The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-05-13
LOCAL NEWS.

Take your next meal at Rays Res
taurant. 35 cents.
Eat at Jacks.
For Rent. Building on Egan ave-
nue., suitable for general store pur-
poses. See Security State Bank.
So i'm Cash for any standard make
watch l al not repair.-Guy E.
Hanson.
Dancing at Huntemer hall every
Wednesday and Saturday evenings.
Music by Imperial orchestra.
Comrade Joseph Pulford is home
from a winter ~sojourn in Hot
Springs, Ark.
For Sale. Sixty thoroughbred
White Leghorn healthy chicks at Is
cents each. Phone 1924.
For wrinkles, pimples, blackheads,
to cleanse the skin, Velvetina Almond
Massage is an unexcelled skin food.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. E. Ketcham and
son, Edward, returned by a morning
train from a weeks absence in Min
neapolis.
p. Fl. Grinager, of Welcome, Mimi,
a former Madison resident, spent
Sunday in the city calling on relatives
and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Bjornstad and
Mrs. w. /. Wilkinson were departures
hr "a tnnrnfnn t~afr fnr D~nl1.
Mimi, to consult surgeons of the
Mayo hospital.
DR.. w. E. Daniels went by a morn
ing train to Sioux Falls to assist in
a surgical operation upon Mrs. Wal
ter Gueffroy, of this city.
Congressman c. Fl. Dillon will
speak in Madison in behalf of his
campaign for reelection at 8 o'clock
in the evening of May %. it is an
nounced.
A meeting of Gen. Shields Post,
G. A. r., was held at their room in
the courthouse, this afternoon to
discuss matters pertaining OF the OBJ
seryance of Decoration day, May 30.
The Civic and Child Welfare club
have arranged with Mrs. Rongstad,
of the federal food administration,
for an address at high school audi
forum this evening. County Agent
Bibby will discuss gardening relating
to boys and girls clubs.
Arthur G. Probtsfield, United
States infantry, sends Postmaster
VIM. Lowe notice that he will be in
Madison May 16, II and Is for the
purpose of obtaining recruits for the
army. He can be seen during the
day at the new federal building.
Among those who went this after
noon to Pierre to attend the annual
Odd Fellow and Rebekah convention
were Mrs. Hattie Borland, j. p. Me-
dill, Mrs. j. C. Palmer, M. E. Hart
and wife, F. L. Burnett, Geo. H.
Waskey and f. ]. Degood. The con-
vention is dated for May is.
A meeting of the commissioners
and land owners this forenoon was
wrestling with the problem of obtain
ing an outlet for the projected ditch
No. Is. The ditch itself has not
been established yet, but the matter
of the outlet was practically settled.
The hearing for the ditch, together
with the final decision on the outlet
was set for May II. Attorney e. o.
Jones. of Sioux Falls, was with the
commissioners this afternoon.
Rev. Duncan Matheson and wife
are guests today of Rev. and Mrs. C.
McKibbin, being on their way from
New Mexico to Langdon, N. d., by
auto. They have been about 10 days
on the road. Mr.. Matheson was for
merly pastor at Deming, N. M, and
he now breaches in the south in the
winter and in the north during the
summer. He and Mr.. McKibbin were
college friends, and the meeting last
night after the years Of separation
was a delightful surprise.
The American Civic Reform union,
Cleveland, o., offers to send a copy
of the book idle Hours" free and
postpaid, to any person who will fur
nish the union with the names of ten
or more men and women of means
who are interested in safeguarding
girls. idle Hours is a rare collec-
ton of poems, pictures and stories of
prison life, by a convict. The author
was once caught feeding hungry
sparrows in front Of his cell, and for
this humane act was strung up by
the wrists IL hours a day for several
days, with only bread and water
to eat.
The people OF Lake county are 60
ing to have IN opportunity to hear
perhaps the greatest speaker on the
American platform on the work OF
the Red Cross and the various war
relief organizations, when DR.. Fred
erick Perry speaks at Madison Thurs
/ day eni Nav 16. at the high