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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1887
Page
8
Mr. Kile of the Aberdeen News called at Mr. Merrow's Sunday. Misses Mathews and Lyon attend the Aberdeen institute. Henry Spere, now Manitoba road agent, is home on leave. Frank Courtney, former teacher, returns from Minot dispatch office. J W Pledger left for Washington Territory with immigrant goods.
Warner Dak area brief with postings on new stores and clergy plans. Mentions J. Bassett as nestmaster at Bright post office, K. Willis opening a store, Rev. H. McMeekin preaching, and property moves by Geo. Van Slack. Also includes lost pin, local letters, and small ads for dictionaries contests and land rentals.
A profile of Owen Davis the colored janitor and special policeman at the Minnesota Capitol. He served in the Union Army and on a Mississippi steamboat where he learned street fighting skills. He believes in moral law against unnecessary fighting and guards his superstitions, including a nightly ghost belief and three spits before basement hunts. He is a devout member of the colored Baptist Church and seen as a foundational figure in that community.
Notices filed by settlers in Aberdeen Dak with intent to make final proof on various homestead entries. Details include names Spa Frise Ames Drummond Henry G Spere and others with land parcels in townships 121 122 and ranges 45 64 names of witnesses from Warner Gem and Mansfield with dates October November 1887 and September 1887.
Bertha Diment by attorney J R Baas applies in Brown County District Court to vacate the town plat of Pectoria. The plat is on record with the Brown County Register of Deeds and is located on the south half of section 79, township 176, range 62. Case set for the next term in Aberdeen.
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