The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-09-29
Have YOU made that fire break?

summer, yet.
Final Proofs made by O. w. Lee,
Notary Public.
s. II. Neal is having cellar dug
under his house.
Frank A. Lee has been in Pierre
on business this week.
Henry Potter, the merchat, went
to Pierre after load Of goods, yes
terday.
Many of our people have visited
Clifton during the week on final proof
business
| Prof David Staples, County Supt.
of Schools, was in. town Tuesday in the
furtherance of his duty.
S. b. Carson was in town, Monday,
proving up a number OF parties, and
favored us with call.
Judge NJ. Sweny has our thanks
for securing number Of subscribers
to the WATcHMAN during the past
week.
The Bower brothers are down
near Pierre blowing fire breaks around
lar Y quantity of hay belonging to
them
-iAndrew McFall will build in
Clifton this fall, and, with his family,
l~.srke up n residence with us. Wei
come to all such good citizens.
r. C. Fosdick left the first of the
week for visit to his old home in
Minnesota, and Dame Rumor intimates
that "some one" will return with him
r. III. Hoover, after a two weeks
sojourn IN Clifton, visiting his broth !
ers, departed, Wednesday, for his home
on the Pacific coast, the land of al
most perpetual summer \
Andrew McFall, C. D. C. Barker,
Walter Mosher and W. H. Cornell
visited Ft Bennett the first of the
week to witness the Government dis
tribution of rations to the Indians.
All kinds of blanks printed at this
office. Leave your order.
Miss Flora Rounds, of Yankton
reached Clifton, Thursday, and will
spend the winter with her sister, Mrs
b. p. Hoover A pleasant acquisition
to our society.
"A prairie fire, caused by the care
less throwing down of cigar stub,
burned over considerable territory and
a number of hay stacks in Wayerly
township, 1879, the first of the
week
Probably one cause for the delay
of papers from the Huron Land Office
! is the fact that the officials have been
compelled to make in the regular reports
to Washington. They have unques-
tioh ohably been very busy set for some
wef ks past.
Some Of our exchanges talk of
tbe grand auroral displays taking
place nearly every Sunday night, but
we believe it only a scheme to en-
courage matrimony by getting the
young ladies and gentlemen to sit up
and spark.
A convention of township school
officers of Sully county is soon to be
called for the purpose of taking action
upon adopting uniform series of text
books for the county, and ascertain
where the best school furniture for the
least money can be obtained, and we
suggest Clifton as the proper and most
convenient place for holding such a
meeting. The idea is good one, and
Superintendent Staples is interesting
himself in the matter. Due notice will
be given in the WATcHMAN.
The blatherskite who is running a
paper under name bought by and
belonging to us, called The Clifton
Sum-" calls the people Of the commun-
ity thugs" He is the biggest would
be thug in the country, and we can
prove that he howled around Huron
last spring about how he was going to
put head on some one before he
left there, but no one ever heard of his
doing it, nor ever will. His first at
tempt should he in quitting head "
containing few grains of sense and
decency on himself for n tumble buv