The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1901-09-27

Binding TWlne best adapted !
for binding corn.-Wood Bros. !
The w. G. r. U. will meet with
Mrs. G.. A. Wood on Thursday
Oct 3, at 3 p. m.
Services in Congregational
church next Sunday the Goth,
morning and evening.
Mrs. w. G. Mcpherson went
up to Summit last Friday to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Healy, in
Lura township.
The ladies benevolent society
will meet with Mrs. E. 2. Mes
mer, Thursday, October 3rd.
All members are requested to be
present.
f. A. Countryman of Water
town, who was one of Milbank S
society lights in the pioneer days,
was over shaking hands with old
friends yesterday. Countryman
like the rest Of us must be some
| what older than he was when a
resident of Milbank, but he still
sees the sunny side of the sky.
For a short time any of our
subscribers paying for the
HERALD ADVANCE for one year
in advance will be entitled to the
Dakota Farmer for 30 cents
additional or the two papers and
a wall map Of North and South
Dakota, for fifty 5Ol cents ad,
dition or S2 for the two papers
and the map.
l.. E. Morley, the well man,
has purchased the we'll boring
outfit of Wallace Leavitt. Mr..
Morley now has three machines,
and has AL the work he can do,
being kept constantly busy.
His experience in the business is
worth something to his patrons,
saving them trouble and
annoyance.
John Black Of Vernon brought
us in a fine ear Of corn as a
specimen Of the corn crop in a
dry year The ear measured 13
inches, and was nicely filled to
the end, hard and of nice quality.
! O. Cooley of Mazeppa township
also brought in an armful OF very
fine corn that was grown in the
hills, and it looked as nice as any
grown in the best Of years.
Thefamily of John Schuchardt,
living near the YellowbaEks in
Alban township, met with sad
misfortune Wednesday. The
mother had returned from a
Journey down in Minnesota,
where she had attended her own
mother 5 funeral. Being worn
out she had laid down to rest,
and while asleep, four year
old child, somehow got its cloth
ing atire from the stove, and the
lifeless body Of the child was
found il The yard a short time
after.
Prof. Burkhead has arranged
for series Of talks to the high
school pupils by citizens o
different callings ia life, the
subject appertaining to the
business or profession Of tht
party presenting it. These
talks will take place at tht
arhetoricals the last Friday O
| each month. Prof. Ramer has
the floor today on the subject O
"Persistency'' and he will b.
followed by some Of the dentists
, and doctors on the care of tn,
teeth, the body, and othe7
practical questions.
Elsewhere we publish the pro
gram Of the Methodist conference
! which will be held in Milbanl
the second week in October
: As will be seen several interest
ing lectures are scheduled TO
, the evenings during the week t
: which the people are cordial.
! invited. All of the meeting
, are public and free Of charge
, The various phases Of chufcl
? work which will be discusse,
should be of interest not only t
! Methodists but to the people Q
, other denominations, and to thos
, who are not affiliated in an,
. church work. During the wee
J there will be in our city betwee
two and three hundred visitors
! many of whom have never bee
! in Milbank or this part Of tn
. country before, and when the
> return to their homes their i'm
. pressions Of our town and peopl
will have been largely formed b
4 what they have seen and hear
! in our midst. Let us treat tn
!. nrnacherS white nv giving lher