The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-02-16

Attorney Geo Rix was called to Web
ster the first of tho week to attend to
! legal matters before the circuit court
for Day County now in session.
! Gracle Edison, the little daughter ol
Tram Dispatcher Edison, of Montevdeo,
is visiting her young Milbank friends,
and is the guest of Mrs. A. J Beser
Mr.. w. W. Martin, the young man
who came from New York on a visit to
the family Of his kindsman E. Ely. last
summer, and who has been teaching in
Grant Center. during the winter, closed
his term OF school last week, and expects
to return to his home in the east this
week.
Mr. Harry Hocum has made an en-
gagement with the Lillibridge cracker
company as travelling salesman, and will
shortly remove his family TO Aberdeen,
where he will make his headquarters
while in his new business. The business
and store in Milbank will be carried on as
usual, Mr.. George Hocum assuming CON
troll thereof
Mr.. and Mrs John Hicks, of Melrose,
were rendered a surprise party by a mum
Der of their friends last Friday after
noon anG evening The lob" was 'put
up on them by their two youngest sons
and was complete success The bows
had made arrangements for the older
people to come during the day and the
younger in The evening. They had also
managed to get a grudge against the
turkey patch Dy saying they We're eating
their heads Oft and had pair of the
birds decapiiated. Although the wealth
er was stormy and the roads exceedingly
rough, thirty OF as jolly old and young
people as ever came together managed
prarance one would say everybody had a
good time, which they continued out
! Till $3.50 the next morning Mr.. and
Mrs. Hicks say the boys did their part
of the work to perfection and suceee led
in giving them complete surprise.
| That dam case last Tuesday brought
up a host Of warriors from both sides Of
the border. One would hardly think
that with only such narrow stream as
the Minnesota separating the two balli-
Wicks of Big Stone and Ortonville, that a
deadly enimi.y would exist between the
clans, and That wherever they meet there
IS an mediate demand for blood or
beer. But such they say it is. The
Ort"nvilIe army consisted OF the flower
OF the able bodied male portion of that
city, among whom were: A. Kaercher,
N. Schoen, r. Norrsh, p. Grton, N. r.
Anderson, N [. Mathews. A. j Parker,
A. Jackson, F. w. Sanborn, p Clarke,
}. Trainer End G. Schneider. The Big
Stone city troope were mostly veterans
OF many well-fought field, and number
ed in their ranks: +. Thorndke, D.
Pest, Thos. Dawson, A. Hoipkemeier, L
Russell, A. Walsh, G.. II. Porter, H. N, !,
Rue, S. T. Gold, G. A. Hoosier, ). Buh-
| Ter.
That Grant county farmers who be-
come dissatisfied with their surroundings
and prospects do not always improve
their condition when they make change
IS illustrated bv an instance reported by
/ MIR. Henry Port, who has recently re-
turned from trip to Wisconsin. It is
the case OF John Nagls, who sometime
ago sold his farm and removed to Chi
cago, where he started 10 work at his
trade as a stone cutter, and for which he
was getting So 0C day, but came out
with thousands OF others Or strike for
higher wages, and the contractors secur
ing their stone worked up in other cities,
left the men out OF work until their
means we're exhausted, and the business
depression coming on placed them IN the
condition Of paupers, thousands having
TO apply to the public soup house to Keep
life in their bodies. The case of Nagle,
who has not been able to obtain a DAYS
work since last May, being that of
thousands OF others.
Town Caucus.