The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-04-28
LOCAL RREyIrIEs.


LOCAL RREvITIEs.
Little folks entertainment at the Pres
byterian church tonight.
Clerk OF Court Preston moved into his
own house in the northwest part OF town
yesterday.
Weather report: Fair In northwest
portion, rain elsewhere followed by fair
weather Saturday night, warmer to-day
and Saturday morning.
Mrs. f. N. Palmer this afternoon re-
ceived a dispatch from Blue Earth City.
Mimi, announcing the illness OF her
baby daughter, Pearl, and will to-mor-
row depart for Blue Earth City to attend
her bedside.
Auditor Runkle to-day received the
new assessors books for Lake county
and will distribute them tomorrow to
the township assessors when they meet
to receive their instructions from the
county commissioners.
e. p. Mueller is ~canvassing tickets for
the firemeI's dance. The actual and
necessary expenses of the team which
goes to the tournament Will be an even
$500 and the boys will need some help to
raise it. Some one has got to hustle.
Judge Holdridge's court was occupied
this afternoon with the second case OF
the city against Chas. Brahim for gamb-
ling. The complaint was brought by
Chas. Angle and was stubbornly con-
tested by the defence. Judge Holdridge
held against the prisoner and he was
fined $40 and costs, amounting in all to
$24.SO.
Murray & Porter yesterday made out
the papers for Thos. F~eneran, OF Ramo-
ma, by which he will draw his increase OF
"a per month pension since December 8,
1892, he having been allowed % per
month up till that time. Mr.. Feneran
was in the navy during the war and was
one of the tars who sailed past the bat
teries with Admiral Farragut and cap
tured New Orleans. He was taken with
scurvy while in the navy and lost all his
teeth, besides inheriting other ailments
that Justly entitle him to a liberal PEN
sion.
A. w. Holdridge has a rectangular
pillar VI Lake county soil three feet
deep, taken from the farm Of Mr..
Thomas, near Ramona, when the ground
was frozen. He has made for this a box
about q foot square and the depth Of the
soil, with a plate glass front, into which
he viii set the earth and exhibit it at
the worlds fair. The soil 10 q rich, black
loan all the depth and just reached the
clay sub-soil. The inscription on the
top OF the box will read, "This is an
average depth of the upland soil of the
farm from which it was taken"
A meeting Of the state board OF mana
gers of the Teachers and Pupils Read
ing Circle, OF South Dakota, held a SEES
sion in this city yesterday and to-day
The committee consisted of Supt. Glea.
son, Of De Smet, I'll. J. Whipple, Sioux
Falls, III. L. Bras, Mitchell and Prof
Dempster, secretary, Madison. They
Land out the course of reading Tor
the next year, and made considerable
change in the management. To the
list OF books in teachers course they
added, 1.-THE Schoolmaster in Literature
with pedagogical studies and Historical
readings" by Shepherd. To the ninth
grade OF the Pupils course they add the
"Childs' History OF England" The
motto OF this organization is I'm every
school a library; in every home a reader
in this respect being the most advanced
state in the union. The Circle is in @
fiourishing condition and growing rapid
ly. The members OF the committee took
the several trains for home this after.
noon.