The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-07-06

Mrs. H. d. Keeney of Corona
was q guest at the W. E. Keeney
home last Friday.
The Gus Mittelsteadt family
are enjoying the week at the lake
guests of Mrs. G. A. Wood.
Mrs. Downie and eleven of her
class ofSunday school boys spent
last Saturday at Simpson Park.
! Messers. w. r. VanWalker
and H. L. Priest went down to
Simpson Park Monday to attend
the teachers institute.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lowthian
of Fargo, who spent last week
with friends in Milbank, return.
ed home last Friday.
Mrs. A. B. Conright took her
family and campingoutfit to Sand
Cut last Monday to stay some
weeks, while Mr.. Conright is
employed at car repairing.
John Malls ed who had been up
in Canada for the past three
months, attending to his extend
ed farming interests in thatcoun-
try, returned home last Saturday.
He is we'll pleased with his Cana
dian interests.
Among the families who are
camping at Simpson Park are the
G.. L. Wood, S. S. Lockhart, Geo.
S. Rix, F. B. Vosburgh, E. L.
Farnham, w. B. Saunders. r. T.
Rodgers, J. G. Elliott, Mrs. A. H.
Hevener and Mrs. Sophia Nixson.
AS there has been some in
quiry as to the rain fall for the
past two months IN comparison
with that of a year ago, Observer
Hinman furnishes the following:
For 19O5-May 7.33; June $50
For 19O6-May 7.27; June S.55.
Miss Myrtle Kerr, who went
with her rents to Washington
about year ago, is visiting
friends in Milbank. having ar
rived last Friday evening. She
reports all the family we'll, but
the fruit crop in the vicinity of
Lewiston badly damaged by
frosts.
Several train loads of gravel
from Sand Cut were brought
down for ballasting the side
tracks and roadbed in this To-
cality the first of the week.
The unloading of the cars, which
is done by steam plow pulled
along the cars, is something
worth seeing.
| G. w. Martens claims to be a
consistent democrat, and yet on
Roosevelt's platform of eternal
opposition to race suicide, he's a
regular standpatter. He ha S
just had photograph taken OF
his family of ten children, and
they like look q healthy, well
ordered bunch.
Sisseton Standard: Conduct
or Dave Sinclair was asked what
: he thought about the long trains
I some WON en- wore to their gowns.
He replied that in his opinoin, a
railroad conductor on his line had
trou bles enough of his own with.
out worrying about his wife S
train.
The numerous friends and old
neighbors of the Norton Randall
family will be PANIED to learn
that Mrs. Randall died on the
, 25th ult. at the home near Bel
lingham, Wash. She had been
in feeble health for some time
and succum bed to heart failure
after a lingering illness.
: Messrs Carlson & Co. have a
force of some twenty men al
work on the school house, and the
foundations and brick work are
being pushed with vigor The
cons tant rains have been an un.
avoidable impediment to the
work, but the walls are now
com mencing to assume proper
{ tions under the directions of the
f energetic Haslen brothers.
The board of directors of che
Grant County Telephone Co.,
met at Secretary Martens office
, Monday. An auditing board
was appoiu tied which will look
over and audit all bills the frs,
Friday of each mouth, and bills
must receive their endorsement,
: before they can be paid. The
: local managers of centrals at the
different towns were authorized
to collect rentals of phones for
9 their districts. The managers
3 thus far are: w. H. Peek, Coro
ma; Dan Rourk. Revillo: Nels
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