The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1899-03-24

You will find excellent cedar
posts at Wood Bros.
| Forty cents paid for potatoes
at Mittelsteadt's.
| The best gasoline stoves at
Wood Bros.
Do not build until you consult
! Cleveland & Son.
Great bargains in Clothing
and shoes at Mittelstaedt's.
A large invoice of Mexican
drawn work at the ladies aid So
ciety sale.
Cleveland & Son, the building
contractors, can give you time if
desired.
H. L. Squires carries Alfred
Peats prize wall paper 100 samp-
le to select from.
Lindquist & Johnson have re-
ceived car load of the famous
Fountain City Shoe Drills, the
best drill manufactured.
Mr.. G. W. Merry returned
last week from his trip to Iowa.
where he had gone to look after
his farm interests.
A grand ball will be given at
the opera house Tuesday even
ing, April 4, under the auspices
of the Milbank G. A. r. Band
Tickets so cents.
Miss Nuna R. Shannon will
open her new line of Millinery in
the Poppe drug store this spring.
Ladies are cordially invited to
call and inspect.
James Watson has purchased
the dwelling property on Fourth
street now occupied by VIM. NAL
let, on the northwest corner of
Fourth street and Fifth avenue.
The ladies of the M. E. aid So
ciety will hold their Easter sale
in Wood Bros. glass block Fri
day afternoon and evening,
March 81.
Miss Nuna Shannon is open
ing her millinery business in the
Poppe store and has engaged
her former trimmer, Miss Julia
Osmond for the season.
Mr.. w. B. Hubbard, chairman
of the state Sunday school asso-
citation was in town last Friday,
in conference with Rev. Fitch on
matters relating to state and
county work.
The officers Of the milling com
pany that is to put the to15O bar
rel Touring mil in this city are G.
II. Wagner, of Minneapolis, presi
dent; L. H Bentley vice president
and attorney, Daniel Mclean,
secretary and treasurer.
At the state land sale last Mon
day George Barney acted as
auctioneer a nd conducted the
sale until the arrival of his chief
Mr.. Eastman who came down
from Roberts county in the after
noon. They went over to Water
town Wednesday to make the
sale Of Codington county lands.
The old Milbank house, situat-
ed on Main street between Hoch-
muth S store and the Molish res
taurant. and which has been
used as a hotel since the earliest
days, is being renovated and
and transformed into a store
building. The partitions are be
| ing taken down and a store front
will be put in.
Word was received the first of
the week by Roadmaster K. Mel
son that the wages of the track
men had been advanced to $1.25
! a day. The wage since 1893 has
been S1.10, it having been cut
down from the higher figures at
that time, when our revenue re
formers commenced to relieve
the overburdened workingman
of the tariff tax. It will be re-
membered how this patriotic ex-
pertinent resulted in the closing
up of factories and general par
alyzing of business conditions
over the entire country, and how
these same patriots who had been
shouting for free trade, as they
beheld the disasterous results OF
their theories put into practice,
suddenly turned round and de-
clared that the trouble with the
country was all owing to the gold
standard. Thanks to the good
sense of theAmerican people and
the craftsmanship of the repub'
lican party, the country is rapid
" getting back to its normal con