The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-26
Miss Clara Whempner is visit
ng her parents in Wilmot.


Miss Nellie Sullivan left
Wednesday to teach at Soudan,
Mimi.
Mrs. Henry Martens is visit
ing friends in Minneapolis this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lower, of Spring
Valley, are visiting the Hits
family.
Mrs. w. T. Burman has pur-
chased the Donar house on Fifth
street Consideration 50, 600.
Mr.. Herman Bohn purchased
the DR.. Fanset house on Fourth
street and Third avenue last
week.
Miss Celia Vanderyoort has
been elected principal of the
high school in Danvers, Swift
county, Mimi.
Geo. Schafer has purchased
what is known as the Druecker
house on Milbank avenue and
Eastman street.
Miss Inez Ely starts for
Winona, Mimi, Sunday night
where she will take course in
the Normal school.
One of the large window lights
in the front of the Elliot building
was blown out by the windstorm
Saturday.
Archie Porter had his thresh-
ing machine overturned and
quite badly wrecked in the wind
storm last Saturday.
Mrs. Jones. mother of Mrs.
G. W. Prevey, who has been
visiting here several weeks,
leaves for her home in Bell View,
Nebraska, next Tuesday.
Master Herbert Walters, of
Ortonville, attended the birth
day party of his cousin Altebelle
Enos on last Tuesday. Miss
Hazel Walters came up Thurs
day afternoon to visit few days.
The ladies of the Excelsior
! club have placed four uice bench
seats in the court house park,
the proceeds Of an ice cream
social held some weeks ago. The
seats will prove quite conven-
ience aud assist in making the
park a pleasant place of resort.
H. c. Haag, the German pastor
of Wilmot mission, left Mil
bank Monday for his former
home in the fruit country at
Geneva, N. Y, but his friends
surmise that something sweeter
than cherries, etc, is anxiously
awaiting the young man S arrival.
G. V. Gilliland, representing
Dakota university at Mitchell,
was in town Wednesday. Mr..
Gilliland' work is looking up
the young people who expect to
attend college and assisting them
with information in regard to
the Mitchell school and it's ad-
vantages.
The children of the M. E. Sun
day school enjoyed a picnic at
Simpson park last Tuesday.
While the attendance was not as
large as in former occasions, a
most delightful time was had,
the weather being ideal and a
steamboat ride adding to the
zest of the occasion.
A favorite bird dog belonging
to Ed Druecker had the misfor
tune to get caught under the
wheels of moving freight train
last Monday afternoon at the
depot, and had both fore-legs
crushed so badly that Marshal
Sutcliffe, who happened to be
on the spot, put the dog out of
his suffering by shooting him.
The twentieth annual South
Dakota state fair will be held in
Yankton September IL, 13, IA,
Is, 16, and the premium lists for
this big event are now being
issued to the general public. A
perusal of the book in question
will be of the greatest interest
to all classes, as everything in
live stock, agriculture, educa-
ton, science, textile fabrics, ETC.,
etc., have been provided for and
liberal premiums offered on the
same.
John Liggett, of Alban, town
ship announces himself a can
didate for clerk Of courts. Mr..
Liggett is one of the early set
tiers of the county, is generally
recognized as being we'll equipped
in every way for the office. Mr..
Liggett was favorite candidate