The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-26
THE CITY.
LOCAL BREvxTxEh.

LOCAL II Il y E~
E. Kramer went down to Flandrau on
a business trip.
H. H. Cuisine arrived on the train
from the north.
The populist city caucuses will be
held tomorrow evening.
Mrs. A. H Yoder and children and
Will Yoder departed for Valparaiso, Ind.
Weather report: Fair tonight and
Friday. Cooler east aud central por.
tons tonight.
Peter Backhaus has been doing some
threshing these days and reports a yield
OF eight bushels per acre.
Council met IN special session last
night and let the contract for enlarging
the power house to Chas. Glatz.
Mrs. Eliza Bora, OF Sioux City who
has been here looking after her River
side farm and other property in this
vicinity returned home.
No. 9, wheat on the local market to-
day is % cents, flax SO, oats, IA. Septem-
Der wheat struck it's high mark II Chi
cago for the year to-day at 5l.Ol.
Contractor Schwarz inspected the new
Smith Fitzgerald block this morning
returning to Sioux Falls at II a. M. He
is we'll pleased with the building. The
maEon's also departed yesterday and
to-day.
Invitations have been issued tor a
reception at the home of Mrs. Fits to-
Mrs. Fits will be assisted in receiving
by Mrs. r. G. McCalhster, Mrs. Hill and
Mrs. Wright,
Mrs. G. w. Wood gave a tea party
yesterday afternoon, complimentary to
her sister, Mrs. Williams of Sioux City,
who returned home by the morning
passenger. Mrs. Williams has been the
guest of her sister during the past three
weeks and has made many pleasant
acquaintance in Madison.
Mrs. G. NJ. Ingalls,, mother of Mrs. l..
L. Wing, who has been visiting here dur.
ing the summer returned to her Canadi-
an home just across the Vermont line.
She had received word from her hus-
band that he had lost about a thousand
dollars worth of property by flood, heavy
rains having caused an exceedingly high
rise in a neighboring river.
Miss Dorothy Williams of Sioux City,
who accompanied by her mother, has
been the guest OF her aunt, Mrs. G. H.
Wood, returned home to-day, MISS
Williams expressed herself highly
pleased with her visit and s,gnifed her
intention to come again next summer.
She was accompanied on her return by
Miss Dot Stahl and mother, who 60 to
visit relations and friends at Dakota
City, Neb.
The University association center met
at the Presbyterian church last evening
and had q very profitable meeting. Spe.
cial features of the session were papers
on "What do the Egyptian monuments
tell? by Geo. Beck; Religion OF the
Egyptians and it's effect upon the PEG.
ple," by Prof. McClenon; Geography Of
Ethiopia and its o~ivilizat,on," by Mrs.
G. B. Kennedy; and questions on the
history of the Babylonian and Assyrian
Empires, by Or. 8. NJ. jerks, Many
side lights were also thrown in by others
in the animated discussions of these
subjects. The next lesson concludes the
first number Of "Progrsss" at the meet.
ing two weeks hence. Over thirty mem.
bers of the center were present last
evening.
The old Minneapolis grades Of wheat
will be in effect until September l, but
the Minnesota warehouse commission
has added the following rule to govern
much of the new wheat that is coming
in but does not properly classify with
the old grades. It is merely supple.
mentary to the rules governing the
grades of No. 2, Northern, and No. 3
wheat: "Hard, flinty wheat Of good
color, containing no Improbable quantity
Of soft wheat, will be admitted to the
grades of No. 2 northern and No. 3
wheat provided the test weight OF the
same is not more than one pound less
than the required test weight Of the said
grades, and provided that, in all other re.
spects, said wheat is qualified for ad-
mission in said grades"
Ginder Brothers have fresh fish.
For tho genuine Anheuser Busch La.
get Beer, by the glass, key or case, 20 to
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