The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-09-13
THE CITY.
LOCAL RREVITlEA.

Weather report: Fair to night and
Tuesday.
I. d. Smith was an outgoing passen-
ger this morning.
The sister OF Mrs. Adrian Smith re-
turned to O,Neill, Neb.
j. A. Dawson is repairing the corner
of the postoffice building.
Clyde Belknap returned to Yankton to
resume his college studies.
New girls arrived at the homes of Rev.
Tilgner and Art Lee yesterday morning.
Mary Davis, Sister of Mrs. John
Chestnut, returned to her home at
Yankton.
X Not many rains of the past season were
any heavier than the twelve hours down.
pour we had last night.
Mrs. Hoffman of Savannah, ILL.,, who
has been the guest of Mrs. John HolstoD
for some time, returned home.
X The Omaha roofing company has
commenced putting on the new
roofing of the Lannon-Cook block.
All members Of the Good Templar's
Lodge are requested to meet this even
ing at s o'clock at the home of Edna
Scott.
x Lightning struck the barn Of Abner
Brooks, on the north line of the county
last night, killing six horses aud burning
up the barn, hay and other contents.
Circuit court in and for Lake county
will be convened tomorrow evening
when Judge Jones arrives on the 4 p. IN.
train. Jurors are summoned to appear
Wednesday morning.
The ladies' aid society Of St. Thomas
church will give Il chicken pie supper in
Lannon and Cooks new store Thursday
evening of this week, from 5 p. NJ. until
8. Supper, % cents; children, Is cents.
Deputy Supreme Commander, C. K.
Haw arrived this evening to initiate a
class in the M~accabees. The new para.
phernalia for this tent has arrived and is
SAID TO be the finest in the state, and
taken all together the members expect
to have a big night of it.
x Rev. DR.. Wolff notified his congrega-
ton yesterday that he would tender his
resignation to the Presbytery at it's
meeting the 9Th of next month and asked
the congregation to unite with him in
asking the Presbytery to dissolve the
pastoral relation, his services to close
here with the meeting of the Synod in
this city, October Z.
Ed. Kelley who was recently tried here
for stealing butter at Wentworth and
was let Oft on his " recognizance has
lately come to grief at Brookings. He
ven out with a team and stole some
wheat but in driving away from the
place q OF his horses fell into an old
we'll, which led to his capture. He is
now serving out SIS days in the Brook.
ings Jail.
y The following from the Flandrau
Herald OF the 18th inst, has reference to
the young man who won the first place
here in the competitive examination for
appointment to the Naval Academy at
Annapolis: Information has reached US
that Bud Gay has passed the final OK.
animation and is o a full fledged naval
cadet. That Bud will some day become
famous is believed by his many friends
Sioux Falls dispatch. g: Christ
Jasmann OF Scotland has just sold lis
head Of feeders which Melted him e45
per head, or So, l05 for the lot. G.. N.
Lawton Of the same place has sold two
car loads Of fat cattle in Chicago at $3.50
per hundred and has 300 more which he
will soon ship. Both Of these men came
to South Dakota without anything and
both have made fortunes out of live
stock.
City schools resumed work to-day but
after enrolment and assignment of
lessons the pupils of the Central build.
ing had to be dismissed until to morrow
owing to the hammering going on in
the " new rooms beng fitted up above.
1t lis expected the hammering will DO
pretty much completed to-day so that
the other departments may continue to.
morrow and the two grades-Sixth and
Seventh, Misses Glatz and Tobin.