The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-05

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City, Wis, is visiting the family
Of H. G. Dodge
The ladies aid society will
meet with Mrs. M. L. Ecker
next Thursday, August II.
Mrs. John Wertz and children
are making a visit to the old
home at Watson, MINI.
The ladies aid of the NJ. E.
church are planning for rum
mage sale in the near future.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Young ar
rived last week from Fargo for
a visit with friends and relatives
here.
George Merry has sold four
acres of his land on the north
road to Mr.. Bear for 800 an
acre.
The last of the cheap excur
sions to the cities over the H. &
D. will take place August 18th.
Fare for the round trip is $3.50
Miss Anna Reeve took hay
rack load of young ladies out to
Mrs. Amos Hevener Thursday,
where they thoroughly enjoyed
the day.
E. L. Farnham brought rs in
a dozen heads of firmly filed
grain to be placed in our agricul
tural exhibit and show what was
doing in Alban township.
The w. G. r. U. will meet at
the Congregational church Tues
day, August 9. All members
are requested to be present and
participate in election of officers.
John Malsed returned from
Assiniboia Tuesday, where he
had been for several months
past, breaking up his farm in
the Indian Head country. He
says the crop prospects in that
locality are fine, and prospects
are good for a wonderful devel-
opment of the country.
The only names we have so
far noticed of parties from this
locality, who secured rights by
the recent drawing at Bonesteel
to file on Rosebud lands were
Gottfried Noeldner, of South
Shore, who was drawn as No.
939, and George Hoerber, who
lives south of town and who was
1888 in the drawing, Louis
Schultz 1876, Anna Pew 1870.
The Methodist ladies have ar
ranged for an open air reception
at the court house park to be
rendered Mr.. and Mrs. M. M.
Ramer, Mr.. and Mrs. E. p.
Brock aud Miss Christina
Koch, members of the church
who have recently made arrange
ments to remove from Milbank
to other places. These friends
have been among the most ear
nest and reliable workers in the
Sunday school, league and other
departments of church work, and
their influence and assistance
will be greatly missed by both
pastor and people, and the gath
ering this evening is in recogni
tion Of this fact.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frans Croal
were surprised and alal med to
find a large company of itinerant
musicians camping in their front
yard last Thursday night, and
the party became so bold later
in the evening they entered the
house by force, and gagged
trans SO that his calls for assist
ance were not heard. He says
that several of the party had
peculiarly ugly looking faces,
and if they are captured he
thinks he could easily identify a
pumber of them. The party
failed to get any amount of plum
der but seemed to take great de-
light in torturing their victim,
roasting him in a frightful man
ner-until he confessed he ought
to have been married years ago
Conductor E. H. Fargo, of
Aberdeen, who runs south from
that city, had an experience
while on the trip north last Sat
urday that he is not likely to for
get. A gang of fifteen or twenty
men, supposed to be grafters
from Bonesteel on their way
north, attempted to beat their
passage. The conductor put
one of these off the train and the
man drew a revolver and at
tempted to shoot him, but the