The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-04-12
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Brace brothers living between here
and Lake Madison had their entire stock
OF summer hams stolen from their barn
last night which entails quite q sever
loss upon them.
Fred Curtis living in the west side OF
town had his bicycle stolen last night.
Il lay up against the house on the out
side and some one found it convenient to
ride away with it.
JAS. Keegan, OF Clarno, was in the city
this afternoon and reports his seeding
all done except q little barley. He says
the seeding will be nearly all completed
in his part OF the county this week.
Auditor Rankel to-day leased %
tracts OF school land most OF II going at
live cents per acre though spirited bid
ding on the sections adjoining the city
run some pieces up to twenty per
acre.
Bicyclists are invited to the Lake
Park hotel this evening between 8 and 8
o'clock and will have q treat in being
shown how to repairs punctured tire
Of any description blindfolded, by night
or by day, an indispensable accomplish
ment in bicycle riding.
In connection with its great Fourth of
july celebration, the Sioux Falls CONF
mittee OF arrangements for the 90
casion are considering the feasibility Of
securing the First regiment OF the state
militia encampment during the first week
in July. Madison will not secure the
encampment u~ncontested il the urgent
appeals OF the press OF the Queen City
are needed.
Owing to the withdrawal OF his petit
tlon fled in the city ~auditors'a office un-
til after the city caucnses and v
tion, q misapprehension has arisen in re-
gard TO the candidacy OF A. F. Glover for
mayor MI. Glover is not out OF the
field and bin certificate Of denomination
will be filed tomorrow. Mr.. Glover
wants 1t understood that he 10 o candi-
date until the polls close on election day.
Argus Leader, III: Col. 4. III. Ruth,
commissioner or public lands, State
Auditor Nipple, and Capt. &c. Glpson,
who IL in Col. Ruth's Office, arrived in
this city last evening from Madison.
Yesterday they sold the achool lands OF
Lake county, Col. Ruth said these lan's
sold from s12 to s1s per acre, averaging
about $15 per acre, and is the highest
price OF secured in that county.
The ladies of the several churches are
busy planning and preparing for a "Mid-
way Plaisance" entertainment to be
given at the opera house the evenings of
the Oath and 25th OF April. The general
admission will be Is cents and supper
10 cents, but special glimpses of the
Beauty Show" can be obtained for 10
cents additional, of the Moorish place
for 8 cents, Cairo for 5 cents a ride on
the Ferris wheel for 5 cents, and all else
free. The beauties OF ten countries will
be exhibited in the 'Show" all dressed
in their national costumes and many
others OF the leading attractions OF the
Great Midway will be accurately repre-
sented. To those who did not attend
the worlds fair this will be q rare treat
Sioux Falls Press, II: The MADIsNo
DAILY LEADER il four years old, and the
Press most cordially wishes for it a
multitude or anniversaries. There il no
possible amount OF good things thatcould
come TO The LEADER which would not
be correspondingly gratifying to the
Press. A little over sixteen years ago
the editor Of The LEADER and the
editor OF the Press started together in
the newspaper business in Sioux Falls,
and for four years they worked day
after day getting out the old Panta-
graph-enioying reasonable prosperity,
and building castles in the air. For 81
dozen years they have been separated,
but this fact has not at all diminished
the earnest hope of this writer that the
fates may be kind and beneficent to-
Jimmie Stahl.
Reliable, new and fresh bulk garden
seeds, just received ut the Book Store.
Stem winding watches, $500 Mt