The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-09-08
HOME HAPPENINGS.

May Belle. Boquct, Flor de Wedt
and other fine brands of Cigars at tlf
Clifton House.
Henry Potter broke ground for n
cellar beneath his store. Thursday, aid
we trust will get one that will hot
freeze
M Bennett, of Dundee. n D.,
has written to VIM. p Ross for infbr
nation about Clifton, with view lof
going into business here.
County Clerk j. A. Mcloon visited
Pierre the latter part of last week and
invested in some much needed new
chairs and lamps for use in the Court
House
This Office now boasts of small
collection of as fine wheat, oats, corn
and mllett rs can be found in any
country, the sod product of Sully
county's first crop.
Mrs. B. =. Hoover. who has been
visiting abroad for some time, came
up from TT. Sully with her hush and,
Saturday, and took formal possession
of her snug new home. All extend Il
cordial welcome to Clifton society.
Final Proofs made by o. W. Lee,
Notary Public
"A good physician, hardware
Store, drug store and lumber yard are
certainly among the urgent needs of
Clifton, and we doubt not would do
well from the start. and assurcdly
reap a bonanza in the near future
while many other branches of trade
and industry would receive com
mcsuratc recompensc.
We should be pleased to have
those of our readers who have anything
fine in the way of farm or garden pro
duce send us in Il sample to add To our
collection. Many strangers from the
States make us call, and display of
the kind we have speaks volumes in
praise of Sully county rs farming
country and helps to call people TO our
midse.
Money to Loan by o. W. Lee, Cliff
ton.
smokers, YOU can get Il ten cent
cigar for five cents at the Clifton House.
During August it averaged about
two rains per weck--from good show
er To IN old soaker-and yet some of
the papers back in the states persist in
trying to discourage people from com
ing to Dakota by announcing drouth
and ploclaiming that the crops are all
dried up, &c. 1t may deter IA few for
time, but they are bound to learn the
Truth and join the happy throng at last
Kerosene oil is developing rare
medicinal properties, but the latest use
TO which we have heard of its being
put, is cure for rattlesnake poison
4 dog which was bitten up in Potter
county a few days ago. was cured by
scraping the wound and applying ker-
osene oil This is something most al-
ways kept in the home of every family
in this day and age, and if it has any
virtues for the poison of the rattle
snake they should certainly be known
Re Echo Lodge, No. | |, Independ-
ent Order of Odd Fellows, which is
building the new lodge hall and busi-
ness house at Clifton, is the second
wealthiest lodge in Dakota, and has nc
cumulated funds enough to put up the
building, which will be an ornament to
the place, furnish the Hall and have
means ltll. lie oThcT Is Il nDDlc one,
and, with everything else, we have no
doubt the Clifton Lodge will experience
a boom, and largely increase both its
membership and wealth in the year to
come We have heard number ex-
press desire ID ride their goat
when the lodge gets in shape for bust
ness at its new " home" which will not
be very long, rs work is actively pro
crossing, and many who are already
members of lodges back in the States,
but have taken up their residence in
Sully county, will affiliate themselves
with the Clifton Lodge. Long may ii
wave
ALI kinds of land and other legal
blanks in stock ut this office, or neatly