The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-08-30

The Presbyterian Aid society will
meet at the home of Mrs. Kingsley
Friday afternoon.
See the wonderful two spool sew
ing machine in the Mitterling Piano
House exhibit at the fair.
Mrs. Norris, of St. Louis. Mo. is a
guest at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. ID. j. Mitterling.
Don't fail to hear the music in the
floral hall furnished by Mitterling
Piano House during the fair.
Philip Grinager, of Grinager Bros,
left yesterday for Minneapolis. where
he will spend a three weeks vacation.
Found. A perfectly good end gate
of a farm wagon and automobile
number plate, 568S6, are at The
Daily Leader office to be claimed by
the wners.
III. H. Holdridge issued the follow
ing order to The Daily Leader today:
Take my advertisement. house to
rent, out of your paper, / have had
four chances to rem it today"
ott III IIlC tAllDlliOu IIOII the
Mitterling Piano House in floral hall
during the fair next week.
The Sunday school of the Presby-
terrain church are having their an
nual picnic at the c%hautauqua
grounds at the lake today. the main
feature of which is the eats. f. l..
Burnett said today. There were also
games and contests arranged, for the
older ones under the direction of c..
C, Wagner, and for the younger, Miss
Madge futile is in charge. There
were 100 persons present.
This morning banks were busy
cashing checks for the soldiers of
Company f, being issued in payment
OF the last Is days of July. Capt.
Linstad made a trip to Aberdeen
Tuesday and met Paymaster Wal
lace, of whom he got the company
pay. returning yesterday. Perhaps
the men would as soon not advertise
the fact that they are in funds, but
the pleasure expressed by their faces
would reveal the fact anyway.
The employees and such outside
assistance as was found necessary to
take inventory of the ID. McKinnon
stock completed listing the articles
last night. 1t remains to figure and
extend the items before making a
balance sheet or to ascertain the
present worth of the merchandise.
preparatory to the entry of Messrs.
Raasch and Griffin into actual par
ticipation of the business.
The asphalt plant was not deliver
ing material for street work this
forenoon. due Il a mixture OF asphalt
having been made too thin. When
the asphalt is put into the kettles and
heated ii is necessary to add a fluX
ing oil to it, and too much of this oil
was used, making il necessary to add
considerable more hard asphalt. II
requires some hours to melt this ma
terial and not burn il. so the work
was delayed by a half day. Work of
laying binder was resumed this after
noon on Second street NE.
Albert Nj. Johnson this morning in
conversation said that his father. T.
A. Johnson, who some weeks ago un-
derwent an operation at La Crosse.
Wis, was MOI recovering as rapidly
or as well as was hoped soon after
the operation. 1t seems hat the re
covery from the operation is com
plete. the incision having healed, but
since that time he has been suffer
ing from lumbago, and was threaten
ed with pneumonia for some days.
Nothing serious is apprehended from
his condition, and the present state
of his health is attributed to his de
bilitated condition from before the
hospital treatment.
Bert Bowel, formerly with the
Trimmer Engineering company, later
enlisted in an engineering corps of
the army. advised his mother, Mrs.
b. b. Bowel, today. that he was
aboard a transport train from El
Paso, Tex. en- route to New Orleans.
At the time of writing the train was
four days out, and passing through
Louisiana, expecting to arrive at the
destination Saturday. The communi-
cation was short, intended merely to
keep his mother informed as TO his
whereabouts, and told nothing of the
life in the army. Nothing is known
of the destination after they reach
New Orleans