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The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 10, October, 1888 by Various
page 50 of 92 (54%)
Grinnell, Iowa.

KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison
Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.

NEB.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. F.H. Leavitt, 1216 H
St., Lincoln, Neb.

SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.E. Young,
Sioux Falls Dak.

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A SKETCH OF MISSION LIFE ON THE FRONTIER.

FORT YATES, DAK.

I am alone once more, all my company have gone. The plasterer has just
been here and I had to dismantle my house entirely for him; I am
therefore too tired to write. I have been putting up bulberry jelly
and am trying to get ready for my company, which will come the first
of September and stay until we all go together down to Oahe to the
meeting.

I feel that aside from the pleasure so much company gives me it will
help our work. This is the station farthest out in the wilderness, and
now that people know that soon the "native wild man" will be no more,
they all want to see him. I have two beds. When ladies come they fill
the bedrooms, and so if distinguished gentlemen come. I sleep either
in the kitchen or laundry on a blanket or robes. Several times this
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