The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-14
J. G. Schultz

automobile. Mr.. Rober will inspect
the Madison water system and light
plant.
Two belated harvest hands from
Kansas, who applied for work this
morning at the offices of the Madi-
son Merchants association, told that
while wheat in Kansas is of very
good quality, the yield is exception
ally light. The men said that the
grain runs from Z to 80 bushel an
acre.
The Misses Dora and Lillian Cor
nelysen. of st. Paul, are in the city.
guests of their sister, Mrs. w. o.
White, I'll Chicago avenue. They
accompanied friends who motored
out from Rockford, Ill, and Spring
Valley. Mimi, en- route to Howard,
and will return with them the latter
part of the week.
What action will be taken in the
cases of the three young sons and
one daughter of Charles Marquart,
residing in the northeastern part OF
the city, will probably be determined
late this afternoon in the court OF
Judge A. w. Sponholz. The chill
dren, who are charged with incorrig-
Utility, were arraigned this forenoon,
and their ease continued in order
that additional evidence could be in
troduced.
The first case of infantile paralysis
to develop this year in Lake county
Il. thnpnht IN hnNa n1ndn ifC nnnnar r
ance at Nunda. The 4~-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Mosher, of
Nunda, is the victim. 1t is said that
one of the girls legs is paralyzed.
The Mosher home has been put UNI
der quarantine by DR.. j. Nj. Duff,
county health officer. The manner
in which the afflicted girl became in
fected is not known.
Work was started today on the
fence to be built around the fair
ground and on the proposed new hog
barns. The cement floors for the
hog sheds are being laid and the cor
ner posts for the woven wire fence
are being imbedded in cement. Al
though it will be necessary for the
COI Htl UO5IO " Z q u . ~
fore work on the fence can be re-
sumed, it is thought that the inn
provements will be completed we'll
before the fair opens, September 5.
Troop No. /, Boy scouts, today
we're given a real initiation in pedes-
trianism. Starting from the James
Regain home, North Egan avenue, the
scouts, twelve in number, "hiked
over muddy roads twelve miles to
Wentworth park, where they will 60
into camp for the week. The scouts
are under the leadership of Rev. c.
McKibbin, scoutmaster, and Eugene
McKibbin, assistant scoutmaster.
Sleeping tents and provisions were
taken to the camp in an automobile.
The boys will devote much of their
time to swimming, fishing, drilling
and walking.
Ii has been rarely in late years
that North Dakota's grain crop has
been hit harder than ii was this sum
mer. according to City Commissioner
John A. Johnson. who with Mrs.
Johnson has just returned from a
trip i'm Minnesota and North Dakota.
Mr.. Johnson said that conditions in
North Dakota are especially bad ow-
ing to the fact that wheat, which in
some places will amount to practic-
ally nothing, is the principal crop in
the eastern part of the state. Thresh-
ing has not yet started in North Da-
kota. Some fields of wheat are so
poor that the grain is not even be-
ing cut, but is being plowed under,
Mr.. Johnson explained. A long period
of extremely wet weather followed
by almost unprecedented heat is held
responsible for the poor yield. Mr..
Johnson told that general business
conditions in the Twin cities are
good.
A drizzling rain, which started to
fall after / o'clock this morning and
continued until we'll on into the day,
is reported to have been of immense
benefit to corn in this section. The
rain is said to have been general
throughout Lake county. Farmers
predict that with favorable late sum-
mer and early fall weather, the corn
crop hereabouts will be fully up to,
IL not slightly better than the aver
age. 1t is said that only in remote
instances did the dry, hot weather
of late July and early August injure
corn. Some fields would not, 1T is
said. have been materially damaged
IL rain had held off several days
longer. Here threshing will be de-
toyoA ~ laos a dav or two nv tho