The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1900-05-18
Wood Bros. advertise pastur-

Inc ladles aid society will meet
with Mrs. j. D. Smull Thursday
afternoon, May "a.
Special meeting Of Esther
Chapter q. E. S. Tuesday even
ing. Every mem Der earnestly
requested to be present.
Miss Anna Osmundson of Ap-
pleton, sister of Mrs. Fred Lind
quist, is visiting the latter in
this city.
Mrs. NJ. H. Wiseman left
Wednesday for a visit in the
cities and at other Minnesota
points.
Mrs. T. L. Bouck was called to
Luvern, Mimi, Monday, by the
intelligence of the serious illness
of her father.
Ed. Knowlton, of Brown county,
who was a resident of Grant
county in an early day, was in
town renewing old acquaintances
Wednesday.
Mr.. 1. D. Aldrich received
word from Mrs. Aldrich at Lake
Mills, Wis, Saturday, that her
mother died that morning at her
home there.
Work was commenced the first
of the week on the excavations
for the buildings on the Burk
hardt and Mehegan & Fairchild
lots in the the recent fire area.
Messrs. Wood Bros. started
out a train of an even dozen
teams in one lot last Monday,
loaded with lumber for a farm
building some fourteen miles
north in Roberts county.
Charles Layman, who has been
spending the past winter at his
home in Iowa and at other points,
returned Monday, aud has again
resumed his position as clerk
in the Johnson & Co. Clothing
House.
E. A. Norton has purchased
the livery barn formerly occu-
pied by Fred Fitch, and will carry
on the livery business there.
Mr.. Fitch has leased the Union
hotel stables and will conduct his
business at that place.
Mr.. J. D. Burkhardt, repre-
senting Sylvan lodge, |. 0. Q. F.,
and Mrs. G. S. Rix and Mrs. S.
M. Pasco, from Harmony Rebek-
ah lodge have been at Mitchell
this week attending the grand
lodge and Rebekah assembly.
County Judge Owen calls at
tention in another column to the
fact that parties desiring to
prove up on their homesteads in
Grant county may make final
proof before the county Judge,
and solicits a share Of that busi-
ness.
Rev. J. w. P. Jordan, Of Water
town, died in that city last week.
aged so years. Deceased had
been in ministerial work for for
ty years. He was father of Rev.
w. H. Jordan, a former pastor Of
the Methodist church Of this
city, now of Sioux Falls.
D. F. Sanders, of Blooming
Valley, was in town Wednesday,
and like the -est Of the reserva
ton people he was feeling ex-
tremely good over the passage
of the free homes bill, which
means the saving Of a nice little
nest egg for the settlers on the
reservation.
All who are to attend the grad
uating exercises Thursday even
ing, next week, are asked to be on
time, 7:3O. The train will not
wait for anybody. Buy your
tickets at the post office and be
ready to get a good seat. The
front gate at the Congregational
Church will open at ZOO o'clock.
Mr.. J. A. Rickert, the Roberts
county treasurer and Harry
Morris, of Slsseton were in town
yesterday on their way to the
cities. Mr.. Morris, who is cous-
in of Mr.. John Burgan, was &C.
companied by his wife, and they
were enjoying the time with the
Burgan family while waiting for
the east bound train. They were
going to their old home at Roch-
ester, Mimi, for a visit.
Some one has been putting out
poison for dogs, and a number Of
the animals have secured a dose
of it, among these being J. G.
Elliot's bird dog, Cap, who was
lc,r,o+ ho0k from tho iauS Of