The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-31

mile auto tour, visiting Spirit Lake
and Lake Okoboji, in Iowa and Lake
field and other points in Minnesota.
Mrs. VIM. Dixon Wednesday suf-
fered a slight stroke of paralysis of
the right side. DR.. H. f. Kellogg,
attending physician, does not appre-
bend anything serious in her condi-
ton and reports improvement.
Miss Daisy Beck, who has spent
the summer vacation with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Beck. 81
Harth avenu N, returned to Kansas
City to resume her work as teacher
in the city schools.
Miss Mabel Thompson, graduate
this year in the domestic science
course in Nebraska State university
at Lincoln. has been elected to a po-
sition in the city schools of Polk.
Neb., and departed for that place by
a morning train.
The hay crop in this part of South
Dakota is described as being very
light this year. With the rush Of
harvest out of the way, and many
farmers having done with their
stacking, they are turning their at
tention now to the caring for the
crop of wild hay. which is thin and
light. In the country around Pierre.
it is said, the crop is heavier and the
farmers are offering good wages for
help to get it i'm stacks. But even
there it is from the greater acreage
available for cutting than from any
extra yield that is making their de
mand for help greater.
With today passed another season.
Tomorrow ushers i'm a month con
tanning the significant 'r" in its
spelling, marking a month of harvest
and the last sad farewells to
With this month also is the opening
of the season for shooting oysters.
prairie chickens, ducks and such fish
and fowl. 1t also opens up abundant
room for apprehension as to where a
mar will get money enough to avail
himself of at least one full meal al
Thanksgiving time and still have
enough left owe to keep a reasonable
balance in the coal bin.
F. L. Soper visited the fair at
Il tdltdltdu ACSbEi ddN. returning On
the late train last night. Mr.. Soper
said that the exhibits of agricultural
products We're good, but that for the
most part the stock assortment vas
poor i'm both numbers and quality
Except in one or two instances the
horse races were without any special
snap. He also stated that the corn
in the low ground between Egan and
~Flandreau had been killed by the Sc
we're frost of Tuesday night, and that
there was no corn exhibited at the
fair which would be far enough ma
tured TO withstand a frost.
Some one of the several hundred
full blood small boys of Madison who
will make soldiers some day. may
claim a pair of perfectly good shoes
and stockings at this office. While
playing on one of the streets Of the
city the lad took off his shoes to bet
ter enjoy the sport. and as many Of
us old boys have said lots of times in
the happiest days of our lifetime,
"Oh. / forget 'em." The perfectly
good shoes and stockings were picked
up by Patrolman Green and brought
to this office where they may H.
claimed by the full blood boy owner
Twenty-one lamp posts. similar in
pattern to those which already adorn
Egan avenue as far north as Second
street. were received and distributed
along the street yesterday. Nearly
all the posts on Egan avenue have
been moved TO the curb, with the pos
cih1n nvanntinn Of nnp pfAa 80 tL1
street and a block in length. and the
new posts will be placed three to the
block. In the central parking of the
street from Second street N to the
north end of Egan This is
a result of action by the city commits
sioners some weeks ago, when the
posts and the necessary connecting
cables were ordered.
The paving company will have
Egan avenue open for traffic before
the county fair opens. Mr.. Atkinson
said this morning. They intend to
do the excavating in the block i'm
which they are now at work, surface
and roll the street, and open il for
travel by Monday night. During the
week the steam shovel will be retired
and overhauled. and the crew will be
transferred to work on the cement
base. The block below First street
S will be plowed up and scooped up
with the shovel, as the depth OF earth
to be removed is not great. In the
meantime the asphaltic s%urfacing
sible.