The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-22
THE CITY.
LOCAL ~.

Tor K TO VlSlL n0r uuSOHuu.
Mrs. John p. Havervold OF Summit
proved up on her homestead today.
A. E. Clough and little daughter,
Eva, went to Chicago for a week or two.
County Treasurer Berther sent $500
license money to the state department
to-day.
Weather report: Partly cloudy with
showers west portion tonight. Probably
ly showers Friday. l.
Rev. and Mrs. Stump and Adolph
Harms were Wentworth visitors at the
county seat today.
Thos. Rise formerly a tailor in the city
returned this evening from a several
years %sojourn in Norway.
Notice the new advertisement OF Chas.
Angle in this paper. Mr.. Angle has
engaged in nursery business.
G. T. Burns, travelling auditor for the
American Express company is looking
over the affairs OF the local Office this at.
ternoon.
Mrs. Fred Northey. of Northern Min.
nesota, arrived on the afternoon train on
a visit to her parents, MIR. and Mrs. 8.
E. Baldwin.
Mrs. J. w. Dawson will serve ice.
cream and cake at her home Friday
afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock for the
benefit OF the Presbyterian Ladies Aid
ssciety. An invitation is extended to all.
The Commercial House on Main street
opens up tonight in charge OF Mrs.
Chestnut, ST., \ very competent
The house has been entirely
refitted, paint and papering, and re-
furnished anew throughout.
4 A picnic is announced to take place at
Sioux Falls Point, Lake Madison, to-
morrow to be participated in by farmers
and others in that vicinity. The steamer
City Of Madison will furnish the pic
nickers with pleasure excursions.
< Mrs. F. G. Ball gave a very delightful
tea party last evening IN honor of her
neice, Miss Hammock of Oelwein, Iowa.
The invited guests were Misses Daisy
Beck, Alice Jenke, Jessie Pierce, Edna
Scott, Emily Clark, Alice Currie, Nell
O'Connor.
The worm in the second joint of the
stalk which is destroying grain around
Aberdeen and Groton is called the
weevil. The weevil when developed is a
long-beaked beetle which destroys wheat
in the field, stack and granary and car
only be exterminated, We have fire.
quently heard said, by burning thu
barns it infests.
<The wheat market is assuming an in
teresting condition these days being OF
the upward grade steadily. The loca
market is quoted at 66 cents. The i'm
mense exports in this cereal shows
shortage abroad and the reports from tn
home fields are not r%eassuring. 1t nov
begins to look as if there would be mon
ey in wheat this fall.
* Hugh Clark & Co., have gone int
the show business and billed the tow
to-day with type written posters, . by
inches in size containing the following
extraordinary announcement: "Comin'
July %, at 3 p. M, at Hugh Clark's barr
Great Magic Lantern and Zoascop
entertainment, followed by special pre-
gram and shadows. Price n cen,
You can't afford to mics it. Only Zos
scope in town."
A telegram was received this mornin
by A. H. Marsland, from Mr.. Prick, sor
in.law Of Gen. Beadle, Chicago, Stain
that Mrs. Beadle died yesterday OF per
tontis. No further particulars wei
given. Gen. and Mrs. Beadle left bel
two weeks g to attend the nations
teachers educational convention at Mi
waukee and after visiting at that cit
went on to their daughters home
Chicago. Mrs. Beadle was evidently
we'll as usual when she left here, thong
not by any mean in good health, for 81
has long been q sufferer. 1t is high
probable that a cold caught as a resu
Of many changes in place and temper
ture during the extremely trying weatl
or of the past two weeks has resulted
fever and p~eritonitis. It was no douI
a consolation to be at their daughter
home during her last illness, but
President Bsadle, to whom she was 90
sharer Of his time and labor. it will be
a severe blow. The sympathy Of all tn
community, of the hundreds of Norm
School students and the thousan
Of personal friends and a~cquaintances
President Beadle throughout the sta
will be extended to him in this tin
OF his bereavement.
DWanted, a girl to do general hout
work. MRS. HENRY NELL.