The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-10-23
Mrs. James Levey died at Wolsey
of quick consumption.

check.
Sportsmen are bagging hundreds Of
ducks and a few geese on the lakes
and streams around Huron.
Blackleg has made its appearance
among cattle around Centerville. Sew
eral farmers have lost a few head.
Returns from the threshing ma
chimes in the vicinity of Eureka show
that wheat is running much higher
than expected.
Fred Berger, formerly station agent
at Arlington, has again taken a posi-
ton as agent at Wolsey, where he was
located a few years ago.
Miss Payne, a student in the state
university. has been engaged to fill
the place of principal of the schools
at Centeryille. left vacant by Miss
Lands. who left so Unexpectedly.
Henry Westre. a merchant and deal
| er in hogs and cattle at Meckling, has
filed a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy. He places his liabilities at
$l6,643.47 and his assets at s17,344.25.
Mrs. Catherine Woerz. wife of Her
man Woerz, a prominent business
man of Canton, died Of internal cam
Ger. She was fi~fty-oue years of &
and had lived in the city over twenty
years.
The Sioux Indians continue to take
advantage of the white mans divorce
laws. Among the suits recently in
stituted in Gregory county is that OF
James Greyhound. who asks that he
he granted a divorce from Mary Grey
hound.
George SHAFT, a barber of Canton.
has been arrested at the instance OF
John Huntington, chief OF police, for
selling intoxicating liquors. Seventeen
witnesses were ~subpoenaed by tho
prosecution, SHAFT was bound over
The proposition to incorporate the
village OF Tea, in the northern part Of
Lincoln county, has beer laid over for
further consideration. Several defects
were found in the petition for the In
corporation. When the proper docu-
ments are presented it is thought the
petition will be granted.
Beadle county's potato crop is being
eagerly sought for by Eastern buyers.
One farmer sold 1,500 bushels in tho
field for so cents per bushel, and 9TH
ers have received equally good prices
The crop in this section was large and
of excellent quality, and is being
bought up for shipment.
C. ID. Thompson of Cleveland, Ohio.
president of the Black Hills Porcelain,
Clay and Marble company, has arrived
in Custer and has set men at work
on the Autograph quarries. Mr..
Thompson has informed friends that
the Autograph stone is appearing
well. Large quantities of it have been
opened and the quarries will 70 be
put in shape for supplying the Ameri-
can trade.
Rev. c.. NJ. DAILY. president Of the
South Dakota Sunday School associa-
ton, called a meeting of the executive
committee at Huron, when 1t was de-
cided to hold the next annual conven-
ton in Huron next spring. Plans were
outlined for making a house-to-hous0
canvass of the state in h interest OF
Sunday school work, this to be under
the immediate supervision OF l. p.
Leach Of Sioux Falls, general score
tary.
One of the largest and most sue
cessful celebrations ever held At
washington Springs took place when
the first excursion to the city brought
hundreds of visitors to participate In
a grand field meet held in connection
with the county fair. The music BY
local and visiting bands was especial
ly fine. A ball game, numerous races
and various athletic sports were lea
lures of the program.
The Aberdeen city council has au-
thorized Benezette Williams, a Chica-
go consulting engineer, to prepare
plans for the disposal Of sewage and
the overhauling Of the water system
of the city, his charge for the plans to
be 81, 500. Mr.. Williams, who planned
the sewer system Of Pullman, Ill, pro-
poses that the artesian wells of the
city be utilized to furnish power for
! the pumping Oh sewage W oettlihS
tanks and filtration beds, and that in
stead of the water supply of the city
being supplied directly from the nat
ural pressure of the wells, it be pump
ed by steam power from settling tanks
into which the water from the wells
is run after being used for pumping
sewage.
After being virtually dead for three
hours, Miss Marie Novak, daughter OF
a prominent resident of Brule county.
is on the road to complete recovery.
When she was taken i'll Doctors Lloyd
of Chandler and Wager of Bijou Mills
were summoned to attend her. They
decided that an operation was neces-
sary, and when preparing to perform
it administered an opiate. This ook
immediate effect, but she rapidly sank
and exhibited all the symptoms OF be-
ing dead. Not the faintest sign of life
could be discovered, and the W ply
sicians united in p~ronouncing her
3,,J Altar ramaining in a lifeieSS