The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-01-31
Rip Van Winkle wakes up at
the opera house tonight.


The monthly social of the junior
league will be held at the home
of Miss Minnie Seide on Saturday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The mems Sunday afternoon
N Getting at the library will be in
charge of Mr.. Brockman. Men,
young and old are cordially in
vited.
Editor Volkm ar is enjoying the
meeting of the state press asso
citation this week, while Mrs.
Volkma goes for a visit to Owa
tonna, and Miss Addie Volkmar
has gone to Alabama to spend
the winter.
A number of the friends of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Johnson
surprised that worthy gentleman
last Friday evening, the occasion
being Mr.. Johnson's 65th birth
day. Refreshments were served
and good time was had.
The fine residence of James
Gold at Big Stone City was de-
stroyed by fire last Sunday.
The fire caught from the furnace,
it is supposed from overheating,
at about the noon hour. Nearly
all of the contents of the house
were saved
Mr. and Mrs. George Schafer,
Pwho took their infant SON to
Minneapolis last week for a
necessary surgical operation,
sent word to their friends on
Saturday that the child died. The
little fellow lived for six days
after the operation, and so well
did he seem to withstand the
operation that both thephysicians
and the parents were led to be
hopeful of good results until but
a short time before the child's
death.
VIM. Booth sold his residence
property to Mr.. Parker this
week, and Mr.. Booth and wife
and little son took their departure
Wednes day night for the east, as
they intend to make their home
for time at least at Flodden, in
the Province of Quebec Mr..
Booth has not fully recovered
from an attack of typhoid fever
from which he was laid up last
fall, the disease leaving him
lame in one of his limbs. Mr.
Booths Milbank friends wish
for him a speedy regaining OF
his health and hope to see him
again in Dakota.
The Milbank chapter r. A.
NJ. last Monday evening con-
ferred the royal arch degree up.
on a team and the event attracted
a numb Der of masons from Orion
vile and Wilmot. Those present
from the former place were John
Keefe, Elmer Morrill,, Hayden
French, Fl. L. Zweiner, John
Crippen. John Mitchell, May
nard FELTON, and Sam. Ewers.
Messrs. L. S. Perkins, Ed. Cook,
D. S. Cable, L. V. Peek, G E.
MCGOWAN and Geo. Stearns
were down from Wilmot. The
visitors complimented the Mil
bank chapter on the excellent
manner in which it conferred
the degree.
Mack, 'The Boy Wonder the
marvel of the century who up to
the present time has inystitied
the medical and scientific fra
ternities of Europe and America
has been secured for an appear
ance in the Milbank opera house,
on Monday, Feb. 3; he seems
from the very nature of his
peculiar powers to prove an ex-
traordinary attraction for local
theater patrons. A strong sup
porting cast accompanies Mr..
Mack, which makes this en-
gagement one of unusual promise
Among some of the more i'm
portant continental cities and
places of amusement in which
Master Mack, "TheBoy Wonder
has appeared are the Tivola,
Oxford and SALISBURY, London,
and for the Lyric Club at the
Palace before Lord and Lady
Lonsdale. The Star and Empire
Liverpool. The Witergartens,
Berlin, during which engagement
he was subjected to an examina-
ton and test before Virchow,
Dean of the University of Berlin.
The Folies Bergere, Paris,
France. The American tour has
embraced among others the
following cities: New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Providence,
Baltimore, Norfolk. Pitsburg,
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