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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1886
Page
8
Railroad timetable fragment shows southbound service from 11:55am to 7:16am, and northbound schedule with passenger at 9:10pm and freight at 6:45pm. Indicates mixed freight and passenger operations on the route.
M Boardman serves as Director with T Boulais as Treasurer and J D Shane as Clerk. Regular meetings are the first Saturday of each month at 1 p.m. in Fred Fisher's office. Teachers and others with business are asked to note the time and place.
Wm FE Dawes Post announces regular meetings on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. Visiting comrades invited by Adjutant A O Titus at 1 Girsert. Commander.
Weather trends frosty to milder with cooler days. Wheat prices quoted at No. 1 hard 56 cents No. 1 northern 51 and No. 2 northern 46. Community updates include Jennie R Williams visiting from Day County, Mrs. Jay Cook recovering from illness, a lightning storm last week, and a dancing gathering at Hanson's harness shop. Local industry mentions cover wall paper stock at Mills Bros Aberdeen and blacksmithing by H Gunderson Edgerton Wis. Also notes a Norway Fourth of July reference and church preaching at the Warner schoolhouse.
The second issue of the Rondell Signal from Humphrey Bros. announces new houses and seed corn, with plans for a farmers picnic in late July. Local happenings include Frank Ingram’s head injury from a horse, a Jim River outing by Martin Kile and Chas Buckland, and a dramatic runaway near Ron dell with damage to a fence and a team.
James Anderson and Mr. Bram of Aberdeen fell from a broken staging while working on a gable end last Tuesday. Bram suffered a broken left arm requiring amputation at the shoulder, while Anderson escaped with a badly sprained wrist.
A satirical piece argues that Dakota’s admission to statehood would bring large numbers of “waiter girls” to feed hungry boarders in hotels. It ridicules dining misery and links public hunger to the need for rapid state division and imported labor, lampooning the era's views on population and hospitality.
Farmers met at the school house in Warner on Wednesday the 5th of inst to organize the Warner Farmers Alliance with 18 charter members. Officers named Pres O A Swanson vice pres G S Briggs secretary F D Shane treasurer M Boardman. Members set a $100 initiation fee with 50 cents due at joining. They plan to join the Cook Co alliance and to attend the Columbia gathering on May 15 with two alternates. Meeting scheduled again for May 22 at 1 pm.
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