The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-15

, vl"ioluS Will Ief QaugnLoT, MIS-.
Margaret Gaynor.
Attorney w. F. Corrigan, of
Mellettt, was in the city yester-
day on legal business.
Mrs. S. A. Chappe]l returned
home from Illinois last week,
where she had been called by
the death of her father.
Burt Lundberg departed We'd.
nesday night for Minneapolis to
visit his mother who is taking
treatment in a hospital at that
place.
Mr., and Mrs. Gotlob Oehler,
OF Grant Center, start today for
a visit of several weeks to friends
ait different points in Minnesota
and Kansas.
The Milbank friends of Mr..
and Mrs. George Barney, of
Pierre will b9interested to learn
that little sm recently arrived
in the family.
E, &. Skoe, who had been on a
visit to his brother, G. E. Skoe
OF this place, returned east last
week and will visit with friends
| in MOntevideo and Iowa before
going to his claim in Itasca
county, MINI.
The revival meetings at Twin
Brooks, in which the Revs. r.
Strutz and FL. Haag took an
active part, came to close last
Monday evening. The meetings
were we'll attended and proved
successful in every sense of the
word.
E. Trockstad, editor Of the
"Sisseton Posten," a Scandi-
navian paper published at Etfing-
ton, was visitor in Milbank last
Saturday. He was on his way
to the cities to meet his family
who were on their way home
from a visit to friends in Iowa.
o. M. Pease has removed his
music store from it's former
location with the Counte: jewelry
store to the building recen uy
vacated by E, H. Johnson. The
rear part Of the building will be
occupied by .henew cigar factory
of Lindquist & Nelson, the stock
and machinery for which is now
being put in place.
In the waterWOrks and sewer
age article last week the para
graph where the dimensions OF
the well are given, the word
inches is given where it should
have been feet The paragraph
should read: "The we'll should
! have a diameter of about 20 feet
and should be eXcavated to a
depth of about ten feet below the
water level.
w. H. Gran, who had been
working on the Sisseton Courant
for several weeks stopped off in
Milbank between trains last
Saturday while on his return
to the cities. Mr.. Gran says
that his old partner Woodard,
who was associated with him
in publishing a paper at Big
Stone number of years ago,
is now in fine position in one of
the railroad Offices in Denver,
Col.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Wood left
Monday on their trip to Cuba.
They were to remain in the cities
for a few days, where they we're
to be joined by Mr.. J. c.. Elliot.
who left here yesterday and
who will accompany them on the
trip. The party will go to West
baden, Ind, and remain for a
week or SO, then going to New
Orleans to make the voyage to
Havana. The two daughters of
Mr. G. a. Wood are at present
sojourning in the latter city.
Last Tuesday 1t was just six
teen years ago that the great
blizzard occurred in which so
many lives were lost in Dakota,
and which is wildly remem bered
by all che old settlers of the
state, the storm being known as
the twelfth of January blizzard. !.
Rev. E. F. Lyman, pastor of the
Congregational church here, says
he was at the time attending a
country school in Douglass
county and was kept with the
other attendants in the school
house until the next morning
when the stor N had abated. AS
there was plenty of fuel at the
school house, and a number of
the older pupils were present,
no danger or suffering occurred.
The pleasant weather that pre-.
ceeded aad the sudden change
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