The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-02-01
Local and Personal Paragraphs

arrangements TOT Cne organization Ol
a Junior red cross.
A. l.. Heilner, of the post office
force, has been laid up during the
week with a severe attack Of lum-
bago.
The new round house is now
about completed and the locomo-
tives have been housed for the past
week.
Mrs. Laura Tidgon Of the Nation
al Equal Franchise League will ad-
dress the women of Grant county
at the Court House on Saturday
afternoon, Feb. 2, at 3:45 o'clock
w. Z Let's started on q trip
to Saskatchewan last week,
where his brother. Bert Let's.
has been quite i'll. Mr.. Let's
expects to br ne his brother
back with him.
Mrs. Denholm, Of Andnver, a
-ousin Of Mrs. James Jones has
been visiting the latter for a week.
but has gone to Montevideo to visit
friends at that place
Clarence Lewis accompanied his
mother, Mrs. VIM. Lewis as far as
Montevideo last Tuesday, the lat
ter being called to Floyd. Iowa, by
the serious illness Of her father.
Frank Bray.
H. j. Christensen, Of Wilmot,
the machine man. who in company
with j. S. and l.. p. Farley made
it possible to have the international
Tractor School here this week. has
been in the city this week helping
to male the affair a success
At the anniversary meeting next
Friday evening the boy scouts will
hold an open meeting at which the
older folks r particularly invited
to be present. The program Of ex-
e~rcises will be published next
week.
Messrs. John A. Bailey, Of
Beardsley and James A. Bailey Of
Ortonville. were here last Friday,
trying to stir up their brother G.
+. Bailey Of this place and get him
raft I'd On business or politics.
The 60 nent thermometer.
according to observer Partridge,
recorded % below zero Wednesday
morning, and Is below Thursday
morning. Only once before curing
the winter, in the first part Of Jan
uary. did the mercury get down to
% below.
John Ecklund, one Of the pr
gressive farmers a few miles south
of Wilmot. was here during the
week taking in the tractor school,:
Mr.. Ecklund farms 400 acres. and
last fall with his 2O-1O Information
al Tractor, plowed $50 acres in two
weeks, blowing night and day.
Attorney Seth T~easdale, Of Aber-
deem. was brought to Miibank
last week on a charge Of obtaining
money under false %pretenses, hav-
ing issued a check to the proprie-
tors Of the City Bakery for some
three dollars which was returned
here marked no funds in bank.
Mr.. Teasdale gave bond for az
pearance at circuit court.
Howard Molm, Of Relfeld. N. D.,
who had been down at the old home
in Morrlstown. Mimi. stopped off
at Milbank for a few days during
the week while on his way home,
and visited with his sister. Mrs. w.
w. Downie, and his son Ralph.
Hold was a Milbank lad some twenty
years ago, working in the Herald
office, and enjoyed meeting many
of the old timers here.
Attorney Geo. S. Rix celebrated
his birthday in a very modest man.
ner this year. The event occurs on
the same day that the Kaiser cele-
brates his arrival on earth and
George 81 8 he thOt that II he
should engage in c)nviviality his
friends might think he was doing
a oh der kaiser act, 50 he just
drank his coffee and said he was
glad he was born.
County Superintendent Bar ickloW
is arranging for the winter short
course in agriculture, which will
be held at the court house Febru-
ary 18th and 10th. An interestir g
program Of farm topics will be dis
cussed and experts in different
branches Of farming the state agri-
cultural college and elsewhere will
be present. Progressive farmers
will not miss This gathering.