The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-17
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the rear of his store nearly completed.
BE careful how you kindie the
fire with coal oil. Many accidents are
reported by the papers.
IL. f. Kimmel, a genial gentleman
Of 1878, is in town to-day and cashed
up for the WATcHMAN a year.
james Pearman was in from his
ranch, over northwest near the river,
with some fresh beef Wednesday.
Miss Rinnie Snyder, who is stop
ping in Pierre, was up to look after her
farm west of town, the first of the week.
Mrs Henry Potter, who has been
visiting friends in Minnesota for few
weeks, returned home on Thursday
last.
DIR. d. w. Robinson has planted
so bushels of blackwalnuts on his
claim a short distance northwest of
Clifton.
Some of the late homesteaders
who are just getting on their land
will find it rather cool camping out
while building residences.
A good many are beginning to
find it hard to keep the wolf from the
door--of the hen-house Chickens
seem to be a favorite dish with them
We don't believe it good plan
to break much more this fall. The
sap has gone down from the top of the
grass and it wont rot, you know. Bet
ter wait until February.
&C. w. Evarts, of Onida, came over
Monday, with the returns from that
precinct, and made us n sociable call.
He is evoluting into a first-class farm
er, and will put in 30 acres of wheat in
the spring.
From and after this date we shall
charge one dollar extra for each and
every special notice" attached to a
final proof Said special notices are
not necessarily part of final proof
publication, and we cannot afford to
do this extra work for nothing. At
torneys and agents doing work for
parties ut stipulated price, including
the publication fee, will please take
notice and provide for same
Miss Ella C. Harwood, of Clifton,
had the misfortune to run needle
nearly the whole length into her right
hand, Sunday moyning. In extracting
it the point was broken off, apparently
imbedded in the cord to the little
finger, paralyzing that digit and caus-
ing great pain From the sympathy
she now lavishes upon that hand it is
evident that she thinks nearly as much
of it as she does Of her farm near
town--which is saying considerable.
When Frost, of the Carson Her.
aid, asserts that he can substantiate
what he has said about the publishers
of this paper he knows he is heaping
lie on top of falsehood. He has AS
serted in public print that one of the
publishers of this paper was drunk in
Pierre and run out of town. Now We
call upon him to prove that either the
senior or junior of this office ever so
much as took drink of liquor in
Pierre, or stand convicted before the
public as the sneaking and malicious
liar we know him to be. Ii he has got
the witnesses and cannot borrow the
money anywhere else to pay for the
afiidayits, well lend it To him.
Il. w. Nv rts comes out with a
card announcing that Onida was not
party to the late convention of school
officers of Sully county, expressing n
determination to ignore the proceed
ings of that body and to select such
school furniture and text books as they
pleased. But We suppose it is all
right, for relating TO school matters,
or anything else, what MIR. Evarts
knows-in his own mind-comparcd
with the aggregate wisdom of the rest
of the county, and especially of the
central and western part, is unques-
tionably as mountain TO mole-hill,
and we would suggest to the officers
of the various townships that they
wait until Onida adopts furniture and
books for that thousand dollar school
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