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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
Circuit Court

The fall term of the circuit
court was adjourned last Friday,
the short calendar having all
been disposed of at that time.
In the criminal cases Gust Paul
for selling liquor without a
license pleaded guilty and was
fined $50 and costs, and Hiram
Shuman for carrying concealed
weapons was fined 800 and given
20 days in Jail.
The civil cases not reported
last week were disposed of as
follows:
Theo. Hamnn Brewing Company vs.
P. e. E. Lee. Judgmentfor defendant.
John Bucknell VS. w. E. Raymond
ct al. Continued.
A. P. Lindquist VS. Charles Betcher
Land and Loan Co. Judgment for
plaintiff for $500.
August Paulson VS. Andrew Olson.
Judgment for plaintiff for S120 and
interest.
Charles A. Woodward VS. Emmett
S. McCollum. Action dismissed.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
Thanksgiving Proclamation

The season is at hand when,
according to the custom of our
people, it falls upon the pres
ident to appoint day of praise
and Thanksgiving to God.
During the past year our Lord
has dealt bountifully with US,
giving US peace at home and
abroad, and the chance for our
citizens to work for their welfare
unhindered by war, famine or
plague. 1t behooves US not only
to rejoice greatly because of
what has been given us, but to
accept it with a solemn sense of
responsibility, realizing that un-
der heaven it rests with US our
selves to show what we are
worth, TO use Alright what has
been entrusted to our care. In
no other place and in no other
time has the experiment of gov
ernment of the people, by the
people, for the people been tried
on SO vast scale as here in our
own country in the opening years
of the twentieth century. Fail
ure would not only be dreadful
thing for US, but a dreadful thing
for all mankind, because it would
mean loss of hope for all who
believe in the power and right
eousness of liberty. Therefore,
in thanking God for the mercies
extended to us in the past, we
beseech Him that He may not
withhold them in the future, and
that our hearts may be reused
to war steadfastly for good and
against all the forces of evil,
public and private. We pray
for strength and light, so that
in the coming years we may
with cleanliness, fearlessness
and wisdom do our allotted time
work on this earth in such q
manner as to show that we are
not altogether unworthy of the
blessings we have received.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore
Roosevelt, president of the Unit
ed States, do hereby designate
as day of general thanksgiving,
Thursday, the twenty sixth of
the coming November, and do
recommend that throughout the
land the people cease from
wonted occupations, and in their
several homes and places of
worship render thanks unto Al
mighty God for his manifold
mercies.
In witness whereof l have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States to
be affixed.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
BY the President. JOHN HAY,
Secretary of State.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

The remains Of the pterodactyl
and the populists can be found
in certain of the preglacial depos
it's of the west. The pterodactyl
was the connecting link between
the reptile and the bird. 1t was
Of gigantic stature and had a
great bill armed with sharp
teeth, quite resembling the croc-
odile, particularly adapted for
rending and tearing it's prey.
The remains of the populists
which have recently been un-
earthed indicate structure of
jaw more particularly adapted
for overcoming and stupefying
it's prey through the expulsion
of vast volumns of wind.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
The State Building

St Louis, Nov. 18.-S. w. Rus
sell, president of the South
Dakota World Fair commission,
w. B. Saunders, treasurer and
George r. Farmer, secretary Of
the commission: were at the
worlds fair grounds yesterday.
They were assigned a site for
the South Dakota building
adjacent to the Texas building.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
The Arm Shredder

Another victim of the hungry
corn shredder was brought in
for the surgeons to operate
on last week. Lester Lord, a
young man about 90 years of age,
was feeding the shredder on
A. M. Hagan's farm last Satur-
day when the machine teeth
caught his glove and pulled his
ar M in nearly to the elbow, las
cerating it in a terrible manner.
He was brought in to DR.. Fer
guson, who was compelled to
amputate the arm between the
elbow and shoulder. The young
man is getting along nicely since
the opel alton.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
School Notes

The enrolment of the high
school has increased to such an
extent that it was necessary to
rearrange the seats in rows and
put them closer together.
Dan Brown of Madison town
ship is a new scholar.
The teachers of the city schools
gave an informal reception for
Miss Jones Thursday evening of
last week at Professor Ramer S
home.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
SO. DAKOTA IRRIGATION
Delegation in Congress Looking
After States Interest in
TIM Usnn
the Matter

Washington, Nov. 17.-Today
the South Dakota delegation, on
the initiative of Representatives
Burke and Martin, will hold a
meeting with government Off
Gals with a view to having plans
perfected for irrigation work in
that state. It is understood that
all the necessary Withdrawals of
public land have already been
made at the suggestion of the
government engineers who spent
the summer looking over the
field, which will mean that oppor
tunities for land speculation will
be reduced to a minimum, and
that is what the government
wants. The places in the state
where irrigation work will prob
ably be done will not be disclosed
until after today's meeting and
perhaps not then, but it is under
stood the people of the state
have a good general knowledge
of where most of the available
projects should be located, and
where the engineers were at
work this year.
There is to be a concerted
movement on the part OF the
Dakotas and several other states
to secure a larger share of the
national irrigation fund than the
government, under the present
plan, seems disposed to allow
them, and to that end Senator
McCum Der has introduced a bill
providing that all money secured
from the sale of public lands, in
any irrigated state, shall 60 to
the credit of that state and not
be put into the general fund for
expenditure mostly anywhere.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
Advertised Letters

Letters remaining uncalled for in
Milbank postotfice, November 18, 1903.
Cunningham, Mike Monpleasure, Ren
Forney, G. dead letter. POmeroy, David
Hulwick, Mrs. Rufus Rech. Chas.
MscKay. A. Kenneth Sacrider Fred
In calling for any of the above
please say advertised" and give
date of advertisement. If not called
for in fifteen days will be sent to
the dead letter Office.
w. w. DOWNIE. p. NJ.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
WATER AND DRAINAGE
Citizens and the Commercial
Club Ask the City Council
to Provide the City with
these Utilities

these Utilities
A public meeting of the mem
bers of the Commercial club and
citizens was held at the club
rooms Wednesday evening. The
meeting was called to order by
President Bouck, and after the
minutes of previous meetings
had been read and approved, the
special committee on meeting
place made report that the rooms
in which the meeting was being
held had been engaged for SIS
month. The committee on fur.
niture had provided chairs and
table, but was yet unable to
make full report. The carnival
com mittee made report (the
substance of which was published
in the HERALD ADVANCE several
weeks ago) and upon motion a
vote of thanks was rendered the
com mittee for the able manner
in which the business had been
conducted and the success which
had attended their efforts in
making the carnival an affair of
which all citizens could be Justly
proud.
Presiden: Bouck stated that
the principal business for the
meeting which had been called
was to discuss the advisability
and desirability of the city estab-
fishing a drainage, sewerage and
water system. Several PROPOSE
tions have been advanced, among
them that of building sewer
along Main street and from the
St. Hubert to the Milestone, and
one for general system of
sewerage, for the residence as
well as the business part of the
town. Individual expressions
were elected from each one pres
ent, and an almost unanimous
desire was manifested for an
improved drainage system in
connection with water and sewer
age privileges. The condition of
the low places in town and the
fact that SO many of the cellars
have been overflowed with water
has been a source of i'll health as
we'll as a continual expense and
annoyance, and there was a con-
census of opinion that an effort
should be made to remedy the
evil, and if it was in the reason
able bounds Of the city's ability
a system of drainage and water
works should be provided.
After the proposition had been
talked over in a thorough but in
formal manner, motion was
made and carried that it was the
unanimous desire of those pres
ent that the city council take the
necessary measures to ascertain
the most feasible plan and prob.
able cost of a system of drainage
and water works. Upon a motion
also the chair appointed commit
tees from the east and west sides
of the town to circulate petition
to the city council embodying
the above, and present it to that
body. The president appointed
Messrs. Rix, Lockhart and Nee
han for the east side and Messrs
Jennings, Wood and Benedict
for the west side.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
hOME HAPPENINGS.

(jss Agnes Berquist has been
hiding the week with friends
Minneapolis.
lw. R. Strutz is organizing a
s in German, to which he will
lessons twice a week.
he ladies' aid society of the
E. church will give a chicken
supper on Thursday, Dec. 3.
Dr. Ferguson made a trip to
cities the first of the week,
turning home Wednes day
rning.
he mercury went down to the
omark last Tuesday morning,
it didn't warm up much
hing the day.
lave your eyes examined by
.G. W. Silcher, the optician,
Bleser's drug store, positive
tisfaction guaranteed.
Editor John Croal of Sisseton,
A. B. Kaercher of Ortonville,
Pre visiting their Milbank
bends over Sunday the past
|eek.
|Andover Gazette: Mr.. and
rs. ]. H. King of Milbank are
fiting at the home of Mrs. B.
Bailey. They will spend the
inter in California.
Mrs. W. w. Downie, who had
ben visiting friends in Mime
Polis and Morristown, Mimi,
"a week or SO past, returned
pme Wednesday morning.
The postoffice will be open
|Om 9 to 10 a. m. and from 5 to
p. m. on Thanksgiving day.
ne mails, both east and west
lll close at the usual hours.
The friends of Mr.. M. FL. Wise
an are pleased to see him look
3 SO we'll since his return from
le west, where he underwent t
operation for appendicitis.
Y. R. Antelman, the hardware
ID cutlery travelling man, was
eetlng his old friends and
'lghbors in Milbank Monday
nile making his usual canvass
Kev. Father Cleary, of Mime
OILS, is billed for a lecture at
e opera house under the
spices of the ladies altar
ccalety on Thursday, Decem Der
th.
halph Helms, who is stopping
a while at Morton, Mimi,
u who later intends to go tC
e,xlco, was up to his old home
Mllbank for a few days last
eek.
Inc board of county com mis-
pners have been holding an
'ea air session with the Cod
s1on county board, locating
: county line road between the
% counties.
Mr: L. M. Malsed. brother of
!. John Malsed, with his wife
= mother, from Watertown,
m'nn', m were visiting their rela
YES mere last week and enjoy
( Dakota ozone.
John Habien, who was one OF
9 early settlers in Grant coun.
/; spent Sunday with friends in
Is vicinity. He is travelling
an Illinois firm. He states
:, =, ms brother Will is doing
- IN business at Waseca
lnnesota.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
Art Exhibit and Christmas Sale

will have on exhibit and for sale at
my home, large assortment of hand
Scratchers, &c. The public is COR
daily invited to call and examine.
LAURA RODGERS.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20
For Over Sixty Years.

MRS. WINsLOW'S SOOTHING
SYRUP has been used for chill
dren teething. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays
all pain, cures wind collie, and is
the best remedy for Diarrhoea.
Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

Aug. Hovland, the Waubay
hardware man, was down at
Mllbank the first of the week.
Nels Paulson, one of the work
ers in the coal house, with two
brothers, left this week on a
visit to his old home in Sweden.
E. H. Benedict has been on the
sick list during the week, and
was compelled to leave his duties
at the bank for a short time one
day.
Mrs. j. Manning, of Mime
apolis, who had been visiting with
Milbank friends forseveral weeks
past, returned eastward Wednes-
day, expecting to make a short
visit at Appleton on her way.
Mrs. Eva Davidson, of Spring
field, the grand matron of the
o. E. S., will visit Esther chapter
of this city on next Monday
evening, when all members of
the order are requested to be
present.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Heagy
and H. f. Stevens and family
leave Twin Brooks today for
Washington state. Mr.. Stevens
goes with carload of goods by
freight, and Mr.. Heagy with the
families.
Rev. D. G. Hauk will commence
a series of revival meetings at
the Melrose school house where
he has been holding services.
The meetings will commence
Sunday night and continue dur
ing the week. All are invited to
attend.
A union thanksgiving service
will be held at the Congregation.
al church on Thursday of next
week, at 1O:45 a. m. Rev. S. A.
Chappell will preach the sermon,
and, as is customary, the contri-
button will be given to the sup
port of the children's home at
Sioux Falls.
The Red Wing Butter & Egg
Co. is paying the following prices
for live poultry this week: Tur-
keys 10 cents; Chickens Z cen is;
Hens 6 cents: Ducks Z cents;
Geese 6 cents. Bring in your
birds and take home nice barrel
of winter apples, they have the
best in town-don't 60 home
before seeing them at the Round
House.
P. M. Trowbridge started for
Idaho the first of the week. HIS
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Griggs,
Miss Ida Fink, merly of Big
Stone City, and Miss Manning,
who taught in the city schools
some years ago, have all taken
land claims in southern Idaho
and Mr.. Trowbridge is going
there to be with the young people
for time.
H. G.. Shober, formerly state
commissioner of insurance, and
who recently organized the Pub.
fishers Mutual Insurance com
pany, was in town few hours
Wednesday, while on his return
west from Sisseton and Wilmot
Mr.. Schober says that the new
mutual has already secured q
fine share of the insurance busi
ness, and their system of doing
business is proving extremely
satisfactory.
Mr.. Edgar Kelly, of Melrose
met with quite serious mishaT
last Saturday. While on q loaC
of corn fodder from the shredder
at the Kockx farm, his horses
started unexpectedly and he was
thrown from the wagon to tht
ground, falling on his back or
a hard ridge of ground. Th'
shock left him unconscious fo1
some time. When he came to h'
managed to get on the wagol
and drive home, when a physi
clan was sent for, and it wa:
learned that three of his ribs
were broken. We understand
that Mr.. Kelley is now gettin!
along nicely, but will be confined
to the house for some time.
The Arm shredder
Another victim of the hungr,
=. corn shredder was brought il
; for the surgeons to Operat
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-11-20

Prof B. O. Tankersley, of the
Henry schools, is publishing the
Henry Independent, formerly
conducted by Ben Bower.
H. G. Pew is advertising an
auction sale of farm implements,
buggles, surreys, binding twine
and other articles formerly in
the Pew Implement Co s stock,
and also household furniture.
The county commissioners
meeting with the board from
Codington county failed to ac-
complish any result so far as
establishing a road between the
counties is concerned. The
Codington county board want
the two counties to unite in build
ing a $500 or $500 pile bridge.
Grant county's experience in
bridge building was one of the
things we bought in an early
day, and the board from this
county is naturally a little shy
on bridges. From $4,000 to
$4,000 in bonds was all the
county had to show for it's early
expenditures after the first rain.
The members and friends of
the M. E. church enjoyed recep-
ton given by the ladies aid
society at the church last Friday
evening. The affair was of an
informal character for the pur-
pose of permitting the new pas
tor, Rev. S. A. Chappell, to get
acquainted with the people j.
G. Wood, president of the board
of trustees, called the gathering
to order, and after song by
Miss Mayme Nixon, one of the
trustees extended a welcome to
the pastor on behalf of the church
and Rev. Lyman on behalf of the
congregational church also
welcomed him, stating that
the unity of purpose that had
existed between the two churches
had been very pleasing to him.
The pastor in response expressed
his pleasure in the kindly well
come he had received and stated
that his greatest desire was that
he might be of service to the
people both of the church and
the community. Light refresh
ments were served during the
evening.
Nothing could indicate better
the progress which has been
made in reclalming arid lands
than the statistics submitted to
the attendants of the irrigation
congress at Ogden, Utah. In
the arid and semi-arid zones
there remain about 6O0,OO0,OOO
acres of vacant public land and
under the storage system there
is enough water to irrigate about
one sixteenth of this area. Pres
ident Clark estimates that the
government during the next
thirty years can reclaim lands
to provide homes for between
12, 100000 aud $4,000, 900 people.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-22
WAGON STRUCK BY TWO CARS;
DRIVER SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Valentine Frank Is Thrown Beneath
Jefferson Avenue Coaches and
Physicians Say He Will Die.

Valentine Frank Of No. 3115 LaSane
street, a driver for the David Nicholson
Grocery Company, was probably fatally
injured last night as the result of being
thrown from a wagon. which was struck
by cars Nos 2e0s and SO of the Jefferson
avenue line of the st. Louis Transit Com
pany.
At the City Hospital It was found that
he had sustained a fracture of the skull. a
broken nose and probably internal in
juries. An operation was found necessary.
but II was late last night before his wife,
who had been summoned. would give her
consent.
Frank was driving a one-horse wagon
east on Sullivan avenue. At Jefferson and
Sullivan avenues the street is being re-
paired. and. it Is said. there were no dan
ger lights.
DRIVING across the tracks. the wagon was
struck almost simultaneously by two cars,
each going in an opposite direction. Frank
was thrown between the two cars ana
dragged about seventy-five feet by the
northbound car. Henry Pilker of No. 3ols
Parne.l street. a passenger on one OF the
cars, sustained severe bruises on the les.
A large crowd gathered. but for several
minutes no one made an effort to remove
Frank from under the wheels. Frank Dill
hnger of No. 3015 North Jefferson avenue
was attracted to the scene of the accident
and with the aid of several persons carried
Frank into drug store at Jefferson ave-
nue. and Hebert street.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-22
GOT COAT FROM SOUTHERN.
Montross Identified as Man Who
Obtained Package and Mail.

Warrants charging Bailey Montross and
Paul Clinton, alias Vincent Hart. with
grand larceny were issued yesterday on
complaint of NJ. F. Helery.
Montross was arrested by Detective Lee
Killian. who found half a dozen suit cases
and valises in his room at the Planters
Hotel The vaiises. the police have ascer-
tanned. we're stolen from Pullman cars at
Union Station.
Clinton is under arrest at Belleville.
John Ryan, clerk at the Southern Hotel
yesterday identified Montross as man
who went to the Southern several days
ago and obtained a package and mail
which had been sent there for T. A.
Thompson of Columbia, Ga. Ryan stated
that Montross said his name was Thomp-
son. and that he had the package which
contained an overcoat and his mail sent
to the Southern but was stopping with
friends and would not be guest at the
hotel. Later. when Mr.. Thompson ar
rived. 1t was found that the hotel had
been swindled.
The Belleville authorities are holding
Clinton on another charge. The st. Louis
police will request that he be given up
and will endeavor to bring him back to ST.
Louis.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-22
GAS CAUSES EXPLOSION
INTELEPH0NE CONDUIT.
Shock, Which Is Felt for Several
Blocks, Skaters Glass In VIM
dows of Olive Street Store.

The presence of gas in the Bell Tele-
phone Company's conduits in Eleventh
street. near Olive. at 7:30 yesterday even
ing. caused an explosion which shook the
buildings and shattered glass in many win
dows of neighboring stores.
Heavy iron covers on two manholes were
thrown high in air. followed by gust of
fame fifteen feet high. Some pedestrian.
believing that men in the conduits had
been injured called an ambulance. InYes-
tigation by the police showed that no one
had been hurt.
The explosion occurred simultaneously
at two points one In front of No. 30S
North Eleventh street and the second in
the alley behind the Household Furniture
Company's store, No. 1908 Olive street
The concussion broke windows in the
Household Furniture Company's store, in
the Wilbrandt Surgical Company's estab-
ishment, No. 1907 Olive street; In the
Backus Light Company's store. No. l0ll
Olive street; in the Halliday Leather COM
nany's place of business. No. 80 North
Eleventh street, and Stilwell'S restaurant
No. 1013 Olive street.
The damage could not be learned from
the managers of the concerns. but the
police make an estimate of $500 The La
ciede Gas Light Company sent force of
men TO repair the leaking. mains, and the
Bell Telephone Company had an engineer
inspect the conduits to see how badly they
had suffered.
The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-22
UNION MISSION ASSOCIATION
ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS.
The Reverend j. @. Swim VIII BE
I'm Charge of Local Union
Mission.

The annual conference of the Union
Mission Association adjourned yesterday
The next annual conference will be held
3 in St Louis. The following appointments
of pastors were made:
Headquarters, Garrison avenue and
Morgan street, the Reverend J. @. Swim:
Union Mission, No. 14S2 Franklin avenue,
the Reverend E B. Hackley, the Rever-
end c. g Warner. assistant; Branch No.
9, No. 223 Robert avenue. Mrs. H. Steven
son, pastor, Mrs. NJ. E Cartel. assistant;
Springfield, Ill. the Reverend Il. A. Leh-
wald; Jacksonville. H.. Miss Sue Lane;
Council Bluffs, Ia, Mrs. ]. N Miller:
Tampa, Fla, Miss Flora Bowers; Kansas
City, the Reverend J. II. Keene. and Mrs
y; a keene, pastors, the Reverend r. C.
Richards and Mrs r. c. Richards, as
sistant pastors; Miss Naoma Van Dine.
missionary and collector: Winfield, Kas.,
Reverend H L. Jessup, pastor, Miss M.
e Jessup, assistant; Oklahoma City, Ok,
the Reverend G E Lacy: Hannibal, NO.,
Home, St Louis. the Reverend Robert
MCGOWAN.
! The, following were appointed district
9uperintendents;. The Reverend NJ. L.
gessup. for Joplin district; the Reverend
l. 81. Earl. for Oklahoma City district;
the Reverend R. w. Chiles for Paducah
! district; the Reverend F. c. Richards, for
-E[a@AA-'Go
Karr, for Winfield. Kas, district: the
Reverend E B. Hackley, for st. Louis
district
Mrs NJ e Otto was appointed chair
man OF the women's rescue work.
The following field evangelists were an
pointed: The Reverend. J. 3. Nash, Mrs.
Charlotte Nash, the Reverend G. g. Arl-
hart, the Reverend e. Allen, the Reverend
James Bassett, Miss Very Bernard. Miss
Rosa Cockrill. the Reverend NJ. o. Cray
ton, the Reverend H. q. frost, the Rever-
end d. o. Hesdy. the Reverend ]. c.
Harshburger. the Revefend b. W. Sweet
7. Johnson. Mrs. NJ F.. r. Keithiey. the
Reverend 2. 3. Mahley, the Reverend c.
B. Monfort, the Reverend B. T. Raper,
Mrs. Lille Raper. the Reverend II. W.
Shwgarman, Mrs Gertie Shwganman. Mrs
n " Vickers; the Reverend Charles Wal
lace Mrs. Daisy Wallace. the Reverend L.
l.. Moore MIS- e. Riegle, Mrs. s. A. Cain,
Mrs. L NJ long, Mrs. Roxie Moore, the
Reverend IN. Chamberlain, Mrs. NJ. B.
Chamberlaink the Reverend Fred Thomas,
Mrs Rosa Thomas, the Reverend C. E..
Baird. MIe. Anna Baird, Mrs M. Il.
Young: Mrs. A. B Surface, Mrs. Emma