The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-11
THE CITY,.
LOCAL BREVxrgEH.


Mrs. w. E. Daniels was q passenger
for Sioux Falls.
Weather report: Generally fair and
slightly warmer tonight and Thursday.
Lost, a ledy's leather pocket book with
a small sum of money in it. Leave at
this office.
Mrs. Elmer sheridan and other ladies
will serve ice cream at her residence
Friday evening.
Arrivals on the evening train: F. L.
Soper, Will Gilbert and Peter Byrnes of
Iona, Mimi, brother of Thos. Byrnes of
this city.
The M. E. social at the residence of
Geo. R. Farmer last evening was a de-
lightful affair and realized the ladies
about 5l1.OO.
Frank E. Scott of Sherburne,
MINI, came down from Irwin where he
is working for an elevator company, and
return,T on the evening train.
From She few farmers in town today
we learn that the wheat harvest will be
quite generally completed this week If
the weather continues favorable.
The NJ. E. Sunday school picnic to-
morrow will be held in Rankln's grove at
the south end of Lake Herman instead
OF at Lake Madison as lately planned.
The meeting of the school board was
not productive of results further
than to adjourn until this evening to
continue the discussion on school mat
tiers.
A juvenile bali team will be over
from Dell Rapids tomorrow to play u
juvenile band team III the diamond.
Our lads are equal to any thing OF their
own age and weight and take all conner
The alleged rape case against JOS. B.
zimmerman was up before Justice Hol-
dridge for several hours this afternoon
an adjourned until l p. m. tomorrow,
the young lady in the case not being able
to be present today.
The subordinate Tent of Maccabees
innate a class of sixteen into the myster-
les of the order at the Masonic hall to-
plight. Deputy Supreme Commander
Haw is present to assist in the work and
give the new lodge the right start.
Mr.. and Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Ed. To-
bin. who attended the funeral of their
mother, the late Catherine Tobin, yester.
day returned home to Sioux Falls on the
morning train. The funeral at Badus
yesterday IVES very largely attended by
people from many parts OF the county.
Fred Curtis has received a number of
photographs showing Rock Brown in the
act Of bicycle coasting the chutes of the
San Francisco summer resort. The b.
cyclist coasts down an inclined plane fre N
a tower Is feet in height, plunging into
the sea. The act is thrilling, and Rock
has become quite famous in the accom-.
plishment of it.
The following dispatch from Huron,
Monday, tells OF the other end of the
little cyclonic storm that was seen to
start in Lake comfy q few miles north
east Of here Sunday evening: "There
was no serious damage by Sunday after
Moons cyclone along the south line OF
this county. Two or three u~noccupied
houses were twisted, but the cloud
seemed to rise when it approached set.
tied localities thus averting great de.
etruction. There has been q heavy rain
and crops are badly washed out eighteen
miles southeast"
Huronite, 9: The green worms that
have made such havoc in the box elder
trees is now going into winter quarters
by weaving themselves up into the CO.
coons that you see hanging IN all cor.
ners and protected places and next
spring they will develop into these hand.
some butterflies that the small boys love
to chase. The butterflies deposit their
eggs on the trees in hundreds and soon
hatch out and we have the green worm
in all his glory and r%avishness. BY q
little systematic effort these worms could
bekilled now Az they come down from
the trees looking for q place to weave
their oocoons, they move slowly along
and in this n q united effort would
rid the town Of the pests. Unless some
systematic effort Is made to kill them of
in another year they will devour all the
vegetation their palate likes. Hundreds
Of young trees have been stunted from
further growth this yesr by the pest.
Take time by the forelook and kill them
now.
. The following from. the Ellsworth
Mimi, News, concerns q brother OF Mrs
O. o. Murray formerly of this city
Charley Loveland, who went to Alaska