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

of Chicago.
Hawes Supply House has
something to say in regard to
ranges in another column Read
| it.
0. H. Bauman yesterday sold
his stock of harness goods to
G. A. Kern and has gone out of
| business.
G. H. Schumacher was called
to Edmunds county the first of
the week by the serious illness
of his father.
Mrs. Mary Conright returned
from the cities Wednesday,
where she purchased a large
stock of fall millinery.
The local dramatic club are
rehearsing for a pres entation of
the play "Tony, the Convict, "
about the last of the month.
Mrs. w. McCann, &C. Morton
and Mrs. Miller were called to
Montevideo the first of the week
by the death of their mother.
H. J. Benedict, who recently
purchased the L. D. Parker
house on Fourth street, has
leased the same to Mr.. Lamme ell.
j. B. Stone was enjoying a Wis
it yesterday from Louis NARROW.
interpreter at Sisseton agency,
on his way home from the U. S.
court at Deadwood.
The W. G. T. U. had the pleas.
ure of listening to a. very inter
esting lecture by Miss Wint.
ringer last Friday afternoon at
the Congregational church.
l.. D. Parker and wife left for
Iowa Wednesday, where they
will visit with friends for short
time, and will then go to Wash.
ington state to make their home.
G.. F. Jewell, the new
merchant has moved his family
over from Watertown this week
and occupies the house on the
corner of First street and Third
avenue.
Miss Emily Pattwell employed
by Stone & Sullivan as trim mer
in the millinery depar TIM ent has
returned from Chicago and the
cities, where she has been study.
ing the latest styles in millinery.
A carload of fine pianos, di.
rect from the factory of the
w. w. Kim ball Co., Chicago, has
arrived and will be sold at fac
tory prices, until next Tuesday.
Those who are interested leave
word at the City hotel.
G. j. WAX, Representative.
VIM. Habein, one of the old
settlers in Big Stone township
who lives four and a half miles
southwest of Big Stone City, will
have an auction sale at the farm,
commencing at l o'clock p. m :,
next Monday, September Is.
The peronal property offered
for sale will consist of farming
machinery of nearly all kinds,
live stock and household fur
niture.
Thos Fitch returned home last
week from a reunion of his old
regiment, the Second Minnesota,
at St Paul. He reports that
there were about 80 members of
the regiment present, and some
of the comrades had not m ct since
the war. One of the features of
the reunion was an address by
Ex. Gov. Ramsey, who is over
80 years of age and the only one
of the war governors still living.
Louis Hebert, who went to
Lisbon, N. D., last week, re-
turned here Wednesday to get
his family and take them to
their new home, which he in
tends to do next Monday. Louis
is running a billiard hall and
confectionery store and says
that he has q fine business, Lis
bon being a town about as large
as Milbank, q good business
point, and we'll provided with
churches and schools and is the
location of the soldiers home in
North Dakota.
A prairie fire Wednesday af.
ternoon destroyed four stacks
of hay on farm owned by the
Farme bank half way between
here and Big Stone. Jas. Kerr,
the oil man, discovered the fire
when on the way to Milbank,
and with the aid of a nun Der of
railroad men and farmers near
by they kept the fire from
spreading to adjacent places
where there was considera BILE
wheat in stack, It is supposed