The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-03-08

ana nave some DiackSmlthlng done.
Call at the agricultural depot OF
Warner Bros, Pi, rre, Oak, and exam
inc their large stock of plows, pulver,
izers, and secders, before buying. AZ.
Two steamers have been purchased
which will be run between Pierre and
Bismarck the coming season. This
will be great convenience to the up
river towns.
Hardware for drags at Laird,
Norton & Cos.
The Cole brothers of this place
are making preparations to build a
commodious residence on their claims
in 1863, where they will remove, we
understand, inApril next.
Dan Adams is taking advantage
of the fine weather by cutting and
hauling up wood for summer use. He
procures it from McLane and Stuky's
ranch, on the Missouri.
j. J. Bishop, of Onida, boarded
with Judge Ross, at the Clifton, several
days the past week. The last seen of
the gentleman he was taking walk"
in the direction of Blunt, in search OF
a new "field of labor"
Dearborn & Stinson, having had
long experience in that line, are pre-
pared to attend to all contest business
entrusted to them in n satisfactory
manner Mr. Stinson, of the firm, can
be found in the post-ofiice building.
The boundaries of Sully county, as
taken from the records ut Yankton,
show us that with the vacancy occa-
stoned by Mr. Young's resignation ex-
isting, Mr.. Hoover is the only commits
sioner residing within the boundary
lines of the county.
Remember that it is not necessary to
send in new intentions where claimants
are advertised to make proof before
the Clerk of the District Court. An
order has been issued to the affect that
all proofs now being published can be
made according to the published no.
tice. Remember this and do not 90 to
the extra expense of sending in new
The "whatisit," seeing its end
near, wants some one to come forward
and buy it out, and for that reason has
lnaugurated its aggressive course upon
Messrs. Hoover and Meloon, and the
Fairbank Town Site Co., expecting one
or the other of the parties to come for
ward and make proposition to pur-
chase, which it would accept and come
out whole on its investment but the
parties being DETAINED know the estab-
lished character of the thing too we'll
TO take any stock in its mutterings.
-" Let the farmers of Sully county
organize tree planters association
and horticultural society. They can
talk over their county affairs and dis
cuss matters of Importance to them
selves and the county. What say YOU
TO a meeting at Clifton April lst next?
.Fairbank News.
The WATcHMAN sanctions the move
by the News. Let some one
,all meeting, and all be present to
participate in the organization of So
,iety and discussion of the best means
of procedure.
The unprecedented floods in the
Ohio River Valley and its tributaries
which has inundated whole villages,
and destroyed vast amounts of prop
srty, many lives and endangered many
more, causing more suffering than ten
Dakota billiards. turned loose en- masse.
should be a lesson to people in Da-
Iota, and those who have farms here
will look to their interests and not sell
% return to that land of rain storms
md tornadoes We suspect that this
great flood is a visitation of providence
ipon eastern newspapers for lying, in
.dvising people to stay away from
Dakota
G. @. Frost of the Carson Herald. has |
'old out his interest in that paper to his |
partner, and intends issuing another pub |
ication in Potter county-Brookings Sen
incl
You are mistaken. brother Darrow.
The person who so informed your mana
,er, from our personal knowledge is ii |
notorious liar. The firm of Haincs & |
Frost is still in existence. and there is no
immediate prospect Of either partner sell |
ing out-Carson Herald.
The person who SO informed your
manager was partner in the Herald |
lie evidently knows himself. .-Brookings
sentinel.
Not long since a proprietor of the
Herald exhibited a dissolution notice !
If the firm To number of the Clifton |
business men, which confirmed the
statement of the Sentinel. An excuse
or not wanting it made public at that
.ime was given. G. G. is the only
partner of the Herald, to our knowledge,
yho has been in Brookings lately, and |
himself full well, he acknowl- |
,dges that he is ga notorious liar"