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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

Gloves-Long and short in silk,
kid and lyle at Mrs. Ports.
Miss Margaret Port was a
guest at the John Carr home
during the week.
Miss Corinne Saunders left
for Chicago Wednesday for a
mouths stay with friends.
Mrs A. K. Crawford is in
Waubay this week showing the
goods handled by Mrs. Port,
G.. E. Mills was representing
the Farmers bank at and around
Sisseton the first of the week.
Mrs. Frank Mittelstaedt is
making a visit to her mother in
Minneapolis this week.
VIM. Emanuel and G.. w. Bowe
each moved into their recently
purchased homes during the
week.
Of the twelve candidates who
recently took the civil vice
examination, nine passed as
acceptable
Gene Thorndike was a Peeyer
visitor for several days during
the first of the week in the inter
est of the First National bank of
this city.
Miss Mamie Let's, who has
been night girl at the D. G. tele,
phone office was obliged to give
up her work the first of the week
and has been confined 20 bed
since.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

For SALE: Barred Plymouth
Rock eggs-''Thompso strain
SOC. and 75c. per setting of Is
eggs. A few settings of choice
S. G. White Orpington eggs, Kel-
lerstrass Strain (heavy layers) at
- for Is eggs. zig.
ANDREW WELLS.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29
LEGAL and Personal Paragraphs

Dean Sterling At the opera
house tonight.
Cash paid for butter, eggs and
potatoes.
ENGEL 4 ADLER.
Walter Herrick made q trip to
Fargo last week, and also stopped
off at Clinton.
Chas. Eddy the railroad postal
clerk, was in town Tuesday meet.
ing Milbank friends.
Don't forget that Dean Ster.
ling speaks at the Bentley Grand
opera house tonight.
John Erickson of Vernon town
ship was in the city meeting his
Milbank friends last Friday.
Beautiful Easter creations IN
the millinery line at Mrs M. A
Conrights, call and see them
Glen Prevey of Beardsley, Wis
tied with his aunt Miss Minnie
Shannon between trains Wednes
day
Frank young will have charge
as clerk with the new hardware
firm of Black Bros. at Big Stone
City.
Wanted,-a girl to do genera
house work in a small family
no washing, good wages, inquire
at this office.
Grandma Bury was up from
Big Stone assisting in the care
of the little son of George Bury
who was threatened with pueu'
monia.
Summit Signal: }. A. Will
Jams, a son Of j. H. Williams,
arrived from the coast Friday
and expects to farm on the Shou.
lax place.
Sheridan Gardner the painter,
who had been down in Wisconsin
during the winter returned last
Saturday, and will again have
his family here IN a short time.
Siberian and German, Millet
at 81 per oushel and up. Garden
and flower seeds, largest assert.
ment we ever had.
MCCOLLUM & THIRSK
Mr.. G.. l.. Wood went to Min
neapolis Tuesday night, and will
accompany Mrs. Wood home
again, she having recovered from
her recent operation much fast
er than it was thought possible
for her to do.
Beautifully trimmed hats
for everybody at Mrs. NJ. A.
Conrlghts.
Judge S. S. Lockhart and wife
Of this city and W. A. Bonn and
wife of Twin Brooks went to
Verndale, Mimi to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Marvin Lockhart,
q daughter law of Judge Lock.
hart and q sister of Mrs. Bonn.
G.. H. Atherton, the Big Stone
brick man, returned from Aber.
deem Wednesday morning, where
he had been in company with
other brick men in the state to
plan for q greater use of South
Dakota brick in the buildings
that are to be put up il the state.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l. Collins, OF
Calmer. spent . few days the
first OF the week with their kins-
N an, Mayer Meehan. They
we're on their way home from a
two months visit to California
where they had q most enjoyable
time.
Henry Seide has got tired of
city life, aud has moved out to
his suburban residence in Grant
Center. While enjoying the
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29
Mrs. M. A. Conright has q full
line of beautiful pattern hats.

line Of beautiful pattern hats.
j. D. Burkhardt made q trip to
Big Stone Monday.
Hosiery-Silk, lyle and likesilk
in all coIors at Mrs. H. G. Ports
Engel & Adler are paying cash
for butter, eggs and POTATOES
o. r. Antelmap, the Aberdeen
hardware man was a Milbank
visitor Monday.
VIM. Crowl, who recently came
from eastern Iowa, has settled
on the Jones far m, south of town.
Hats in the latest styles and
novelty millinery in great varie-
" at Mrs. H.. G. Ports.
Mrs G G. Middlebrook return
ed from her recent visit to Wis.
c%onsin last Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. c. B. Williams of Mar
vim, was on the train Tuesday
morning, going on a visit to the
cities.
Oar new styles Of Mems Cros-
cots chnnc for r. /, - ~ 40 on n1r
shelves.
MCCOLLUM g. THIRSK
Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce Middle
brook enjoyed a visit at Water
town last week, returning home
Saturday.
Fl. D. Keeney and wife, Of
Corona, were guests at the home
of w. S. Keeney last Saturday
and Sunday.
Robt. Mckenna came down
from Roberts county the first of
the week and visited some Of his
Milbank friends.
Supt. Purdy attended the an
nual meeting of the county su
porintendents of the state at Alb
erdeen last week.
Mrs. M. A. Copyright invites
the ladies to inspect her full line
of Spring Millinery.
Will Schafer, a former Milbank
boy, was up from Minneapolis
the latter part of last week, and
telling of the advantages of his
new auto starter.
Mrs. Melvin Score, Of Mas sau,
is on a weeks visit to her Sis
ter, Mrs. E. E Peterson. Mrs:
Score has a fine little daughter
with her on this visit.
j. S. Farley unloaded from the
the cars a Mogul gasoline trac-
ton engine last Monday. The
Mogul is said to be the most
powerful and effective engine of
it's kind manufactured, and it
certainly has that appearance.
M. L. Pament in writing to
have his paper sent to Words
worth, Sask., says that they had
q fine winter where he was at Ar
cola, Sask., and that at that date.
March 10, the winter was break
ing up. He says that all of the
Pament family we're well and do
ing we'll.
Editor J. P. Croal, of Slsseton,
came down Saturday last to meet
Candidate johnson and other
democratic friends, and remained
over Sunday with his Milbank
friends. John says that it is
| likely that the democrats will
have q contest in their own pri-
mary in June.
Last Saturda y afternoon some
of the teachers, 20 workers Of
Miss Nutter, surprised her 1t
her home at Mrs. Farnham 8, /
the occasion being her natal day.
The affair was made more pleas.
ant by the presence of Mrs.
Logan Ried, nee Miss Ethel
Briggs, q last years teacher
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-03-29

For SALE:-Gas engine, motor
and electric plant, suitable for
farmer who wants power and
light. Will be sold cheap. Apply
TO VIM. MEYERS
Evening star., 1912-11-03
WITH 1.-THE RAMBLER
In Odd Nooks and Crannies
About the City.

son, the inevitable golden-rod and smart
weed which insists on tangling up any
field where the plow is idle. Growing
above this wilderness of weeds are tall
willows that sway in every little wind,
black walnut. the thorny honey-locust
and the fetid alanthus. Some of these
trees are old and seedy The miller's
house nearby is tenanted by city-bred
folk. Old mulberry trees lilac bushes
and fragrant box. aristocrats of the gar
dens of other times, are growing among
brand-new shrubs and plants that sprout
blossom and perish in a season.
The reputed longest resident, if not the
oldest inhabitant, of Bladensburg is An
drew Lynch, who keeps store on the Bal
timore road. He remembers the mill sew
enty-fve years ago, and the man who
owned and operated it then was Duck
Penn. If The Star man got the name right
while talking to Mr. Lynch on his store
porch on a hot and dusty day not long
ago.
Duck Penn owned the place when
was boy seventy-five years ago." said
Mr.. Lynch. TT was an old mill then
There We're two mills in town. the CAL
vert mill over that way (pointing east
"and Duck Penn's mill. The place over
there where the steam railroad crosses
the old Georgetown road, that runs past
the mill, they called Penns Crossing No
l oon Know tnat ne was quaker and
I don't know whether he has any kin
living around here. but l believe that the
Marburys down in Prince Georges county
are kin to him. He did not always run
the mill himself, but rented it out tc
others to run. l can't remember the
names of those that ran 1t for him. Cal
vert's mill used to turn out wheat -four
and PENIS was famous for its CORN
meal
mo. this place is not lively now. A
good many automobiles go through and
help to tear up this road, but four Wash
Evening star., 1912-11-03
RevenueCutter Service

On all vessels of the revenue cutter servr
ice on the Atlantic, the Pacific, the lakes
and Gulf Of Mexico, in Alaskan waters
and aboard the Unalaga, on her way to
the SueZ canal, funeral honors We're paid
Vice President Sherman yesterday. The
ensign and union jack We're flown at
half mast all day, and at noon a salute
of nineteen guns was fired by each ship
at intervals Of a minute between each
discharge.
Acushnet. stationed al Woods Hole, Mass,
has assisted sixteen vessels in distress
and destroyed three derelicts or obstruc-
tions to navigation. This week Capt.
Wiley, commanding the Acushnet reported
having gone in search of an obstruction
said to be about four miles west-half-
south of the Handkerchief shoal, Nan
tucket sound The obstructions, which
consisted of two big pieces of timber
fastened together with wire rope were
located and were hauled up alongside the
cutter and taken into harbor, where they
would be out of the way. Each stick
of timber was about forty feet long and
would have seriously damaged a vessel
striking it.
barge Badger, found ashore on Half
Moon shoal, in Vineyard sound. The
vessel was hard and fast on the shoal,
but she waas successfully gotten into
deep water and taken into harbor. While
no report Is made, 1t is understood that
the steamer Bay View and the barge
Britannia were floated at the same dime
and proceeded to Boston.
Floating the British schooner Mercedes,
which was ashore in West Quoddy bay,
Me-, was a difficult task that the cutter
Woodbury. was called upon to perform in
the past week The vessel was ashore on
Woodwards point. having been carried in
a blow across shoal flats. and was high
and dry. To get close enough to the
stranded vessel to be able to get line
to her was the task that confronted First
Lieut.. Randolph Ridgely, jr., command
ing the cutter. but with the aid Of the
lighthouse keeper as pilot this was done
and the schooner. was soon afioat and
taken into deep water The tug Dolphin
carried the vessel into Lubec for such
repair work as she may need.
The rev cutter Miami, which came to
this city about the middle of the past
month to receive her battery of four six
FOUNDER rapid-fire guns, arrived at
Charles ton yesterday on her way to her
station at Key West. The Miami took
an extra propeller from NEWPORT News to
Evening star., 1912-11-03
Place Names in the War.

From the New York World.
A queer bargain has been struck IN
the Austro-Hungarian post office. The
Croatians have agreed to quit addressing
letters to Bees, the Slav name of Vienna;
the Viennese are to address letters Tor
the Croatian capital not to Agram. al
they have been doing, but TO Zagrab.
The post offics. is expeeted not to deliver
letters whose addressors disregard the
truce. From Vienna CWien or Becs) TO
Constantinople tStambouD, and from
Fiume (Rieka, to Saloniki tSelanik or
Solun). this Bs.bers curse of triple names
continues. 1t makes war maps difficult
and war news at times almost incom-
prehensible.
have been lighting toward Saloniki, IS
also Selvidje. Selfidja, Servida and so
on. Prishtina (Pristina) is spelled by the
Servians who live in ii Prshtena. Try to
say "Prsh" and you get the. first vowel
sound. Belgrade Is Beograd. Sofia in
Cyrillic characters looks like Cophea.
No Balkan language except Roumanian
is even printed in Roman letters. and
sound equivalents are not easy TO de-
termine- When the Greeks, for in
stance, are driven to spelling beef
steak ..mpiphteki," what can one expect?
In Macedonia Turkish names are used
by officials. Scutari is Skodra. Uskub is
Skoplje, Monastir is Bitolia, pronounced
NitOlld. AuTldHOpie Is " iAN
Latins and Edirne to the Turks. But
from Kirk-Kilisseh to Constantinople the
names are all Turkish, like the people, ex-
cept an occasional seaport like Rodoso
(Tekir-Dagh) The Turks use q Joggly
character similar to Arabic. The Greeks
use the alphabet Homer did. Bulgarians.
Servians and Montenegrins use an alpha
bet similar to Russian, but not identical.
The AIbanians have scarcely decided on
an alphabet yet, but will probably use
Roman letters.
Evening star., 1912-11-03

Nothing has undergone greater change
In the last twenty years than the atti-
tude and sentiment of the general public
toward hospitals.
Twenty years ago. even ten years ago.
they We're generally looked upon as places
Of last resort for the poor and homeless
sick; places Of torture and suffering from
which few returned alive. The sending Of
a patient to hospital for operation was
like issuing his death warrant.
Many consultations with fearful rela-
tives were necessary. and many bitter
protests had to be overcome before a
grudging consent could be obtained. Often
this delay, before he arrived at the hos
pital, and the result was consequently
unfortunate.
hospital or an operation until 1t had
become apparent to all that the patient
was rapidly approaching his end.
Held as Last Chance.
Then the operation was accepted as a
last desperate chance for saving life; but
without much hope on the part Of the
family, or OF the patient himself. Such
conditions were not conducive to success
full operating and the worst fears OF the
relatives were too often realized.
The mortality was high. For modern
surgery was in it's infancy, and it was
the exception, rather than the rule, to get
an operation performed before the proper
and favorable time had passed.
The greatest credit is due the surgeon
who, by patience, bravery and untiring
efforts, succeeded, not only In overcoming
the dangers Of surgical work, but also in
showing this SO plainly to the people that
their hopeless attitude toward hospitals
and surgical operations was almost en-
tirely overcome.
Great credit is also due the physicians
who were first to recognize the impor-
tance of early operation in such diseases
as appendicitis, gallstones, tumors and
like ailments, where spreading infection
or damage to other organs Is the usual
result of delay. Through the efforts Of
such men the terrors Of surgery and
OF hospitals have been banished. Vast
improvements have been made for the
Evening star., 1912-11-03

picturesque tract in the valley of Oxon
run and on the opposing ridges. The range
may be reached from Washington in vari-
Gus ways, but that most used is to leave
the electric cars at Congress Heights at
a lane which the conductor will Indicate
and which runs cross lots along the
southwest edge of big farm belonging
, to the Government Hospital for the In
sane through land once covered by the
National race course to the point where
this lane debouches into Hamilton road,
now laid down on the District maps as
Alabama avenue
Leaving the electric car one soon catches
a view Of the flag that floats above the
range. and, if the season be spring or
summer. one will hear the smart crack
of the new Springfields and the ripping
flight of the shot from gun to target or
thereabouts. A walk of a mile which
carries one past the Hebrew cemetery,
brings you to stretch of level land,
grassy but for numerous paths and trails
Worn there An earthen parapet and
telephone box and pole are conspicuous
here. They mark the 1,OOO-yard firing
station. To the southeast one will see in
spring and summer a double line of con-
lcal tents and a line of wall tents with
flies. Off to the southwark, silhouetted
against the foliage Of a deeply wooded
ridge, one sees line Of targets-the / 600
yard targets.
x
Entering upon the level tract till the
valley is revealed, the S00 900, 500. 300
and 200 yard targets are brought into
view. Perhaps troops are firing, wind
pennants dropping. Tapping or flying. and
black, red and sometimes white discs, or
black and white cross are being raised
against the targets to indicate the value
of shots. Perhaps, also. red flags are be-
ing waved from within the butts, an
nouncing misses A road of gravel
and clay twists down steep grade
through a ravine that cuts through the
plateau Of the valley. This road leads to
the offices of the superintendent OF the
range. several small frame buildings and
to various firing stations. The bed Of the
valley is nearly fiat, but there are some
folds in the land. Through the middle,
northeast to southwest. flows Oxon run,
through steep banks that the historic
stream has cut. Beyond rises a ridge,
thick grown with timber, into which tons
of bullets have been deep buried.
AS the road winds down into the
valley one sees on the right hand two
places where the earth has been scraped
Evening star., 1912-11-03

the Charleston navy yard, where she will
be docked and have it put on should she
break the one with which she Is now equip
ped. Charleston is the nearest point to her
station at which she can be docked.
The Miami will this week arrive at Key
West and will at once take up her duties.
Her cruising ground extends from the
waters of southern Florida to Cape Ca
tropical hurricanes rage. The Miami is
commanded by Capt. Aaron Gamble:
First Lieut. Roger c. Weightman is ex-
ecutive officer; Second Lieut. Gordon c..
Finley navigator, and Third Lieutenant
of Engineers Alvin II. Bixby in charge
of the engine room
The cutter Morrell which has been
ordered from Detroit to the repair station
of the service at Arundel Cove, Md, is
morrow on her long journey to the Ches-
apeake. The officers of the service scof
at the idea of her having any trouble
with. ice on the trip through the lakes and
the ST. Lawrence river and on the north
Atlantic. The vessel should arrive at
Arundel Cove in the latter part of this
month.
In order to give the cutter Gresham a
chance to Re overhauled before the be-
ginning of the winter cruising season
next month, the cutter Itasca, now at
Arundel Cove, is being made ready for
service. The Gresham will go to Arun-
del Cove from Boston. and on her arrival
there Capt. Winram will transfer his
officers and men to the Itasca and will
proceed to Boston for service. The work
on the Gresham will be pushed SO that
she can return to service in the latter
part Of this month.
The cutter Manning, which is to re-
ceive a general overhaulng at the Mare
Island navy yard has arrived at that point
and has been placed out of commission
She will, it is stated, be out of service
for several weeks.
In spite of the faA that the cutter
Gresham cruised for nearly week on the
New England coast and was constantly
in communication by radio-telegraphy
with other steamships she could find no
trace or obtain any tidings of the dere-
lict lumber-laden schooner reported off
Nantucket several days ago. Having
made thorough search for the derelict
the cutter returned to Boston to await
further tidings of the whereabouts Of the
waterlogged vessel. What has become Of
her since she was sighted about ten DAYS
ago Is something the officials of the reve-
nue. cutter service would like to know
Leaves of absence We're granted and
orders issued to officers In the revenue
cutter service In the past week as fol-
lows:
Third Lieut.. 6. N Anstett, granted
Evening star., 1912-11-03

from the hillside and terrace thrown
outward. forming a level space. The first
OF these places is the S00-yard firing
station. and the second Is the starting
point Of the skirmish runs. 1t was In the
construction Of this earth platform that
Maj. Thomas 8. King. superintendent of
the range. with a gang Of laborers un-
covered part Of the brick foundation OF
a house.
There stood the home of Philip Evans
and later Of Thomas Jenkins OF
Thomas. men who owned large tracts Of
land In the Congress Heights region and
to whom belonged the land on which
District Guardsmen work with rides and
revolvers. When the civil war broke
out this house was owned and occupied
by Thomas Jenkins of Thomas. .or
Thomas" being added to distinguish him
from Thomas jenkins, a kinsman, VINO
also owned land and lived in that neigh
borhood. Jenkins Of Thomas lived there
with his family. One Of his daughters,
the Jenkins estate about three-quarters OF
a mile west of the rifle range The OLD
Jenkins house stood under the lea OF the
northward ridge and faced east. 1t was
one Of the large and fine homes or that
neighborhood Of planters. The west half
In 1851 the house was torn down by
order Of Col. Mccarthy, commanding a
New York infantry regiment, and Its
lumber was used in the construction OF
officers quarters between Fort Snyder
which stood on the crest OF the ridge
near the entrance to the rifle range. and
Forts Wagner and Baker. near Good
Hope.
Before coming by purchase into pos
session of Jenkins. which was about 1S45.
the house and land had been long owned
and occupied by Philip Evans. very
wealthy farmer. He was the builder of
the house.
Not long ago Maj. King discovered on
the high land on which the tents Of troops
are pitched an old burial ground. Many
broken bits Of gravestones were found
This was the burial plot Of the Evans
family. At the time of the civil war this
plot was fenced in and among the TALL
dark cedars growing there was marble
monument over the grave OF Philip
Evans. Other graves were covered with
fiat stones. The story in the neighbor-
hood today is that Evans has many de-
scendants living in Washington and it's
vicinity. One Of Evans daughters, Re
becca, was married to James Sears, an
Alexandria merchant
When the war closed the Evans monu-
Evening star., 1912-11-03

American landscape progress comes along
in the guise of a steam shovel or some
other device for making over things and
the landscape changes.
On the Washington side of the Eastern
branch a few hundred yards southwest OF
Bladensburg is a mill that was turning
out grist long before steam engines be-
gan to hum. Its grist became part of the
blood and bone of early Americans. If
some old men who live not far from the
mill are right its meal and iour-princl-
rally meal-gave stamina to many of the
men who carried flintlocks for the young
republic.
The mill STANDS on the battlefield of
BladenSburg. where the American militia,
under regular leadership and conjointly
with the American regulars engaged.
gave Cp the fight for the capital of the
nation to the British invaders. American
sharpshooters used this mill as cover,
and some of the English received their
death wounds from muskets fired there.
Around the mill is a .weedy jungle
cockleburrs giant ragweed, noxious jim