The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-06-26

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a word to say about 4th of July
celebrations in another column.
Hear him.
Miss Rose Carol, Of Osceola,
has gone to Ward county, North
Dakota, where she will spend
several months with the family
of f. S. Healy.
Rev. S. J. Watson and family
have gone to Connecticut to visit
Mrs. Watson's parents and the
old New England home. They
expect to be absent for about
four weeks.
Messrs. Frank and Burt
Vandusen returned from their
Pacific coast trip last week, and
expect to make arrangements to
move to California at an early
day, where they have become
interested in fruit farm in the
San Jose valley.
Mrs. J. W. Johnson, of this
city, had the honor of being
elected chaplain of the w. r. c.,
department of South Dakota, at
the annual encampment held at
Big Stone lake this week. Mrs.
johnson will make an excellent
chaplain, and her friends extend
congratulations to herself and to
the department.
Miss Anna Mitchell and Ida
Emanuel were engaged as plan
lists at the G. A. r. encampment
at Simpson Park during the
week, and they were kept busy
on patriotic music during the
three days, as the old soldier has
a fondness for the old war songs
during an encampment. The
young ladies rendered very
etficien service.
While a number of beneficial
rains visited the sections to the
south of Milbank last week, the
country north of town failed to
receive much moisture and rain
is greatly needed This is the
more extraordinary as the rains
where they fell were very heavy,
some spots receiving almost too
much, the storm in places having
the character Of a clOudburst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Rohyl of
Arlington, kingsbury county,
were visitors in Milbank for a
couple of days during the week,
while taking in the G. A. r. en-
campment. They are old friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Mittelstaedt
and are also acquaintances of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Downie.
Mr.. Rohyl was senator from
Kingsbury county in the last
legislature.
There will be all sorts of fun,
amnsements and sports in Mil
bank on the Fourth. On Friday,
the third there will be a oase ball
game between the Indian nine
from Sisseton Indian Agency
and the Milbank nine, and also a
lot of minor sports on Main
street. On Saturday, the Fourth
of July, the same teams will play
another game, and in the fore
noon there will be lots of fun on
Main street.
Some miscreant destroyed the
mail box of Fred Lofquist on
.. rural mail route about a week
ago. Probably the person who
, did this does not realize that
there is a severe punishment
provided by the United States
laws for any depreciation of this
character, and that it is Sc
severe an offense that the penalty
upon conviction is a fine of not
less than 800 nor more than
$1,000 or from one to three years
in states prison.
The Bank of Twin Brooks
inserts an advertisement this
week to which attention is called
The Bank is now putting up a
, fine new building, and the
institution will be an important
factor in the growth and de-
velopment of Twin Brooks and
the surrounding country. The
cashier, Mr.. G. G. Lasell, is also
president of the State bank OF
Waubay, and the corporation is
one of the solid fina lcial institu-
tions of the country.
} The city auditor gives notice
in another column that all dogs
not licensed before July 1st will
be killed by the city marshal, sc
, so if you have a bow-wow that
you love it will pay you to see the
, auditor at once, get your license
and have your dog tagged. There
, are any number of useless CANNES
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