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

SACN ~ k)ou.
Great bargains in Clothing
aud shoes at Mittelstaedt's S.
Williams & Reeves the live
stock men shipped two cars of
cattle and hogs Tuesday.
A. P. Lindquist, the real estate
man has a few good quarter sec
tions for sale cheap and on easy
terms.
The Misses Funk will open a
millinery shop in the spring, in
connection with their dress
making establishment.
Call at Lindquist & Johnson s
machine house and examine the
Fountain City Shoe Drill It will
pay you to get one of these ma
chimes.
Aberdeen people are feeling
elated over the passage Of the
bill by congress appropriating
s87, 900 for a public building in
in that city.
Sheriff Jennings and wife are
enjoying a visit from their daugh-
ter Mrs. Phinn who arrived from
her home at Superior, Wis, on
Tuesday. ...-
n. l. Lowthian received word
last week that a brother near
London Ont, was in dying con
dition and he left for the east last
Sunday.
Messrs. Stone & Sullivan are
repapering the walls and ceiling
Of their large store, and are push
ing the work in order to get it
completed before placing their
spring stock in place.
John Burgan received word
Tuesday that his father, who liv-
es at Pleasant Grove, Olmstead
county, Mimi, was on his death
bed. The gentleman is rs years
old and has had several strokes
Of paralysis and has been quite
feeble for number of years.
Owing to the fact that March
8th is the regular date for the
meeting of the farmers institute,
the old settlers meeting which
had been advertised for that
date has been postponed one
week or to March 18th, when all
old settlers and others are invit-
ed to be present.
Messrs. Z. Craigo and A. S.
Douglass of Monroe, Wis, were
in town Monday on their way
home from a visit to Roberts
county. and were guests of the
@. E. S. chapter in the evening
while awaiting the east bound
train.
A large party Of the old sol
diers and their wives and other
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. A. L.
Abbott took Monday night for a
surprise on that worthy couple,
and came in upon them at their
home without warning. A jolly
time was had and refreshments
were served and added to the
pleasures Of the evening.
Mr.. Leslie Shaw, Of Lacrosse,
brother of Mrs. Thos. Fitch, who
has been on a visit to the latter
for a mum ber of weeks, returned
east last Saturday, intending to
spend a short time with friends
in Minneapolis before returning
to Lacrosse. Mr.. Shaw who is
a conductor on the G. M. & st. p.
road, lost one Of his limbs in a
railroad accident, last fall, but is
now steadily recuperating from
this serious misfortune.
The adjuster of German Amer
lean insurance company was in
town the first of the week look
ing up the matter Of the recent
saloon fire at Twin Brooks. It
appears that there was an insur-
ance Of $1,000 upon the building,
$500 upon the stock and 5000 up
on the furniture, all of which
was placed but a week or two be-
fore. We understand that the
insurance was placed by theagent
of the company at Summit after
the Milbank agents had refused
to write the insurance.
Frank Kottwilz, who was sent
to the Sioux Falls penitentiary
some three years ago, under a
sentence ofeight years for brutal
~ kicking his wife while he was
in a drunken frenzy and from the
effects Of which she died, is en-
deavoring to secure a pardon, and
is appealing to acquaintances to
secure apetition for that purpose
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