The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-11-30

state for three years, one of which he
has yet to serve.
Owing to the unusual large increase
in our watch repair depaltement, which
is the outcome of satisfied watch GUS
TONERS, we are obliged to add another
matchmaker to our force. This will
enable us to handle your repairing
promptly and satisfactorily. Bring
your watches to Hanson, the man
who understands fine watch repair
ing.-Guy G. Hanson, Leading Jeweler.
Is the Turk doomed to be driven
from Europe2 What if all Islam should
rise in ''holy war; What ruler today
has the greatest number of Moham.
medan subjects What would the fall
of Co~nstantinople mean to the world
Hear the sermon, 'Jesus or Moham-
med" Sunday evening, at the Metho-
dist church.
A fine sepia carbon print of the Rt,
Rev. Samuel Seabury, D. D., first
Bishop of the American Episcopal
church, Bishop of Connecticut and
Rhode Island, has been presented by a
churchwoman as a gift &c Grace
church, with the desire to extend the
knowledge and usefulness of the
church" The picture is hung in the
vestibule of the church. The vestry
and congregation appreciate the gift
and the generosity of the donor.
Last Sunday afternoon Miss Lydia
Graese was surprised by a large mum
Der of friends who came to her home
two and a half miles east of the city,
the event being her birthday. Fifty
four guests were present, 33 of them
being out of town guests Thirty came
from her old home at Canova. A
bountiful supper was served. the din
ing room being beautifully decorated in
yellow and white. Miss Graese was
presented with "A gold locket and
chain. The guests departed after par.
taking of a midnight lunch, wishing
the young lady many happy returns
| of the day. \
Mrs. A. E. Clough was a returning
passenger from Huron where she has
been several days nursing her niece,
Mrs. Peter Hanson. nee Zilpha Matthew
ey, who recently suffered a distressing
accident. In alighting from a wagon
, Mrs. Hanson was impaled on a pitch
fork, the tines entering her abdomen
to the extent of twelve inches. DR..
| Clough was called from this city to
minister to the unfortunate lady, and
when Mrs Clough left her last night
she was in a fair way to recover from
the desperate injury.
Weather bulletin, Huron station.
Clear to partly cloudy weather pre-
dominates from the Atlantic to the
Pacific and aside from light amounts
along the Atlantic coast and at Yellow
stone, no precipitation has occurred
within the last "a hours. A slight
barometric depression covers the Brit
ish possessions; elsewhere high pres
sure prevails, especially along the low
er Atlantic coast. Cool weather ex-
tends to the southern states. At time
of observation, it was coolest al
Havre. Qu'Appclle and Winnemucca,
Is degrees, and warmest at Galveston,
ga degrees.
During the recent visit of Mr.. aud
Mrs. h. K. Newcomb to their old
home in Lorain county, Ohio, among
other places in the neighborhood they
visited an old abandoned church and
beneath the tattered carpet on the
altar Mr.. Newccmb found two New
York newspapers of the vintage of
1855. Dispatches in the papers are
credited to the Magnetic Telegraph
Co. Western news relates to the
troubles in Kansas, which will be
recognized by older citizens as re-
counting the events of the days of
"bleeding Kansas" when the slavery
qnestion was uppermost in the minds
of the people. The old papers are a
curiosity and highly priced by Mr..
INewomb.
Minneapolis Journal: Nearly So
000. 900 bushels of grain, by far the
greatest total of record, will be the
showing of Minneapolis for receipts
from the beginning of the movement
of the new crop to the close of Novem-
Der. Up to and including today the
total that the railroads have brought
in. is n, 06t, 720 bushels. compared
with SO. 1884, 900 bushels a year ago,
the period covered commencing Sept.
l. Wheat receipts are 8, 1851 $40 bush
/ els, compared with SO. $50, 10 q year
ago. Faxseed at 3,73l, $40 bushels
shows no important change from a
year ago, the 1888, $40 bushels of
barley exceeded last years receipts,
rye at 2,S34, 900 bushels, ran ahead,
corn is behind with sos, 140 bushels,
and there was a big gain in oats with
6.237, 500 bushels so far received,
compared with only 2,S41, 400 a year
ago.