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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1886
Page
8
Warner School Board adopts a schedule with M. Boardman as Director Boulais as Treasurer and D. Shane as Clerk. Regular meetings are held the first Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. in Fred Fisher's office. Teachers and others with board business are urged to note the time and place.
Regional brief listing farm and business news from Aberdeen Brown County includes A H Garfield visiting Huron, J J Kingston returning to Necedah, and new wallpaper stock at Mills Bros. Drug. It also mentions electric lights in Aberdeen, a school teaching appointment for Miss Claire Page, and a stuck team near New Hope township plus election scheduling confusion.
A Dakota and Warner burst into a gopher snaring craze likened to a harmful fad. The piece describes crouched workers placing a braided twine noose over holes to trap gophers, killing them swiftly. It notes Green Macleod Co offers strychnine to control the pests and promotes its low price.
Local agent C J Humphrey authorized to handle Tax Sun subscriptions and ads in Rondell. New stock at Humphrey Bros. and twine orders for the season. Sheriff Hays visited Rondell. various residents and visitors noted including C C Fletcher of Aberdeen and Charley Wiegle. Several farming and shop activities announced with upcoming construction and organ purchase for Sunday school.
The passage describes Mr. Allen exposing a land offer and a man agreeing to pay $25 to avoid legal trouble. Allen and Humphrey own many young trees and dislike self help schemes which irritate them. The tale ends with a caution about getting something free but paying more later.
A country girl asks the postmaster for letters for various Browns and is met with comic, exhaustive refusals. She ends by requesting mail for Henry Julius Brown, prompting a pause and a hopeful twist.
An elderly physician, retired, claims a vegetable cure for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous disorders. He offers to mail the full recipe with directions in German French or English free of charge to anyone who asks by sending a stamped request to W. A. Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester NY.
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