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TELEPHONE, NO. 269.
TUKSDAY MARCH 23, 1909
THE CITY.
Train Schedule.
Arrive—From the west, 9:20 a. m.:
north, 9 :30 a. east, 8:30 p. m..
sontb, 3:40 p. in.
Depart—For tbe Booth, 9:40 a. m.
east, 9:55a.M. north, 3:55 p. ID.
west. 4 p. in.
Night passenger-Arrive from the
east, 12:05 a. m. depart for the east.
l-JS
a. mi
Weather forecast
Unsettled with probably showers
late tonight or Wednesday warmer to
night.
LOCAL NEWS.
gee tbe new Veilings at Mien Bogen's.
Ft one Simpson for bank sand or
gritel
Phone 267 or 97 for city'delivery.—
S. L. Myers.
Leave orders for cat flowers for Eas
ter ftt the Corner drng store.
All kinds of rugs, just received at
Geo. Beck's.
Shirts, new spring styles, at Grin
ager Broe.
See the new samples of latest models
in long nip corsets, at Miss Morse's.
We carry a fall line of lace curtains,
from 55 cents a pair tip.—Geo. Beck.
Brood mare for gale. Bear? Hnnde
mer.
THIS IS THE WALL PAPER STORE
This is the place of handsome Wall Papers for the home
of tasteful people. New papers and hi^k quality. The sort of
papers that the eye does not weary of-that sets off the pictures
and hangings. Papers that are not merely coverings for the
wall, but wall decorations.
You Can Grain and Varnish Your Own Floors
with Our Combination Floor Sets.
If you will come to us for the directions. You may
want to make a nice looking boarder around your rugs or fix
the whole floor. No matter how poor your floor may be, we
can fix it. The floor set consists of crack-filler, graining color,
graining tools, varnish stain and brushes, all complete for
$2.50. We will tell you all about this anytime, and know we
can save you some money.
J. CHRIS SCHUTZ,
DRUGGIST, JEWELER. Complete Optical Room, Z. F. SEARS, Optician
W You were in our store when H. J. Heinz
Co.'s representative showed and dis
cussed their "57 Varieties" of good
things for the table, you know how good
they are, and that our store is full of
good things for you. Here are some extra good
values for you in one quart Mason jars.
Sweet Gerkin Pickles
Sour Gerkin Pickles
White Onion Pickles
Sweet Mix Pickles
Chow Chow
Sweet Pickled Peaches
Sliced Dill Pickles
Stuffed Sweet Melon MangOM
Prepared Mustard
Raspberry PresenPM
Plum Preserves
Peach Preserves
Nova Scotia Cranberry Preserves ngj- Jjy
Blackberry Preserves
Apple and Currant Jelly
Apple Butter
One Quart Jar of Spanish Olives, 35c. Add a Can
of Baked Red Kidney Beans at 15c, and a Can of
Heinz Tomato Soup at 10c, with your next order.
Yours for Good Things to Eat
H. J. MUNRO, The Grocer
Flour Prices Remain the Same
LITTLE HATCHET, $1.40, GOLD DUST, $1.55
DAKOTA, $1.35. CROCKER'S BEST, $1.55
Get Supplied at H. J. M.'S
Material is being delivered on the
ground for tbe new Garner block in
west Fifth street.
A marriage license was issued to
John H. Johnson of Woonsocket and
Bertha Olson of Nanda.
Mr. and Mrs. G. L. McCallister and
•on. Bob, returned from Minneapolis,
by the north train.
Strayed. A black Newfonndland
dog, white nnder neck. Two dollar*
reward.—Frank Adams.
Don't fail to °eo the basket ball
game next Thursday evening at 8:80.
Vermillion university vs. Y. M.C. A.
Ljcal grain uiarket Wheat, No. 1,
$1.05 No. 2. 11.03 darum, 88 oats,
46 barley, 56 corn, 53 flax, il 47.
D. J. and John Molamby departed
today for Volga City, Iowa, in response
to a telegram announcing tbe illness
of their father.
H. C. Newell, a member of the city
council of Sioux Falls, spent tne night
in Madison. Mr.Newell is engaged in
the commission business and was bere
for fbe purpose of buying potatoes.
Rev. R. M. Hardman of Grace Epis
copal chnrch and Bishop Johnson were
returning pahsengers fruin Howard
where tney con6rmed a class last even
ing. Bishop Johnson proceeded to bits
home at Sioux Falls.
F. C. Smith and wife, F. D. Fltts
and wife and J. L. Jones were morning
passengers for Sioux Falls. The gen
tlemen will attend a meeting of
Sioux Falls commandeiy, K. 1., this
evening.
C. M. Klotzbacb has placed his liv
ery barn in convenient condition for
receiving horses next Saturday when
Lipman & Soukup will be here for
the purpose of baying Jjorses from
Lake county farmers. Mr. Klotzbaeh
uxpecu a large buuub to be offered fur
sale.
An examination of applicants
membership of the confirmation class
of the German Lutheran church will
be held at tbe church next Sunday
morning at 10:30. Sunday, April 4,
confirmation services will be held.
Hans Urdabl was a morning passen
ger for Sioux Falls in the interest of
the Martin West by case of wbich he is
attorney. The suit is to recover dam
ages from the Milwaukee company for
the killing of Mr. Westby which o
curred in the railroad yards in tnis
city. The ease is before Judge Car
land of the federal court.
Reports from Lake Madison are to
tbe effect that the water has risen to
the height of the platform at the boat
house, and it is estimated that the wa
ter is within two feet of high water
mark. The Harvey Jones farm is in
undated except about thirty or forty
acres, and the railroad spur loaning to
the Chautauqua grounds is covered
with two feet of water.
The Daily Leader reproduces in this
issue an interview with Mrs. Kitty
Wheeler-Tucker,published in the Seat
tle Post-Intelligeucer. Mrs. Tucker,
formerly a resident of Madison, known
here as Kitty Wheeler, who passed her
childhood days in Madison and was
married in this city,occupies a position
as wireless telegraph operaioi, and is
given the distinction of having bean
the first woman in the world to take
np the work. The interview will be
found to very interesting.
Henry Ofo,arrested at Rutland, was
arraigned before Justice Sponholz yes
terday afternoon,charged with assault.
Defendant waived examination and in
default of |300 bail was placed in tne
county jail to await trial at the Octo
ber term of the circuit court. Otto is
a tianscient and was employed as a
farm hand in the vicinity ot Rutland
last fall. During tbe winter he was
absent from the locality, but last
weeg returned to Rutland, and among
his possessions he carried a very sharp
pocbetknife wbich he was pleased to
exhibit to the boys as sufficiently ra
zorlike to cut a hair. Friday night
Otto became intoxicated and when
Marshal Fred Spear attempted to lock
him up Otto drew his trusty knife and
attempted to carve the marsbal. Mr.
spear succeeded in overpowering Otto,
but in tbe scrimmage the marshal re
ceived a painful cut of one of his fing
ers. Saturday morning Otto escaped
from the town jail, but was recap
tured and brought to Madison for hear
ing, and is now safe in the county jail.
The local officers of tbe law are en
aged in rounding up young loyB of
the city who have been engaged in
pilfering about town for some time.
Two boys were called up yesterday
and questioned and told instances of
petty thieving that were astounding.
Three other boys were on the caTpet to
lay and the officers gathered informa
tion that implicates not less than
twenty boys ranging in age from 8 to
15 years, wbich have for months been
in the nabit of pilfering. In some
«ases the boys have not hesitated to
break locks to obtain articles which
they coveted. Generally tbe property
stolen has been of little value, but one
case was developed where an electric
battery with cells, valued at about #14,
was stolen. The boys said they did
not know the value of the battery
and readily gave it up when they
offered it for sale and were accused
of stealing it. The officials have com
piled a list of the names of boys who
have been engaged in the petty thiev
ery and will make an effort to break
up the gang. Perhaps it would be well
for parents to have a confidential
talk with their boys and find out where
they spend their evenings and what
they are doing. This might possibly
prevent a bunch of tbe lade appear
ifag in police court.
I handle Hygienic kalsomine, one of
tda best kalsomines made. I give
away a book, Home suggestions for
beautifying tbe home, free to inter
estedt—Bart Stacy, The Decorator.
WIRELESS WAVES
Former Madison Girl Enjoys
Distinction of First Lady
Operator
Since the notable demonstration of
:!ie value of wireless communication at
.-•a, which saved the livea of many peo
ie in tbe collision between ships off
i lie New York coast, wireless tele
graph has become a much talked of
-rience. It will be of interest to
Madison people to know that a former
Madison young woman. Mrs. Kitty
heeler-Tucker, is the first woman in
the world to occupy the position of
wireless operator. The Seattle Post
uteligeucer of tne 15th inst. gives the
following interview with the lady:
A woman behind the cubbyhole jug
uled a big brass telegraph key, undis
tnrbed by the hundreds of inquiring
i'vbh focused upon her. The "b-u-ss-z,
n-z z" penetrated to the farthest
point of the ship it was caught by the
passengers rolling over the upper deck
it was heard in the engine room, and
i reminded sailors wrestling with
ti eight and baggsge below that they
wete instantly in touch with aid if
anything went wrong with the ship.
The ghost wasp continued its song
ft five minutes, the clatter of the
-parks, the crackle of the blue flame,
he click of the key and the monoto
08 droning tune of the motor drown­
ing'
the hum of voices in the cabin.
1 hen the woman in the wireless ca
s n ceased tapping the big key. She
timed a small electric switch and the
me of the motor under the table died
away she listened a few seconds,
-tailed and nodded her head as if speak
ing to some enu and then as the boat
backed away from tbe rock,she stripped
the annoying headgear and began to
inspect the delicate instruments which
Bhe is employed to care for and man
ipulate.
The Binall boy with leggings and
long curls and the tall woman wear
ing a tailor-made, a poodle dog and
diamond earrings, who usually mono
polize the attention of passengers ot:
the short-run boats out of Seattle, have
found a strong rival on the steamship
Indianapolis, plying between here and
Tacoma. Mrs. R.H. Tucker, the first
woman wireless operator in the world
and for a long tiaie the only ferni
nine wafter of aerial waves, holds the
balance of attention on the Indianapolis
today.
Mrs. Tucker's accomplishments do
not end with mere telegraphing. She
is an electrician and understands her
instruments better than the majority of
her fellow workmen. Besides that,
the United Wireless management says
she has done more to purify tbe air
over Puget oound than any other opera
tor in their service—that is, parity the
language of the air.
'"The boys at the keys were pretty
rough with their talk until we put
Airs. Tucker on," said Mr. Armstrong,
Northwestern superintendent of the
United Witless company. '"But she
has straightened them out wonder
fully."
"You see,Mr. Tucker is an operator,
and I learned under him," explained
Mrs.Tucker. '*He was manager of the
Spokane Western Union office when I
wrs bookkeeper. I learned telegraph,
and we both went to Portland ami
worked together' for a while. Then,
when tne wireless began to spread on
the Pacific coast Mr. Tucker became
interested in that and we both switched
from the old wire companies."
R. H. Tucker is manager for th«j
United Wireless Company at Tacoma.
He is enthusiastic over the fnture of
the aerogram business.
"So tnere is another woman who
has taken up wireless," Mrs. Tucker
mused, as she read a clipping from a
New York paper, about the preacher's
daughter, who handles the wireless busi
ness on top of the Waldorf Astoria.
"I can't see why more women don't
take it up," she continued. "Maybe
it's because they are afraid of the in
truments. But I never was. Yes,
there's always a danger when work
ing with tbe dynamo. There isn't
enough current to kill, but one can get
an awful shock. One of the United's
men got his hand on the dynamo he
was cleaning once and there were
jueer tattoo maiks all over his arm for
months. His hair stood rignt out
straight, too, until tbe marks were
gone. I'm always very careful when
cleaning up the instruments.
"When I turn that switch," and
Mrs. Tucker pointed to the harmless
looking little electric appliance on her
table, "when I turn the switch for
sending a message it throws on a strong
lectric current—almost enough to kill
one. But I am always careful. I
take caie of all the instruments my
self.
"This is my motor generator,"Mrs.
Tucker explained, pointing to some
thing under the table. No one dis
puted the fact tnat it was a motor
generator, although it might huve been
something else for all they knew.
"And this is the transformer" she con
tinued, touching another piece of the
wireless apparatus. It was a trans
former, all right. "And this the reac
tive coil: tnat piece over there is the
condenser, these instruments are the
tuner and responder."
"Th*t? Oh, that's tbe antenna
switch, snd here's my sending key.
That's all, except the commutator.
The various pieces of mcehanism
looked as if they might have been all
of that and even more but Mrs. Tuck
er understood them and explained the
use of each piece.
"This is tbe helix. I use that when
I want to adjust for different stations.
The tuning coil is also used in adjust
ment. These little points are the
spark gaps. Tbe electric sparks jump
from one to the other wnile I am send
ing. Then the wav»a go up the wires
to the aerials and float off into space,
where they are caught by all the wire
less stations within reach.
"How far do they go Ti Oh, 100, l.Mi
or 200 miles. Tnese instruments are
not made for long distance work. They
put the more powerful machines in
the land stations and on tbe ocean
going ships.
"Here's a real piece of news. You
kuow the old distress signal they have
used ever eince wireless became pop
ular on ships has been 'C.
Well, they have changed that. Tbe
signal is now 'S. O. S.' Just like this,
and the first woman wire
less operator gave a demonstration on
the key. "That's the way they make
it in Morse. In continental cod« it s
this way. '...
"You see there's a difference. Tl^e
O becomes three dashes in tbe conti
nentnl in place of a dot, space and dot
in the Morse.
'S. O. S.' is the distress signal
adopted by the Berlin treaty and is
uow official all over the world.
"Yes, I am my own electrician.
That part is easv. There's nothing
about wireless I couldn't do, except
Well, if an aerial should blow down I
couldn't very well climb up and fix
that. But the sailors on board are all
very kind and would help me OVt in
«n emergency of that kind."
LOCAL NEWS.
I do interior and exterior painting.
Raleornining and also paper hanging in
all tne lattst styles of the day Terms
reasonable.— Burt Stacy,Tbe Decorator
Don't forget to call on Ueo.Beck and
*ee
his display of rugs and lace cur
tains.
1 sell O'Brien's fall line of Tar
nishes. They are the leading var
nishes at right prices.-Bart Stacy,The
Decorator.
Spring is bere And if yju want a
pair of oxfords we have all the latest
styles and the largest assortment, that
ever wae shown in Madison. Come in
and look them over.—Nick Bjornstad.
Eli Greenhagen, of the feed mill,
grinds all kinds of feed and will de
liver in any part of the city when re
quested. Also bone grinding mill in
connection. Phone 158.
For Sale. A few bushels seed corn,
Minn. No. 13. This corn took Brst
premium at corn institute. E. I,.
Kingsley, Madison. S. D.
Wanted. Man and wife to work on
farm. Apply to N. W. Tobin, Went
worth
See the swell Easter neokwetr, just
in at Grinager Bros.
HhOdS and oxfords latest spring
stvlee, are being showu by Grinager
Bros.
I show and sell wallpaper every Sat
urday all day at prices below all com
petition. Do not forget to step in
and investigate as the goods and
piiceB speak for themselves. Remem
ber. third door north Kennedy'8 Bank.
Burt Stacy, The Decorator.
If You Expect to
PAPER
this spring its time you
were getting about it.
Why not come and select
your paper to-day while
our
Pattern Assortment
is Complete
We advise you to wait
no longer. Some of the
prettiest of the season's
novelties are getting
rather low in quantity.
Better choose while the
widest choice remains.
It is doubtful if the mills
could duplicate our best
patterns in a hurry.
Delay may mean disap
pointment to you.
Holliday & Porter
LANNON-COOK BL'K
mm.
ibenoMt ot KupfiMB
a—to
Now is the Time
To Select Your
SPRING SUIT
THE MODEL
is the place where you
get the best selection
of Nobby Styles and
Patterns. .* ,*
The Price
you determine for
yourself, as we have alL
kinds and qualities,
and no matter what
you select s
Our Prices are Always Right
Burnett & Sutton
MADISON OPERA HOUSE
Wednesday, March 24
SPECIEL ENGAGEMENT
Mr. W. W. Russel
PRESENTS
The Latest Musical Craze
'THE OTHER GIRL'
With a Large and Well Balanced Cast
15 Novelty Musical Numbers IS
PRIZE BEAUTY CHORUS
Gorgeous Costumes, Elaborate Electrical
and Mechanical Effects
Prices- 25c 35c 50c 75c $1
Seats on Sale Monday at Jones Bros. Drug Store.
FLOUR COAL
Little Hatchet $1.40
Dakota 1.35
Bakers Choice 1.10
Economy .85
WholeWheat .85
Rye .65
Graham 30
Corn Meal, fresh
Buck Wheat .50
Hard Coal, per ton $10.00
Hocking 7.5°
Splint 150
Sunnyside Wash Egg
m-
Washed Nut 6.50
Washed Lump
Blacksmith Coal 10.00
WE SEtL FOR CASH ONLY
Larkin & Met calf
Mill Phone 240 Store 445
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