The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1920-10-29

Rev. Gaines went down to Big Stone
Tuesday to attend a meeting of the
directors in the forward movement Of
Miss Leona Jacguot and Helen Bles-
er returned from a weeks visit with
friends in Aberdeen.
Remember, when you want canned
foods. the GLASS JAR LABEL brand
is the best to be had. We have all
kinds IN hand and you should try 4
can of them. Thirsk's.
The electric light office on the COR
ner of Main Street and Third Ave-, has
been pretty thoroughly renovated and
frightened up during the past week.
Earl Liggett faced the cold north
west wind last Tuesday in a drive to
Wilmot and is prepared to say on
good authority that it was cold. Com
ing back, however, it was clear sail
ing.
the Evangelical church.
Mrs. Marie S. Bell, of Selby, S. d.,
arrived here Wednesday for 4 short
visit with Mrs. o. J. Coons. and the
two ladies Will make a trip to Mime
apolis during the week.
Railroad men and other acuaaint-
ances were panied o.hear of the death
Of John Buckley last Saturday, the de-
ceased man having shot himself near
his home at Minnehaha Falls. Mr..
Buckley was one of a number of con-
ductors recently let out from their
positions, and it is believed that tho
matter SO PLAYED upon his mind that
he lost his reason.
Mrs. Andrus of Aberdeen, who had
been attending the wedding Of her
brother Eddie Seide who was married
in Indiana last week. arrived here on
Saturday and returned to Aberdeen
Sunday with her little son who had
been visiting with his aunt, Mrs. Wal
ter Lowthian while his mother was
+. east.
Prof. Coke who recently resigned
his school at Ortley to accept Il posi-
ton with the pure food and dairy COM
mission was in town the first of the
week. Mrs. Coke having come down
from Ortley and spent Sunday here.
G.. T. Oehler returned Saturday
from North Dakota where he had been
to look after some of his farming in
terests in that state.
Mrs. y. ]. Lowthian has been notiti-
rl w, 4l 49,. h III
receive the widows pension, which
starts from the FIRST of May. 1920.
Under the new law which was passed
by Congress durin@ 1919 the monthly
payments amount to $50. TIE pen sion
formerly amounted to S23. Col. Lowth-
ian died Last fall, one of three Civil
War veterans to pass away within Il
few months of each other.
Last call for canning Pears for this
year. Come nov or you'll be too late.
Thirsk's.
Earl Lee visited friends in the city
on Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. Mr.. Lee has hen in the Web
stcr hospital the past nincsweeks, haN-
llig D'tH III u1IiStl Ol losing Tile SlSti
Of his eyes. He has recovered sufic-
iently now 80 that he is able to see
with one eye. While the other is row
ing tronger daily. He returned to his
homo At Miles City. Mont, where he
has been living for the past six months
In a letter to Milbank relatives.
Elmer O'Leary. who left here with
Frank Rear last August says that they
We're apout thru the Panama Canal.
They We're delayed for additional sup
E. ply of oil and took occasion to write
home. The two Milbank "gobs" enlist
ed in the service for the Eagle Boat
cruise. The Navy department re-
cruited former service men for two
! months service to take ten Eagle
boats around the coast from Ports
mouth, N. H., to Mare Island, Calf.
OF the ten boats that started out on
the trip there are now only three, the
others having dropped out for repairs
or abandoned for this trip. The Eagle
boats are the ships which the Ford
factory turned out during the war.