The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-04-28
DIR. Ferguson was in st. Paul
on business last Friday.

III. cI uSOu Was III OC. fdul
on business last Friday.
SILCHER, THE OPTICIAN, here
Friday and Saturday, April 2Sth
and 29th.
Mr.. Steve Grice is nursing a
good healthy boil on his wrist
this week.
For sale cheap: White oak
posts. Kottke & Co., Twin
Brooks, So Oak.
E. G. Hilmer, the tailor, spent
the fore part of the week, on a
fishing expedition to Big Stone
lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Phillips,
of Big Stone, were guests of DR..
and Mrs. Vos burgh, on easter
Sunday.
The building occupied by DIS
laundry is being treated to a
coat Of paint and otherwise being
improved
All who have spoken to me
for millet seed can get it now as
it is cleaned and ready to SOW.
j. w. LIGGETT.
Ben MOSer was called to Mar
shall county, Mimi, the first of
the week to adjust a fire loss for
the Evangelical insurance COM
paay.
E. G. Hilmer has purchased
the equipment fer d shooting
gallery, and will run it on the
vacant lots south of Benedict's S
cigar store.
Miss Ada Yeomans and Mr..
Lee Thorndike, Of Big Stone,
drove up to Milbank aud attend
ed the Easter exercises in the M.
b. church, last Sunday evening.
Manager De Forest informs
the HERALD-ADvANCE that the
LaBolt band of eighteen pieces,
has been secured to come to
Milbank on decoration day.
This makes four bands that will
be in line that day.
Some twenty members of
Esther chapter, O. E. S., took the
train for Ortonville this after
noon, as guests of Laural Crown
chapter this evening. The rail
road company attached a coach
on the way freight for their ac-
com modation.
Harry Pawson has received an
offer of position at the soldiers
home at Hot Springs, and may
possibly go out there next week.
Harry has become one of the old
standbys in Milbank, and his
many friends will regret to see
him go away.
The Milbank Concrete com
pany has secured the services of
Frank Siderberg, of Minneapolis,
to superintend their cement
works. Mr.. S. is a practical
cement man of many years
experience, and the company
guarantee all work which it
turns out. Orders for cement
pavement or concrete blocks for
foundations and building pur.
poses will receive prompt atten-
tiOn.
The Aberdeen News of the Goth
says that G. 0. James, the rail
road fireman who attempted to
com nit suicide a short time ago,
is able to walk with crutches
and has gone to live with his
father at Hutchinson. His wife
and children have left Aberdeen,
and James thinks they have gone
to live with Sullivan. He SAYS
his wife can now go her way, as
he will not live with her again.
Arbor day was duly recognized
by many of the rural school
districts in the county. The
pupils of Miss Beulah Talcott, in
district No. l, Big Stone town
ship, twentyeight in number,
each set out boxelder tree, and
named it. If all the pupils and
teachers took as much interest
in arbor day, it would not be
many years until the state would
be nicely protected with shade
trees.
At the special meeting of the
council Monday evening, no
definite action was taken, re-
garding the laying of sewers
on Grant and First streets. on
account of the petitions pre-.
sented by both sides, for and
against it. names of the same