The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-04-03

fee and Royal Garden tea Friday and
Saturday at Munro's.
A meeting of the fire department
is called to be held at the hall Thurs
day evening at s o'clock. Election
of officers.
Miss Grinager has moved her mil
llnery store from Center street w
into the Munson building, Egan ave-
nue. n.
Lost. From automobile between
Madison and Hartford, o~vercoat.
Finder return to this office or Bert
Reeve, Madison, S. d.
Regular meeting OF Evergreen
lodge No. II, A. F. & A. NJ, this
evening at s o'clock. Work in f. A.
degree.-C. A. Berg, w. NJ.
Ladies, do your spring sewing on
a two-spool sewing machine or other
high class makes sold by Mitterling
Piano House.
The county commissioners were in
session at the courthouse yesterday
on routine county work. Today they
went out to view ditch projects as a
ditch board. They will be in session
several days this week, they said last
night.
Miss Veronica Squires, who re-
turned from a few days visit with
friends in DeSmet states that during
her stay there a Red Cross auction
sale was held which Melted the local
society $4,000.
Minneapolis dispatch: The Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail-
road has been authorized by Director
General w. G. McAdoo to build 5000
freight cars in its own shops. it is
announced. The cost of these cars
will total approximately $500, 900.
These will be for the most part stock
cars. This is the first action of this
nature involving a northwest road
since the government assumed con-
troll of the railroads.
Kerstein brothers, formerly con
Quoting an automobile tire and vul-
canizing business in First street Sc,
but who later sold the business and
moved to Fl~andreau, have returned
to Madison and yesterday installed a
stock of tires and wheel accessories
in the building formerly occupied by
Miss Grinager's millinery store,
where they will also conuuct a tire
repairing business. Miss Grlnager
has moved her business into the
building formerly occupied by the l..
ID. Lee electrical establishment.
When asked today what business
was going to occupy the front Nacat-
ed the first of the month by the re-
moval of the p~ostoffice, VIM. Hunte-
mer sal dthat no rental had been
made yet. He intends to spend some
time in repairing the building. A
new ceiling of pressed steel is to be
put in, and the floor is to be renew
ed. If the business going in will
warrant the expenditure he will put
in a terrazzo floor, and such other
improvements as the business will
warrant. The preliminary repairs
and remodeling is being figured at
this time.
Angered by a resistance to pay
ment of a bid imposed upon Jacob
and John Richter at the Red Cross
sale at Junius, and the resultant ac-
cusations of disloyalty, DR.. W. L.
Kinney soundly whipped them on the
street at the front of the Rieder-
staedt store this afternoon The
men were very angry that bids of
s25 and $40, respectively, had been
imposed upon them, and had deter
mined not to pay the amounts. In
the resultant quarrel accusations
against their loyalty were made, and
on the answer that they were as good
Americans as was the doctor. he
struck repeatedly the older man
John Richter then interposed, AND
the then thoroughly angry doctor
slapped him with considerable force