The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-09-28
CORONA DEPAR TMENT.

Enos, the butcher, spent Sunday in
Milbank.
Mrs. Finley of Milbank is keeping
house for Alex Miller.
J. A. Martens and family were in
Milbank over Sunday.
w. C. Hicks OF Milbank was q busi-
ness caller Thursday.
Aug. Hoffman and Will Hills
finished threshing this week.
That new boy at Chas. Hart's is said
to have hair ''just like dads"
w. e. jennings and family spent
Sunday with relatives atMilbank.
John Phanco recovered recently
from severe attack of tonsilitis.
Mrs. Chas. Stiles was on the sick
list but is much improved at present.
Miss Lois Dunn spent Saturday and
Sunday with her parents in Sisseton.
j. S. Farley was in the village be-
! tween the two early morning trains
Monday.
Mrs. Kuske of Milbank was in the
village Saturday looking after her
threshing.
Farley Bros. have q new gasoline
lighting plant installed in their hard
ware store.
/ The special stock train of % ears
which went up to Sisseton Saturday
was for j. A. Rickert.
/ John Ehrle and wife are home
again after months visit with sons
at Aberdeen and Odessa.
Stiles Bros. have moved their
| threshing outfit over into the Cross
neighborhOod in Kilborn.
Mrs. G. Hart returned about week
ago from q months visit at Odcss q
and other points in Minnesota.
Geo. Dobie of the G.. C. Tel. Co.
was in town Saturday evening doing
repair work for local manager Peek.
Miss Gertie Boeder returned Sun
taken up her work as clerk in the
Cosona Mercantile Store.
Geo. w. Clark has received the un-
solicited honor of being placed on the
democratic ticket of this county as
candidate for representative.
Friday night the flyer ran into .
team and wagon about mile out of
Sisseton and knocked the day lights
out of the rig, killing the horses very
dead.
The Steele district, two miles cast,
has been fortunate to procure the
teaching ability of Miss Anna Kerns
for the coming term, which will begin
about Oct. 1st.
1t is the general opinion among
formers that they will stack their grain
next year. Shock threshing which is
just about finished has proven very
unsatisfactory In this neighborhood
this fall.
Mr.. Frye of South Shore and Mr..
Chrisman of Ortonville, members OF
the Corona Mercantile company,
were in town Friday looking after
their bnsiness. This company now
own the business block which Is oc-
cupied by their store.
The village school has the follow.
ing enrolment: Advanced room, 1s
girls, boy; primary, II boys and
girls. This will increase some within
the next two months. Work is being
done in all grades, the 9th grade TAX.
ing up an English course.
/ A party of the unmarried men and
others went out to Chris. Dockter' &
Thursday evening and treated him and
his newly acquired better half to q
regular old time charivari, to which
Chris. literally responded with the
desired entertainment.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frost and daughter
i Georgia, who have been visiting with
relatives here and at Wilmot depart
ed Tuesday for Meadeville, Pa. their
home. Miss Nettie Phanco, who &C
companied the party out here, will
leave ia q few days to join them in tie
twin cities and accompany them tc
their destination.
The country around Corona is fas
filling up with good people from Illi
nois. Two men, Jacob Ter Veen anc
John DeBoer, we're here recently
looking up our cheap farms. They
went away thoroughly convinced o
the bright prOspecte of South DakOta's
future. The first named gentlemar
| is newspaper man and alderman o.
the city Of Pekin, Ill.