The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-11


The stock Of goods that were on
the shelves of the Lake Madison store
were brought to the city yesterday
and Mr.. and Mrs. Galloway have'left
the lake for the season. The cafe
terra has also closed.
f. l.. Green and wife we're out
bound passengers today for their
home at Springfield, Mo-, after hav-
ing concluded a visit with F. M. Nc
Cracker and family. These people
are from a part Of Missouri that was
hard hit by drought this summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. D. Lee, Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Palmer and Mrs. A. T. Ire
land all returned from the Huron fair
this noon. Attendance reported not
so great as in past years. While in
Huron Mrs. Ireland called on her
friends, DR.. and Mrs. Feige.
The funeral of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
Unzelman's ~4-year-old daughter oc-
Cured this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Short services were held at the home
and the funeral proper was conduct
ed at the Presbyterian church. The
little n was laid to rest in the
Wentworth cemetery.
Some real estate is changing
hands. The August Kruger farm
has just been sold to Iowa parties,
the Walden Land company making
the deal. They have also sold the
Brannan place, n and one-half
miles southwest of Madison and the
240-acre Mckee farm north of Ju-
MUS.
County Judge A. w. Sponholz Of
ficiated at a wedding yesterday which
occurred in his office. The contract
ing parties were Mr.. William A.
Schultz and Miss Betty A. Malm,
both of Salem. The judge feels re-
sponsible for the happiness of this
happy pair, inasmuch as there has
not been a single divorce among all
the marriages he has performed.
A letter from Camp Funston,
signed by Gilbert Sponholz, is now
in the hands of our county judge,
who states that his brother Is now In
the detention hospital for inocula-
ton. Gilbert reports $50 stolen from
his company the first evening and
the suicide of a young man in an
other company just brought in.
Walter Farmer was engaged in dig
ging water trench connections and
had decided that it was no graft"
Undertaken E. L. Peck went to
Oldham this afternoon to bring to
Madison the remains of Mr.. Mason,
who passed away yesterday. Inter
cemetery. Mr.. Mason was once a pio-
neer in this locality, having at an
early day filed on a claim one-half
miles north of the city limits. He
was nearing his goth year when
death summoned him. Mr.. Mason
was the first justice of the peace in
Madison.
The county auditor is still urging
that names and addresses of drafted
boys be sem him. The precinct
should be included. About 325 bal
lots for voting have been transmitted
to soldier voters and many of them
have been marked and returned.
Somebody is woefully careless about
sending addresses into the auditors
office and this means that just that
number of boys are kept from cast
ing their ballot in a very important
election ahead.
The city Liberty loan executive
committee met Monday evening and
completed the revision of the city al,
lotment cards. 1t was decided to
have two persons in charge of the
city Liberty loan office in the post.
office and four in charge of the Lib.
erty loan office at the courthouse
The chairman announces that all nee
essary supplies have been received
from headquarters, and that all PEG
pie expected to buy bonds will be ad
vised of their allotment on the 23rt
of this month. AS stated before, nj
personal solicitation will be made.
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