The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-05-10
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Old papers for sale ut this office
at so cts. per hundred.
Harry Butts has so far recovered
from his illness as to be out again.
Miss Effie Winner, Of 1879, ar,
rived home from visit to Iowa friends
last week
A full line of wood and chain
pumps can be found at Warner Bros,
Pierre, and Blunt, Oak. AZ
We are glad to leaIn that Miss
frankie Winter, who has been i'll for
some time, has about recovered.
M. Nj. Kenney has a residence
nearly completed on his homestead
about two miles northeast of Clifton.
r G. Fosdick and wife, who re-
side 4 or l2 miles south east of Cliff
ton, spent Saturday night and Sunday
in town.
1t is now fine breaking, and sod
turned under from now until July will
get well rotted by fall, where the bunch
grass is not too thick.
Tine fax crop in Dakota will be
largely in excess of that ever raised
before. The people of this section will
SOW largely for a new country.
GARDEN SEEDs-A full stock of
ID. nj. Ferry & Co.'S fresh garden seeds
have just been received and are now
on sale ut Henry Potter's Pioneer Store,
Clifton
-Brightberry Want, of 1877,
made final proof on his claim, before
the Clerk Of Court, Wednesday, Il. C.
Fosdick and d. Taylor acting as his
witnesses.
An error occurred in the card of
The Valley Poultry Farm, now cor
rected. Mr. Mead lives OH section 30,
ll5-77, some seven miles northeast of
Clifton.
Henry +. Pendleton, of 114-SO,
has sown over go acres of wheat this
spring. Mr.. Pendleton will plant
considerable spring breaking to oats,
corn and potatoes.
The assessors are at work. Fl. IL
Butts, of Clifton, has been appointed
deputy and has commenced his labors.
Get your list Of taxable property ready
and thus facilitate his work. Returns
have to be made by July lst.
The Swan Lake Pilot, published
at Theodore, Walworth county, by II.
L. Frost, and the Radiator, published
at Harrington, Fanlk county, by II. A.
Humphrey, are among the newly es-
tablished sheets received at this office,
and are creditable newspapers
Frank Koch, from Winona, accom-
panied by his daughter Paulina and
son John, passed through town, Thurs
day eve, with couple loads of stock
for his nursery farm in 1879, and
has car load down ut Blunt. Now
is the time to buy your fruit trees,
berry bushes and plants of him.
-Four lines of regular steamers
will ply the upper waters of the Mis-
souri, this season, besides independent
boats. The "big muddy washes the
western border of Sully county for IS
miles in its meanderings, with a num-
Der of good landings This of itself
gives Sully county great advantage
over the inland counties.
Prof l.. Henry came down from
Brookings last week, Friday, with a
complete farming outfit, embracing
four good horses, and has permanently
settled on his land i'm 1879. He was
accompanied by his brother, G. M. |
Henry and cousin, Il. ii. His wife
also joined him the first of the week.
Clerk of Court II. w. Edgerton
and Roscoe Stinson, attorney at law,
spent day or so in Fairbank this
week, and they do say that they "done
Clifton proud, both in appearance
and department. We are glad to hear
so tlattering a report, for we were
little afraid that they might get hilar-
lous and dcmoralized while from under
our restraining and elevating influence
The Eairhank u;rIo u,a,t 20 bn,,v ;e,u