The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-01

will be under the direction OF Miss
Johanna Hegdahl.
There will be a harvest home fes-
tival in Junius Friday evening, Octo-
Der 4. Chicken pie supper served at
6 o'clock and during the evening a
sale will follow of fancy articles and
garden products. This is given un-
der the auspices of the M. e. Ladies'
Aid. Everybody come.
Miss wilkins. of Monmouth, H.,
arrived in the city yesterday to re-
main. She will engage in community
nursing for Lake county, work sim
liar to that done in Lake county at
intervals the past two or three years.
A committee meeting will be held
this evening at the office of County
Superintendent Alice Ripe to plan
on Miss wilkins duties in the county.
A recently received letter from
Herman Vreyens, who is now serving
overseas, states that he is travelling
a good deal and seeing much of the
country with his motor truck regi-
ment. He is not infatuated with
France as a country and will be glad
when he can return to the good old
United States.
G. /. Wilkinson states that he has
just finished digging and marketing
10 acres of potatoes. There was an
average yield of 100 bushels per acre
and they brought 81 per bushel. Mr..
Wilkinson was quite lucky to sell at
the above quoted price for the mar
ket has scaled down considerably
from that figure in the past few days.
The clerical force of the First Ma
tional bank enjoyed an oyster sup
per at Jacks restaurant last evening.
A telegram from Chicago received
this morning by Mr.. and Mrs. w. T.
Stearns, appraised them that the on
dition of their son, William, vas
very critical" Hope ran high a few
days ago, according to messages then
received, that his recovery seemed
fairly assured.
When interviewed today Chairman
John w. Walden stated that Liberty
loan subscriptions r not coming in
as rapidly as anticipated by the COM
mittee. The allotment for this u
ty is around $4,000 The total
subscriptions at the close of office
hours Monday evening was $3SS,490,
divided by districts as follows: City
of Madison, ~S134,750; outside towns,
Sal, 500; 16 townships of Lake coun-
ty, s211,940.
Mrs. Catherine Durre, who came
to Madison last weke to visit old
friends and acquaintance, received a
telegram last night telling of the
death of her aged husband at Nor
man, N. D., their home city. Mrs.
Durre left this afternoon for Bristol,
where she will join her daughter and
proceed to Norman. Mr.. and Mrs.
Durre were formerly residents of
Madison and are well known by a
large circle of friends. Mrs. Durre
is past 80 years of age.
Two ladies, Mrs. Otto Johnson and
Mrs. t. M. Griggs and a child of the
latter, were victims of an auto tip
over this morning. They were driv-
ing towards Madison and had reached
the old McCreedy place one-half mile
south when a wagon and another
auto appeared in sight and started to
turn out and pass by. Mrs. Johnson
was driving the car and in trying to
pass the oncoming vehicles, lost con-
troll and the car giving a quick
swerve to one side, turned once over
and, according to the report of the
ladies, landed right side up. Mrs.
Johnson's left arm was broken and
she is now in the Madison hospital
having the bones reset. Mrs. Curry
and the child were quite badly shak-
en- up and the former sustained some
bruises. though nothing serious.
There will be a free lecture at the
Methodist church tomorrow evening
beginning at s o'clock. Private
Combe, of the Canadian expedition
airy forces, will relate his experiences
while serving three years overseas
and will describe the treatment ac-
corded him while incarcerated in a
German wal prison for Is months.
1t is an amazing story of the war and
Private Combe interests his audi
ences greatly while reciting how he
was gassed, wounded and captured.
He is having wonderful meetings and
full capacity houses wherever he APP
pears, in fact, a telegram in today
states that people are being turned
away wherever he appears. Remem-
Der this lecture is free. Private