The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-19

! Queen Flower, laid in now
insures the best of bread all
the fall.
The M. E. Sunday school
children will go to Simpson
Park Tuesday for their annual
picnic. Teams will leave the
church at Z a. m.
Miss Alice Jones, of Big Stone
City, and Miss Emily Kings, of
Mitchell, are visiting Miss
Florence Haines this week.
Miss Jones is attending the
teachers examination.
Last Friday was one of the
warm days, the thermometer
showing 95 in the shade, being 8
degrees warmer than any pre-
vious day. The mercury also
went up to 95 Sunday.
The Schafer Bros. have re.
Gently put in an improved saus
age grinder, called the Buffalo
Silent, which works up the saus-
age meat with one-tenth the time
and labor required by the old
machine.
John Bien, who has been work
ing with the steam shovel crew
on the railroad was quite badly
famed last Monday, one of the
rails being unloaded from a car
falling upon his left foot and
crushing the flesh.
VIM. Krueger, who has been
spending the summer with his
father w. H. Kruger, has been
holding Sunday services at Ar
mour, and goes down there
every week to hold the regular
meetings for an absent pastor.
Miss Adelaide Volkmar is max.
ing arrangements to depart for
the east next week, and after a
short sojourn in her old home at
Philadelphia, she will sail for
Europe to spend several months
with an American friend living
in Germany.
Miss Myra Morton, daughter
of G. G. Morton, while assisting
a horse to free himself from a
barb wire fence in which he had
become entangled, was kick ed in
the lace by the animal. She was
brought to the city and DR..
Jacotel sewed up the wound,
which was bad flesh cut near
the left eye.
John Sauressig, of Big Stoae,
was in town last Monday He
says that he had new variety
of wheat on his farm in Alban
township this year, and his crop
of this grain was very slightly
injured, while that on the farm
adjoining was almost a total loss.
He is positive that the new vari-
ETY. Of wheat which he sowed
was the salvation of his crop
Word was received by Mr.. j.
N. Stafford the first of the week
of the death of Rev. F. T. Mich
OILS, the NJ. E. pastor at Alcester.
Rev. Nichols will be remem bered
as pastor of the church at Twin
Brooks in an early dav and as
having preached in Milbank a
year or SO ago, while on a visit to
this locality. He died on the 18th
inst. after very short illness.
August Port is making a visit
to Milbank friends, having come
up from Dell Rapids last week,
where he had been employed in
a drug store. He has recently
passed an examination under the
state phar macy law and has been
registered After a few weeks
of recreation here August ex-
poets to enter the state univers-
ity at Madison, Wis, and take
part in the sprinting and athletic
contests of that school.
Prof. A. j. Peters, chief bot
anist of the agricultural depart
ment at Washington has been
out in the northwest examining
the conditions of the wheat fields
affected by black rust. A party,
consisting of Prof. Peters, S. r.
Gold, F. w. Thorndike and Edi-
tor Cobb, came up from Big
Stone City Saturday in the Gold
automobile, and made tour
of the country surrounding Mil
bank, examining the fields
affected. They estimated that
at least 35 per cent damage has
been suffered in this vicinity,
and Prof Peters, who had been
up at Fargo, states that the
damage in that vicinity had been