Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-02-07

esS bttAo SSA - II GiA
oifer. no ship can Withstand the fury
OF the waves Whales and sharks have
been cast ashore and killed. The cur
rent Is estimated to run 80 miles an
hour.
A new high record for one day earn
nj In halibut fishing has been made
by the American schooner Director,
Captain Sorano, out Of Prince Rupert.
The former record. held by this vessel
vas S3o.sO pei man o day. IN the
trip ending September IL, when the
eaten was marketed. the figures were
advanced to $43.57 a day for each man.
Ernest Kemper. of Kansas City, had
al %eventful day recently. He applied at
4 o'clock for enlistment in the regular
army n was accepted. Shortly be-
fore 6 o'clock he applied for and was
granted O marriage license. While the
clock was striking 8 he was being mar
RED, ana a Nttle after Z he was on the
train going to Jefferson barracks.
The seven Inhabited islands Of the
Canary group lTeneriffe, Grand Cam
AIRY. Palma, I%4anxarote, F~eurteventura,
radical changes in their agricultural
and commercial life. Completely mari
In the islands felt severely the de-
crease in ocean tonnage.
-
Chicago claims to be the premier lum-
Der market of the world. The receipts
Of lumber during the year were $780,
100000 feet and the shipments 1.iS5,-
100000 feet. Last year the figures We're:
Receipts, 100000, coo feet and ship
ments 1,S93,o0o,00o feet.
S~earchlights are playing a very i'm
portant part in the present warfare.
In one instance the Germans on the
heights OF the Italian front We're blind.
cd by the rays of many lights while
the italian engineers We're building
bridges below. working in the dark.
The Lincoln highway, beginning at
New York city n ending at San
Francisco, Is about cne-third finished.
though 1t Is already available for. travel
for q greter distance. This highway viii,
have q hard surface and will be open
to travel throughout the year.
A wooden soled. zinc protected shoe,
which has been designed for the use
of persons working in the truck patch
or garden. may be found Of service for
the soldier In the trenches. and the
government is now experimenting
with Il.
Fifteen Seattle, Wash, business men
are studying public speaking at the
state university. Their purpose is no;
to develop oratory, but rather to helr
train themselves to take part In the eff.
fective participation OF public affairs.
During a very severe storm. recently
a mi living on a farm walked IA miles
to Morrisville, VT. to attend church
Most OF the people at church that Sun
day livei ou of town, while those living
nearby did no venture out.
In order that all industries in ltaly
may be national, that kingdom Is set
ting UP q piano factory designed or tho
best American and French models. BE,
fore the war the piano trade was nearly
all in the hands Of Germans.
Dean Holmes, of the Pennsylvania
State college, after spending months
gathering statistics, has discovered
that the money value of four years at
Of $4,000 Tor every year so spent.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tests made by the bureau of stan.
dards in Washington prove that seams
sewn with the double lock stitch are
stronger than those sewn with the
shuttle stitch, and are less weakened
by breaks OF the thread.
A Chase county SKansas) steer,
which had Just come In Off pasture,
gained 10 pounds In "A hours the first
day 1t was put on feed on the farm Of
Henry starkey. This is considered to
be a record.
Last spring C. II. Bickel, Of Spring
Creek. Kan. bought s cents worth Of
pumpkin seeds "a sew along with his
corn..ThiB fall he gathered 400 pump
kins. some weighing more than 40
pounds.
George N. ScribnAr, az Queen City
FArk, Vt, went TO Burlington recently
On hls 60th wedding anniversary. Hc
WAS wearing tho same suit and shoes
M1hich She wore on the day no was mar
srfod.
Il Ii estimated that there are 81. 1000
coil which can be reclaimed
from d 9chuylkiIl river between
&c1ylyl6lt OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Pa. Sew
68S4LgNuGherie1 tnkeseoAl fr0sn the river
hSdsWtsnstl the weather parrnitsl
J Sater Hinson, nrnSsf Farmer ana
XIII Wtnstcn killed % alligAt0rs IN
lSG6f 80 lAke,SsTe IN three dnya.
(llsSlg thoae = Y lest and more IN