned from
q several weeks visit in California.
Mrs. e. G. Lee left today for a Wis
ltswith relatives in st. Paul.
When the mercury drops to sixty,
the fat man finds himself again.
Sometimes it looks as if the 1. w. W.
IS a disease instead of a labor organiza-
ton.
CD. Bach, father of Mrs. j. R..
Mcknight, left Tuesday for his home
at Hurley.
Fred Hebbler went out to Hot
Springs Tuesday to look after proper
ty interests.
Mrs. Ralph Longstaff arrived Mon
day from Sioux Falls for q visit with
Pierre friends.
w. j.. Mundt, o and daughter ex-
pect to leave shortly for an auto trip
to Black Hills points.
Malcolm Byrne, lieutenant of the
First South Dakota Cavalry. is visit
ing in the city with friends.
Mrs. Earl Holmes came up from
Blunt Tuesday for q visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Gooding,
Miss Margaret Wright returned to
her home at Huron Sunday, follow
ing a short visit with friends here.
Miss Margaret Merrill arrived the
first of the week from Omaha and
is a guest at the Guy Erickson home.
Mrs. Harley Wentz and children re-
turned the first of the week from an
extended visit with relatives in Ohio.
Mrs. A. e. Lucas and children have
gone out to Hisega for an outing.
They are occupying the Whiting cot.
tage.
Neal Newman, a member of Com.
pany a underwent an operation for
appendicitis at the hospital yester-
day.
DR.. /. r. Riggs and wife and Il. C
Quackenbnsh and wife left Sunday
for anauto trip through the Black
Hills.
Miss Bertha Ramsey of .this~ CITY
and Severt Burgeson of Lead, we're
united in marriage by Rev. Larson
Saturday.
Judge Gatfy left yesterday for st.
raul. at that point he will join a
party for a fishing trip to Minnesota
points.
Major FL. L. Kenney left Yesterday
for Hot Springs, where he will have
charge of the medical detachment of
the First S. ID. Cavalry.
1t begina TO look as though the
potato would be dragged from it's
perch Of %aEistrocracy to a common
dollar a bushel respectability.
Mark Ewert and Bernard McCallag
went to Sioux Falls Tuesday and will
return with a Hudson Super-Six q
the purchaser being A. w. Ewert.
The Black Hills Association of Con-
Igatlonal Churches and Ministers will
hold the thirteenth annual session in
%Spearfish on September II, 10 and 10.
The So So club served lemonade
and cake on the court house lawn
Saturday and turned the proceeds
over to the local Red Cross society.
The Pierre Red Cross society gave
an ice cream social on the court house
lawn last Saturday, which was well pat
ronized by local people and manyf from
the country.
Miller San: G. l.. Starr threshed
wheat that yielded about 81 bushels
to the acre which sold for $2.4O a
bushel, the value of the crop being
over $50 an acre.
Mr.. and MIS-. j. H. Mccoy and
daughter, Miss Leila, went to st. Paul
yesterday for q visit with their son
and brother, Carroll, who is stationed
at the Fort Smelling training camp.
The interior of the new addition
to the Wegner garage is being finish
OIL and the windows are being put in
place. The building will 500 be
ready for occupancy and is a beauty.
Capa Hustler; The small grain in
these parts has been cut and stacked
and all reports indicate a good weld
notwithstanding the hot spell of the
last couple of weeks. Oats ia estima-
ted at 40 bushels, wheat at 20 bushel
an acre.
A few days ago, in about the time
consumed in writing this, business men
IN Fort Pierre contributed $3.50 as a
gift to Company A membership. The
boys will be off in a few days to a train
ing camp, thence to a field where bat
ties are won and lost.