Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-17
Daily Papers and Magazines at
Smoke House.-F. n. Beacon.

Smoke House,. N. Beacon.
DR.. 7. F. Riggs went over to Get
t2sburg Tuesday on a professional call.
A. A. Bluss of H1ghmore passed
Tuesday and Wednesday in the city.
Miss Genevieve Truran left Tues
day to u her studies at Oberlin
college.
5. A, Cummings, who resides on a
homestead near Stamford, is in the city
for a visit.
Mrs. G. W. spargur entertained
the Dickens club at her home Nom
day night.
z. Hammerstein and family have
moved from the WINNER to the Clark
residence.
Floyd Hewitt came up from Airing
ton Saturday for a short visit with
Pierre friends.
Mrs. Lytle entertained the Metho-
dist aid society at her home yester-
day afternoon.
Mrs. Vincent Calhoon was released
from the hospital Monday and left for
home at Interior.
10 ton alfalfa, 20 tons Wild hay on
Rousseau bottom for saie.-J. II.
Johnson, Box 284, Pierre.
Joseph Stainer & Son are construct
lag a so foot steel bridge across Med
Ieine creek northeast of Pierre.
Miss Julia stockett, head of the
state library commission, has gone 10
the Black Hills on official duties.
W. w. Underwood, county agricul.
tarai agent, went to Potter county
Tuesday on a short business visit.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Z, Is. King passed away Monday
night after a several weeks illness.
The Maryland Assurance Corpora
ton OF Baltimore, Md has been
granted a license to write Insurance
III the state.
God sends every bird its food, but
He does not throw it into the nest.
he gives us daily bread, but it is
through our own labor.
MIR. and Mrs. Guy Burnside left for
their home Tuesday at Spirit Lake,
Iowa, after a several days visit with
the iatter's sister, Mrs. Mary Saunders
Miss Katherine Smith of Sioux Falls
has e'stered upon her duties as steno-
grsphef IN the governors office, to
succeed Miss Roantree, who resigned.
With the farmers of the state in be.
hind the idea of waterpower, Develop
ment in the Missouri river, that change
IN the constitution ought to be a sure
thing.-Aberdeen American.
Guy Erickson has returned from
Omaha, where he went 10 take
the examination for entrance to the
aviation corps. Mr.. Erickson failed
20 pass the required examination.
Every woman over sixteen years old
should take time to register tomorrow or
Saturday The places for registering are
ist ward, home of Mrs, Herman Anding;
2nd ward, basement of library; Bird ward,
Mckinley school; 4th ward, East Pierre
Red Cross room.
On February 8 a number of tracts
Of laud m the Belle Fourche district
which had been withdrawn from SET
Element will be restored to the pub
lie domain and opened to settlement
and will be subject to entry under
the land laws of the United States.
Peter Youngberg, who accom-
panied his brother, Frank, to his
home at Lincoln, III in the hopes of
gaining in health, writes Hughes
county friends that he feels much
better. This will be good news to his
many friends oyer the county.
The home of Mrs. Margaret Ridg-
way vas saved from flames Sunday
morning by the prompt action of
water carriers. The roof near the
stove pipe had canght fire and had it
not been noticed in the nick of time
the building would have gone up in
smoke.
The State Board of Health and Medica
Examiners, at the regular m Getting here
last week, ~reorganized for the year by the
selection of DR.. H. II. Kenaston of Bone
steel as president; DR.. C. E. McCauley,
yice-president, and DR.. Jenkins, Wan
bay, secretary. The other members of
the board are DR.. Jackson of Lead and
DR.. Bowers of Mitchell.
Hot Springs Star: John Pierson
OF Blunt, this state, is here this week
greeting his many Hot Springs
frlencs. John was the efficient clerk
at the Hot Springs hotel for several
years until the beginning of this sea
son when he started ranchiDg with