The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-12-15
HOME HAPPENINGS.
Blunt wants to incorporate.

Postmaster q. w. Lee visited HUI
ron on land business this week.
j. A. Meloon, Register of Deeds,
has invested In fine young Oregon
horse.
John Blaisdell is helping to dig a
we'll on the farm Of r. G. Fosdick, be-
tween Clifton and Blunt.
The weather has been just delight
tul for digging wells for month past,
and many have taken advantage of it.
Next week will be lively one
with both the Clerk of Court and Judge
of Probate, rs both have large num-
ber of final proofs on the string.
--Drury ii. Stevens has gone back
to his old home in Missouri, and will
return with his family in the spring
and take up his residence in Clifton.
j. A. Meloon. who has been having
a well dug on his farm Il mile and a
half east of Clifton, has got two or
three feet of good water at a depth of
twenty seven feet.
For the accommodation of our
subscribers we will furnish The Dakota
Farmer at the regular price of 81 per
year. The Farmer is published at HUI
ron and is full of interest to the agri-
culturalists of this section.
The bright silver moon has looked
sweetly down upon us every night the
past week, while the little twinkling
stars have kept up good accompanl-
ment The evenings have been just
too lovely to remain housed up and
some have put them in hunting jack
rabbits and coyotes.
A family of Norwegian children
/ few miles southwest of Clifton are
still going barefooted and not from
necessity either The Rec Heights
Free Press also tells of farmer walk
ing i'm from his home to that place
barefooted, n distance Of eighteen
miles, Dec. lst, oh, yes we are all
freezing TO death out in Dakota.
With the newspaper men of the
States the weather is an ever fruitful
theme upon which to WELD the pencil,
and in order To keep their readers pos
ted upon its tickleness it is frequently
necessary To write half a dozen items
per day, and then change liable to
make the last one out of place before
the paper can get to press. How diff
ferent out here i'm our Wonderland.
For eight weeks, with one days excep-
ton, we have had only one kind of
weather and that warm, pleasant and
sunshiny. Dakota against the whole
world for lovely weather
Again does Frost, of the Carson
Herald, come forth with his sneaking
and equivocal animadversions regard
ing us, but is very careful to leave
plenty Of holes to craw out of in case
of necessity. He publishes what may
be calculated to deceive some into the
belief is an affidavit, but which is not
i'm any sense Ii it was, he would have
clearly perjured himself but he was
very careful not to swear to it. He
pretends to depose that one .Thomas
j. Myhr, one of the editors of the
Pierre Recorder" told him so-and-so.
Since our acquaintance with the Pierre
Recorder there has been no such per
son connected with that paper, and, We
presume, never was. lie does not
swear that what purports to be the af.
fidavit is true in any sense, but simply
A luAL li "stS SWoA ih osi b11. vi
before d. ID. Bryant--to a final proof
notice, doubtless. Frost talks very big
for little dried up mummy of his cor.
poreal proportions, and we have nc
doubt has great many private bury
ing grounds-under his finger nails
Because he has been relegated to the
slums of society where he belongs, he
would like to drag us down toward his
own level, but when he can get no far
ther than 10 simply assert that some
one told him that we had once beer
drunk in Pierre, without even being
able To prove that We ever SO much n
rs took single drink of liquor in
Pierre, he il not getting along very fast
We apologize to our readers for taking
up SO much space on this subject, ant