The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-09-06
STATE NEWS.

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has asked permission of the state
railway commission to extend the
time for beginning daily service be-
tween Mitchell and Rapid City to-
September Is and probably will be
granted this extension of time. The
order was for such service beginning
September L.
Custer-Miss Hazel Bailey. a young
woman Of Custer, has been given her
commission as missionary of the Con-
gregational church to China, and will
depart soon TO assume her duties
there. At commission services held
in the Congregational church here,
Rev. Allen Fairbank, of Edgemont,
was one of the chief speakers.
observation-disclosures can have sam
pies of their own grain Graded at the
United States department of a~gricul-
ture exhibit ON the state fair grounds
at Huron hex week. The govern
ment has notified the state college
that it has provided a grain grading
outfit in charge of federal grain SUI
peryisors who will explain and DEM
onstrate how federal grades for
wheat, shelled corr and oats are ap-
piled.
Scotland-The first woman in the
northwest to go visiting in an air
plane is believed to be Mrs. Henry
Wenzlaff, a prominent woman of
Scotland. Wishing to make a visit
to her parents at Armour, she en-
gagged Lieut.. j. s. Gehan, of Hawar-
den, Ia, to take her to Armour in
his airplane. The flight was made in
record time, and the parents had the
novelty of seeing their daughter come
out of the sky, sc to speak, to make
them a visit.
Deadwood-Albert Cassarant, q
young man living at st. Onge, who
was trailed to Belle Fourche and ar
rested on the charge of stealing an
automobile from a st. Onge man, vas
taken into a local court, where he
was given a suspended sentence. Cas-
sarant and another young man, he
stated, took the car for a 10Y ride
without any intention of stealing it
Freeman-Some of the Mennonite.
who left South Dakota and went Il
Montana did not fare very well this
season in the way of crop production
A member of the colony, who is visit
ing South Dakota, states tehy hav'
hardly any feed; that from 1906
acres they threshed $50 bushels o
wheat; their rye yielded a total o
400 bushels from 900 acres. The,
own / $1,000 acres of land, and ma,
accept an offer of $222,O00 for it an'
move elsewhere.
Elkton-Frank Tonlitz. a farm
laborer, employed on a place south
west of here, was killed in a runawa,
which occurred while he was helpin
with threshing on the farm. He re
Gently came here from Passaic. N. ]
after having served nineteen month
with the Canadian army in France
The Bookings county Red Cross sc
ciety, in recognition of Tonlitz's wa
record, had charge of the funeral an
provided a grave.
Flandreau-Flandreau soon wi
be included on the King of Trails, tn
highway which runs from Galvesto
to Winnipeg. Representatives of tn
trail have been here and laid out tn
road from Trent through Flandrea
to Clear Lake and Milbank. TIL
King of Trails has two branches frol
Sioux City north. One road leao
through South Dakota while I'll
lother goes through Iowa and Mimi
sofa. the two joining at Milbank. I'll
:! South Dakota road crosses the Blac
= and Yellow trail north of Mood
7 county and the Minnesota ros
crosses the East and West trail
Lake Benton.