The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-08-09

will be held from st. Thomas church
Monday morning at 8 O'Clock.
Rev. Martin Anderson and family
returned this afternoon from their
Summer vacat ion. They spent the
time automobiling in North Dakota
and Minnesota, calling on relatives and
friends.
Fatigue vanishes when you drink a
glass of our Lactone Buttermilk. -
Porter Pharmacy.
The first carload of wheat to De re.
ceived in Minneapolis sold for S9a
cents, % cents above the September
option price. The car was shipped to
Minneapolis by the Faust Elevator Co,
of Washington Springs AMI was graded
No. l northern blue stem.
Rev. X. M. Hartman, Episcopal
missionary, was u passenger by the
eastbound passenger this morning, en-
route to Flandreau where he will con
duct a funeral this afternoon. Thence
be will proceed to Dell Rapids where
he will hold service tomorrow.
The regular monthly meeting of the
w. c. I. U. was held with Mrs. A. j.
Garner Wednesday, Aug. 9Th. There
was a short business session at which
the offers for the coming year were
elected. Then the meeting was given
over to the program committee and a
very fine program was given and en-
Joyed. especially the greetings Of Mrs.
A. j. Davis OF New Richmond, Wis
who attended the worlds W. @. T. u.
convention in Londsn about eighteen
years ago. There was an attendance
of about forty. A good many were
elderly ladies and the shut ins who
were the invited guests of the Onion.
A very good lunch was served by tire
committee.
Howard Democrat: What might
have been a serious accident hap
peued ON the long hill going to Mad
ison to the ball game Wednesday
afternoon. J. J. Adkins car wss
nearly to the top Of the hill when it
stopped and began slowly to back
down. the break refusing to work.
Andrew Holvick was close behind and
did not notice the car ahead and
iammed right into it. The Gals locked
together, but were 500 pulled apart
and proceeded on their way. The only
damage done was one lamp broken on
the Holvick car. Both cars were load.
ed with and children and it
was lucky that the accident was not
more serious. This is the same hill
where the Dowdell accident happened
a few years ago, the ctr backing
down, throwing Mrs. Dowdell out
fsnd breaking her leg.
Flandreau dispatch: While believed
to lie temporarily dsrsnged, john
Evans, sr., a pioneer resident of Moody
county, ended his life by drinking a
quantity CT aconite. His wife died
some years ago and be made his home
with his son. The old man, who
was about "A, went to a corr field at
about II O'CLOCK in the forenoon and
had not returned when his son went to
dinner at room. The SON instituted
a search, which resulted in the father
being found in a field in a dying con
dition. Death resulted before be
could be moved to the house. He was
a veteran of the civil war and for
many years was prominent in Grand
Army circles in this part Of the state.
He had been in poor health for some
time. and it is reported he made an
attempt at suicide last spring. His
illness is believed to have finally I'm
balanced his mind.
At $50 last evening Chris Sorenson
was run down and badly injured by
an extra freight train which left this
city about 5 o'clock eastbound. Mr..
Sorenson is employed as assistant to
W. E. Powell, pump repsiier for the
Milwaukee road, with headquarters
in this city. he was returning to
Madison with a gasoline motor and of
a point two miles east of Colman col.
lided with the extra freight, head on.
The unfortunate man was hurled from
the tack, sustaining a broken leg.
painful wounds On the head and other
injuries. He was picked up by the
trainmen and taken to Flandresu and
placed in hospital where his injuries
were relieved as much as possible by
a surgeon. Mr.. Sorenson was bereft
of bis wife three wekes ago, leaving
four children, the eldest nine years
and the youngest six weeks of age.
And to have this misfortune at this
time is certainly a hardship that will
be sincerely regretted by his friends.
Mr.. Powell went to Flandreau today
to call on Mr.. S~orenson.
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