The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-03-22

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Of last week.
Miss Carrie Wright, who has spent
most of the winter with her sister near
Huron, is now residing on her farm
south of town.
--J. w. Carpenter has been hauling
lumber from Blunt the past week for a
new house on his homestead, near his
present residence.
The oldest inhabitants" informs
us that but little rain falls during the
month of March and the fore part of
April, in this part of Dakota.
Spring breaking has been COM
menced. Ifthe warm weather contin-
ues a few days longer farmers will
begin sowing wheat and oats.
Rev. A. C. Law will hold religious
services in the school house, to-mor-
row Sunday, mt IL o'clock a. IN. A
general invitation is extended to all.
The world removed Casady Sulky
Plow, the only successful sulky plow
made, for sale by Warner Bros, Pierre,
Oak AZ
All parties who have advertised
to make final proof before Probate
Judge VI. Sweny can do so before III.
w. Edgerton, Clerk Of the District
Court, at his office in Clifton, during the
Judges absence in Iowa.
w. ii. Brown, of the firm of Burke
& Brown, Blunt land agents, stopped
in town Wednesday en- route home
from Fairbank, where he had been
taking IN the sights He reports bust
ness good and emigration increasing.
w T. Blundin, of Lewiston, Wis
tied the county seat Monday, acting
as witness in the final proof OF
Charles Nelson of that vicinity. He
informs us that the people of his neigh
borhood are making preparations to
establish school
The Blunt and Fairbank mail
route via Clifton, has been established
and proposals for carrying said mail,
two trips per week, are now being re-
cieved by the postmaster at this place.
The service will not be commenced un-
til July 1st. This will give Clifton
direct connection with Blunt. Pierre
and Fairbank, and give us seven mails
per week.
R. II. Proudfoot, of Spring creek,
this county, was, on Wednesday. March
| 9th, at the residence of the brides
mother in Bremen county. Iowa, mar
ried to Miss Stella c. Cook. Mr..
Proudfoot Is well known i'm this county,
being connected with the Western Loan
and Trust Co. of Pierre, and having
, resided on his claim last summer and
fall. All join in wishing the happy
couple pleasure and prosperity.
Hughes and Sully, known as
counties, are not counties, as their
boundaries have never been defined in
print. Carson Herald.
This is another instance wherein the
Herald exposes its ignorance. The
boundaries of Hughes and Sully coun-
ties can be found in the session laws
of 1873, a certified copy of which is on
tile at the Sully county court house,
in Clifton, and a copy Of the bounda-
ries of Sully county at this office.
Stage driver Philes informs us that
he will soon begin to make his trips
from Pierre to Clifton and return in
two days instead Of one us in the past.
He will leave Pierre Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays at 8 o'clock, a. m,
arriving here at 4 p. m, returning he
will leave Clifton Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays, departing ut s n. m,
and arriving in Pierre at 1 p. IN. This
change of time may not take effect un-
til April lst, but is liable to before that
time, as he is expecting an order from
the postal department to make it next
week
Henry Schwab, who filed on a
claim on sec. q, 1l6-79, last spring,
which is now being contested by Ir,.
w. Cole, OF this place, passed through
town, Thursday, en- route to his claim,
with load of lumber to build a sec
ond house, the one he had erected last
summer having been blown down, and
carried away by parties in the vicinity.
He claims that he did not wholly aban-
don the claim but one of his horses
died during the summer, leaving him
in a condition unable to reside upon
his claim and make living, SO he
sought work elsewhere, and in the fall
was taken sick and returned to his old
. home in Benton county, Iowa. The
claim is good one and he having re
turned and built second residence
and is making preparations to build s
barn, the outcome of the contest case
which is set for April 4th, remains to
be seen. 1t will, in all probability, b,
fought by both parties. Mr.. Schwal
, claims to have been on the land II