The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-01-22
THE CITY.
Local. BREyITIEs.


reau.
L. McCurdy, of Mitchell, is in the city
on business.
NJohn Walden went to Sioux Falls on
the noon train.
Remember revival meetings each eve
ming ut the M. e. church.
Stanley Jones was . passenger FOR the
east on the morning train.
Bank Receiver Thompson went to
Sioux Falls on the ii q. m. train.
A brother OF j. A. Trow arrived on the
evening train on q visit to the latter.
Father Haire, OF Aberdeen, came
down on the train from the north, going
east.
AThe young Scandinavian people will
have a,dance at the opera house Friday
evening.
Weather report today: Fair and de-
cidedly colder tonight. Wednesday fair
and warmer by evening.
Are you going to revival meeting to-
night? Song service commences at 7:30
at the Methodist church.
Big Stone City correspondence OF the
Milbank Advance, Is: c. Stolzman of
Madison, 8. D., was a guest OF J. +.
Schwantes this week.
Rev. w. j.. Hill, Presbyterian minister
from Huron, passed east to Wentworth
today to assist Rev. w. 81. Stump of
that place in revival work.
Abe Gold, a clothing house travelling
man, Of Milwaukee, Wis.,, who has car
vassed this country for twenty-five
years is doing business in the city.
Waubay Clipper, II: Miss Lottie
Crosby returned from Madison, where
she has been attending tire State Nor
NAL. Wednesday night. She was accom-
panied by Miss Maggie Black, OF Mil
bank, also a student nj that institution.
Miss Black vent on TO Milbank today.
fCounty Treasurer Fleming today re-
ceiyed q note from Representative Shir-
Icy @uAMhEA1A khC &AAOAab Va RGk5SAAmt
property tax lost in this county, and
stating in connection Herewith that he
is preparing a bin to make taxes the
first lien on personal property in prefer
ence to mortgages, the same as real
estate. While he will not introduce the
bill itself he will see that it gets through
the legis' aturei il possible. He also Estates
that the populists in the Legislature
have decided to vote for Senator Craw-
ford Of K~ingsbnry county for United
States senator today.
~ Prof. Taylor was greeted with a pack
ed house in the Baptist church last eve
ming TO hear his lecture on alcohol In the
light OF present day science. Up : D Is
years ago 1t was supposed that alcohol
was d stimulant and had a food value.
Now it ID clearly demonstrated by the
most noted scientists that it has no food
value whatever, u not a stimulant but
q narcotic and sure poison. To prove
this and show how it affected the brain
and determined the evil actions OF men
was the work Of b evening and the
professor did it most conclnsively. X Hav-
ing proved the deadly and poisonous
character OF alcohol, he drew the con-
elusion that If expediency, regulation OF
the traffic, la former years was based up
ON the assumption that alcohol was only
a stimulant and had q food value, then
now that the opposite was proven there
could be but one position for temper
ance and all other people to take and
that is, the humiliation OF the alcohol
or liquor traffic. The professor fortified
his position with such indisputable ar
sunlents that conviction OF the correct
ness of his conclusions was all that was
left ti.o nearer. It was a strong tenn
neranse lecture. Tonight he demon
atsatss ~ Practical experiments before
80 a~nAiensethe poisonous ingredients
of lsa tohacco. ste.