The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-08-14
THE CITY.
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Farmer Thompson went to Sioux
Falls.
Fred &. Gueffroy Of the Salem Special
is in the city.
Robert Snyder returned to his home at
Evansville, Wis.
The advertising cal for the Lemen
Bros. circus arrived this evening.
S. E. Baldwin always keeps q good
supply of Dwight's -four in stock.
Oliver Gibbs, Jr.. of Ramsey was a
Madison visitor to-day, the first time in
a year
Goods, goods, goods! Immense stocks
Of new goods received by Madison mer-
chants daily.
Fred G. Landers this afternoon proved
up on his homestead before Clerk of
Courts Preston.
Weather report: Fair and cooler to-
night and Thursday. Light frost to-
night; variable winds.
B. E. Beers came up from Easton on
business connected with one OF the coal
Stealing suits last winter. =
Mrs. Wesley Hill and Mrs. F. D. Fits
and children vent to Huron this eve
nlrg to visit Ned Hill and family.
A handicap race from here to Went
worth will take place tonight at Z
o'clock, starting from Egan
Mrs. j. w. Elliott who has been visit
ing her friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Irish,
a few days, departed for Flandreau.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Patterson left
Madison to-day for Hawarden, Iowa, to
visit with Mrs. Patterson's parents.
Miss Emerson OF Sioux Falls, who has
been visiting in Prof. McClenon's family,
went west to Letcher to visit a cousin.
v. R. Walden, proprietor of the Pal
ace drug store, has a barrel Of Pierre
mineral water on tap, pure or charged,
free.
l. E. Hickey, the q operator that
takes Sir. Moore's place under Dispatch
er Wood, is on the ground ready for his
new duties.
Mrs. j. Il. johnson and son Ray de-
parted for visits to friends at Vermillion,
Yankton and Mitchell and will be gone
about two weeks"
Mart Craney yesterday exchanged the
building and lot adjoining the CONNER
cial house for the Chas. Singer farm,
eight miles west Of the city.
Plpestone Star, II: Mrs. N. G. Titus
came down from Marshall this afternoon
and will be the guest OF Mrs. Robert
Scarf during her stay in the Ncity.
Judge Farmer and w. a. Strong and
wife Of Spring Valley, Mimi, came up on
the evening train to visit their children
here and try the chicken shooting.
Miss Jessie Gordon OF Spring Valley,
MIMI, is the guest Of Mr.. aud Mrs. c. A.
Alexander while she visits Carrie Dean,
an invalid, who stays at Mr.. Alexander's.
Jerry Hurley has perfected the bond
by which his stock OF liquors, cigars and
fixtures taken by Sheriff Fox from the
South Dakota bank building on i~njunc-
ton proceedings some months ago may
be released. The sheriff was engaged
this afternoon in checking out the stuff.
Morris H. Kelley. secretary of the
State Fair association, writes that the
people OF Sioux Falls are taking hold oil
the state fair arrangements with q vim,
have offered about $500 in special pre-.
miums and have paid up the cash pledge
OF the board. They are also working ul
many special features and offering
special prizes to the church societies FOL
decorating the buildings. The fair il
going to be a grand SUCCESS and all inter
ested should send for premium lists.
The weather bureaus monthly sum
mary for July in South Dakota shows ,
monthly mean temperature OF 7O.8 de
grees. This was OF below the normal
The monthly NEAR precipitation was l.,
inches, or 1873 inches below normal
The greatest rainfall was at Brookinp,
which amounted to $40 inches for tn,
month; the least at Rapid City, 0.39 o
an inch. Prevailing direction of tn,
wind was. south and the Temperature
reached or exceeded 100 at one or NOR,
stations on II days Of the month. Tn
4th and 9Th of the month we're exception
ally disagreeable days over much Of tn
state in point of combined effect Of higl
wind. Some stock was killed by light
ming on the 18th in DEUEL. county an
IN the 10th in Jerauld county. Prob
ability Of rainy days for south Dakot
during September are: Eastern portion
"a per cent; central, is; western, 16.