The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-30
DR.. Vosburgh was a Summit
visitor Tuesday,

DR.. Vosburgh was a Summit
visitor Tuesday.
Miss Adela Foss spent thanks.
glYing with friends at Browns
Valley, MINI.
Mrs. W. w. Wilson spent
thanksgiving with \ friends at
OrtOnville.
Erlandson & johnson, pioneer
merchants, have a change of ad
this week.
Mr.. 0nd Mrs. julius Fenner
of Twin Brooks, were Milbank
visitors Thursday of last week.
A fine assortment of beautiful
china ware at the Home of Real
Bargains. See our display
McCollum & Thirsk.
Miss Rodgers artistic work
as displayed in Priess Bros.
window contains a nice lot of
pretty things for Christmas gifts.
The A. O. U. W. meeting,
which was postponed OH account
of the quarantine is advertised
in this issue for next Monday
evening.
W. e Keeney of Corona was
shaking hands with his Milbank
friends Wednesday morning and
telling them how well he "loved' .
farming.
Soft coal and wood are a very
hard article to procure. There
is some hard coal on the market
but that will not last long;
Same old story-shortageof cars
on railroad.
Henry Neil of Madison, editor
of the South Dakota Workman,
the official organ of the A. o. U.
w., was in Aberdeen last night.
Heis spending several days in
this part of the state on business.
Aberdeen News
A new lighting plant has been
installed at the Home Of Real
Bargains, McCollum & Thirsk,
proprietors, and it seems an i'm
provement over many of the
gasoline systems now in use.
The building being erected by
]. G. Wertz for a lunch room is
nearing completion. Mr.. Wertz
will move his family into the
house recently purchased by J..
H. Branpon, on Railroad avenue,
so as to be near his place of busi.
ness.
The past two weeks of dis.
agreeable weather has caused
folks to get busyTo see the head
of the family up on a ladder en-
deavoring to put on storm win
dow, while the rest of the family
does the bossing is not an un-
familiar sight.
Pierre Weekly Free Press, Nov.
IS, con tains the following: "Mor-
timer Frederick Root was born
in 184S near Augusta, Wis. His
early life was spent on a farm
and at the age of 16 he enlisted
in the 43rd Wisconsin Volun
teers, Co. K. He was honorably
discharged at the close of the
war and then settled in Grant
county this state, near Milbank,
where he was married in 1883.
Five children survive him, also
two brothers and five sisters in
Wisconsin and the west. In
1883 he moved to Pierre where
he has since resided. A severe
attack of accute pneumonia end
ed his life at 4 a. m. Novem Der
IL, 1906. He was a member of
the G.. A. r. post of this city.
The funeral services we're held
at p. m. Novemb Der 13, at the
home in east Pierre. The inter-
ment was made in Riverside
cemetery.
The strict quarantine estab.
lished on account of a number of
cases of diphtheria breaking out
a couple of weeks ago, has re-
suited in effectually stamping out
the disease, as not one new case
has developed since the quaran-
tine went into effect, and the
period of termination is past
from even the latest case. The
doctors state that the city is now
entirely free from danger of an
epidemic, and the schools will
open next Monday and all prohi-
ton of meetings will be with
drawn, commencing Monday
morning. While 1t is believed
that the disease Is thoroughly
rooted out, the board of health
has deemed it best as q precau.