The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-26

euo Bdiuouoi, SuCu as IdulSntS. IebtuCb,
cucumbers, onions, celery, etc, and
it appears inviting in the store show
windows. In the line of fruits dis
played are strawberries, oranges, pine
apples, bananas. apples, etc. Madison
dealers look after the wants of their
customers and provide them with all
the ~luxuires of the season.
The proposition tc install a cluster
light system in Madison is attracting
attention in outside towns and the city
will no doubt receive many congratu-
lations for it's enterprise when the
lights are in operation. The Sioux
City Tribune in it's news columns
says: THE movement to have the
business district lighted by cluster
lights is bearing good fruit, and it is
expected the lights will be installed
in the near future"
MIR. and Mrs. j. w. Dingman who
have been in II city the past several
days, called here on account of the
death Of their nephew, Mervil Ding
man, will return Monday to their
home at Harvey, N. ID, accompanied
by Mr.. Dingman's mother. Joe, as
he is we'll known in this city, is in
the train service of the 500 line, with
a position as conductor, and is max
ing a success of his business.
The lawns of the city are beautiful
as the finest velvet since the recent
rains. If you would like to take in a
view that makes one feel glad that
he is alive, stand on the front steps
of the court house and look out across
court house square and City Park.
The lawns are simply lovely and the
budding trees assure a renewal of life
that has lain dormant during the win.
ter. But for bid concerts Park Lake
is the place to get the full benefit
these spring mornings
An unusually large number of ladies
alighted from the incoming north and
west trains this morning and proceeded
up town where they spent the day
shopping in Madison's up to date
stores. The merchants and milliners
are carrying fine stocks this spring
which are artistically displayed, and
the reasonable prices are attractive to
buyers from outside towns. Stocks are
complete, including anything and
everything needed by milady, besides
fine lines in house furnishings. Madi-
son is a convenient trading center. and
with the convenience of train service
from the north and west, arriving in
the morning and departing in the after
noon, a large volume of trade is coming
to this city from towns nearby.
The controversy which has been GO
ing on for the past ten years over
courses of study in state schools, cul-
minated last February when the legis-
lature passed Senate Bill No. 55,
known over the state as the aberdeen
Course of Study Bill" which provided
that the course of study of the Aber-
deem Normal shall include, besides
the studies usually found in a normal
school and which had already been
provided for by the regents, a study OF
"arts and sciences and allied branches
OF learning" this to include the
equivalent of the instruction given in
the first two years of a college course.
Those opposed to this bill have now
started the circulation of a petition for
a referendum of this bill to the people
at the next general election.
Mcdonald Bros. of the Lake Park
hotel have become inoculated with the
improvement germ and that popular
hostelry il to be improved in all it's ap-
pointments Beginning with the lobby.
a tile floor lie to be laid. A force of
men were employed this morning pre-
pairing for this and other work of i'm
provement about the house New
furniture is to be provided, and fur
niture which has been in use will be
remodeled and newly upholstered,
making a complete change in appear.
ance and adding to the comfort OF
guests. The Lake Park under the
management of Mcdonald Bros. has
always been popular with the travel
ing public, and with the advent OF
summer, and the dating of many i'm
portant meetings to be held in the
city during the summer months, they
are preparing to give their guests ser
vice equal to any hotel in this sec.
tion.
Howard dispatch: W. F. Kavaney,
a farmer living some miles from town,
has possession of two valuable shot.
guns-and the interesting feature OF
the matter is that the owners do moi
dare 10 call upon him for the surrender
Of the weapons. The owners of the
weapons, who are supposed to be hunt.
ers took Kavaney's new buggy with.
out his knowledge and after driving
it through mud on a hunting expedi.
tion, left it outside Kavaney's barn
at night. When he saw the buggy and
noticed how mudbespattered 1t was,
Kavaney was pretty mad. but wher
he found the weapons in the buggy,
where the hunters evidently had over.
looked them in the effort to be al
quiet as possible in returning the
buggy. he came to the conclusion tina,
he was ahead of the game after all