The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1899-04-14
You will find excellent cedar
posts at Wood Bros.

100 bushels of choice tim be
seed wheat from northern Min
neSSOta, for sale at Wood Bros
Mr.. l.. c. Proctor of Stillwatel
has been in Milbank during tn,
$ week on court matters.
W. G, Kruger has recently pur
chased the dwelling house ad Join
ing the Union hotel, of Mrs. j
Walsh.
The postponed meeting of the
ladies aid society will meet with
Mrs. j. Q. Thayer Thursday
afternoon April 90.
Mr.. Burt Lundberg has pur.
chased the barber shop of Mr..
Goldsmith. and will carry on the
business as proprietor.
The Hicks Bros, Robert and
w. G.. have made arrangements
to handle the Plano machinery,
for which M. S. Kelsey was agent
last year.
n. j. Bleser was at Aberdeen
attending the meetingof the state
board ofpharmacy, of which he is
a member, the first Of the week.
Mr.. Ray Bailey was examined by
the board and passed as regis
tered pharmacist.
There are men to whom the
office of mayor would meana sac
ritice, but to one who can pull out
Of the city treasury something
over $3.50 in two years for his
personal business, it would not
appear to be much of sacrifice.
Under the auspices of A. O. q.
W. on Thursday evening April
Goth the Watson Grand Concert
Company will appear at the opera
house. They come highly re
commended to US and will give
the people of Milbank rich
musical treat.
The following attorneys from
abroad have been in attendance
upon the court there this week:
G. H. Dillon, Yankton; Pierce
Butler, st. Paul; p. E. O'Conner,
Appleton; J. J Batterton, Will
mot; Thos. Grant, H. S. Pease,
E. M. Bennett and Howard Bah
cock, Sisseton: E. T. Taubman
and H. H. Potter, Aberdeen; J.
H. Mccoy, Webster; A. w.
Movius and F. f. Moore, Big
Stone City: Ray G. Harrington.
Ortonville; and d. G. Thomas,
WatertoWn
Mr.. Clayton Harrington Of
Ortonville and Aug. Timme, of
Big Stonetownship, have been ex
hibiting the Cyclone wire fence
and machine for building same
The latter is an ingenious con
trivance for stretching the wires
and putting them in proper
place rapidly and securely. The
fence can be built of many differ
ent designs with the wires close
or wide apart, and presents a i
and substantial APP
pearance. Mr.. Harrington is
general agent for some thirty
counties in Minnesota and Oak
ota, and Mr. Timme is agent for
Grant county. Any one intend
ing to do any fencing should not
fail to investigate the Cyclone
The friends of the HERALD
are kindly requested to
bear ia mind that the mayor has
the naming of the official papers.
Up to the election of Mr.. Volk-
mar two years ago it had been
the established custom to give
both Of the city papers this rec
ognition regardless of their po-
litical views or differences on To-
cal matters. Thus all notices
were published in both papers
at half the regular charges, each
paper doing the work and getting
half legal rates for the same.
Mr.. Volkmar, in the largeness of
his heart and the smallness Of
his intellect refused to follow the
custom and nominate the HERALD
ADVANCE, and as a consequence
all Off ficial matters were publish
ed in one paper only but at the
same price which was charged
when the matters had the bene-
fit Of publication in both papers.
AS consequence of this grand
display of business tact on the
part Of the mayor the city's
bill which formerly
ran from $50 to 800 year, di-
vided among both papers, sud
denly jumped up to nearly four