The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-08-27

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distance was covered by auto and all
enjoyed the ride.
All brother and sister Rebekahs
are requested to meet at the hall
Friday, August 80, at $3.50 D. m, to
attend the picnic at the Hart cottage
at the lake. Please bring autos for
conveyance.-Committee.
The civil service commission an
nounces an examination for clerk,
departmental service, September a.
1918. Those who are interested
please call at the p~ostoffice and get
application blanks.-F. c. Fuller,
Secretary.
Miss Bess Ryan left Madison this
morning for Gary, Ind, where she
goes to take up her duties as teacher
in the public schools. She is al
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John Ryan,
of Madison.
Mrs. X. Knoeri has returned from
a purchasing trip that took her to
Chicago and Milwaukee. She has
been gone about 10 days and on the
return stopped at Monroe, Wis, to
visit her mother, Mrs. Voegelli, for
several days.
Miss 10 Adrian is at present a.
guest of her sister, Miss Augusta,
who is employed as bookkeeper for
the Madison Storage Battery COM
pany. The former is from Humboldt,
Mimi, and will remain until the last
of the week.
Mrs. E. Hines and granddaughter,
Mrs. w. E. Latin. have returned
from Jackson, Mimi, where they
were visiting a sister-in-law, Mrs.
Geo. Kelley. They also spent some
time at Spencer, Ia, visiting friends.
G. Frieburghaus has heard from
his son, Walter, who is now in France
to the effect that he and Earl Ran
dali have charge of the army horses,
ing left Madison in July these men
made a quick trip over.
The Ladies' Missionary society of
the Presbyterian church will meet
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
Chas. Porter at her home at the lake.
All ladies desiring to go are request
ed to be at B~iedestaedt's corner.
Cars will leave promptly at 2:30
o'clock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guerin, Miss Mar
guerite Seid, and Esther and Court
ney Smith expect to leave tomorrow
morrow morning by auto on a trip
to Camp Funston, Kan. The object
of this long drive is a visit with
Sherman Smith, who is located at
that camp.
The complaint registered at last
nights commission meeting relative
to the bad condition of lower Van
Fps emu was timely. Today
Street Commissioner Mitchell has
two teams and two men at work fill
ing and grading the avenue from the
mill to the first crossing north. The
dirt at each side of the avenue is be-
ing scraped to the center and leveled.
This will do away with an objection
able mud hole near the real Of the
Fuller laundry.
Austin, Mimi, dispatch: More
funeral of Lieut.. Olaf B. Damn of
the 136th Infantry, here on Sunday.
The services were conducted by Chap
lain Clemens of the 136th infantry,
who came here with a guard of honor
in charge of the remains. The serv-
ices were preceded by Masonic mil
itary funeral rites, participated in by
$50 Knight Templars and Blue lodge
Masons. Lieut.. Damn was killed at
Camp Cody last Tuesday by the acct
dental explosion of a hand grenade.
Postmaster VIM. Lowe is in re-
ceipt of a letter from E. Dupont, in
charge of the recruiting station al
Sioux Falls, stating that men from 46
to Sc years of age are being enlisted
in the United States army as volun.
teers. In the quartermaster corps:
Bakers, cooks, chauffeurs, clerks
/, specially qualified as s~tenographers
and typewriters. Signal corps: Tel
egraph operators both wire and ra-
dio, telephone men and telephone
switchboard operators, telegraph and
telephone linemen, repairmen, truck
drivers and repairers of autos, gas
engines, etc, cable men, cable splic.
ers, ETC., photographers and moving
! picture experts, cooks, clerks, bug.