The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-15

~ W. IL.
Crist Rensch and daughters re-
turned from a 10 days automobile
tour, visiting friends at different
points in Minnesota.
Prof. f. G.. Kellogg and wife. of
College View, Neb.. are in the city.
visiting the formers father, f.. b.
Kellogg, and other relatives.
Mrs. Bessie Preston, matron of
East Hall, returned this morning
from a visit in the family of her son.
G. f. Preston, a ranchman near
Wasta.
Mrs. A. II. Henney and children.
of Oklahoma, arrived by the west
train this morning and proceeded to
Ramona to become the guests of Rev.
and Mrs. j. f. Booth.
f. r. c. Gross and p. A. Johnson
We're morning passengers for Went
worth on business connected with the
Battle Greek Telephone company. of
which they are officials.
Ed Seidel, having been suffering
for some time from what he thought
to be appendicitis, went yesterday to
the hospital and underwent an opera
ton successfully yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Doolittle. in the employ of c..
A. Trimmer, took his examination
yesterday before the local exemption
board, by permission obtained from
his local board in Iowa. and made no
claim OF application for considera-
ton of exemptions.
The aurora borealis display last
night was extensive. and at times
brilliant. The arc of aura across the
northern sky was nearly constant.
From il. shooting toward the zenith.
great splashes of white light shot at
times. The brilliancy was at times
bright enough to shed some faint
light for the night.
w. G.. Abbott carried a local ad-
vertisement, house to rent" in The
Daily Leader for two issues and to-
day called up to say Discontinue
my advertisement: house is rented
and | have had nine applications for
it since. When it comes to quick re
suits in advertising The Daily Leader
is the only system"
In raising a piece Of fly paper from
a counter yesterday. Nj. Peters hand
was struck by a swiftly revolving
electric fan. the whirling blade strjk-
ing the flesh and "A small piece OF
ligament and bone from the middle
knuckle Of his left hand. A surgeon
dressed the wound. Mr.. Peters fears
a stiffened finger.
The price Of hogs has risen to q
point never before known in the
trade history. Despite feryent pray
ers, earnest language of a more i'm
predatory nature. or even threats of
abjuration of fealty to its use. it ba-
scared and scared and scared. II
reached ST on the Sioux City market
yesterday. Yet a little more and its
altitude and relation TO this old
planet will be referred 10 in astron-
omic terms. II will have degrees of
magnitude and azimuth and aphelion
and perihelion-and be darn near as
hard to get.
A. W. McWayne. Of Livermore &
McWayne. architects. of Sioux Falls.
and who made the estimates for the
repairs for the three buildings Of the
Normal school. was i'm Madison TODAY
estimating the progress Of the work
on those buildings. Mr.. McWaync
says that building in cities is very
generally curtailed by the prevailing
high prices of steel and labor, and the
difficulty of transportation of mate
rials. In the smaller towns and
cities the building situation is not so
disturbed. He called especial atten-
ton to Washington Springs. where
there may be said to be an unusual
amount of building work done.
Many other towns are making almost
equal Improvement. OF crops in the
southwest part Of the state he say
that early shock threshing is general.
and the sentiment of the growers if
to market their product while the
prices are high. They fear later
prices will be much lower.
1t is to be remarked that large
moving picture houses in cities. ever
those giving continuous all-day per
formances, are raising their admis-
sion prices. In consequence of the
added costs of production, which oi
course makes the costs higher for thl
local exhibitor, eastern houses Of the
better sort have raised to so and
even rs cents. The New Garrick, oi
Minneapolis, has made its maximum
prices for the better films 20 cents
offering with it. however, some added
features in attractive service of music
and printed programs. Their fea-
lures are largely of the Paramount
and Aircraft production. No an.
nouncement has been made by local
picture houses of any rise of price
though they might feel entitled to
such action by the example set BY
others, and by the prevailing ten
dency of things to go up and eve
down.