The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-06-07
HOME HAPPENINGS.


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-Okobojo is talking up a brass band,
--Chas. Spencer, of Pierre, was in
town, Sunday.
The heavy dews common to Da-
kota summer season have set in.
Our old settlers are now having
early garden vegetables in abundance
The Pierre Signals new directory
will give the population of that city at
3,O64.
The farmers are flax ing the sod
right lively, and will get in quite n
large acreage
The residents along the Missouri
are said to be shooting sturgeon, cat,
and other fish.
DIR. Eesey returned from Pierre
Wednesday, bringing large load of
drugs and medicines.
DIR. j. 4. Campbell, who spent last
summer in Sully county, has opened n
dental office in Blunt.
The dropping spirits of the small
boy will revive when he hears that
there is a circus loose i'm Dakota.
Mosquitoes have been unusually
thick for the time Of year, and it is
claimed to be an indication of wet
season.
When the fires are kept out we
believe it will not he many years until
the prairies will bear wild strawberries
abundantly.
-" Never saw grain grow so rapid
ly" is the universal exclamation of
everybody, and surely it is just more
than getting to the front.
Will or will not Clifton "spread
the American eagle " on July 4th ?
That memorable occasion comes three
weeks from next Friday.
DR. Vesey has opened his drug
stock in the Clifton post-otfice building.
the past two or three days, and will
have neat little store. Call and see
him.
Are YOU needing anything in the
line of Summer Clothing? If so, don't
fool away your money, but call on J.
ID. Hilger & Co, Pierre, and profit
thereby.
Walter y. Meloon has our thanks
for some fine large radishes for our last
Sundays dinner. Mr. Meloon has po-
tatoes about foot high and other fine
garden truck.
Now that the convention is over,
as soon as Chester \. rest up little
we suppose he will find time to ap-
point new Governor for Dakota to
succeed Nehemiah q.
The Walter A. Wood is the only
Self Binder made with Bundle Car
rier This new device not only saves
grain, but saves one mans labor. See
sample at Warner Bros, Blunt and
Pierre, Oak. s
s. b. Carson was in town, Wednes-
day. They tell us that he is getting to
be quite n speculator in cattle as well
us land. Ask him to relate the par
ticulars of his recent expedition to
Pierre rs COW boy
The carpenters have been busy all
week putting shelving and counters in
the Odd Fellows building, to.be used
as business place by l. X Clark, who
already has large general stock there
in, which he is now opening up.
Nothing but poison and cold lead
seems to materially impair the appetite
of the gopher for seed corn. Some are
of the opinion that they do not relish
it quite so well when soaked in kero-
sene, but they get their work in just
the same
Dan Adams SAYS its little dish
washer and piano FOUNDER that arrived
at his place four and onc-half miles
south east of Clifton Thursday. Dan
had his pegs set for IA sod breaker, and
We don't believe he will give it up.
Mrs. A. and the girl are tolerable.
We have thus for been unable TO
get more than meager report of the
Press convention of the Huron Land
District, held at Pierre last Saturday
None can regret our inability to attend
SO much rs ourselves. for we know ii