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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
4
An old advertisement proclaims Cox's Barbed Wire Liniment to heal without loss and offer money back. It lists sizes, prices, and claims to cure ringbone, splint, or bone enlargements. The page also records local notes on residents, travels, and boat-house construction along the Jim River with camps and river trips.
Local notices recount visits by Mitchell residents and guests from Tripp Yankton Tyndall Utica Emery and other towns. Drownings near Parketon Walsh shocked the community while a large crowd attended the Golmar Bros show and a Scottish baseball game. A relief corps ice cream social and church convention travels are noted along with crop reports from Hutchinson and surrounding counties.
A Edgewater Park New Jersey improvement group notes trains pass 800 feet daily. A locomotive near a house carries a pattern of whistles signaling affection between a engineer and his wife, with two short blasts meaning I am coming and long blasts saying I love you. Other anecdotes recount a Boston gallant wooing a stenographer through a serialized love story, a Detroit man wooing a Cleveland bride by daily postcards, and a Baltimore conductor courting a housemaid with timed stops. Also reports local notices of residents Grafing and Dilger and news of Abraham Jackson’s death in Hot Springs South Dakota. King George to be crowned today in England.
Notice is given by the executrix of the estate of William E Bardwell deceased to creditors and claimants. Claims must be shown with vouchers within six months after first publication to the executrix at her residence in Scotland Bon Homme county South Dakota. Dated Scotland SD this 5th day of June 1911.
The State of South Dakota issues a summons in Bon Homme County to John Maas as plaintiff against Adam Stafford Rebecca Rice Mary Currey and others for a judgment quieting title and settling all adverse claims on the east half of Lot Thirteen in Block Theta Records Addition to Starpyare Adal tion West to Scotland. Respondents must file an answer within thirty days after service, or the court may grant relief to the plaintiff.
A new law starting July first requires city marshals and policemen to turn over all fees from arrests or serving legal papers to the town or city. This will affect officer salaries and may reduce vigilance in seeking offenders as fee income shifts. County sheriff supporters and changes in leadership follow, with W M Grafton resigning to work in Seattle and R N Holesapple elected as successor here.
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