The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-03-28
THE CITY.
LOCAL sRxvlrIks.

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Weather report. Fair and warmer to-
night; Friday, fair and colder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. J. Seidall mourn the
loss Of twin boys last evening.
A young child Of Albert Hammer, 8
miles south Of town is seriously i'll to.
day.
X Register Of Deeds Schmidt is enjoying
q visit from his cousin, John Schmidt, OF
Campbeltown, Wis.
A. E. Clsugh and John McMechin Of
Winfred arrived on the train from the
west this morning.
Baraboo, Wis, dispatch, Is: Seven
lions were born at Ringling Bros winter
headquarters yesterday.
The young ladies Of the Lutheran
church will give a basket party at tho
Thompson building Friday evening.
Everybody invited.
The friends of Mr.. and Mrs. G. j.
Button will tender them a reception at
the Baptist church this evening to
which a cordial invitation Is extended.
Several favorable results followed the
evaDgelistic services at the Presbyterian
church last evening and it Is hoped more
may follow 10 the future. Services to-
might again ut As prompt. Everybody
Invited.
The county commissioners to-day re.
ceived a telegram from McCaull & Web
ster Of Aberdeen stating that they would
take the full $4,000 worth Of warrants.
The commissioners have already received
quite a number OF applications for seed
grain which have been placed on file.
II The Grand Army committee on speak
sfs for Decoration day have decided to
invite ten boys and girls Of the High
and Normal schools to deliver speeches
of'tive minutes each in length, original,
on topics furnished them by the CON-
mittee. This is a capital idea and an
excellent incentive to patriotism in the
young.
Parties from Concord township an
nounce the death this morning OF Fred
Hammer, aged 70 years, OF lung fever.
Deceased is an old resident of that part
of the county and leaves q wife and
three children. The funeral will take
place tomorrow from the family resi-
dence at 2 p. M, Rev. Karl F. FoIz, pas
tor Of the German Lutheran church,
officiating.
F. d. Fits is now the possessor OF
four handsome Shire mares, just arrived
last evening from Campbeltown, lear
Fond du Lac, Wis. Two of them are
colts under two years old but weighing
thirteen or fourteen hundred weight,
while the older mares will weigh over
100 each. He acquired these valuable
animals 10 a trade for a farm with a
gentlemen in Wisconsin, uncle OF Adelph
Schmidt, our register Of deeds.
The county commissioners last even
ing closed.a deal with McCaull & Web
ster, Of Aberdeen, by which the latter
take $1,000 OF county warrants, aud will
probably take $1,000 moro. States At
torney Murray left this morning by pri.
vate conveyance for Villas whore be took
the train for Aberdeen t. close the
formal part Of the deal. The 5000 bush.
els OF grain contracted for with McCaull
d Webster will be forwarded ut once and
Don be ready for delivery.
The South Dakota's weather bureaus
service gives the monthly summary Of
meteorological changes for February az
follows: Monthly mean temperature
1880 or AZ below the normal. The
monthly mean precipitation was AZ OF
II Of an inch below the normal. The
prevailing direction Of the wind was
northwest, the average number of clear
days, 10; cloudy, 8; partly cloudy, 10
The 7th day OF the month was the cold
est of the winter the average mean tem.
p~erature Of the four regular weather bu.
reau stations for that day being 49, be.
low zero.
Il The first Chautauqua oratorical prize
contest Of the Normal school win be
given publicly by the Eurosophian Lit.
erary society, at the Normal school
Saturday evening, March 80. Following
is the program: Music, song by the
Plantation glee club; GRAFTON, Conserve.
tive and Radical, Leslie Burnett; The
Negro. His Segmas and Melodies, . short
talk, Prot. Gof music, song the Pianta
ton glee club; Grafton, What's In a
Name, Verne =. Shaw; dialogue, Uncle
Remus and the Telephone; Grafton, The
Maid of Orleans, Margaret Gleason;
music, duet, Old Black jos, chorus BY
the glse club; GRAFTON, The Power Of au
Ideal. Carrie Millett; Uncle Remus and
Miss saliis's Little Boy; GRAFTON. Gu,