The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-11-29

also with all the accessories, including a
liberal supply of fruits, nuts and candies.
besides making a liberal cash contrlbu.
ton.
Don't this weather make you think of
an o~vercoat? Chas. Kaufman Bros. sell
the kind that fit and wear, Their prices
are always the lowest.
Rev. Father Flynn departed for Mil
waukee this morning to attend the
fiftieth anniversary of thaLe6tholio
university at that place, where he re-
ceived his education. He expects to
meet u larger number of his former
associates than would probably be called
together by my other occasion and he
departs in high anticipation Of a pleas
ant time. He will be gone ten or twelve
days and during his absence Father
O'Hora of Waconda, will .oficiate here,
Bishop O'Gorman also goes to Milwaukee
on this occasion where he delivers an ad.
dress.
Huronite, 26: S. w. Glenn, of the
United States weather bureau was wear.
ing a smile Fr. day as broad as the late
SNOW is deep. He had hoisted the cold
wave flag when the weather was as mild
as summer, and predicted snow for
Thursday. The cold wave arrived on time
and the snow, like eatan, came also
falling to a depth OF five inches at this
point. The records at the weather
bureau show the storm to have been a
general one extending YER Montana,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Mime
sofa. Nebraska, and the northern part
of Iowa. The heaviest fall OF snow was
in Montana aud North and South
Dakota.
Col. Thos. Kerr, father Of Mrs. E.
Sheridan Of this city, 81 years old to-day,
made his annual birthday call on The
DAILY LEADER this morning, hale, hear
ty and happy, and instead of congratu-
lating him upon being spared to become
81 years old, we greeted him as being 81
years young. The life of Col. Kerr has
certainly been an ~eventful one, having
witnessed all the modern changes in
American life, changes 80 great that this
generation can hardly realize the mag.
ni6cence OF their surroundings and the
facilities Of living to-day compared Ia
those Of the olden time. As an instance,
the Colonel said this morning, II was
born about half way between Columbus
and'Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and when I was a
boy the mail was carried from Cleveland
to Columbus on horseback. The mail
carrier announced his coming by blowing
q large horn, and when his arrival was
about due, us boys used to wait and lis.
ten for the foot OF that horn" Think
OF the change in the mode of transport.
ing the malls between those two points.
Col. Kerr is in excellent health and
mind this winter, and the fact that he il
rustling around among his friends in q
weather temperature of 8 or 10 degrees
below zero, the first cold snap of the
season, indicates the viRor of the old.
young man. The Colonel is happy il
his old age. but there is just one thina
that he would like otherwise, and that
is to live in mind in the present.; there ID
an almost overpowering tendency in old
age, he says, to live over the past. And
being an up-to-date thinker, the Colonel
would like to kind OF lay aside the past
to be brought out on state occasions
and generally speaking deal and thina
in the present with the rest OF the Toys
The DAILY LEADER cordially hopes tc
greet Col. Kerr on many future birth day
anniversaries.
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