The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-01-27

church yesterday and last evening.
Temperature marked 90 degrees
above zero at 2 o'clock this morning,
climbing up to 40 during the afternoon.
Conditions partly cloudy and storm
threatening.
At the 4:3O q m. vesper service at
Grace church yesterday afternoon Gen
eral Besdle delivered an address on the
Lords Prayer which was both instruc-
tive and pleasing.
L. w. Unzelman has exchanged his
residence property in north Egan avenue
for the former Frank Randall property
in the northeast portion of the city.
This is a fine property, comprising five
acres nicely improved.
Up to the time of the recess of the
South Dakota Legislature appropriation
| bills to the amount of 1868, S05. 93 had
been presented. Among the list is a
bill for $40, 600 for the Madison State
Normal school.
The annual farmers institute for
Lake county will open in Madison
/ " OhutSidJ, ICD. Is duu IUullhuS b"O
days The sessions will be held at the
opera house and the court house. The
corps of lecturers this year are said to
be unusually fine.
Divion 2 of the Helping Hand society
will bold a bake sale at Kelley's store
Wednesday, Jan. 30, beginning at 10
II. M. Lunch will be served during
the progress of the sale.
Several parties are using DR.. Hess
Poultry Pan-a-caa and report that 1t
increases the egg crop very much. One
lady says she couldn't think of keep
ing hens without using DIR. Hess
Poultry powder. -Osborn's drug store
A feature Of the services at the
Methodist church last evening which
was enjoyed was a twenty minute
photograph concert which reproduced
hymns by famous singers. The phone.
graph in use was from Mitterling's
piano store.
January clearing sale which includes
our intire stock of ladies coats, hats,
ready made garments, Hosiery, fancy
work, novelties, and all linens. Mrs.
K. Knoeri.
Otto G.. Hexom, travelling salesman
for monuments and tombstones, who
makes his headquarters in Madison,
started out on the road this morning.
MIR. Hexom is meeting with fine sue
cess in his business. Recently be
placed a granite monument in the North
Lake Preston cemetery at a cost of
$500, weight IL, 500 pounds. Mrs. l..
I. Strande was the purchaser.
Vermillion dispatch: 1t will he re-
membered that the late Judge Bartlett
Trip gave his large and valuable law
library to the college of law of the
university, subject to the life estate
of Charles III, Dillon. congressman
| elect. Mr.. Dillon has magnaminously
| waived his claim to the valuable col
lection, which places it at the i'm
mediate disposal of the university.
Nearly 1,400 volumes of the library
have already been received. The
library is of especial value because of
the great number of old and valuable
texts and reports which are no longer
published which it contains, The col
lection will be shelved in an alcove of
the law building and known as the
Judge Trip collection. This is the
most noted contribution of the kind
of any private citizen to any institu-
| tion in South Dakota.
Hon. N. Sampson. an old.time resi-
dent of Lake county, and "A former
representative in the Legislature from
this county, writes The Daily Leader
from Wenatche, Wash, the present
home of the family. 1.-THE Leader
comes to us regularly says Mr.. Samp-
son, ''and it is like receiving a letter
from home. We are having a snug
winter here. Snow is about two feet
deep in the valley. Up in the Cascade
mountains snow is from 10 to 90 feet
deep, and they have been all kinds
Of trouble on the railroads, especially
| the Great Northern. There have been
a number of snow slides and about
fifteen workmen have been killed that
we know Of, but it is reported that
more than fifty men have lost their
lives in the slides. 1t is pleasant in
the valley. Seighing is fine. There
is no who'd in the winter, the tenn
perature is mild. and we like ii here
pretty we'll. We are all in splendid
health. l send our best wishes to
friends in Madison and Lake county
Pieces of card board on which are
inscribed with lead pencil the lumber
of the auto to which they are attached,
will no longer suffice in South Dako-
ia, if a bill which will soon be in
troduced in the senate by Smith and
in the house by Nelson, becomes a
law. This bill requires that the state
shall issue uniform signs bearing the
number of the automobile to which
they are attached and that every auto
have its number displayed in front of
the machine as we'll as in the rear.
The registration fee for autos is to be
set at $40, and the fund created from
this source is to be expended on road
building in the various counties Of the
state. The method of apportioninp