The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-08-18

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parted Tor st. Paul and vicinity to visit
friends and will later proceed to Mil
waukee aud Chicago. Mrs. McGillivray
expects to be absent about two months.
Mitchell Republican, Is: Rev. and
Mrs. G. f. Hager and children went to
Chicago this morning to remain a week
Tor u little rest add recuperation. Mr..
Hager held quarterly service at Woon-
socdet yesterday and came down on the
north train and WAS joined by the family
here.
Aberdeen News, 16: Mr.. and Mrs. G.
l.. Wood have started overland for Madi-
son, where they Will visit u few days.
They drive through the country to take
advantage OF the prairie chicken shoot
ing and will make the trip by easy
stages to vet the most enjoyment out OF
the sport.
Brookings Register, l6: The Register
has interviewed a large number OF farm
ers rs TO the average wheat crop in this
county and invariably they place the
average yield at from ten to twelve
bushels per acre. One or two claim that
they will have abou. twenty bushels per
acre and there are q few who are very
certain thst their fields will yield over
that amount, but it is safe TO say that
the general average will be about ten
bushels per acre.
During the absence OF Guy Mitchell
from the Madison State bank on a vsca'
ton, Roy Kennedy, son OF President
Kennedy, occupies a position at the
desk. attending to business as naturally
az il be wa accustomed to such thinge
II does MOI requires very great stretch
OF the imagination 70 see Roy one OF ths
wealthy bankers OF the state in the no,
Tar distant future. He will return te
Brookings and resume his studies in the
agricultural college at the close OF the
summer vaostiou.
At the mass meeting to be held in tht
opera house next Saturday evening, {
permanent Improvement league will b.
organized which will have for its Object
the securing OF improvements for insti
tutions already in Madison and othe'
objects beneficial to the CITY. The CON
mittee on Normal school will report
speakers will address the meeting ane
band aud other music will add TO thu
entertainment Of the occasion. Th'
chief speakers will be d. ID. Holdridge
W. II. Dempster, G. j. Porter, Geo. Il
Farmer and others: Let there be
large attendance.
The superintendent OF the South Da
kota school for deaf.mutes has notified
us that the school opens for the mex
scholastic year on Wednesday, Sep
TENDER lith. and that the attendance
promises to be large. There are un
doubtedly some among our readers wh'
know OF a deaf child in the community
and We would suggest that they writ
the supcrintendent and give him tn
name and address OF such child's paren
or guardian, in order that steps may b
trkeu TO have the child placed III tn
school. This is a state school! aud u
deaf children, resident Of South Dakota
possessed OF sound mental capacitie
, aud within the age limits, are adm'tte'
free OF all charges, the only expense I
~parents being railroad fare to and frou
the school and for clothing. Each chill
is given a. good intellectual aud manua
education as is possible to give him, an
after graduation he becomes a self-suI
porting and useful citizen.
The climate and crop bulletin OF IN
South Dakota section OF the govern
, ment weather bureau for the week end
ing August Is, says the temperatur
during the week was below the averag
and too cool nights for good filling 9
corn. There was practically no ra'nis'
!, in the state except in two or three limit
al localities. Harvest WAS nearly con
pleted in the northern counties, an
: completed elsewhere in the state. Staot
IN, was we'll advanced and some thresi