The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-12-05

a guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clayton Ball, returned by a morning
train to her home at Aurelia, la.
Fresh dressed Lake Madison bull
heads, 12h cents per pound.-Scud-
der Bros. Phone 2207.
For Sale. A No. z Radiant Home
heater, in perfect order; a bargain at
s35.-Frank c. Smith, The Rexall
Store.
Lost. Near the E. M. Bourne
farm, large water hose. Finder kind
ly return to Chas. Robeck and re-
ceive reward.
We carry in stock everything in
the line of warm footwear for men
and women.-Nick Bjornstad.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kutcher were
departures by a morning train for
st. Paul and will thence proceed to
Minot, N. D., to visit relatives.
Regular communication of Ever
green lodge No. II, A. F. G. A. NJ,
Wednesday evening, December 5.
Annual election of officers.-A. w.
Clark, Sec.
SudS. n. lIlIIIlcI IttuIuCu IIOll
Sioux Falls today after an absence of
several days during which he visited
F1andreau on professional business,
connected with drainage PROPOSE
tons.
The Manhattan orchestra, of Sioux
Falls, Mr.. Holmquist, leader. made
it's first appearance in Madison last
night. The occasion was a dance in
the Huntimer hall, gotten up by the
young people of town, and it was
wholly a success, it is reported.
A. l.. Bay, an Arlington boy, is
reported to have died of German gas
on the western front. He was with
the Canadian overseas forces, and en-
listed before the entrance of the
United States in the war. The real
ties of war are being constantly
brought closer home and to a more
vivid realization.
I. ID. Lee began today to clean and
equip the room of the Thompson
Berther building, next door to the
z. l.. Peck furniture store,>for occu-
pancy. He says that the quarters al
present occupied i'm the Munsor
building adjoining the Mayfield
plumbing establishment is too small
for the storage and proper display Of
his electrical supplies, and is there.
fore about to move to the more com
modious quarters.
Attorney f. O.. Jones, of Siou1
Falls, met with the county commits
sioners this afternoon in considera'
ton of work connected with Lake
McCook-Minnehaha project No. IL
The construction of this ditch has no
been decided upon yet. There was I;
hearing in October, but ii was ad
journed until January to allow SOM
conflicting matters to be settled anC
to give a chance at some furthel
contemplated changes. Mr.. Jones
drove up from Sioux Falls by auto
mobile.
Pierre dispatch: That boards o
county commissioners have no licens'
of law to donate sums from the coun
ty treasury for the support of thu
Children's Home is the purport of al
opinion just handed down by Attor
ney General c. c.. Caldwell. For
tuuHlDSI vi years II mas DNCh IL pAaN
tice of many counties in the state Il
appropriate sums ranging from $1OC
to $500 for the support of the home
Recently William HI. Glynn, state'i
attorney for Hutchinson county
raised the point hat such an appro
priation would be illegal and he re
ferred the MATTER to the attorne!
general.
A small additional fall of snov
during the night and a drop of TEN
perature to within 6 degrees of thu
zero mark indicates that winter i
with US. The weather is good winte
weather, but is a sharp contrast witt
that which we have been enjoying TO
the past month. Preparations TO
winter are made by most of the peo
pie, it is said. though there is mucl
corn still in the field. This is a re
suit of the condition of the corn ii
self rather than the lack of diligenc
in its care. The corn was too dam
to put into cribs, and is being left Il
the field for such curing as it ca
get by the weather. Only the dura