The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-01-20
j. @. Tessin made business
trip to Wilmot Wednesday.

trip to Wilmot Wednesday.
A number of the young people
enjoyed sleighride out to Frank
Smiths last Tuesday evening to
attend "a party. A pleasant time
is reported.
L, E. Morley is putting his
we'll boring machine in operation
at the city well, and will clean
out the we'll, that the regular
pumping apparatus may be
started to work.
! At the annual meeting of the
Aberdeen district medical socie-
ty held at Aberdeen last Tues
day, DR.. w. A. Kriesel Of this
city was elected president of the
society for the ensuing yea.
Dr.. G. e. McCauley of Aberdeen,
vice president; DR.. E. j. Glenn
ons, secretary. and DR.. E, O.
Miller, treasurer, also Of Aber-
deen.
E. NJ. Monroe, the harness
dealer, has sold out his harness S
store to John Samuelson, of Ips
wich. Mr. Samuelson has taken
possession of the shop, but Mr.
Monroe will remain in charge of
the store for d week or SO until
Mr.. Samuelson can arrange mat
ters SO as to give the business
his personal attention. Mr.. and
Mrs Munro will go to Washing
ton to live, where their son-in-
law, w. Stevens and family are
located.
AS will be noticed by the
county commissioner proceed
ings, published in another
column, the board has appointed
all Of the papers in the county
as official, the remuneration to
be the same as if only three
papers had been selected--the
regular legal cost of the three
pu blications to be divided among
the five papers. This appears
to be atisfactory solution of
the question all around, and if
the newspapers are satisfied
both the county and the public
ought to be, as they are getting
the county advertising in five
papers for the regular price in
three.
j. H. Hubbard, of DeSmet,
deputy food and dairy commits
sioner, was visitor in Milbank
last Friday, being on tour of
investigation and examination.
The food and dairy commissioner
has just issued a bulletin of
analyses of food products, in
addition to the printed annual
issued a short time ago. A
talk with Mr.. Hubbard will con-
vince any one that the state
food aud dairy department. is
doing an impor tant work for the
public in condemning the num-
berless brands of adulterated
and poisonous food preparations
placed upon the market. The
state should provide ample
means to make this Inspection
as effective as possible, and
check the sale of deleterious
foods.
Last Saturday was Peter Eyes
birthday. 1t was the fortieth
occasion of this kind since Peter
first doubled up his fists and
said he was going to be man.
Now it is only once in a life time
that a fellow becomes forty
years of age, and Peter was
desirous of celebrating it IN a
quiet but effective way, and
accordingly had resolved that
as soon as evening came and
the routine of daily matters had
been disposed Of he would enjoy
the comforts of a bath. The
evening meal had been disposed
of, water had been provided and
heated, and Peter had been con-
templating with the satisfaction
of Baptist deacon the antic-
ipated results of his coming up
against the water In fact he
had already laid violent hands
on his suspenders and had com
menced to sever the ties that
bound him to his every day
clothes-when 10 and behold, an
alarm was sounded at the outer
gate, aud in walked troupe of
Peters friends and neighbors,
! who came to help him remember
. his anniversary. It is needless
, to say that further operations
for the bath were suspended,
and that even that which had
occasioned forty years of glorious
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