The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-08-09
-Cuss the flies. how they bite +!


The base ball business is assuming
the form of a mania throughout this
section.
Grain and hay stacks dot the prai-
rie, but not as numerous as we should
like to see.
The moonlight nights are lovely
for ramble, but look out for rattle
snakes, young people.
Harvesting is over with in this
section with the exception Of u few
pieces of late oats.
Our former townsman, John c.
Thompson, will put up 100 tons of hay
on his Potter county claim.
The construction of the University
of South Dakota, at Pierre, will. be
pushed to an early completion.
WANrED..To loan $4,000 on lands
in Sully county.
HANKS & LAyBoURS, Fairbank.
-Rattlesnakes are said to be blind
at this time of the year, and unusually
ugly and venamous. Beware of them.
The Marshal of Pierre shot at a
dog and brought down lights out of
two different windows in DIR. Steere's
residence.
--Chas. ". Strong, of 1l7-74, has
spaded up. five acres of sod and put 1t
in crops this season So says the
Blizzard
The Avon Signal, published on
sec %, 1l7-74, by 7. Mcconnell, is the
latest new paper TO reach us. 1t is a
neat little six column folio.
A meeting of the Republican Dis
trict Central Committee of the 9th Dis
trict was held at Huron.on Wednesday,
which was attended by j. A. Meloon
rs the representative of Sully county.
Ray Botsford brought us in stool
of oats the other morning on his way
to school, grown on his fathers claim
about mile and half south of town
which contained over 80 stalks from
one grain. No wonder grain yields big
in Dakota.
1t is claimed that the mustache is
great preventative against the cholera,
tiltering the fungus or cholera germ
and keeping it from being inhaled into
the lungs. 1t may he noticed-by a
close inspection--that our junior, III.
w. Edgerton and Jay Hoover are cul-
tivating some of this preventative, u
about enough to filter one poor little
germ. Hurry up your preventative OF
you are goners, boys.
The following is list of letters
remaining uncalled for IN the post Office
ut Clifton, Sully county, Dakota: II
IL. Banker, Mrs. 4. Burns, j. +. Dixon
John Fallen, A. Glasgow. Ellen l.
Glover, John Habinck, p D. Marster
Jay Pierce, \. l.. Plummer, Mrs. Nan
cy Wilson, Henry II. Yauney. Regis
tered Letters: Grin Evans, Edwin b
Fossell, George T. Hyde, Michae
keilleher II. W. Butts, p. NJ.
C n. Hawlcy, wholesale and retail
dealer in groceries, Walter l.. French
proprietor of the Philadelphia clothins
house, ". w. Waite, of the Hughe,
Co Bank, and Geo. Schlosser. edito
of the Advocate, all of Blunt visited
Clifton, Monday, on their way hom
from an excursion through Sully, Pot
ter and Walworth counties. The,
were combining pleasure with bust
mass and vice versa, and report an en-
joyable trip. They deem Sully tn,
banner farming county.
We forgot to mention last week
the wolf exploit of Will NJ. Rickcrt
about three miles east of town. On
night last week these sly varmint
slipped up ON our young friends tur
key roost and slaughtered four youn
gobblcrs and the old turkey. Tn
next morning viii took his gun
mounted his pony and sought reveng,
He soon sighted the depredators an
shot one and gave chase to the othe
running it over south of town. Iii
ammunition being gone, he left the SUI
vivor and came to town for some shell.
The wolf being tuckercd out with tn
chase lay down to rest. where he foun,