The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-04

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the county commissioners sitting as
a ditch board for the construction Of
drainage projects Nos. IL and IA.
Attorney E. o. Jones, of Sioux Falls,
is in attendance upon the meeting.
There are 10 bidders present.
Prices at the Imperial for Cleo
patra" Monday and Tuesday. with
Theda Bara in the title role. will be
rs and so cents. with a very few
eats at 81. Reserved seat tickets
for evening entertainments only may
be secured at Frank Smiths drug
store without extra charge.
Work will be commenced about
the last of the week on the new san
itary sewer in Center street W. ex-
tending $50 feet east of the main on
VanEps avenue. Surveyors staked
the course out this morning, and as
Don as material can be got to the
place, and the contracts completed.
work will begin, C. l.. Broodlove.
the successful bidder said this after
noon.
Supt. f. G.. Quarnstrom and Geo.
Fisher are working today at placing
the globes and lamps I'm the lamp
posts in the parking OF upper Egan
avenue. The full number has not
been secured yet, but those on hand
will be distributed over the length
of the avenue, two to the block.
They hope TO be able to give the light
by Saturday night.
The annual meeting of the Pres
byterian congregation will be held
this evening at the church, begin
ming at s O'Clock. There will be re-
ports from the different societies of
the church, also election OF elders
and trustees. All who are interest
ed in the church are urged to be
present. Refreshments will be
served.
Mrs. +. T.. Smith, formerly of Mad
ison. and her daughter and son-in-
law. Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Courser. all
of Battle Ground, Wash. arrived
yesterday for a summers visit with
her nephew, DR.. II. E, Kellogg. Mrs.
Smith has not been in Madison for
II years, but was formerly well
known here. Her husband was E.
E. Smith, and they lived a few miles
north of the city.
Elmer F. Hinton. in the naval
service, writes his father, Frank
Hinton. of Madison. that he has
made 13 passages across the Atlantic
since going into active service. He
states that he has seen IL subma-
rines sunk. n of which was lit
orally blown out of the water by the
explosion. He is in service in the
marines. and on the battleship
Florida.
). When asked last night what cor,
roboration he could offer the state
, ment by city papers that packages
could be SEN to the soldiers il
France on presentation of a writer
. order from the soldier and counter
signed by his officer. POSTMASTER
l VIM. Lowe said that he had received
no instructions of that nature. HI
Q said that of course he had orders L
!. ~confine the mail going to the men Il
1 as small weight and size as possible
a because the volume tended to oecup.
room valuable for the transportation
of other things. But no restriction
or particular formality has been i'm
posed OF the sending of mail to tn
men in France.
Benjamin Chapin's series, 'Th
8 Son of Democracy" at the Lyric the
alter Friday and Saturday, has me
, with immediate success. The storie
presented by Paramount, are humol
: Gus, pathetic and full of adventure
Mr.. Chapin's portrayal of Lincoln
remarkable. That he does look lik
Lincoln is proved by the fact ths
: window cards, being distributed n;
. tionally, bearing pictures of Wilson
Lincoln and Washington, actual
show a picture of Mr.. Chaplin instea
e of Abraham Lincoln. The man WI
made the card used the Chaplin PHI
tograph, because, he explained, T"
d looks more like Lincoln than al
= picture of Lincoln I could find"