The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-10-20
Flax seed is advancing. and now
brings over ii dollar in many places.

brings over dollar in many places.
Wolves near Blunt contest right
to the highway with pedestrians. Bold
wolves.
Apples at $1.75 per bushel and
cider 10 cents per gallon were retailed
in Blunt last week.
The Cole brothers, of Clifton, re-
turned from their Black Hills trip
last week. While there they sold
their fine team of blacks for $3.50.
Monday, the 18th inst, was red
letter day at the County Building.
The Clerk of the Court and Register Of
Deeds were up TO their ears in business
and party of grangers were proving
up. Papers rustled and crashed, and
the air was full of sounds which min
gled, and out of the noise ard turmoil
one could occasionally distinguish such
words as southeast quarter "new
town at Ash Point" 1.-TWO hundred
dollars" contested homestead"
shack and five acres Of breaking"
and others of like import No one
dreamed of the coming event But
suddenly hush came over the party.
The Clerk Of the Court craned his neck
and looking out of the window whis-
pered, half unconsciously, Who's
that?" All eyes turned to the distant
prairie and beheld two seated carriage
containing large party, drawn 10y a
spanking team of bays, coming from
the southeast. Ladies'" said oYe
granger; "Guess Ill he going" said
another, evidently embarrassed. "TmI
afraid those mules will get away" said
the third, disappearing out Of the door.
They seemed to all nstinctively know
where the approaching carriage would
stop. And they were right. The car
riage stopped, and the occupants wend-
ed their way towards the county office
where they arrived in season To corner
one or two of the boys from HAS,
who vainly sought To escape. The
Clerk of the Court and Register braced
themselves and bent low over official
documents resolved to stay or perish
Two gentlemen and four ladies' filed
into the room in solemn dignity. The
stiffness was appalling. Then one of
the gentlemen, acting as spokesman,
introduced the ladies to the Clerk of
the Court. That official stood the test
nobly, for, though he flushed deeply
and his eyelids dropped not a quaver
was in his voice, for the Register watch
ed him anxiously. The short silence
which followed was broken by the
frantic and successful efforts of the last
HAS boy TO escape by the front door.
Then the business of proving up of the
young ladies smoothly progressed,
while whispered bits of conversation
hoated around. The Register deeply
engrossed in recording a mortgage
on farm, heard one Of the gen
tleman visitors solemnly declare to
his neighbor, that the county officers
slept under the window transoms, on
one of which he was seated. The lady
was little dubious, but the gentleman
showed her bit of white cloth pro-
jecting, which he said was pillow
case, and that settled it. Clerk and
Register terribly embarrassed, but bus.
lily at work Then the Register timid.
ly asked if the party had called on the
editors. They had not, but would be
happy to il they had time. This led
| to coHNcISulioii, anu tuc uiScoNcTA oi
a new town in Sully county, in 1876
called Dentonville, and a formidable
candidate for the county seat in 1884
| The ladies then told of their farming
the past summer One had raised po
tatoes, another turnips, and another
pumpkins Nothing was said about
the Sioux Falls Convention or tn.
Onida we'll
The ladies then signed the visitors
record, and deputed the Register t.
bear the..r regrets to the editors of the
WATcHMAN, that the early departure OF
the Bachelorvillc train prevented their
calling on him, old acquaintance as he
was. Then extending a cordial invi
tation - the Clerk of Court To come To