The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-10-09

h"'ie floeltgen, has COM
lnenced a seven months term
OF school in Melrose No. 8.
Conrad Puder and son are
dolng the plastering in the new
postottice and abstract com.
pany S buildings.
Jens Peterson has leased his
bowling alley business to G.. w.
oarf, and has closed up the res.
taurant part of the establish
ment.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Corenke. Of
Blue Earth, MINI, are visiting
at M. b. Wiseman s. Mrs
Corenke is a sister of Mrs,
WiSeman.
Thomas Fitch expects to make
a trip to the Hot Springs the
first of the week to attend a
meeting of the soldiers home
board.
Alex Denham, of Day county,
was down visiting 'his kinsman,
James Young, the first of the
week. Andrew Imrie also of
Day county spent Sunday with
the Young family.
Mrs james Watson enter tanned
a few of her lady friends last
Friday afternoon in honor of
Mrs. J. f. Truran, of Pierre.
Covers were laid for eighteen.
Mrs. Truran left for her home
on the Friday night train.
A few weeks ago the HERALD
advertised the loss of a lady's
satchel belonging to Miss Clara
Whempner, and which had been
taken from the depot, where the
young lady had left it while she
came up town. The satchel was
afterwards found in the lumber
yard, having been cut open and
the contents rihed.
Mrs. NJ. Donar was visiting
friends in Milbank the first of
the week. She states that her
son, Louis Donar, who is engaged
in the electric light plant at
Thermopolis, Wyo., is about to
leave that place and take a
position with the electric light
and street railway company at
Saginaw, Mich.
Miss Louise Bieber, the eighth
grade teacher in the city schools,
this week received information
OF trunk belonging to her, and
which had got divorced from her
when at the depot at Aberdeen a
month ago and before it was
checked got started on a caree"
of rowing. The trunk was at
last located down in Missouri,
having Travelled a thousand and
more miles in search of its long
lost owner.
Emmett S. McCollum, one Of
the old settlers in Alban town
ship, with his family left for
California this week, where he
expects to make his home in
the section of country recently
opened for cultivation by the
Imperial Irrigation Company.
Mr.. McCollum is a worthy citizen
whose departure from any com
munity would be loss. His
friends and neighbors here, while
regretting that he deems it best
to make this move, wish himself
and family every success and
happiness in their California
home.
Ole S. Olson, of Blooming
Valley, is rather inclined to be
quick tempered. Otto Satcher
had been working for Ole during
the harvest, and on finishing
his work one day last week he
demanded of Ole his wages.
Whether it was because the
demand was not made in the
proper tone of voice, or whether
Ole really thought that Otto was
we'll paid by enjoying the honor
of having worked on the Olson
farm, will probably never be
known, but upon the demand
being made Ole descended upon
the Unfortunate Otto, and as the
butter maker would say, mauled
the whey out of him. Otto was
a sight to see after he had come
through the Olson threshlng
machine, but he didn't hardly
believe that what he had re-
ceived should apply on his
salary, and so he had the sherln
bring Olson before Justice Pasco
last Monday, where the matter
was talked over. The Jestlce