The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-01-10
New County Officers


Last Tuesday afternoon quito
/ 4 general turning over took places
! at the court house. the new
/ officials being installed, and
several of the familiar forms and
! faces that have lowered around
! the court house for several years
past bade farewell TO thoir places
The register of deeds office
which has been in charge of
| Franz Wendland for the past
four years, and where Franz had
been familiar figure as deputy
register OF deeds for d great
many years before he was elected
register. was turned over to Roy
MADEIRA. the newly elected regis
ter, who will have charge of the
office for the next two years
The county Superintendent'S
office SO has a new man i'll
charge Prof H. d. Souder. for
mer superintendent of the Big
| Stone City schools. succeeding
Prof. +. +. Purdy, who has had
the schools of the county in his
care for the past four years.
| While Prof. Purdy Surrenders
his school work the court house
will still be his habitat, but he
will be found in the clerk of
courts office instead of in the
uperlntendent $ Office us form
erIv and John Liggett who for
the past eight years has presided
in the clerk $ Office has retired.
John O. Nelson. who for four
years past has sat at the seat of
customs and taken our hard -
earned money for taxes. will
make place for his deputy; AL
bert Lindahl. who has learned
! how to do the trick. ana who will
hereafter gather in the county
money and if he is as success
ful a> Nelson has been in making
Us all pay our share there
shouldn t be any kick coming
AS W S Nixson, the county
auditor was reelected he will
| have no trouble in turning over
| the records to his successor. and
! he will not have to do even this
! for a couple Of months. as the
! auditor is given this extra time
To close up the years business
] for the county. whose bookkeep.
/ er he is.
/ County Judge :. s. Loc'lhart
| was also one of the feele cted, and
| he filed his bond and took the
oath of Office for the two years to-
come and will look after the es-
tate of deceased Grant county
people during this time.
A new county at oroey has al
SO been installed in the person
of Attorney Geo. $. RiX, who
succeeds Attorney Thad l.. Ful
Ter. who for four years past has
very successfully attended to
the legal business of the county
and prosecuted offenders against
! the law and statutes in such caeS
made and provided.
William Jennings the sheriff
was reelected and has com
menced on another two years as
, principal peace officer of the
county. and a faithful and com
! petent one he will make
Toe county commissioner in
the third commissioner district,
John Maxwell, who has been on
the board for three years. and
who is thoroughly familiar with
county affairs and county needs,
was reelected and succeeds him
self.
The county has been partic-
ularly fortunate in the past few
! years IN having intelligent, cOur-
teOus. competent and honorable
men in its various offices, and the
public affairs have been general
~ well taken care Of We be
lleve that the present set of
officers are in no wise inferior to
those Of the past, and we predict
that the countys affairs for the
next two wears will he wellh and
led
/ On Tuesday afternoon the
good feeling prevailing at the
court house took the form of II
treating epidemic. and the new
officers were compelled to set up
the cigars, peanuts and fruit to
court house employees and ,isi-
tors Us we'll as the retiring Off :
GERS.