The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-10-12
Ray L. Dillman of Revillo, was
! Milbank visitor Friday.

| Jack Bohan who has charge OF
the round house at Montevideo,
and an old timer in Milbank, was
shaking hands with old dassociates
here the first of the week.
/ An old-fashioned breeze last
Monday made the atmospheric
conditions pretty lively all day,
and even on Tuesday the thresh-
ing crews were compelled to
suspend operations.
| Some eight or ten car loads of
granite from the Orton villequar-
ries were on the side track here
the first of the week. They
we're on Northwestern cars and
we're headed for Pierre, to be
used in bridge work.
\ Martin Wilson went to Leeds,
n. D.. Monday night, where he
will work. His mother, Mrs. M.
A. Wilson is matron~ of busi-
ness college at that place. Her
son Vincent is with her.
Miss Adele Foss, who has been
at Sisseton for several weeks as
sisting her brother l.. V. Foss,
clerk of courts, returned to this
city Monday and has again as
sumed her duties in her father s
abstract Office.
The "Hello Bill" comedy given
at the Bentley Grand Thursday
evening of last week, was gener-
ally admitted to have been the
best thing in the theatrical line
that has been presented here for
a long time. The company is
composed of artists and the play
was clean one.
| Rev. E. E. Hunt, accompanied
by Mrs. Hunt started for Brook
inRs Tuesday night, to attend
the annual conference of the
Methodist church. The confer.
ence begins Tuesday and con.
tinues over Sunday. Bishop
Earl Cranston, of Washington,
D. G., will preside.
| D. Mclaughlin has moved his
family into the house recently
vacated by A. H. Horton. G. s.
Anlsded has purchased the house
of H. j. Benedict, vacated by
Mr.. Mclaughlin, and will move in
to the same this fall, as he wishes
to take advantage of the better
school facilities offered by living
in the city.
1 Another change in the time
of the arrival of the afternoon
west bound passenger No. 6,
took place last Monday. This
train for a week arrived at 4:29
p. m., but for period of three
weeks beginning last Monday
will arrive an hour later, 5:29 p.
m. after which time it will arrive
at 4:20. No. sos from Sisseton
will arrive at Sis and depart for
the same city at 6 o'clock.
The Minnesota Methodists
held their annual conference
last week, and IN the assignment
of preachers, Rev. S. r. Geer of
Ortonville has been placed at
Montevldeo for the coming year,
and Rev. S. s. Farley has been
assigned to theOrtonville charge.
DR.. w. Fl. Jordan was returned
to the First church at Minneap-
oils, F. M. Wright as assistant.
Many of the old-time friends of
S. w. Simonds will be interested
to know that he was returned to
the Waterville appointment,
where he has been stationed for
some four or five years. e H.
Nicholson, who is q brother-in-
law OF Rev. Philip Laux of this
city, was continued as presiding
elder Of the Litchfield district.
Three freight cars standing on
the Milwaukee siding about a
mile west Of the city we're des-
troyed by fire last Friday even.
ing about 7:3O o'clock. There
has been about twenty cars on
this siding all sum mer, used by a
crew Of Italians who haYe been
working for the Milwaukee west
of the city, as cooking and bunk
cars. The fire was discovered
by one of the Italians aud he
with two or three others did all
they could to extinguish the
flames. The tire spread rapidly
and had not those present un-
coupled the three burning cars
from the others all the string
would have been DESTROYED.
Two Of the Italians claimed that
all of their money which amount.
ed TO something like 800. and
which was concealed ii the bed
ding, was burned. The origin
of the IRE is not known.