The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-07-15
Another nice rain Wednesday
morning.

DR.. Frits Anderson. the county
physician, left for Norway Tues
day night. having received word
that his father was seriously ILL.
Miss Lydia Trapp, who had
been visiting with Rudolph
Berkner family for sometime
past, left for North Dakota the
first of the week.
The several families of cousins
of Miss Ella Elliot surprised the
latter Wednesday evening at the
lake by precipitating upon her
a shower of kitchen utensils in
recognition of her approaching
nuptials.
Sidney Shannon is spending
a week, or SO at home Toying
a visit with his Milbank friends.
Sidney is employed in a railroad
Office in MINI eapolis as stenog-
rapber, and his friends here are
pleased to hear that he is doing
we'll
Lewis Weld, of Minneapolis,
and Harold Shaw, of Lacrosse,
the latter a nephew of Mrs. Thos.
Fitch, are out on a visit to Uncle
Tom, and looking over things in
South Dakota with all the energy
and enterprise of twelve year
old travellers.
Announcements have been re-
ceived by friends of the mar
riage on Wednesday, July Goth,
of Miss Ella Elliot and Mr..
Carl Theimer, two of our Mil
bank young people, who will
make their home ia Strandburg,
where Mr.. Theimer is cashier
Of the bank at that place.
The friends of Louis Plant. a
former reside ent Of Vernon town
ship, were pleased to greet him
on his arrival from Ionia, Mich,
where he has been living for
the past year. He is enjoying
good health and expects to re-
main here several weeks.
Mrs. L. L. Conright went to
the lake Monday morning TO
chaperon her daughters Hazel
and Flossie and the Misses Susie
Reeve, Mariory Mcpherson, Ida
Emanuel, Edith Crawford and
Anna Mitchell, who are spend
ing week at Simpson park.
A sample Of oats grown on the
William Schafer farm just east
Of town may be seen at the
HERALD-ADvANCE office. The
stand is about five and one half
feet high with strong healthy
straw and well filled heads. If
the crop properly develops and
ripens a splendid yield will be
har vested.
DR.. Ferguson's father.in- law,
Mr.. Reinhart, Of Minneapolis,
has been out spending a
week in Milbank and getting
acquainted with his grandson.
He thinks we have splen-
did farming country in this To-
cality, and says that he never
saw finer looking growing grain
than we have right here this
year.
Miss Priscilla Seide has had
trouble with the little finger of
her left hand, and it was found
necessary last week to ampu
tate the finger, the doctors pro
nouncing the trouble to be dry
gangreen, diff Guilty whic h
leaves the effected part lifeless.
The hand is now doing nicely,
and it is believed the ampu tation
will check the spread of the
disease.
Albert Meyers, seventeen
years of age, while working in
his, fathers black smith shop
Monday morning, accidentally
got his right hand in the planer,
cutting off the forefnger just be-
low the second joint. Two of
the other fingers were somewhat
scratched, but the forefinger
had to be amputated at the joint.
The young man submitted to the
operation without taking chloro-
form, and the injured hand is
doing nicely.
The wedding bells rang gayly
on the 5th inst to announce the
marriage of John E. Rodgers
and Mrs. Adelia Stevens. The
bride comes from Montevideo,
and Mr.. Rodgers is an old res
iGent of Twin Brooks, but who
has been up in North Dakota for
year or SO past. The com bined
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