The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1901-11-29

must go; hats at half price at
Stone & Sullivan's.
Mrs. A. G. Gilruth, of Water
town, has her little son at St.
Joseph hospital, St. Paul. for
a surgical operation.
John Young was made the
happy father of a bouncing boy
last Saturday, and can now
celebrate thanksgiving with an
additional thankfulness for a
son and heir.
e. S. Healy left Monday for a
trip to North Dakota, where he
goes to look over the country,
and will possibly run up to AL
berta. TO which place there is a
great immigration at present.
The ladies of the Episcopal
Guild will hold their annual sale
at Harmonic hall, afternoon and
evening, Wednesday, Dec. 18th,
1901. Supper from $50 until 8
O'Clock. They will have on sale
a variety of Christmas gifts.
Some miscreant during Thurs
day night broke the fine plate
glass in the north window Of the
Farley store front. 1t is a pity
that the party who would com nit
such an act of vandalism could
not be discovered and properly
dealt with.
Mr.. Len Williams, of Mime
apolis, came out last week, to
make some arrangements in his
farm interests. He stated that
Mrs. Williams had been quite ill
though now better, and that her
mother was quite feeble with her
cancer trouble.
Get a ticket for the fine musi-
cal entertainment at the opera
house next Tuesday evening.
You will get more than the worth
of your money and at the same
time assist in supporting a
worthy public enterprise-the
free reading room.
The militia boys of Co. K had.a
turkey shoot Thursday morning,
in which Charles Holmquist made
the highest score, securing %
out of a possible 25. Five or
six of the other boys also secured
a turkey apiece by getting a
score of Is or over.
Otto Rodman. of Stockholm,
who is in town serving his coun'
try as a juryman, is enthusiastic
over the Stockholm creamery,
and thinks it makes one of the
best showings in the state. The
report for August shows that
the creamery had So patrons,
that it received 1877, ,2O9 lbs. of
milk with a test Of 4 per cent aud
the patrons received SOC per 100
lbs, or 1857. 80 for their milk.
Schafer Bros. have a turkey
hung up in the shop that weighs
35 lbs. dressed. The bird was
a Mammoth Bronze, raised by
Frank Hoyt and was about two
years old. AS turkey will
grow until four years of age, it
is horrible to contemplate
the weight this fellow might
have attained had he not been
cut off in the prime of his grow
ing age and while life was a
splendid gobble to him. This
heavy weight will end his career
on the tables of Weddell's
restaurant.
The local camp of Modern
Woodmen held a very pleasing
celebration Thursday evening,
when the hall was specially
decorated for the occasion, and a
goodly attendance of neighbors
and their friends held a watch
fire. After an enjoyable pro-
gram, in which the team gave
some of it's drill work, and a
graphophone played an interest
ing part and a number OF fine
musical selections were rem
dered, the guests enjoyed an
oyster supper, and those so in
clined remained to dance into the
wee sma hours.
The old gray mare Bess, which
has lor so many years been
identified with the w. M. Thomas
establishment, met with an acci-
dent last week which destroyed
her usefulness. While she was
with the telephone gang about 25
miles south one of the men rode
her for a short distance when
she stumbled and broke her leg,
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