The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-02-21

& Wooley.
For Sale. Rhode Island Red cock
erels.-Heyo Dirksen, Center street
West.
Buy our National Mazda lamps at
Chris Rensch's hardware store. Com
plete stock at all times.
The surgical dressing room at Red
Cross will be open tonight at 1880.
Everybody come.-Committee.
The exemption board is still EXAM
lining men of the selective draft to-
day. One of the officers said that
this forenoon they had an unusual
number of men of prime physique
almost perfect specimens.
Mems dress shoes at Peters &
| Wooley.
Senator Andrew Warwick, of Rob-
erts county, and a party of business
men from the same locality passed
through the city today, en- route to
Sioux Falls on business in connection
with the new Liberty loan drive.
The train from the north did not
arrive in Madison until after l o'clock
this afternoon, due to engine failure.
1t is said that the boiler leaked, and
the engine died at Bryant. For some
time officials would not make m
promises as to the ultimate arrival
of the train.
Mems work shoes at Peters &
Wooley.
Following a day Of great cold yes
terday, the mercury went down to 90
degrees below the mark last night.
With daylight this morning the wind
arose from the south, and the tenn
perature moderated rapidly, but COM
fort was out of the question with the
chill wind from that direction. There
is promise of further moderation to-
! night and tomorrow.
Yes, the famous Gotzian shoes at
Peters & Wooley.
Doing his bit" as he goes along
is the method adopted by DR.. w. E.
| hluucy the duNklOhCCI. Az q ooAN vi
which he had charge at the Oil farm
in Herman township yesterday, DR..
Kinney induced Messrs. Jameson and
Neal, owners of the property, to do
nate a Plymouth Rock chicken and a
duck TO the Red Cross and then just
to warm up the crowd DR.. Kinney
sold the fowls for $24.75.
Frank Whitmore. son Of John
Whitmore, who died Tuesday after
noon, has been located at Camp Han
cock, Augusta, Ca, and notified of
i his fathers death. He has been
granted leave of absence and will ar
rive in Madison Saturday afternoon.
1t has been arranged to hold the flu
neral from the NJ. E. church Saturday
afternoon at 2:3O o'clock, the re-
mains and funeral cortege leaving the
farm home at 1880 o'clock.
The city engineers office is max
ing an estimate of the number of fig
ures necessary to number the stores
and houses of Madison. The estimate
must include not only the total num-
Der of figures, but the number of fig
ures in each assortment. Tax books
plats and insurance surveys are being
used to get this approximation, one
quarter of the city being carefully
numbered from them, and the Other
three-quarters of the city will be esti
mated from this number. The worl
is slow, exacting and tedious.
A fire at the rear of the kitchen
stove, among kindling and loose pa
pers in the kitchen of the F. e. Hol
residence at the corner of Egan ave
nue. and Second street NV at
o'clock this morning called the fir
department out. They turned tn,
chemical hose on the small blaze ant
it expired. Fire had been built II
the stove a short time before tn
alarm had been turned in. The dam
age is small, consisting Of some char
red Dashboard, some smoke in tn
house, and considerable muddy boo
traces about the rooms.
Aberdeen News: There is at leas
one man in Aberdeen who has de
cided to turn over a new leaf and no
/! swear any more. He thinks discre
, ton is the better part of valor. ]
happened this way: Last night tw
men were crossing a street and one
in giving special emphasis to the re
marks he addressed to his compar
ion, gave vent to some "colorful
language. Just then a little girl me
them and addressed the culprit: "Yo
made some awful yea words, didn
you, mister?" Astonishment an
then a sheepish grin spread over tn
mans face, and humbly he replied
Eyes, but I'll try not to any more.
The little girl offered to let him sa
holy fishes" if he boiled over agail
An open competitive examinatio
for the position of clerk, male and Il
finale, and carrier, in the p~ostoffice