The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-09-12
MlLBANK, S. D., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER r. 1902

Preaching services next Sun
day at 200 o'clock at Corona in
Ehrls Hall.
The Mccormick Corn Binder
cuts short corn, long corn or
anything in the shape of corn.
The First State bank is putting
in a new and very handsome
front of red brick, and stone in
their bank building.
Mr.. F.. L. Buttrick was called
to Vinton, Iowa, the first of the
week by the serious illness of
his mother who is expected to
live but short time.
Miss Jennie Johnson who
had been home spending the
summervacation, has returned to
ST. Peter, MINI, to resume her
studies at Gustavus Adolphus
college.
The Pew Implement Co. have
just received car of fine bug
gies which they want to show
any one thinking of getting a
buggy. They are of the latest
styles and makes.
The father and mouher of Rev.
b. Fem Lyman, who had been
spending some of the summer
days with their son in Milbank,
returned to their home at
Armour the first of the week.
Miss Wintringer, of the W.
G. T. u, organized the Junior
League into Loyal Temperance
League last Sunday, that the
little folks may have systematic
training along the temperance
line.
George Monette is advertising
an auction sale of live stock and
farm machinery at his farm just
south of the poor farm on
Wednesday, September II. He
has lot Of stuff which will have
to be sold off.
A. Ainsworth, the piano man,
has made arrangements to take
out the partition separating his
room from the parlor of Eddy's
gallery, and make it into a music
room with a supply of musical
goods which Mr.. Eddy will
handle.
The railroad company is
putting in a waterm main for a
standpipe just east of the depot,
so that locomotives from the
west may receive water while
baggage and express are being
unloaded. Heretofore the trains
have had to stop for water and
again at the depot, thus losing
considerable time.
AS will be seen by advertise
ment in another column, 0. M.
Pease, of the Cable Piano COM
pany is about to establish a mus
ic house in Milbank. Mr.. Pease
was formerly of Watertown, but
recently has been travelling for
the Cable company. He intends
to make his home in Milbank,
and will make this headquarters
for a music trade with surround
ing towns.
George Merry returned home
from a visit to his farming prop
critics in Minnesota and Iowa
the first of the week. In the
locality where he was in thelatter
state, corn, which is the principal
crop, was not at all satisfactory,
having been retarded by con-
tinuous rains at the wrong time.
Iowa is generally conceded to be
one of the best agricultural
states in the union. but even
there the farmer has his dis
appointments, and this year the
Iowa farmer can be pardoned
for looking over into Dakota
with some degree of envy. Ger
tainly the Dakota farmer can
feel that he is not in the worst
place in the world.
Fred Mears, who was formerly
in the Wagner mill, but of late
has been in the mining regions
of the Pacific coast, returned
east a week or SO ago, and pur.
chasing an automobile he started
to make the trip from Minneap'
oils to Milbank with. his new
roadster. He met with several
mishaps, butby perseverance, and
patience he was seemingly about
to overcome every difficulty,
and was running along over bad
roads in the dark, when the auto
plunged over an embankment
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