The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-05-20

Bert Clouse and Art Palmer Of Mil.
er started overland for st. Louis with
their exhibit of wild animals.
Ernest Forth committed suicide ct
Deadwood by shooting himself. He
had been gambling and drinking heav.
lily.
The new cooperative creamery at
F1andreau has begun operations with
O. M. Peterson of Minneapolis In
charge.
The Sixth judicial circuit convention
to nominate a successor to Judge
Gaffey has Deer called for June 2 at
Highmore.
The new Catholic church building at
Fairfax is rapidly nearing completion.
| When completed Fairfax will have Ave
church edifices.
Mrs. S. G. Thornton, the wife of .
well-known merchant of Elk Point. fa
dead of peritonitis at the age Of 30.
She leaves five grown children.
Huron college will be represented at
the national Y. M. C. A. convention in
Buffalo by Edward Van Ruschen.
Charles Miller goes as one of the state
delegates.
A convention of teachers from the
northern part of South Dakota was in
session at Redfield for two days. In.
teresting addresses were made by
prominent educators.
An attempt was made to burn the
Salvation Army barracks at Mitchell.
Two men saw flames and on investiga.
ton it was ascertained that a carpet
on the stage and some flags were sat-
urated with coal oil.
Andover Is having something Of q
building boom this spring. Two new
residences are almost completed and
~excavating is being done for two morei
The creamery is increasing it's BUSH
IuCoS W buCA al CAtCut bidI ~ i ACSCo>
sary to employ more help. G. c. &C.
hon of Parsons, Kan, is now assisting
his brother in this institution.
The Faulkton school board has n
gagged the, following teachers: Prin-
cipal, Clyde H. King of Vermillion; as
s~istant, Miss Fife Putney of Redfeld;
grammar, Miss Gertrude Simpson; in
termediate, Miss Ruth Sisson; pri-
mary, Miss Maud Thomas. Miss Put
ney has beer promoted from the inter-
mediate department to assistant prin.
cipal.
The Scotland school board has en-
gagged the following teachers: F. r.
Sherwood, principal; Miss Alice E.
Thurstcn, assistant; Mrs. F. Wash
burn, grammar department.; Miss Inga
Grundland, fifth and sixth grades;
Miss Katherine Muehmel, fourth; Miss
Anna Chrystal, third; Miss Lola Camp
bell, primary: Miss E. C. Searles, Sec
ond primary; Miss Nina Campbell,
third.
In one day recently an aggregate of
eleven carloads of fat cattle were ship
ped from Geddes to Eastern markets.
On another day ~thirty-nine mor car.
loads left. These were the first ship
ments of the many hundreds of cattle
which will be shipped from this imme-
date vicinity during the mex ninety
days. The two shipments will net the
farmers who raised the cattle an ag-
gregate of about $4,000.
August Marquardt, a boy of IA, liv-
Ing five miles west of Groton, died from
injuries received in a runaway. His
horses, drawing a disk harrow, became
manageable, and as they started to
run he was thrown forward, striking
his head on one of the discs, cutting
through the skull from between the
eyes to the top of his head, penetrat-
ing the brain. A similar accident &C.
Cured to a son OF John Bonner, neal
Pierpont, this boy getting his foot
caught in one of the disc braces and
being dragged. He died from the ef.
ISCtS VI HIS INJURIES. "A
message from Bath stated hat Fred
| WILDER had been badly hurt in a run.
away.
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Through the efforts of Col. N. I. Lo-
THAN of Humphrey post No. AZ Of Mil.
bank, enough money has been collect.
ed to erect a soldiers monument. The
contract has been let and it is expect.
ed the dedication will take place Me.
mortal day. The monument will cost
81 LOO. 1t will be of st. Cloud granite
and be twenty feet high, and surmount-
ed by a soldier in bronze eight and
one-half feet high. On the four sides
of the base will be the words Shiloh,
Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Appomat
tox. On the column will be the G. A.
R. badge and the inscription, I'm mem.
DRY of Union soldiers of the wal OF
1S61-1S65." The monument will be at
Fourth enu and Main street, one