The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1901-11-01
Dwelling houses are in great demand

has been dedicated at Onida
A new hotel has been opened at
scotland by Alois T~rutnovsky.
Forty-seven car loads of cattle were
shipped from Alpena in one week.
The telephone line has been extended
from Mound City to Artas, a new town
In Mcpherson county
The new gas plant at Egan is near
ing completion, and in a short time the
town will be we'll lighted.
Never before in the history of Alpe-
nj have SO many men been at work on
putlc improvements as at present.
At Bismarck some Of the property
owners want to build sidewalks wider
than the ordinance requires. In Fargo
1t is difficult to get them wide enough
for the fellows who return from Moor
head.
The 500 road has been extended to
within twenty miles of Fort Yates.
This Will cause a change in The stage
and freight routes, and the 500 will get
the business formerly lone through
Winona, E.mmons county.
j. S. Mueller has resigned his posi-
ton in the Hutchinson County bank
at ParkstOn. and is said to have pur-
chased the interest Of Christian Rem
pier in the business of Rempfer &
Doering at that place.
For the first time in the history of
the state university it's college paper,
the Volante, appears as a weekly. It
is a bright, newsy sheet, and contains
as many columns every week as half
the weeklies in the state.
The building at the Sisseton agency
known as Indian police headquarters,
a landmark, was burned to the ground
recently. The fire started from a cigar
stub. David Faribault, an Indiany lost
his barn and a horse by the fire.
Andreas Wollman, a Hutchinson
county farmer, has reason to c~ongratu-
late himself. He has just completed
threshing 2,70o bushels of wheat, and,
in addition to this, has nearly 5000
bushels of old wheat In his granary.
r.. Collins of FRANKLIN township,
Brown county, declares that 81, 900 in
value has been added to the 4S0-acre
farm of Collins Bros. within the past
two weeks by the drilling of an arte-
sian well costing but half that sum.
Applicants for appointment to the
position of messenger at the United
States wealth bureau at Huron will
be examined there by a representative
Of the civil service commission Nov.
10. There are six applications now on
file.
Elmer Stevenson, a postal clerk hv-
ing at Redfield, at the request of the
Canadian government, has departed for
Ottawa to explain to the postal author
tiles of Canada an ingenious device re-
Gently patented by him for locking
mail pouches.
w. A. Pinkerton's general store, at
Worthwhile, burned. with it's contents.
Loss, $40, 900; insurance, $500. The
building was owned by the A. o. U. W.
the upper story being used as a lodge
room. 1t was insured for 1880. The
origin of the fire is a mystery.
The Union hotel at Estelline, which
has been run by Mr.. and Mrs. T.. -.
Kean for many years, is soon to change
hands. The property has been bought
by w. S. Carpenter, who, in turn, has
leased it to A. II. Nickerson OF Tracy,
Mimi, who will conduct it in person.
Some of the Sisseton Indians who
visit n~eighbOring towns are making
themselves very obnoxious. They are
in the habit of taking teams
that are tied to httching posts, without
permission and driving home with
them, in order to save themselves a
walk.
Commandant Lucas, of the State Sol
diers' home at Hot Springs, a snort
time ago, applied for two steel rlt1e
Parrot cannon. They have arrived
fl ON the arsenal at Rock Island. me
two guns. with their carriages, weigh
49, 500 pounds. and have been placed III
front of the home.
David Riley Of B~ridgewater is some
thing OF a Jonah. He started for a
dance, and while en- route his horse
got caught and badly cut in a barbed
wire fence. Next ne lost his pocket
hook through a hole in his pocket, ana
then somebody who wanted a good nat
took his new one and left him a ragged
one which was several sizes too small.
supt. Hill, of the Bookings school,
has ~inaugurated a fire drill In the
school and the purils have been put
through the exercises three or -FOUR
times. At first the fire alarm frigh-
cred a good many. and the exercises
were C0GI L llLCu w 'oh'S
hit at the last trial the building Was
enptied in about two minutes.
The only rural mail delivery route
established from points in the southern
part of Union county runs southwest
from Elk Point; hut thus far no one
has been found who is willing to unoer-
take the work of distributing the mail.
In some portions Of the year two teams
and a beat would be necessary to make
the trip. ,r
Gabriel Het1and last spring pur-
chased forty acres of school land neal
Oulham, paying SIS per acre for II. He
raised flax on the land, and the crop on
the forty acres brought s676, or S'
more than he paid for the land.
Rev. A. E. Cahart of Mitchell IS to
! take charge of the Methodist church al
!, Platte. Mr.. Cahart has been out OF .he
!, ministry for several yeas, CURING
: which he has been associated with the
%anti-saloon league work of the state
1 The next annual meeting OF the
South Dakota Dairy and Buttermakers