The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-04-13
engers by the south train this morn

Sixteen musical numbers are used
during the performance of the Beg
gar Prince. Opera house, Tuesday
evening, April 14th.
w. M. Beardsley was a morning
passenger for Sioux Falls to attend
a meeting and banquet of insurance
agents.
New advertisements today. A.
Johnson, H. j. Munro, A. III. Osborn,
Hackett & Sutton, F. C.. Smith, ID.
McKinnon, Paulis Dry Goods Co., j.
c. Schultz.
The famous "Beggar Prince
which comes to the Opera house,
Tuesday, April 14th, is headed by
the well known comedian, Mr.. Harry
Moseley.
Rev. ]. E. Booth of Ramona was
a through passenger this morning.
enroute to Mt. Vernon where tomor-
row he will conduct the funeral of a
former pa~rishioner.
The popcorn wagon opened for
business today. corne Egan avenue
and Fourth street, which is a sure
indication of the permanency of
spring and summer.
1t will only require a mill and a
quarter annually for twenty years to
mature the proposed $4,000 school
bond issue. This means $3.50 per
| year on a piece of property assessed
at $4,000. The average house and
lot in Madison is assessed at $1,000.
Eat at Jacks.
House for Sale. New seven
room house, barn and chicken house
with an acre of land. VIII consid-
er a first class auto In trade. In
Quire at this Office.
VIM. Rowland, with the Paulis
Dry Goods Co. at WATERFOWL, came
home to spend Easter Sunday with
his family and remained over a day.
| Mr.. Rowland is we'll pleased with his
| position and WATERFOWL and will re-
move his family to that place soon.
r. F. Dyal of Kansas City, vice
| general chairman, Brotherhood of
| Railway Trainmen, is in the city and
| met with the local order last even
| ing for the purpose of inspection.
Mr.. Dyal was pleased with condi-
| tons as he found then. and is also
much pleased with Madison and sur
roundings.
The city board of registration will
be in session at the city hall all day
tomorrow to receive names of new
voters and correct the list. 1t is i'm.
portant that those who did not vote
a. the April election last year ano
those who have changed their resi-
dence from one ward to another, ap.
pear and have their anne properly
registered. Attend to this matter
Harvey Jones has been appointed
\ representative of the Commercial
club to attend the meeting of the
railroad commissioners to be held a
Pierre tomorrow, and departed fol
that city this evening. The matter
of a raise in freight rates on pota
toes and poultry will come before
the meeting. AS Lake county is per
haps the largest potato shipping
county in the state, the Commercial.
club is protesting against a raise In
freight rates.
Pierre dispatch: State Land Com
missioner Hepperlee has returned
from his trip over the state Offering
state lands for sale, and reports
light sales in most of the counties
the largest acreage disposed of being
in Mcpherson county where a lot o.
rough land was placed upon the mar
ket, but did not bring a very higf
price, the average being about SIT
an acre. The highest average price
for any county was in C~odingtoI
where land offered brought $63.3t
per acre.
Brookings dispatch: South Dako
Ia state college defeated North Da
kota agricultural college on Apri
9Th in a dual debate, UNFOLDING a
Broohings the affirmative side of tn
question: Resolved, that immigra
ton to the United States should b.
further restricted by means of a lit
eracy test; and at Fargo the mega
tive side of the question. The resul
at Brookings was a unanimous deci
sion for state college, which was Civ
en- by Judge G. G.. Sherwood o
Clark, Supt. S. It. May of Madison
and Attorney e. A. Burke of Elkton
At Fargo, state college received
majority decision.
Aberdeen dispatch: The coroner
jury which investigated the death o
Irwin Christensen, the 7-year-ol,
boy who was run over Thursda.
night and killed by an AUTOMOBILE
run by Shelby Whaley. aged 81, re
turned a verdict finding Whaley gull
ty of negligence in that he was o.
the wrong side of the street and TO
not sounding his horn, though h
was running within the require
speed limit and his automobile wa
lighted. The jury then severely cen
sured the police department for neg
ligence in enforcing the city ordir
ance regulating automobile traffic
and for not having an officer on tn
ground where the accident occurred
Whaley ran v the boy in front G
the Aberdeen theater. where a larg
crowd had assembled to listen to
hand concert and to attend a publ
meeting.
DR.. John Merritte Driver, who wi
. lecture at Normal auditorium Tues
day evening, $3.50 o'clock, was th
popular successor of Drs. III. v