The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1898-12-23
Useful Holiday Goods at Wood

Useful Holiday Goods at Wood
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Turkeys, ducks, geese and
chickens for a holiday spread at
| Schafer's.
Have you seen that fine dis
play of pretty dolls at Fisher &
Phelan s.
Burt Fuller, of the Summit
Signal, was in town Saturday
while taking orders for calendars.
H. K. Sanborn of Hurley stop
ped over night Monday on his
way to Wilmot, where he goes to
clerk in D. S. Cables drug store.
Mr.. Albin Stoddard and wife
OF Mazeppa, were greeting Mil
bank friends last Tuesday, while
IN town making purchases for
Christmas.
Miss Kornerup left last Mon
day for a visit to her home at ST.
Paul where she will spend the
holidays, returning to Milbank in
two or three weeks.
Master Lyle Benedict left We'd
nesday morning for Benson,
Mimi, where he goes to spend
the Christmas holidays with his
brother E. J. Benedict.
Mr.. w. T. Burman of Grant
Center was in town Monday
pretty we'll recovered from the
heart trouble which prostrated
him a week or so before while in
town.
Mr.. David Gamble received a
number of carloads of brick last
week for the new store building
to be erected in the spring The
brick are from the Big Stone City
yard, and are Of an excellent
quality
The Catholic society recently
erected a steeple on their church
and this week hung 1900 10.
hell in the tower. The ceremony
Of blessing the bell took place
last Wednesday, Rev. FIR Men
sing of Webster, officiating as
dean
G. r. Porter of Wilmot is a
candidate for sergent-at-arms of
the senate. The Roberts county
people are very enthusiastically
behind his candidacy, and the
splendid republican majority
rolled up by that county is we'll
worthy of recognition.
The sixteenth annual session
of the South Dakota Educational
Association will be held at Red
field, Dec Goth, 9th, 2sth, Goth.
The railroad expense will be one
and one fifth fares for the round
trip.
A meeting of the county re
publican committee was held last
Saturday, at which seven Of the
twenty-tw mem bers We're pres
ent. Among other business was
the election Of an executive com
mittee of five including the chair
man, to attend to any pressing
matters. Messrs. Brand, Smull,
John Swanson and Erickson
were made the committee.
Say that man Mckinley IS
something of magician. He al
ways seems to get in the right
word in the right time. he has
been down in Dixie for about
week and he has hypnotized the
whole southern confederacy, or
at least what was once the con
federacy. His trip has been one
continual ovation, and from the
hearty words of welcome and
patriotism with which he has
received all along the route it is
easily to be seen that the welcome
is as we'll to the man as to the
president. He touched the south
ern heart as no other man has
done before in his reference to
the confederate dead, suggest
inc a common memorial day for
recognition of union and con-
federate dead.
Sheriff Jennings started on a
trip to Plapkinton Tuesday even
ing, accompanying one Of the
boys of the town, Otto Mey-
ers, to the state reform school
at that place. The lad had been
discovered ia number Of little
peculations, and although faith
! ful effort had been made by
friends to lead him out into better
paths than those in which he
had been travelling, he simply
abused the confidence of those
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