The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-09-01
to Loan by o. W. Lee, Gil

ton.
A fine rain visited this section
again last night.
Smokers, you can get ten cent
cigar for five cents at the Clifton House.
Frank C. Stewart, living 9 miles
south of Clifton, was one of our callers,
Tuesday.
Geo. III. Pease and Miss Mabel
Bryant, of Carson, were visitors at
Clifton Tuesday evening.
Judge NJ. Sweny was in town
Thursday, and also visited Onida, ac-
companied by B. p. Hoover.
The Board of County Commits
sioners meet at the Court House in
Clifton at o'clock next Monday af-
ternoon.
E. B. Palmer will loan 100000
on well improved farms in Sully coun-
ty. Money on hand. Applications ap-
proved at home.
Just received at the Clifton House,
from Winona, the best five cent cigar
in the West-better than any ten cent
cigar to be found in this section.
A new bell now invites the board
ers at the Clifton House and the pub
lie in general, three times per day, to
partake of the good provender of that
caravansary.
Those having money to invest
cannot do better than to buy real es-
tate and build right here in Clifton.
The way things are shaping we are
bound to have boom at no distant
day.
Norman Lyons, of section 81,
l16-79, passed through town, Sunday,
on the way to Pierre to market load
of fine hogs. This is one of the in
dustries that is going to pay big in
southern Dakota.
Some of the Indians visiting
Pierre talk through the telephone, but
it makes the instrument fairly hump
itself to produce some Of the big words
The red man thinks the Great Spirit
controls the think.
%. w. Lee will write up your pa
pers and loan you money on final proof.
DIR. j. A. Sedgwick, of Beadle
county, arrived in Clifton, Tuesday eve
ming, to look after the breaking of tree
claims in this vicinity. The doctor
desires to contract with some one to
break on three or four claims.
j. W. Carson. of Carson, has the
thanks of We senior editor and family
for couple of large and fine water
melons. We doubt if Mr.. Carson ever
had finer garden back in the old
Buckeye state from whence he
came.
B. F. Brier, a genial gentleman of
the Onida hardware firm, accompanied
by his sister, Miss Emma, paid the
"hub" visit, Monday. We should be
pleased to have more of our neighbors
come over, get acquainted and see for
themselves the merits of Clifton.
Next week we shall devote anoth-
er page of the WATcHMAN to home
news and ads, and shall always try to
keep abreast or little ahead, in a
literary point of view, with the won
derful development of Sully county
in other directions.
The Onida Journal is getting
most too personal in its illusions.
Last week it said: .Mr. Walter, ed
itor of the Sully County Watchman, is
about to open tailoring establish
ment ut TT. Pierre While it is true
that our ''old man has contemplated
opening" tailo,ing establishment
and getting him suit of new clothes,
some dark night, he is very sensitive
about any allusion to his wearing APP
parel, no matter how remote, for he
always would 'dress up" if he didn't
make cent. The above intimation
touches him in a tender spot and calls
for ''blud.' 1t is possible that the
Journal did not mean to be understood
as herein construed, but it Is the only
way our Mr.. Walter ever expects to
open a tailoring establishment, rs he
knows nothing about the business,
but might, perhaps, cut a winding