The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-08-18
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Clifton Saturday evening last
Henry Potter brought up a load
of merchandise from Blunt, the first of
the week.
w. Il. Cook and G.. w. Norton
returned, Monday, from a visit to the
city of Blunt.
Several ladies and gentlemen from
the southeast end of the county were
in town Sunday,
Clerk of Court II. w. Edgerton
and Postmaster o. w. Lee made Pierre
a business visit Monday.
r. II. Proudfoot and Will II. Cook,
of Spring Creek, made our office a
pleasant business call Monday.
Jesse NJ. Spooner, master me-
chanic of Pierre. was i'm Clifton, Sun
day. He has kind of an itching for
some real estate here.
H. W. Rowell, of Blunt, was in
Clifton the first of the week, looking
the field over with view of starting a
saloon and billiard hall.
j. A. and w. n. Meloon placed
braces under the court house Tuesday,
in order to strengthen it sufficiently to
hold Sully county's 5000 pound safe.
R. T. Whitman, about % miles
southeast of Clifton, furnished the
Clifton House with some fine green
corn and onions, the first of the week.
-Messrs Geo. ID. and G.. Q. Bower,
living just north west of Clifton, have
put up about $50 tons of hay. They
returning from near Blunt, Wednesday.
w. G. Nixon, Cashier of the First
National Bank, Pierre, accompanied by
T. b. Moore. of Boone, Iowa, and W.
n Baird, Of Bloomington, Ill.,, were up
looking Clifton over. Wednesday.
Henry Schwaegler, residing in the
northwestern part of the county, was in
Clifton Tuesday, and, like all others
who visit the capital, ordered the
WATCHMAN sent to his address
L. J. Baldwin, who has been
digging well adjoining the Clifton
town site on the northwest, struck a
ten-inch vein of ice-eold water at a
depth of only IL feet. Oh, mol there
is no water in Dakota
Frank Koch, the gardner and nur-
seryman who recently located northeast
of Clifton, has returned to Winona,
Mimi, to purchase and bring out sup
plies for his place. He has already
begun to make Improvements.
The Onida Journal of last week
gets way up on its ear and gnashes its
teeth, so to speak, in impotent rage,
and just because the WATcHMAN had
it cornered on some of its false accusa-
tions and positions, and devotes about
half its paper to the re-iteration of its
abuse and assertions it cannot prove.
A shotgun was prematurely
discharged in the hands Of JAS. Cahill,
Monday, at Henry Potter's general
store, blowing hole through the front
of the building above the door A
gun is dangerous thing, even without
lock, stock or barrel-particularly
when the maternal head Of the family
gets after the unruly small-boy with
the ramrod.
We have recently been eating
bread made from Dakota -four, and
must say it knocks the dough from
anything we have tasted in the bread
line Ye seniors better half" has
given him rest on the "poor -four
down i'm the middle of the sack" or at
the bottom, as it may happen, for she
no longer has to get up an excuse for
poor bread.
&C. J. Cavanaugh, business man
of Chicago, came to Dakota on visit
in the spring, and was greatly prcju-
diced against the country, but after
getting here was so well pleased that
he went back to Chicago and closed up
his business and is now here To stay,
located in the lower end of the county.
He also induced eight OF ten others O
come back with him. Accompanied
by his brother. X. A., and sister, he
visited Clifton, Thursday.
w hoop-ee big Injun NJ. NJ.
Kenny found genuine Indian scalp
ing knife while coming to Clifton from
his place one and one half miles south
east, last Monday, which may be seen
at this office. The blade is about six
inches long and about an inch and a
sixteenth wide next to the handle,
which is of wood and perfectly sound
though the rivets are rusted out. The
blade is worn down nearly to a point
and there is no telling how much hair
it has 'raised." 1t is ground down to
an edge from one side, only, as we sup.
pose the noble red man had found by
long experience that it removed the
"dandruff more readily. Henccfortl
every man coming into this Office mus,