The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-26

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Miss Ella Bleser, who is a
student at the Winona normal. is
home to spend the Christmas
vacation.
q. W. Prevey of the Granger
Business college at Aberdeen
came home the first of the week
to spend the Christmas HOLIDAYS.
The Evangelical Mutual In.
surance company are presenting
their members and patrons with
a very beautiful calendar this
year.
Esther, the little daughter of
William Magoon, has been quite
Ill with eumonia during the
week, but we unders tand is now
improving.
Miss Jennie Johnson, who has
been attending the Gustavus
Adolphus college at st. Peter,
Mimi, came home this week to
spend the holidays.
Schafer Bros. have a halibut
lying on their fish stand. The
fish weighs between 60 and 75lbs.
and is a curiosity to those not
familiar with ocean fish.
Prof. Clark and Miss Reinert.
of the city schools have gone to
their homes to spend their va,
cation, tie former, to Brule
county and the latter to eastern
Minnesota.
viii Mcpherson has gone to
Red Cloud, Neb., to spend the
holidays. 1t is said that Will
thinks Red Cloud particularly
attractive place to make visit,
because of a certain intimate ac-
quain tance he has there.
D B. Nichols and wife lett for
a visit to the old hom e in Goodhue
county. Mr.. Nichols has been
back there but once since he left,
nineteen years ago. He expects
to spend most of the winter
among old friends in Eastern
Minnesota.
Geo. Cline, the land man, re-
turned last Friday from a stay
of several weeks in Iowa. He
says that many of the cattle
feeders where he was are losing
money this year owing to the
poor quality of the corn and the
high price it commands.
J. H. Kinch left a week ago
last Monday for the Canadian
northwest, where he has pur.
chased land, and where he had
started for last fall when he had
the misfortune to lose his house
hold goods and other chattels by
the burning of the car while on
the track at Odessa.
Henry Krouse, who is located
on the VIM. Raebel farm in the
vicinity of Corona, was in town
the. first of the week. Mr..
Krouse came out from Illinois q
couple of years ago and thinks
South Dakota is all right. He
has the HERALD-ADvANCE sent
to his friends in Illinois.
Among the passengers who
were snowbound in Milbank
Wednesday were W. w. Cheat.
ham and wife. Mr.. Cheatham
is one of the proprietors of the
Wilkin County Gazette, of Breck-
enridge, MINI, and he was on
his way to Aberdeen to spend
Christmas with his parents, and
was greatly disappointed by the
snow blockade.
The storm the firstofthe week
was a bad thing for the local
holiday trade, cutting off the
country people from coming in
to dc their usual Christmas buy
ing. While many of these were
forehanded enough to secure
their purchases early, those who
left the matter until the day be.
fore Christmas were unable to
get in, and this consequently
decreased what would have been
an enormously large Christmas
trade this year.
Mr.. J. G. Wood is making ar
rangements to start on a winter
excursion to the West India
islands. He will be accompanied
by his son George and will leave
here January 1st and take the
steamer at New York January
IA, spending a short time with
friends at Niagara Falls and in
New York city before embark
ing. The excursion will visit
different points in Cuba and