The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-07-26
THE CITY,.
LOCAL BREVlTlES.


Weather report: Fair tonight and
Tuesday.
Mrs. Kelley and children of Flandrau
returned home.
x-The Misses ida and Sada Jones went
to Fulda on a visit.
I. D. Smith and family were passen.
gers for Akron, Iowa.
John Chaplin and wife of Winfred
spent the day in the city.
"Dckota or Bust" was the legend on
a prairie schooner which drove into town
to-day.
y Alderman Ripe of the Second ward
has filed his resignation with the city
auditor.
Nj. E Hart returned from Pennsylva.
ria looking as if he had come through
the great strike.
The kindergarten meeting Saturday
failed to materialize and consequently no
business was done.
Rev. W. r. Thompson who filled the
Presbyterian pulpit here yesterday re-
turned to Sioux Falls.
Arrivals on the evening tram: Rev.
DR.. Wolff, Mrs. N. B. Smith and Mrs.
c. H. Smith of Spring Valley, Mimi.
Thoe. Richmond and wife of Momance,
Ind, are here on a visit to Station Agent
Holmes and wife. The two ladies are
sisters.
Editors Dowell of Artesian aud Wait of
Howard, went east this morning On their
way to join the editorial outing at Min
neapoiis.
Thos. Crow, who has been lying ill at
the residence of 8. Devall for several
months, suffering from consumption,
died at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Mrs. Hugh Murray entertained a half
dozen couples of young people Saturday
evening in honor of her sister, Miss Har
ris, of Appleton, Wis.,, who is visiting
here.
< Manager Fintzel Of the Hyde Elevator
company is pulling down the coal sheds
of his company here and will move them
back from the track 4 little and enlarge
them to a building lSxlOO feet when re-
built.
Tomorrow evening at the residence Of
Mr.. and Mrs r. C. McCallister, the East
ern Star ladies will give a lawn party to
which the public generally is invited.
Ice.cream and cake will be served for 10
cents.
Howard dispatch, 90: Burglars en-.
tered Shove's store through a window
last night and took all the money in the
cash drawer, 81, all the jewelry. some
clothing and shoes; in all about 800
worth.
X Two other young men OF the CITY who
will have the best wishes of the COM
munity for their success have gone into
business for themselves-Leslie j. Bur
nett and Chas. Marquardt. The have
bought out the gun and bicycle repair
shop of Gunsmith Lewis, adjoining the
opera house.
X John, the eldest son Of Geo. r. Farmer
Esq, was sitting in the window Of the
kitchen, after dinner to-day leaning
against the screen when the latter gave
way and let him drop into the open cellar
way below. He struck the small of his
back on the edge of the cellar step in
juring him quite severely thr rough it is
thought no bones are broken.
Peter Hanson's new machine shop
Opposite the laundry is about completed.
1t is a oommodious building for the pur.
poses intended being % by 81 feet, frame,
two stories high, with a side addition II
by "a, n story. The main room below
will be used az a repair shop while the
upper story affords ~conveniences for q
carriage factory and paint shop.
Several men on a clark" yesterday
afternoon got into Jerry Hurley's ice-
house and then chopped a hole
with an AK into his beer
vault large enough to extract therefrom
two kegs and a case Of beer. One Of
them, who has been at work on the new
block-Albert Heilman, was arrested and
brought before Justice Murray this
morning and fined 915 and costs for his
fun.
The Womans Missionary society will
meet with Mrs. Billings tomorrow
afternoon at three o'clock. All ladies of
the church and congregation are cor.
daily invited. Program: Invocation
exercises, Mrs. Matheny; leading, Mrs.
Beardsley; solo, Miss Bertha Fawkes;
paper, How to increase the interest and
and attendance at our missionary meet