The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-01-09

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Ed Riley of Summit spent
Sunday with his brother at
the poor farm, returning home
Monday.
Mr.. j. b. Sund, brother-ir law
Of G. E. SkOe, salesman in the
Mittelstaedt store, was visiting
the Skoe family the first of the
week.
Owing to the severity of the
storm last Wednesday the chill
drenin several of the lower rooms
were dismissed for the day soon
after the noon hour.
The board of county commits
siOners are in session this week,
the old board finishing up the
business Of last year before the
new officers are sworn in.
The firm of Jewell & Buttrick
have about closed out their stock
and expect to leave next week for
DOneSteel, Gregory county,
where they will open up a store.
Judith Evelin, the little three
yearold daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Green, died on the
I'd inst. Of heart failure.
The child had been delicate from
it's birth.
Ed Benedict, and wife of
Benson, Mimi, spent
few days with Milbank
friends at the old home last week,
returning to Benson the first of
the week.
Messrs. Ralph Helms, A. c.
Smedley and Dr.. Ross started
on a trip to the Rainy Lake
country in Northern Minnesota,
the first of the week, where they
intend to secure lands in the
timber country.
George EmpsOn, who has been
employed for number Of years
in the Erlandson e Johnson
store, has engaged as travelling
man for the Aberdeen Grocery
Co., and commenced his new
line of work the first of the year.
Mrs. M. L. Ecker received
,,-crJ fropo hoo. l>po+ l,op of Dnptn)
n. D., the first Of the week say
ing that he had been seriously i'll
withan aftliction on his face, sup
posed to be from blood poisoning,
and that his wife was also just
recovering from a serious illness.
w. M. Thomas was called to
Portland, n. D., yesterday by
receiving intelligence Of the
death of his brother Raymond
Thomas at that place. The de-
ceased visited in Milbank a
couple of years ago. and will be
remembered by many of our
people.
M. Gobel, the machinist and
pressman of the Sioux City
branch of the Chicago News
paper Union, was snow bound
here Tuesday and Wednesday
while enroute from Webster to
Sisseton, at both of which places
he had presses and engine to set
in working order.
Messrs. Edwards, Wood & Co.,
mission dealers Of st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth, have
opened an Office in room No. l
Of the telephone building, and
will have a competent man IN
charge to conduct a general com
mission business. See adVer-
tisment in another column.
Henry Port returned home
from Chicago Monday afternoon,
having stood the journey to and
from the city in very salts
factory way. His trouble was
diagnosed as a cancerous tumor
of intestines and spine. His
cousin, DR.. Charles Barnes, ac-
companied him on his homeward
trip.
The recent change Of time on
the Milestone branch will be
noticed in the railroad time
table. The early morning pass
enger now runs only every other
day Monday, Wednesday and
Friday, and returns Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, leaving
Sisseton at s p. m. 1T arrives
here at 9:3O.
Representatives Edgar Kelly
and j. d. Steiner left for Pierre
Thursday Of last week and at
tended the banquet at Aberdeen
while on the way to the capital.
Among others who went to