The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-29

A00h IL olOh IL.
The Twentieth Century club will
meet with Mrs. Anterior Monday aft
ernoon.
Wanted. A number of carpenters
may obtain employment by applying
to P. H. Patel.
Starting Monday, October /, the
Imperial theater's show will begin at
1880. Listen for the jazz band.
Everybody's ~favorite music back
on the job. the Imperial theater band
and orchestra, Monday, October /,
1870 p. m.
Demand for bookkeepers and stem
ographers is overwhelming. Girls
take a course in the Mankato Com
mercial college.
Rev. Alfred Nelson goes today to
Flasher. N. D., to attend the dedica-
ton of a church and will not be at
home Sunday.
The Presbyterian ladies will serve
a chicken pie supper at the church
parlors Wednesday, October 8. The
public is cordially invited.
Miss Gertrude Franklin, who has
spent the past several weeks at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. w. Franklin, departed yesterday
on her return to Portland, Ore. En-
route she will stop at several points
and call on a sister of her mother at
Risalia. Wash.
Make your old barb wire fence
stock tight by using the Continental
Fence Stay. They keep your woven
wire from sagging between posts and
save nearly half the posts. Sold in
Is, "a, 80, SO and AZ inch lengths.
For sale at Farmers Elevator COM
pany.
Attorney Hans Urdahl returned
last night from a several days alb
sence at Akron, Ia. Mr.. Urdahl re-
ports the corn crop in that locality
practically matured with prospect of
western Iowa harvesting the largest
corn crop in its history. Land values
are increasing on account of the pros
porous conditions.
Miss Nellie Cress, of Pennington,
Thursday went to Hot Springs to Wis
it her sister, Miss Irene, head nurse
in the state soldiers home at that
place. Miss Irene has rendered her
resignation and will accompany her
sister home and will probably later
resume work of her profession in
Minneapolis.
On a vacant lot in which there was
considerable quack grass, f.. w.
Ketcham raised a crop of potatoes
this year, and through many of the
tubers, the roots of the quack have
penetrated. The sharply pointed
roots of the grass go straight through
the substance of the potato. and issue
at the farther side in the same con-
dition. The potato does not appear
to have taken other hurt than that of
a hole through it, which is less dirty
than if made by a fork tine.
The committee appointed to solicit
funds for the merchants gala day in
Madison. October II, held a meeting
last night, and divided the territory
among them to " in pairs. Ow-
ing to the day being Saturday, some
of them could not go on the street
today, but those who did make the
rounds, while there are some whom
they did not see, express themselves
as being highly gratified with the lib
crafty shown, and are confident OF
the fund expected being over sub
scribed. No report of their collec.
tions is possible at this time.
The city commissioners viewed ths
walk approaches to Third street NV
from the Kennedy and Dawson prop.
critics, and received proposals for ov'
grooming the difficulty of foot pas
sengers at those precipitous places
While nothing is settled definitely, i
is proposed to cut the approaches
back far enough to present a slope
flat enough to make ii safe for pc
destrians. leaving the general lot lin'
as it is. Ii has been thought posi-
BILE to cut down the whole front ant
bring the trees down to approximate
grade. But this would injure thu
trees materially or kill them. from
the fact that Immediately beneath thu
surface the soil is of gravel and sand
Howard, ~17-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Gould, left home
Thursday night, and has not beer
seen since. Mrs. Gould is greatly
worried over the disappearance Of
the boy, and appealed to the count,
officers for assistance in bringing
him back, and though on the evening
of the day in question all trains were
watched. they could find no trace oil
him. 1t is now thought that he went
to Minneapolis in company with one
of the men who have been employed
on the street work, and who was on
his way home to report to the board