The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-03-06

10 HOlu tne election on next IueSQay
night.
The rest room beneath the Security
State bank is in operation this week.
The place was partitioned, painted,
and additional heating surface added
to the radiators. 1t is being kept
open now, though the furniture is not
yet arranged, nor any provision made
for covering the floor. 1t will make
an excellent place and location for a
room of the kind.
DR.. w. E. Kinney, the auctioneer,
is adding laurels to his record as a
Red Cross booster. At the Farmer
Smith-Bale auction sale Monday a
calf was donated which sold for s32.
At the anne sale the children of Or
land school district No. 13, school No.
2, donated a duck which sold for
S2S.5O. At the Gale Brannon sale on
Tuesday a rooster was donated which
sold for $3.50.
DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Heston return
ed last night from an extensive trip
in the east, undertaken to visit vari-
Gus educational association meetings.
He attended the National Educational
association winter session at Atlantic
City, and other meetings in connec-
ton with educational matters in that
city and at Washington, d. C. They
have been gone a matter of a month.
Alolnh Tah~ o~nDy~aac N olncinr
out sale at auction Thursday, March
Z, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m. The
sale will be held at the McCready
farm south of Madison. The prop
erty to be sold includes 81 head of
horses, % head of cattle, 80 head of
hogs, farm machinery, etc. A free
lunch will be served at noon. The
sale will be in charge of Kinney and
Borecky, auctioneers.
Prof. Felibertos, worlds greatest
%hypnotist, will make you laugh. At
the Imperial Thursday and Friday.
Rev. w. S. Argow, of the German
Baptist church, will conduct the devo-
tional service at the union prayer
meeting tomorrow evening at the
First Baptist church. This meeting
is in preparation for the union Len
ten services that will begin next Sun
day evening at 1880 at the high
school auditorium, conducted by
Charles Cullen Smith, of Chicago.
The contest for the pony, harness
and cart, contributed to the Red Cross
by j. w. Golf, will start at noon.
March IL, II. II. Holdridge said this
morning. and the contest is open to
any boy or girl who on that date has
not yet reached his 18th birthday
and will close on March 26 at noon.
Tickets will be furnished at his Of
flee, and at other places designated
later. and will be sold for 10 cents
each. The boy or girl selling the
greatest number of tickets wins the
outfit.
Whether or not to establish Lake
, Minnehaha county joint ditch is
the purpose of a meeting with the
county commissioners this afternoon
at the court house. Attorney Il. y.
Jones, of Sioux Falls, representing
those DESTROYS of putting the project
through, was present this afternoon
and a number of property owners
who do not want the drainage pre-
scented their sides of the argument
Upon the adjournment of the com
missioners as a ditch board they will
continue with the county business
and it is expected that the work will
consume the greater part OF the
week.
The work of the local exemption
board is not done, as was thought by
many. the examination of 337 mer
classified by this board as being In
class one not exhausting the list oil
men to be passed upon by any means
Clerk p. A. Johnson advises today
that there are probably 200 question
naires in the hands of the distric,
board. appealed from the classified
ton of the local board, many or most
of which will have to be examined by
this board on their return. The deci-
sions of the district board will place
many of them in the first class, and
this board will have to examine them
for physical fitness. The board has
another session Monday, at which
time there are some 20 men to be ex'
ined as passed on the appeal to the
district board.
The weather man probably die
right Monday in issuing a wild warn
ing of approaching storm and cold, al
a measure of precaution. But If his
advices were as concise as the seri
business of his warning indicated, hi:
storm went estray somewhere be-
tween Medicine Hat and this locality
We had some nice frosty weather
wholly in keeping with the season o
the year, and a fresh breeze. But .
bad storm either wore itself out in
the wide stretches of country at the