The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1899-06-23

stock OF tllln9.
L. H. Bentley and wife went
to Montevideo Wednesday to at
tend the G.. A. r. reunion aud
visit friends.
Master Guy Stafford started
for st. Paul Tuesday morning,
where he expects to remain for
a couple of months, intending
to receive instruction in
music and painting during his
stay there
South Shore will celebrate the
glorious fourth. Geo. |. Case of
Watertown will be the speaker
Of the day, and horse races, BIZ
cycle and foot races have been
arranged for and the Woodmen
will give a ball in the evening.
Little Hazel Conright and her
nephew Kenneth took the train
Wednesday for Minneapolis,
under care of Mrs. J. ?. Jones.
Miss Hazel intends to make a
visit of a month Or two with her
brother Elmer, and Kenneth
will remain with his father.
The old settlers held their
annual picnic at the court house
Wednesday. The threatening
weather undoubtedly kept a
number away, but as it was an
excellent dinner and a good
social time was had by those
attending.
For Chautauqua programs call at
this office: send some to your friends
and let them know the good things
they can see, hear, and partake of
at Big Stone Lake this year.
Will Rodgers and family re-
turned from their Milwaukee visit
last week and after stopping a
day or two with Milbank friends
left for their home at Monte
video. Mr.. Rodgers has SO far
recovered his health that he
will resume his work on the rail
road this week.
The young man Kaufman from
Vernon township, who was sent
to the Yankton asylum and after
being cared for there improved
somuch as to be discharged again
became troublesome during
the week, and the board of in
sanity has been again called on
his case and are awaiting an
attendant from the asylum to
take him to Yankt ~.
Y Tuesday evening about dusk,
one of the hanging lamps in Mel
son drug store, which had not
been provided with a cap, burned
a hole in the ceiling and fell to
the window. Some of the oil
from the lamp caught fire and
for a moment or two it looked as
if there might be a confagration
Mr.. Nelson, who was in the store
at the time quickly secured a
quilt from an adjoining room and
soon had the flames smothered.
The alarm was sounded and the
hose carts started from the en-
CINE house before it was known
that the fire had been checked
in its incipiency.
Lindquist & johnson, the
machine men yesterday steamed
up their % horse power Nichols 4
Shepard traction engine and
attached it to the new Austin
road grader No. recently pur-
chased by the city, and gave it
a trial on the road southwest of
town. It was a novel sight to
see steam power at work on the
roads, but the work was done
satisfactorily and without the
straining on horsefesh usually
incident to grading. Undoubted-
ly there are a great many places
where steam can be used to bet
ter advantage than horsepower
in grading work.
A trip down the Jim river
valley from Aberdeen to Yank,
ton, which the editor enjoyed
last week, shows that valley to
be in better condition than it
has been for many years before.
The crops were looking fine,
due to an abundance Of rain,
and the many signs Of improve.
ment in the farm properties
along the line of the railroad in
dicate that a change for the
better has been going on IN the
the Jim river country, and the
large herds of cattle and t1ocks
of sheep point to the cause Of the
improved conditions, showing
that the people Of that section by
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