The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-04-28

hay Wood was a Big Stone
visitor Sunday.
! A Erickson, of Summit, was
in Milbank, Saturday.
James Street, of Albee, was
a Milbank visitor Tuesday.
/ John Heffernan, of Big Stone,
was in Milbank on business,
Wednesday.
Gilbert Pullen, of Hopkins,
spent Sunday with his brother,
f.. 5. Pullun, at the Union hotel.
A. R. Rhiensburger, of St.
Paul, was in Miibapk Wednes
day, transacting telephone bust
ness.
The sewer help was laid off for
a few hours during the week on
account of shortage of sewer
pipe.
There are only two criminal
cases to come before Judge Nc
| Coy next week. both grand
larceny.
Deputy sheriff Fred Cross was
at Twin Brooks yesterday, look
ing up witnesses for some of the
cases to come before the circuit
court next week.
The ladies of the Relief Corps
were entertained at the farm
home of Will Lowthian, Wednes-
day, where a bountiful dinner
was served the guests.
| Gus Swanson returned from
the cities Monday morning
where he had been on business
for the Milbank Concrete com
pany. While there he employed
an experienced concrete man,
who will work for the company.
| A bad fire occurred at Dumont,
Mimi, yesterday morning, when
two elevators, lum Der yard and
several other buildings were
burned. Telephone connections
with that town were cut of
owing to the fire, SO full par ticu.
lars are not available.
i The monument ordered by the
ladies Of the w. r. c.. is expected
to arrive any day, when it will
be placed in the cemetery, where
it will be dedicated to the sun.
known dead, on decoration day
The monument is said to be OF
very pretty design, made of Bed
ford, Ind, stone.
Mrs. Peter Eye has been en-
ioying visit from her sisters,
Mrs. Lyman Summers, of Fargo,
| N. D., and Mrs. D. A. Bailey, of
Breckenridge, MINI, whom she
had not seen for number of
years. Mrs. Summers returned
to her home the first of the week,
but Mrs. Bailey will spend the
summer in Milbank.
The Red Wing Republican Of
April 18th, contains writeup
of the Red Wing telephone com,
pany. of which our old friend
David NeiIl, is secretary and bus
mess manager. The company
was recently organized, already
has 500 subscribers and is rap
idly spreading out over the
county.
The Excelsior club held the
last regular meeting of the year
at the home Of Mrs. G. S. Rix,
Wednesday afternoon, April Goth.
The program was arranged for
home economics day, music fol-
lowed by selected reading,
paper on "Hygene of the home;"
paper on "Seeds and seed grow
ing "Our girls poem, "How
to bring up model boy" paper,
General betterment move.
ments;' music. The afternoon
closed with lunch provided by
eight members of the club. The
menu consisted Of some article
whose first letter was the same
as the first letter in the lady's
name, recipes for each article of
food were given.
Among the property owners
who are taking advantage of the
sewer and city water. and are
making connections with these
much needed conveniences are:
Milbank schools, VIM. Thomas,
W. B. Saunders, l. H. Bentley,
county Jail, N. J. Bleser, George
Middlebrook, Thos. L. Bouck,
James Manley, St. Hubert hotel
and DIS laundry. Many more
will follow up the work and by
fall q majority of the residents
of Milbank will be connected.