The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-09-01
MILBANK S. OAK, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER l. 1905

| D. Churchill of Twin Brooks,
was in town yesterday.
! Buy 5 tablets at FISHERS at
one time and get pencils FREE.
| Prof. Ben Bower was visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. A..
Blower, Thursday.
I F. s. Reeves sold his thresh-
ing rig to Hamling Bros, living
least of town, Wednesday.
! Look over my standard world
renowned Schimmell pianos be.
fore buying. e. Emanuel.
| Miss Kathryn Thorndyke will
leave in a few days on visit to
the cities, and will take in the
State fair.
Mrs. Cynthia Watson of In.
man. Neb., arrived last week and
will visit at the home of Mr.. ard
Mrs. G. A. Bower this fall and
winter.
Mrs. w. Graham has returned
from Calf, Ontario, where she
had been to see her mother, who
had been quite ill but somewhat
improved when Mrs. Graham re-
turned.
Wednesday two of the eleva.
tors in town were in close COM
petition as to who would ship the
first new wheat out of town. Mr..
Roberts of the Farmers Elevator
had his car loaded and billed at
about ten in the morning, and F.
A. Croal. of the Empire Co., had
two cars loaded the evening of
the same day. Peter Eye took
in the first four loads of new
wheat.
Reports have been received
from few of the farmers who
have threshed this week. M.
Paul, living north of Twin Brooks
received a yield of 18 bushels of
wheat to the acre. G. D. Fair
child has threshed one quarter
of his farm. He got 10 bushels
of wheat, 21 of rye, 19t of fax
and % of oats to the acre. w. E..
Keeney owns a farm near Coro
ma. He received yield of 18
bushels to the acre. John Malsed
has threshed some macaroni
wheat from which he realized
about 30 bushels to the acre. In
some sections of the county even
as low as five or six bushels to
the acre is being reported.
A Minneapolis paper contains
notice of the Incorporation of a
new company under title of
the Buswell Lum Der and Manu-.
featuring company, in which
our young friend, John Lock
hart, son of Judge Lockhart, of
this city is one of the incorpora-
tors and secretary of the com
pany. The new organization is
capitalized for $50, 900 and sue
ceeds to the business of the F..
w. Buswell lumber company.
and enlarges it's field. Mr.. Lock.
hart's Milbank friends congratu-
late him upon his advancement
in a business career-an ad-
vancement that certainly indi.
Gates genuine merit and the con.
f1dence of his busine ess associates.
Sheriff Murray was called up
on Sunday to look up a team of
horses the owner thought had
been stolen from the stock yards
where he had left them two days
previous. John Shutter recent
ly moved to Sisseton from Len
nox, engaging a car to ship his
goods in. At this city he took the
team out of the car and turned
them into the stock yards. When
he went to get them they were
missing. Not until two days
later did he notify the sheriff.
Mr.. Murray told him he did not
think the team had been stolen
and began a search over the Da-
kota Central rural lines. After
a little time he located the tea 10
at Mr.. Steele's farm, eight miles
sou utheast of town where they
were found in a wheat field.
Wednesday morning at about
ten o'clock, the eighteen. months
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
J. Story living five miles west of
Twin Brooks was acciden tally
shot in the mouth. An older
child was playing in the room,
picked up small rife that was
standing in the corner and point
ing it at the child, as it lay in it's
mothers arms, pulled the trig.
ger. The bullet struck the ba-