The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-08-09
HOME HAPPENINGS.

good time to build.
Blunt holds its election for village
officers on Tuesday next.
"A new stock of staple hardware at
the old Pioneer Store of Henry Potter
You can shoot prairie chicken af-
ter next week. and do it according to
law.
Hanks x Laybourn, of Fairbank,
d. T., will buy and sell cheap decided
land in Sully county. 17tf
Frank A. Lee, the Wells Addition
druggist, Pierre made us a flying visit
last Monday. Glad to see his genial
phiz.
The racket of the hammer and
saw in the hands of six or eight work
men has been music to the ears of the
Cliftonitcs this week
-Ex- Com. G.. j. Millett has field
corn IL feet high and still growing.
Can anybody beat it Can't raise corn
in Dakota Oh, no
ID. c. Nicol, Esq, L. J. Billings,
attorney at law, p. +. Eichelzer, ex-as-
SCISSOR, and constable T. H. Tolton, of
Fairbank, visited Clifton, Wednesday.
Pierre was visited by shower of
frogs last week. What we Want up
this way is shower of beef-steak or
mutton chop. Providence please make
a note
County Superintendent Staples
visited the Clifton school, Thursday,
and seemed very much pleased with
the work of the teacher and standing
of the pupils.
-Messrs. Frankhauser and Travis.
of the Okobojo Times, c. c. Frost, of
the Carson Herald, and Frank Suther-
land, the Okobojo merchant, paid Clf-
ton brief visit, Sunday.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office holds that mere breaking
on a homestead is not cultivation Of
the soil in the meaning of the law, and
that partie. cannot commute thereon.
N-Cllfton has female base ball club.
The school ma am is captain, and We
believe they can beat any club around
except the Clifton lords of creation,
and they had better be looking a leetle
Quit.
We believe that danger from dam
aging storms is about over in this sec
ton for this season. They have been
unusually frequent and destructive in
many sections, owing to the excessive
hot weather and the generation of
electricity in the atmosphere.
Hon. Seward Smith, the new Judge
of this (5th) judicial district visited
Pierre last week, looking after his new
field of labor, and was the guest of w.
G.. Nixon of the First National Bank
Sully county will probably demand a
term or two of court about another
year.
Buy your lumber of Laird Norton
Co, Blunt l3tf
E. b. Miller, of the Fairbank News,
passed through town, Thursday, on his
way to Blunt Mr.. Miller has been
somewhat crippled, financially, since
his misfortune in burning out last
spring, but we are pleased to know is
getting on his feet again and will soon
he able to issue his paper from Fair.
bank
I/-John Hunt. sleek -tongued rascal
ftrom Ohio, tried to confidence the First
National Bank of Pierre out of some
wealth, not long since, but Cashier
Nixon was too sharp for him, so ne
went on to Deadwood where he sue
ceeded in raising $4,000, but was ar
rested at Pierre, last week, while try
ing to skip the country.
Coal, and live toad buried in /:
strata of rock twelve feet deep, ar,
among the latest discoveries ut the
county seat Wonder if you could no
find candidate for county Office by
digging little deeper. Okobojo Times
Perhaps, neighbors. But if We
should fail, by digging about nine miles
down the creek We can strike hundred
foot vein-perhaps we should say vail
of candidates who are perfectly will