The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-05-17
LOCAL BREvITIEs.


LOCAL BREvITIEs.
DR.. Daniels reports twins at the home
of Robt. Swan on the old John Bailey
place.
Weather report: Thursday, local
thunder storms in east portion OF state,
cool; considerably cooler Thursday
night.
States Attorney Soper has very neatly
refittsd his Office and has had a private
room partitioned of for further con-
~venience OF consultation.
Salem Special, ID: Mrs. j. s. Mosher,
accompanied by her grand daughter,
Miss Florence Loveioy, drove down yes
terday to pay her daughter, Mrs. j. E.
Patten, q visit.
Clayton Thompson and Miss Rena V.
Baker, of Aberdeen, were married on the
| 10th inst. Miss Baker will be remem-
bered as a former clerk in the Madison
National bank.
| Parker New Era, 13: A. d. Tomlin-
son sold his 56O-acre farm on the river IN
Middleton township, on Saturday last,
to Fred Meier for a Freeport party, for
the handsome sum of $40, 700, or s35 an
acre, About eight years ago, Mr.. Tom
linson bought the land for less than q
third Of the above sum.
ID. s. Ward. advance agent for Hurl-
burt & Leftwich's combined shows, is in
the city to-day hanging paper for the.
entertainment to be given liz Madison
Friday, May 26, afternoon and evening.
The shows consist of trained animals-
horses and dogs-and a tirst-class circus
performance.
The DAILY LEADER to-day received.a
letter frow f. r. Van Slyke, who is at
tending the Odd Fellows gathering at
Sioux Falls containing the following:
"In the Initiatory degree contest last
evening between our team and Sioux
Falls team. we lost the prize by one
point only, This, against the crack
team Of the state, makes u boys feel
uncommonly well. 4. w. Hart, as past
grand, wal very highly complimented
by the committee of Judges, he having
made no mistake. Tonight we contest
with same team in the First degree"
A team OF Mr.. Kelley, who lives just
out of town, made q very pretty run-a-
way last evening. 1t started from j.. A.
Johnson's corner and went up the full
length OF Egan avenue pell NELL, turned
on the prairie beyond the normal school
and came down Egan avenue again at a
full gallop and locked into a lumber
wagon at the point of starting in front
of j. A. Johnson's and were there stop
ped without damage or injury to either
wagons or teamse The spectators which
lined the streets reminded the reporter
OF the crowd which watches a half dozen
men pull a fire engine through a muddy
street,
Pi~pestone, Mimi, Daily Star, Is: II
is said there is q bible in the Presbyter.
ian church in this city, which might tell
q thrilling love story could it but speak
One page of the book is mutilated by 9
tiny pin hole, and here starts the story
which, as near rs can be leraned by oul
scribe, is as follows: A few Sundays
ago a young gentleman sat in a seat ad
joining one in which sat a young lady fol
whom he had conceived q sudden anc
violent passion and was DESTROYS OF en-
tering into courtship on the spot but The
place not suiting a formal declaration b.
was compelled to resort to a more move
plan. He politely handed his fair neigh
Dor a bible (open) with a pin stuck in thu
following text: III John, verse 8 "Ant
now ! beseech thee, fair lady, not 81
: though / wrote q new commandment I'M
to thee, but that which we have had from
the beginning, that we love one another.
She returned it pointing to the secon
chapter of Ruth, verse 1O-3sThen sh,
fell on her face and bowed herself to tn,
ground, and said unto him, why have
n IOuEu grave III Utilize eyes tHdo IuOt
shouldst take notice Of me, seeing that
am a stranger?'" He returned the book
pointing to the thirteenth verse OF th
Third Epistle of John Having man,
things to write unto you, l would no
write with paper and ink, but | trust t
come unto you and speak face to fac
that our JOY may be full" Il is needles
to say that arrangements for the wed
ding are now being made.
For sale or rent, a nine-room house
DR. Il. Il. CLARK.
Ely Time!
Screen doors and windows, all kind
J. and sizes, at Rersch q Coffey's.
u With but little care and no trouble
the beard and mustache can be kept
uniform brown or black color by usin
IS Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.