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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1886
Page
8
Train times show southbound service at 11 45 am and northbound service at 9 10 pm and 6 45 pm. The fragment indicates daily departures between Milwaukee and St Paul with directional labels and times.
A stream of brief items reports travel by residents including D W Frisby to Lena Illinois and E E Champlain to Stewart Minn. It notes sowing, a proposed Aberdeen brick yard venture, a baby's death, Russian emigrants passing through Ipswich, and a rainfall smile among farmers. It mentions church meetings and a $600 schoolhouse project, a successful European supper for the M E church, and local craft work. Aurora borealis sightings and church subscription efforts are listed along with a St Cloud cyclone report and a G A R post tribute to Maj W F Mewes. The Pioneer Press praise and a Minneapolis Boston block view conclude with a dramatic ladder scene.
A long humorous yarn contrasts a diligent housewife with ailing husband during annual cleaning and carpet laying. Local notices follow, including farm updates, subscriptions, arrivals, and a taken up red yearling heifer claimed near Warner.
Christian Erickson age 23 dies of consumption at home in New Hope township on April 7 1886 leaving a grieving wife and friends. Dillah Salie daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Salie aged six months dies in New Hope township on April 9 1886.
M. Boardman director I Boulais treasurer D Shane clerk regular meetings set for the first Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. in Fred Fisher's office teachers and others with business urged to note time and place of meeting.
Dawes Post G A R holds regular meetings on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month Visiting comrades are cordially welcomed Adjutant A O Trius N I Gicserr Commander
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