The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1901-08-02
The family Of Gus Mittelstead
are visiting friends at Clear Lake.


Fred Schneider, who has been
spending couple of weeks al
the old home in Iowa, returned
to Milbank Tuesday.
f. M. Dolan, park contractor
from ST. Paul. was in town
Wednesday to see the site Of the
recently acquired city park.
AS will be noticed by advertise.
ment DR.. Daniels has lost his
liver colored pointer pup and
offers reward for It's return.
Aberdeen News: Mrs. G.. A.
Crane Went to Milbank today
TUESDAY for IL visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Slifer.
Mrs. M. L. Ecker will enter
tain the members and friends of
the ladies aid society next Thurs
day afternoon at a thin BILE bee.
j. D. Burkhardt has put in a
new cleaning apparatus in his
corn grinder, which Sits cobs
and other foreign matter from
the corn.
DR.. Brokaw, the Eye Special
lst and Opticlan, will be at Mil
bank, Sept. II. Have your
eyes treated by him. Remember
the date.
Mrs. John Berquist, sister.in-
law of Mrs. Emil Johnson, is
making a visit to Milbank friends.
She is accompanied by her little
daughter.
Thomas Meehegan returned
the first of the week from Min
neapolis, where he had been to
receive medical treatment. He
IS still quite weak.
Quite a number Of threshing
machines have started to work
this week, and they will soon be
setting the crop estimators in
the background by telling true
story.
Charles Reed, agent Of the st.
PaulDispatch, has been going over
the new rural delivery routes,
disposing Of mail boxes, and Sc.
curing subscriptions to the Daily
Dispatch.
Miss Madge Kelly, Of Aber-
deen, who had been spending a
short time in the city, the guest
of Mrs. E. p. Mesmer and Mrs.
B. D. Gamble, returned home
yesterday afternoon.
f. B. Roberts returned last
week from a trip to eastern
Washington, where his father
and brothers are located, and
George Middlebrook and family
are taking vacation by enjoying
q visit to friends in Wisconsin.
D. L. Green, of Forest City,
S. D., is here visiting with his
daughter, Mrs. w. E. Rhodes.
Mr.. Green has position at the
Cheyenne Indian agency which
is located on the opposite side of
the Missouri river from Forest
City.
One Of the results Of the recent
drouth was that after the rain
came the new potatoes in ground
We're found to be sprouting.
Mr.. H. J. Benedict made the
discovery this week, and i'm
mediately set to work and dug
ali the potatoes j the garden to
save them. 7 would be vel! for
those having i field of potatoes
to examine them and see if they
are growing out.
John Burgan received the first
load Of new wheat yesterday. 1t
came from the farm of J. H.
King, and graded No. 2. Mr..
Burgan has been making some
important changes and improve
ments in his elevator, having
sold his engine to w. Let's and
will replace it with a new ten
horse power engine. He is also
putting in flax bin and elevator
for the better handling Of fax.
Chas. Speiring, who lives about
II miles southeast, on what is
known as the Elmer Aldrich
farm, met with with a loss by
fire Monday night. He was
awakened between 10 and IL
o'clock by the hired man who
had been sleeping in the barn,
calling to him that the barn was
on fire. Besides the building, all
of his harnesses, several tons OF
hay and about $50 bushels of oats
were burned. Mr.. Speiring
estimates his loss at 800. He
can account for the fire in no
other way than that it was set by