The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-07-07

Eight reel show tonight at the
Lyric. Don't miss it.
Fried spring chicken at Rays.
Boy wanted to take Daily Leader
carrier route on east side. Apply at
once.
Attorney Geo. L. Danforth. of
Sioux Falls, was in Madison today on
business.
Sodas, ice cream, watermelon,
canteloupe and all kinds of vege-
tables served at Rays.
Anyone wishing to have plain sew
ing done at reasonable prices call
1924.
Misses Fila Bushnell and Florence
Zaler, of %lroquois. are guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Peter
son, Third street NV.
j. A. Johnson, of the Big Store,
has received a consignment OF North
Yakima sweet cherries. direct from
the growers, at right prices.
Mrs. Helen Clemens went this
morning to visit her son, j.. j. Glenn
ems, following a visit of several weeks
with G. w. Clemens, of this city.
Get some of those North Yakima
sweet cherries at the Big Store. A
large consignment just received di-
rect from the grower. Prices right.
Mrs. Henry Wagner. who has been
visiting some weeks at the home of
her father, Henry Kiner, was joined
yesterday by her husband. They will
return home next week.
The facing brick for the new post
office arrived yesterday. and unload
ing was begun at once. 1t is prob
able that work will be resumed at
once.
Chris Rensch is building a coal
cellar beneath the sidewalk at the
front of his store on Egan venue
The excavation is done to the depth
of the cellar, and forms are being in
stalled for the concrete walls.
Clerk of Courts f. l.. Burnett is
today making papers. citations and
order fixing the time and place of
appraisal for purposes of assessing
an inheritance tax on the property of
the late Lavina Barber. Mr.. Burnett
says that there are 90 heirs TO the
estate. This process is now regularly
included in the probate proceedings
of an estate.
Effective Monday morning some
slight changes i'm the day trains run
ming into Madison become effective.
No. Ill arrives from Sioux Falls at
2:15. leaves at 2:25 p. m. No. 1870
| from nrigfn1 orrfvao AT OK aud
leaves at 9:10 A.. m. No. ! from the
east makes no change in time. and
the one from Woonsocket, No. 8. ar
rives at 9:15. There is no change in
the time Of the arrival of the night
train.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. f. Stahl returned
from a four weeks visit at points in
the Black Hills. They attended a
Masonic convention i'm Hot Springs.
and spent a large part of the remain
der of their time in that vicinity
Mr.. Stahl says that business in the
Hills is quiet-eyen the entertain
ment of tourists finds little on which
to exercise itself. This. however,
contributes TO the comfort of such
tourists as do seek those restful
glens.
Mrs. Carrie Funston and daugh
ter. Mrs. Margaret Brake, Left yester-
day on intelligence received of the
probably fatal burns received by
Bernadine, the ~S-year-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ord Fairfield, of
Minneapolis, who is Mrs. Funston's
granddaughter. The child was play
ing with some form of fireworks on
the evening of the Fourth, which set
fire TO her clothing. Her condition
is serious and she was not expected
to live.
j. A. McGoyern, of st. Paul, sur
prised his Madison acquaintance by
arriving in the city this morning un-
announced. Mr.. McGovern was an
old time Madison resident, serving
Lake county as a deputy sheriff, the
city as chief of police, and later as
manager of the Farmers Elevator
company, being an expert buyer and
Judge of grain. Several years ago he
accepted a position with a grain COM
mission house in st. Paul, a position
which he has resigned to accept a
position in the State Agricultural col
itBe DIT dIRO. N. II. Ills duLl6S Will
be to instruct students in judging
and grading grain, and the salary is
such hat Mr.. McGovern could not
decline it.
The good roads committee of Mad
ison and Lake county has just fin
ished surfacing the road for a half
mile west of the chautauqua grounds
and it only remains to widen a short
piece of the grade at the west end Of
this strip. The supervision of this
work vas under the immediate per
sonal direction of A. G.. Schmidt. In
talking with a member Of the COM
mittee today he said that the bills the
county commissioners allowed for
payment from the automobile fund
did not in any wise represent the to-
tai value of work placed on the road.
Mr.. Schmidt has devoted his time
wholly to it from the first furrow,
using his car not only for running
errands, but actually using it as mo-
tive power for dragging. His work