The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-10


will be served.-A. j.. Peters, Sec'y.
The funeral of the late Mrs. VIM.
Lee vas held from the Presbyterian
church this afternoon and was large
ly attended, old settlers generally be-
ing present TO pay their last respects
to deceased.
Take the watch to Osborn's and
get 1t fixed right. Fifteen years ex-
perience, can repair and put In good
order any watch made, foreign or
American. r~epeaters. horse timers,
stop watches, English. Swiss. Ger
man or American.
Park Rapids, Mimi, dispatch: Col.
Earl ID. Luce of the Luce line visited
Park Rapids this week and explained
his plans which are to bring the road
to this city within three years. A
committee of commercial club mem
bers is getting subscriptions of stock.
TEMPERATURE marked IA degrees
above zero at Z o'clock this morning,
southerly wind, heavy morning fog,
clearing, rising temperature during
the day. The heavy snow which has
covered the streets since the storm of
last Friday is rapidly disappearing
under the warn rays of the sun.
Washington dispatch: Miss Sc
ena Helen Blue, by paying 10 cents
for a deed, at the Cass Lake, Mimi,
land office, has obtained title to her
homestead on Turtle lake, Beltrami
onrfnfx Mice p1rrasc hnrn nctnad nnn-
sists of a triangular point of land
jutting into the lake, 1S9 feet long
and 3S feet wide. 1t probably is the
smallest entry ever proved up. To
comply with the homestead law and
obtain patent to her land Miss Blue
built a log house, 14x16 feet, and
lived in it for seventeen months.
Last year she grew tomatoes. cab
bage and clover.
Representatives of the Frank Han
ley horse buying company of Chi
cago are in Lake county this week
buying horses. They were at Went
worth today, will be at Ramona to-
morrow, and Saturday they plan to
do a big business buying at c. M.
Klotzbach's livery barn in Madison.
A feature of the buying will be two
cash prizes. After the days buying
is finished a prize of $40 will be
given to the seller of the best horse
and SIS second prize. Three local cit
liens will be selected judges to award
the prizes.
The hobo season seems to be COM
,,nrnsnn nar1yy fhtc xnar rhfnf
Winesburg reports from six to a
dozen transients quartered at the po-
lice station every night, the men APP
plying for a place to sleep. SO far
the transients have given little trou-
BILE and each morning they are lined
up at the police station and marched
out of town, a party of ten being
marched out yesterday morning.
They seem to be bound for the west
and the north. The unusual number
at this season of the year indicates
that they have remained in this Sec
ton during the winter. There are a
few men among them willing to
work, but generally they are confirm
ed hoboes who would shun work like
a pestilence.
A meeting of the board of directors
Of the Madison Merchants associa-
ton was held at their rooms in South
Dakota bank block this morning and
Richard Hickman of Aberdeen was
elected secretary Of the association.
Mr.. Hickman has been assistant to
Sec'y Watkins of the Aberdeen asso-
citation and is thoroughly convers-
ant with the work. He will remain
In the city until tomorrow afternoon
arranging preliminary work when he
will return to Aberdeen, again re-
turning to Madison next Monday to
remain. A general meeting of the
association will be held at their
rooms Monday evening for the pur-
pose of a more systematic organiza-
ton of committee. etc. Never before
has an organization started out in
Madison with better promise of sue
cess, and soon the benefits of the as
ISOLATION will be felt by business
men and people who ~patronize Mad
ison merchants. Wherever estab-
lished the merchants associations
have been town builders.