Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-28

at her home near Blunt.
State Game Warden Redrick is in
the city from Chamberlain.
Fine Cigars and Tobacco at the
Smoke House.-F. n. Beacon.
A meeting of Trinity Guild was held
at the Guild hall yesterday afternoon,
Attorney George Philip came down
from Rapid City yesterday to look
after legal business.
DR.. F. A. Spsfford, a member of the
state examining board, was an arriv-
al from Flandreau yesterday.
The Congregational Missionary so
ciety met with Mrs. G. l. Hyde at the
st. Charles yesterday afternoon.
The Pierre Home Guards are max
ing preparations for their minstrel to
be staged at some date during March.
The Methodist Aid society was en-
tertained at the Gilreath home vester.
day afternoon by Mesdames Gilreath
and Taylor.
AT this time of year a single day can
inspire thoughts of gardening, more
coal, golf, shoveling snow, spring toy
gerry and fur coats.
April 6 has been set as 'better stall
lion day" in South Dakota. A demon
stration will be held at some central
point in each county.
S, A. Travis, deputy industrial
commissioner, arrived home Sunday
from Sioux Falls, where he spent the
week end on official duties.
Miss Marie Holm is Ill at the hos
pital with brights disease. The news
of her illness is learned with regret
by her many acquaintance.
Be sure to attend the Food Conser-
walton lectures at the Auditorium Sat
urday afternoon and evening. Its free
anu "Cil WI IL yOuI time 10 dIlGlQ.
Buy your War Savings and Thrift
Stamps and do your bit to put the kais-
er owe board. Every stamp purchas-
ed puts the victory that much nearer US.
Okobojo Times: Misses Isabelle
and Aileen Arthur have been taken
to the Pierre hospital for treatment,
one having appendicitis and the other
pneumonia.
The second flow of letters from our
boys Somewhere in France" arrived
in Pierre today. They all say they are
happy and they are enjoying fine wealth
er lover there"
The ice on the river is covered with
water and if the present mild weather
continues a general breakup may be
looked for on short notice. The snow
and ice on the hills and IN the draws
are making their disappearance.
The Topeka Journal says General
'lHiib . PlCIhIC 10 plIHltu III UlS SlO,-
600 bills, says the Edmunds County
Democrat. Most Of us will take the
Journals word for it without taking
the trouble to look through our pock-
etbooks.
The agronomy department of the
state college has probably made the
most thorough seed corn survey of South
Dakota that has ever been made. OF
about 1900 d .%fferent samples tested most
of it appeared good but tested less than
rs per cent termination.
A man never realizes the superior
ity of woman so much as when he is
sewing on a button without a thimble,
pushing the needle against the wall
to get it half way through and pulling
it through the other half by hanging
onto it with his teeth.-Fort Pierre
News.
With the weather predictions for fair
and warmer weather tomorrow, March
should be ushered in like a lamb. and
with a good share of spring weather
during the month the lion may take his
departure without much misery to the
rest of US.
The state officials and the employees
at the Capital have completed the or
ga ization Of a Var Savings society.
Judge Haney of the Code Revision
board was made president of the new
organization. Mrs. Carroll Mccoy was
selected as secretary. The advisory
board is composed of Judge Whiting of
the supreme court, Misses Ida Anding
and Eiva Payne.
Both the South Dakota and the Iowa
Minnesota routes proposed for the
King of Trails highway between Sioux
City and Ortonville, Mimi, are to be
recognized officially as part of the
route. Both will be marked through
ont % SOON aS weather pormits The