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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
Counter Commits Suicide
Former MiIbank Jewe!er Commits
Suicide at Hillyard. WASH, Feb
2lst, by Shooting Himself.

II. W. Counter, formerly a res
ldent OF Milbank, having con
Quoted ieWelry store in the
Gamble building, but who moved
away some four or five years ago,
committed suicide February 21.
The following account appeared
IN the Hillyard (Wash) By
Stander of Feb. %.
II w. Counter, who formerly
conducted a ieweler and watch
makers shop at Is Queen avenue.
Hillyard, was found Tuesday
morning, about 2:3O, in the alley
between Riverside and Main and
Bernard and Browne, Spokane.
dead, his hand still clutching to a
small revolver, which told the
tale. A hastily scribbled note
requested that his instruments
and effects be given to S. r.
Wells and telling of the location
of his trunk at Hillyard saloon,
indicated that the suicide was
premeditated Little is known
of his family connections.
Counter was arrested as a sus-
pect a few days after the mur-
der of John II. Sullivan, a for
mer chief of police of Spokane,
who was shot through a win
dow at his home, Sinto avenue,
one evening about a month ago, it
having been alleged that he con
fessed to friends that he com
mitted the murder. At the
station, however, Counter de
MED all knowledge of the crime.
save that CLEANED from newspa
per accounts, and he was releas-
ed.
Worry over financial affairs is
believed to have prompted self
destruction.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

told that we could have the whole
OF 1t If we would locate on it
would have run away from 1T.
When they surveyed ST Cloud
they laid off one mile east and
west by two miles north and
south in town lots % feet wide
by 80 feet long, and all around
that was the ) acre tracts, Is
miles Or more from the center of
town as post Office AS near as
| can learn the comrades that
were in the first draw all or ear
y all, got good lots and ) acre
tracts. The next ones did not
draw so good lots or tracts aud
those that drew last fall got low
wet land.
The CON pany expects those
who get good lots, TO write them
up in the National Tribune, and
these are the letters you will tipd
in that paper. Without excep.
tion when there is any kick made
to the company with regard TO
any deal, it never comes out.
We find that where there we're
two or more nice blocks in town
property, one of these was sell
dom drawn, but there were lots
Of poor fellows who, when they
came down here last fall expect.
ing to build, found their land un-
der water, or so wet that it was
not tit to build on. When we
were in st. Cloud in Decem Der,
the company was holding their
lots at from $500 to $500 a 25 foot
front, and they showed me plat
of the land for over a mile on the
lake shore, two blocks deep, that
they had just surveyed and plat
ted out and. for which they asked
$500 a lot, ana they would not
sell at that unless the buyer
would bind himself to build q
house that would not cost less
than s., 500 on the same. That
part of the town will be known
as the "Bulley ward, guess that
is the way they spell it.
There are plenty of poor old
cripples that have drawn lots,
and who came down here and
put all they could rake together
into buildinu q. litfln hnnSn and
now find themselves up against
it-they are now living on their
next pension check | am posi-.
tive Of this for l saw some Of
them paying their bills, and the
business men told me that this
was a fact. ] had plenty of
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

off until at the present time it is
practically useless, and as Mr..
RaWson desires to make improve
ments in his coal and wood yards
he has decided to tear it down
and use the lumber and timbers
for other purposes.
The old mill stands today lust
as built with the exception of the
top, which is new, the top having
been blown off during a storm
shortly after its completion.
The machinery in the mill is in
good condition and will be sold to
anyone who desires it, and it
would be just the thing for farm
ers to put III for grinding feed.
Mr.. Rawson would not turn
down any good offer.
Since learning of the intentions
to dispose of the old mill a mum
Der of people have suggested
that some arrangements be made
to purchase the shell or frame
work of it and remove it to some
prominent part of the town,
where it can be put up and pre-
served, as it is about the only re-
naming old landmark left, and
there are only three or four OF
the old fashioned mills in the
state What will be done in this
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

chances to buy a home here from
hese old comrades at about nv
own price, but [ did not want
any Of it in mine
There is a large G.. A r post
Of two hundred members and a
large w. r G. The latter order
will have plenty to do in the near
future. | presume there is over
one hundred old soldiers now in
this town that came to ST. Cloud
abSut as we did, to winter and
look the situation over. aud if
things looked good we would
settle there, that soon got dis
gusted and left for some other
place. All the other towns are
as full as st. Cloud.
We bave not decided yet about
settling in Florida, but will stay
at least until warm weather in
the north. We have had all nice
sunshiny weather, cool nights
but not even a frost; warm days,
from Sixty to seventy above. |
am feeling some better than
when | came. don't have any
cough this winter, and that is
something | have not escaped
for so long a time | can t remem.
Der when.
Yours in F., L. & G.,
j. G.. STANFORD.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
DOESN'T LIKE IT.

J.C. Stanford Writes to His Comrads
that the Much Advertised st.
Cloud, (Florida.) Enterprise IS Not a
Good Business proposition.
The following extracts from a
letter written by j. G. Stanford
to H. J. Benedict, will be of in
terest to old soldier comrades.
particularly those who have read
of the St. Cloud settlement of
old soldiers IN Florida:
| promised to write you after
l had made up my mind what l
thought about St. Cloud as a
business proposition and a place
to live. 1t did not take US a
great while to come to a conclu-
tion as to the business part of it,
but the other part was not so
easy. Some think it a deli ghtful
place to live in, while others
can't get away too quick. l will
first tell you what | believe to be
the facts about the way things
have been conducted by the
Seminole Land Co. at St. Clond.
| make these statements from
what | have seen with my own
eyes and what hundreds of Old
Soldiers have told me while talk
ing with them. .The land is very
level in the first place, | should
not think there was more than 8
or 10 feet difference in altitude
on the whole tract, but they
claim there is II feet-that is
in places the land is ii feet
higher than the Lake adjoining,
so they can get IA feet fall to
drain the wet land in the lake.
Part of land was at one time an
old sugar plantation the most of
that was quite low and had been
drained when in use for that
purpose but the drains or bitches
are pretty we'll filled up now and
it looks like an old swamp, cover
ed with palmetto brush and
coarse grass. This is regular
muck soil such as you will find
in swamps in the north, but they
say it was good for sugar cane
if drained. The higher land is
all sand covered with pine trees
that will have to be cleared off,
and lots of fertilizer used to get
anything to grow. Ben you and
If we had been placed IN the
center Of that tract of land and
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
Clearance Sale.

We are deter mined to have a
clearing out of our shoe stock,
and the public is to have the ad
vantage in the big reductions
quoted.
Misses and Childrens' shoes,
for mer price $3.50, will be sold
at 81. 25.
Mems shoes-we have nearly
all sizes IN these-will be sold at
less than cost.
All ladies shoes less than cost.
ERLANDSON & JOHNSON.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
MILBANk, S. OAK, FRIDAY, MARCH g 1911
DIED AWAY FROM HOME
Il. ID. EllefsOn OF SissetOn. Stricken
Down at the VI Miibank House
in this City.

T. D. EIlefson merchant of
Sisseton, who carries on a racket
store at that place, was taken
down with pneumonia while on
his way home from Chicago,
where he had been to purchase
goods, and died last Friday
night at the Milbank house in
this city. The wife of the de
ceased man was apprised of her
hus band illnessand came down
from Sisseton on Friday after
Moons tram, and was with her
hus band when he died, and on
Saturday night she accompanied
the remains to Castlewood, S.
Oak, for burial The deceased
was a member of the Masonic
fraternity and a nun Der Of the
Milbank maSOnS escorted the
remains from the undertaking
establishment TO the depot, and
assisted in their transfer at the
midnight train. The deceased
was A. years Of age and had been
a resident Of Slsseton for some
eighteen years, and was for a
Der Of years prior to his re
moval to Sisseton in business at
Watertown.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
Doctor Arrested for Practicing With.
ont Itinerxnt License.

The travelling physicians who
have been advertising under the
title OF the United Doctors and
were billed for Milbank on tn e
9th and 28th inst, were served
with papers by States Attorney
Fuller and arrested on charge
OF practicing medicine without
an itinerant license. The pa
pers were served on E. j. Doran,
one OF the doctors. who was
brought before Justice Bleser,
but waived examination, and gave
Bones to appear at the next term
of the circuit court.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

Local and Personal Paragraphs.

A good girl can find employ
ment at light housekeeping by
inquiring at the Herald office.
Chas. Binghe N was down at
the cities last week getting bat
terry apd fixtures for his auto
mobile
A synopsis of the apportion.
ment bill for Representatives in
the state legislature is given on
an inside page.
Mrs. Burt Nixon and little
daughter Lucille start for Manley
Iowa, Sunday night, for a three
weeks visit with parents.
George Bury and family are
enjoying a visit from Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Marks, of Midale,
Sask., uncle and aunt Of Mrs.
Bury.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Sumers
will leave Sunday night for Fort
Atkinson, Iowa, to attend the
golden wedding Of Mr.. Sumers
parents
Ed. A. Murry has been reap,
pointed by the governor as oil
inspector and Thos. Hicks as
state veterinarian.
knute Nelson the road master,
who had been out on the Mon
tana division for couple of
years, commenced his work on
his old run between here and
Aberdeen last week.
B. f Clark, of Mandan, N. D.,
was back during the past week
visiting friends at the old home
at Corona. Mr.. Clark is loco
motive fireman on one Of the
roads out of Mandan.
Rev. FIR. Brones left Monday
night for his new charge at
Beresford, and the new priest
who is to have charge of the
church here it is expected will
be here for the Sunday service.
Levi Conright cast aside his
regular duties at the court house
Yesterday and inveigled County
Commissioned Linngren into
fishing excursion to Big Stone,
and some big fish (>tories are
in store for their friends upon
their return.
Mr.. Jake Hershey of Warsaw,
Mimi, and his neice, Mrs. Chas.
Pope, of the same place, child
hood friends of Mrs. Downie
at Morris own. Mimi, were
visiting the latter yesterday
while on their way to Sisseton
to visit relatives.
Grand Master S. S. Lockhart
of the Masonic fraternity, has
received during the week two
notices of the decease of Past
Grand Masters Of this state.
Henry H. Blair, who was the
second grand master in the
state. died last Monday at Elk
Point. and Frederick F. Files,
p. G.. M, died at his home IN
Madison on the 1st inst Mr..
Lockhart went to Madison to-
day to attend the funeral.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

Paul Kohler, the land man, has
been busy the past week getting
families from Illinois located on
their recently purchased farms
in this locality. He has piloted
some 20 people, with IA carloads
of effects during the past few
days, and assisted in getting
them located in their new homes.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
MelrOse Township Caucus.

Notice is hereby given that a
caucus Of the voters of Melrose
township, will be held at the
usual voting place for the nom
lnation of township officers, on
Saturday, March 4, 1911: at
2 y. m.
w. l. LOWTHIAN, Clerk.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
Big Basket Ball.

The two womens clubs of the
city have arranged for dou BILE
header basket ball game for
Friday evening March II, at the
high school gym, the door re-
ceipts to go toward the purchase
of the windmill property.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03

The Ladies Guild of the
Episcopal church will have a
cake sale at Peterson store,
every Saturday during lent.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
The BurgOmaster.

The management of the opera
house is making strong effort
to secure the big musical com
edy, "The Burgomaster,' which
was played last week at the Met
ropolitan opera house in Mime.
apolis. This company is on it's
way to the Pacific coast, and
there is some hope of getting the
attraction in Milbank. The main
trouble is the size of the stage in
the Bentley Grand. The com
pany carry car loads Of scenery,
such as is used in large cities,
and the management of the Mil
bank house is trying to figure
out how it can accom- m odate this
scenery. Plans of the Milbank
stage have been submitted to the
company and way may ybe found
to set all of the scenery. Few
people realize what an enormous
task 1t is to put one of these big
shows into a small opera house.
The big drops are wide and very
heavy and it requires extra
tackle and lines to handle it.
The placing of the electric light
ing on the stage for this comedy
is great task. 1t will be known
definitely next week whether or
not this company will come to
Milbark.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.
Board OF Education Elect Corps OF
Instructors for Coming Year.

At recent meeting Of the
board Of education the teachers
for the next school year were
elected for the several grades as
follows:
1st-Mlss Pearl Robinson.
2d-Ethel Briggs.
3d-Martha Lovette.
4th-Margaret Gibson.
5th-Zella Brown
6th-Miss Margaret McCabe.
Sth-Miss Anna Templeton.
The Misses Hannah A. Nutter,
Cecil f. Thomas and Myrtle
Person, have been reengaged'as
high school teachers, and Miss
Margaret Mangan AS music
teacher. and Prof. S. K. Clark as
superintendent.
The 9TH grade appointment
was passed for the present.
The reengagement of the full
corps Of teachers Of the last year,
indicates a most salts factory
working condition in the school,
and the fact that a senior class
Of some 30 10 mum Der are pre-.
pairing for graduation this year
is also additional testimony to
the generally healthy and pro
gressive work of the school.
The honors in the graduating
class were awarded as follows,
being given on grades of highest
averages:
Valedlctorian-Mary Lowthian.
Salutorian-Esther Clark.
Prophet-Liliy Amsden.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-03-03
WANT COLUMN

MACHINE OlL-FInest for sewing
ANl chimes typewriters, Photographs, etc
Singer Office, Second avenue. X. \. tlteld
agent Milbank.
INOR SALE-or trade Il few choice quarter
L sections of land for sale. Would consider
Milbank residence property or lots, against one
quarter, Inquire of j, +. Schwantes, at Schwan-
tes Mercantile GO Store. NJ MIoauk 1"tf
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-28
SFTUISTO
Correspondegcs Of Persons
and Officers in That Town
at Present
sEaNNsToN. soet. 50. Holt

SEId NNISTON, Oct, 2S-Mr Holt
Mr.. and MrstsG. r. Randall,
day was here FRIDAY on business.
Mr.. and mrs. O F. Randall, their
daughter, Mrs. Frsd Pigott, and
nephew, Penfeld Randall, are visit
ing In washington, D. c.
7 Mrs. Haymaker, of Clarksbure'
was a. recent guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy sRumbaugh.
I Miss Alta Martin has returned
home. from Richwoed, where she
visited her sister, Mrs. Hattei Nut
ter.
Mrs. Hiskel. of wheeling, was
here on business Fiday.
Carrie Dtttman, OF clarksbuFs'
has accepted position on the News:
Waiter Martin, of Fairmont' IS
( a business visitor here.
Mr.. and Mrs Rufus ogden left
Thursday for. an extended trip to
and CINCINNATI. o.
where they will visit relatives.
/ Mrs. Leslie Hawker and Mrs :
Andrew Moore. spent one day TINS
week at Brown.
4 l.. F.. ChalLaHt' " us
ston Construction Company was
recent ,Pittsburg visitor
Mrs. John Ashton has returned &c
her home at Morgantown, after
visitw to friends here.
Miss Minnie Martin is a guest o.
her parents, at Pine Grove.
Dr.. and Mrs. P. B. Ogden has
returned from trip in the West
4 w. l. Booth has returned from
business trip in Illinois.
I Forrest Tortury was here IRON
-Fairmont Friday.
4 &c. f. Lucans was recent
cIarksburg visitor.
4 Howard Douglass was at clarks
burg FRIDAY.
4 Carroll Moore spent one day tht'
week with relatives on the Shori
Line railroad.
I The Rev. and Mrs. G.. r VII
Hanson and children and Miss Alic'
Wolfe, have been guests of e
-twhfteman and family for severa
days. they were enroute iron
,Meadville, pa. to Oakland, Md
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-28


here from tes
~ Logue, 81 Weston, e a city
or ~
White. Of Hendrfcks, e Il
Resp. Of Weston. Is xls.
lItor here
EMS Marsh was here Saturday
\ from Wallace.
Granville Davis was here Sat
Iurday from SALEM
i c. e RIo1lohan, Of Heaters, Is g
guest at the waldo
James n plant, of .Katylick. was
I'm the city asturday
/ Thorn F: Koblegard, OF Weston,
4 Is here-on -hrief visit.
/ Charles Lncas was visitor here
saturday from Shtnnston.
cletus stouts Of Bridgeport. was
ia Saturday visitor here
L. S. Atmeyers OF Huntington, is
here on on business visit. y
Miss Ida Morrison, OF Lambert's
run, was IN the city Saturday
DIR. Alexander Hannah. of sardts'
was shopping in the city Saturday.
Samuel Southern, Of Adamsytlle'
was business visitor here today
james s Grimm was a business
visitor here Saturday from Lumber
port
James O. watson, general man
Iagre of the traction system Was in
the city from Fairmont Saturday,
Smith Hood, OF Fairmopt. visited
the city Saturday in his official ca
pacity as general superintendent OF
the traction system
Frederick Fowlef, division freight
agent of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, is here from Parkeresburg
on omcial business.
|. Mr.. and Mrs. George e. Lock-
wood viii go to New York tonight
on a purchasing trip Of several days
for the Woman's store.
!. w. C. Meadows, postmaster at
Burnsvtlle and member of the Re
publican County Committee OF Brax-
ton county sixteen years, was prom
inent visitor in the city Friday nigh
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-28
SPECIAL NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
CITY TAXES.
PAYERS

In order to give every person an
opportunity to take advantage of dis
count. beginning Monday, October 81
the Office Of the City Collector will %
open srom a. m. to p. m. and from
p. m. until p. m. until October 81.
after which time there will be no dis
count given. Persons paying al
their taxes before November 1, VIII
be given 23k per cent discount. Ds
not wait until the last day
JOHN NJ. KNOX.
City Collector and Trea7ursr
226 Court Street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-28

Just received by Highland Bros. Sc
Gore. all sizes and widths and styles
in ladies' Tan Button Boots. medium
and high Cuban heel.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-28

TlIst received By Highland Bros. 9
core. all sizes and widths and styles
in ladies' Tan Button Boots meolu'i
-nnd high Cuban heel.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-28

Just received by Highland tsros. &
core. all sizes aud widths and styles
In ladies' Tan Button tsoots, nledluin
aud high cuban heel.
The Owosso times., 1911-12-01
How to Use a Life Preserver.

THE worst trouble about a life
preserver," said an old sailor, ''is that
few people know what to do with one
when it's thrown to them. Many a
man would drown in trying to get a
life preserver over his head.
"The average person struggling
about in the water would try to lift up
the big life ring and put it over his
head. That only causes the man to
sink deeper and take more water into
his lungs.
"The proper way to approach a life
preserver in the water is to take hold
of the side nearest you and press upon
it with all your weight. That causes
the other side to fly up in the air and
down over your head, ringing you as
neatly as man ringing a cane at a
county fair. After that the drowning
man can be rescued."-From the
American Boy.
The Owosso times., 1911-12-01
STEPHENSON VOTE HELDO.
Committee Finds No Bribery, bu,
Frowns on Large Expense.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-With the
declaration that no instances OF vote
buying were disclosed, but with words
of censure for the use OF large sums
of money in his campaign, the senate
committee, which Investigated the
election of United States Senator
Isaac Stephenson, is expected to re.
port shortly after the opening of con,
gress.
Senator Stephenson, according to a
well-founded report here, will be de-
clared fully entitled to his seat. The
use Of money in the Stephenson cam
paign was the result of the Wisconsin
primary system, 1t was asserted in the
hearings. and condemnation OF that
system, either in the committees re.
port or BY members Of the committee
on the floor Of the senate, is expected
The Owosso times., 1911-12-01
GOVERNORS BEGIN TRIP
Start from ST. Paul for Visit
to the East.
First Stop Is in chl-7?o and Busy Oa>
Is Being Put in in City by
the Lake.

Chicago. Nov. 2S = Governors oi
eleven states are the guests Oh
Chicago today. The state executives
began last evening in st. Paul 4,OOo
mile trip, in which Chicago is the
first stop. Before they disperse Tor
their homes they will have visited
twenty-one cities in the east, doing
what one of them recently called mis-
sionary work" for the west and north
west The governors in the party ana
the states they represent follow:
A. o. Eberhart, Minnesota; j. M.
Carey. Wyoming; John Burke, North
Dakota; e. l.. Norris, Montana; Os-
wald West, Oregon; j. F. Shafroth,
Colorado; Robert S. Vessey, South
Dakota; j. H. Hawley, Idaho; M. e..
Hay, Washington; T. L. Oddle, Ne
vada; II. w. Johnson, California.
Members of the party were called
together by Former Governor James H.
Brdy Of Idaho, who accompanied
them on their trip. Governor Vessey
of South Dakota, who was in Chicago
for several days, went to ST. Paul to
join the party.
Late tonight the governors will
leave for Kalamazoo, Mich.
The Owosso times., 1911-12-01

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