The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-06-16

parents In the country while Mr..
Urdahl is taking his trip through
North Dakota.
C. e. Ritterbusch, wife and child,
arrived in the city this morning from
Bancroft, this state. They went out
on an afternoon train after transact
ing business here during the day.
Thos. Walden, of the Lake County
National bank, departed for Mitchell
this morning. Mr.. Walden will be
present at a meeting of the State
Bankers convention.
Robert Kehrwald arrived Sunday
from service overseas. He will visit
his sister, Mrs. Carl Nellis, a few days
before going on to his home at
Ramona.
Edward Slack, son of James Slack,
left France on the second of this
month and now must certainly be
nearing Madison from camp or near
ing camp from his return across.
Oscar Mueller, who has seen over
a years service in France with a
medical corps unit, writes home to
his parents that he is now in West
Virginia enroute to Camp Dodge,
where his discharge will soon occur.
Miss Bessie Johansen went to
Cedar Rapids this morning by way of
Sioux City. At the latter place she
will visit her brother. Paul, now en-
ployed by the Armour Grain COM
pany.
Mrs. H. Nolan departed for Ha-
warden, Ia, to be in attendance at
the wedding of her husbands sister,
which is soon to occur. DR.. Nolan
will leave for that place on Wednes-
day. &s~sa. ts}@ -
ole Highland and family left this
city today on a trip that will take
him to Morris, III, first. Here is
where Mr.. Highland spent his youth
full days. After a short visit there
they will visit relatives at Chicago.
Mrs. G.. f. futile was a passenger
this forenoon for points in New York
state. Among the places she will
visit is Schenectady. She will spend
some time there calling on several OF
her children.
Miss Leah Hall, a teacher in the
Madison high school, made her de-
parture today for her home in Ohio.
Miss Hall stated that her work this
school year, just closed. had been
very pleasant.
C. Cokley arrived from Flandreau
today to continue his search for q
vacant building for rent. He will
bring a new line of business to Mad
ison, providing a suitable location
can be found for it.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Olstad are in
receipt of a letter from Capt. Linstad,
with the army of occupation in Ger
many, dated May 81, in which he
states that he will soon leave for
America. Capt. Linstad sends greet
ings to his friends in this city.
The surprise of the season is the
fact that w. E. Caldwell and family
enjoyed a mess of new potatoes yes
terday taken from their own garden.
Mr.. Caldwell did his planting real
early and the numerous rains helped
the vines along with rapid growth.
The potatoes were fairly big, being
about the size of hens eggs.
Mrs. Rudolph Markie, of Owen.
Wis, arrived in the city Saturday
evening and is a guest at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Minnie Birr, at
the farm home in Lakeview town
ship. Mr.. and Mrs. Markie are es-
tablishing a home farm on cutover
land near their home town. Mrs.
Markie is enthusiastic over the pros
pect.
Wentworth Enterprise: Our boys
are getting home pretty fast these
days, especially since the landing of
the 88th division, which contained a
large number of South Dakota boys.
Roy Zenner reached Wentworth last
week and Thursday of this week
Will Cook and Will Mapes arrived.
Clifford Zenner was at Camp Dodge
and received his discharge Wednes-
day.
/. The Commercial club and the Mad
ison Merchants association have to-
gether appointed A. K. Fuller a COM
mittee of one to attend the Firemen's
tournament which is to be held June
1918 at Redfield. Fire Chief Clyde
Walker will represent the local de-
partment at that time. His chief
purpose in attending is to invite the
next tournament, that of 1920, to
Madison.