The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-08-30

Falls, is in the city and will be the
accompanist in the musical and dra-
matte entertainment to be given at
the Normal auditorium tomorrow
evening under the auspices of the
Eastern Star.
Miss Constance Armson and Will
lam Armson. of Howard, are to take
the teachers examinations, which
start tomorrow at the State Normal
school.
T. Paul Krakowski, well known in
Madison, now of WATERFOWL, and the
leader of the regimental band of that
city, will arrive in the city Friday
morning to assist in the musical pro-
gram in The Battle Cry of Peace,
which will be presented at the Lyric.
The funeral Of Mrs. Anna O'Con-
nell. who died yesterday at the home
of her son. Matthew O'Connell,
southwest OF the city, will be held at
10:45 o'clock tomorrow forenoon at
st. Thomas Catholic church. The
service will be conducted by Rev.
Mgr. Il. A. Flynn. Interment will be
i'm the Catholic cemetery.
The Madison Merchants associa-
ton general monthly meeting, which
was TO have been held last night.
has adjourned until next Friday
night. One of the principal matters
to be taken up at the Friday meet
ing will be arrangements for Pay Up
week, which will be from October ,
to z, inclusive.
Mrs. f. l.. Burnett was hostess at
a social afternoon yesterday to the
ladies of the Past Grand association
of the Rebekahs. Following diver
sions at the Burnett home, the guests
were taken by auto TO Lake Madison.
where. at the cafeteria. lunch vas
had at about 5 O'Clock. The return
home was made in the early evening.
Lake county examinations Tor
state and first grade teachers Ger
tificates will be held tomorrow, Fri
day and Saturday. in Dom No. IL in
the west wing of the State Normal
school. County superintendent Del
la Stearns and Deputy Superintend-
ent Alice Ripe will be in charge of
the work. Present indications are
that between fifteen and twenty
teachers will take the examinations.
A. G.. Schmidt, secretary of the
Lake County Agricultural society,
has extended an invitation 10 all
drivers of automobiles, to use the
race track at the fair grounds, when
horses are not being scored there.
The track has just been gone over
with a scraper 1t is believed that
frequent use of the track by automo-
bile owners will improve the surface.
The grounds will be open each even
ing until 9 O'Clock.
The new hoghouse and most of the
new woven wire fence around the
fair grounds have been completed.
The fence along the south side of the
grounds is to be built by the Mil
waukee Railway company. along
whose right of way the grounds ex-
tend. The company has the mate
rails here for it's share of the fence.
The track has been cleared of weeds
and ~scraped, and is said to be in good
condition. Several trotting horses
are daily exercising on the track. II
is expected hat a considerable mum
Der of speeders will have arrived al
the track by the~last of the week.
Tomorrow is the last day OF sum.
mer and our vacation days are clos
ing. A fitting pleasure with which
to celebrate the waning season is the
artistic and delightful musical pro.
grom with readings, given us in the
evening by Mabel Ripe and Jane
Rae. Miss Fannie Grigsby, a dia
| mond medal pianist, who has played
with the Chicago Symphony orches
ira, is here to assist. Get your tick
: cts at Frank Smiths, and join us a
the Normal at $50. Those who wish
to attend the church conference cal
do so previously as the pastors have
I changed the hour TO the earlier on
Of 1880.
Deputy Sheriff F.. A. Keller sur
prised two men who were huntin,
> prairie chickens last Sunday on thu
north side of Clear Lake. Deput,
a Sheriff Keller was driving in his au
tomobile when he heard shots from
Y a shotgun fired. The officer turned
his car off the road, in the direction
from which the sounds of firing hal
e come, and sighted the men, who, wit
e guns, were just climbing into an au
tomobile. Upon seeing the deput.
r sheriff speeding in their direction
the men hurriedly got two hunting
< dogs in their car, and started ava,