The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-06-28


What is town without IA ball
club?
Don't forget that Friday next is
Independence Day.
The Blunt post-ofiicc will become
money order Office after July 1st.
Hay Rakcs of all styles and prices
at Warner Bros, Blunt and Pierre. s
The fine weather is putting an
early head" on wheat, and good
sized one
They must have bad wolf down
about Canning. 1t is reported as kill
ing colts and calves.
Everybody is happy, and well they
may be. The copious showers have
insured abundant crops.
WIN. Walter, of Pierre, who has
been visiting his son, the senior of this
paper, returned to the city, Thursday.
For the lightest, strongest, most
simple and easily managed mower now
made, call at " Warner Bros, Blunt and
Pierre, Oak. 8
The Mcssrs. Voltz, known to some
of our readers, have purchased build
ing on Pierre street, Blunt, and are fix
ing it up for hotel.
The hot weather of the past few
days, coupled with frequent showers,
has caused everything to grow very
rapidly, especially corn and weeds.
One Blunt firm has taken orders
for q twine binders. 1t must be that
some one expects to have some grain
to cut, if this was wilderness only a
year or SO ago.
See the new adv of c. Y. Hawley
& Co, Blunt, in to-days paper. The
price list attached will make it an in
ducement to call on them when down
there They always give bargains,
Anthony V. Lieben from Valpa-
raiso, Ind, who had declaratory on
the southeast of sec. 30, 1l6-7S, has
Just come on, filed homestead Tues
day, and has taken up residence
among us.
Last week Sheriff Stebbins, of
Hughes county, arrested a man named
Geo. Allen, Mt Blunt, who is said to
have been n member of the once famous
Polk Wells gang which operated so ex
tensively in Nebraska and Missouri.
Why don't some one start IA whale
farm" on the Okobojo. One Of the
& tish-anlmals was caught at Cumber
land Inlet from which Sl5,720 was
realized, Sl2,230 of the amount being
for the bone What lot of girls that
will " stay up OF corset will
The buffalo bones scattered over
the Dakota prairie SO numerously are
proving source of big revenue in
many places near railroads, bringing
ss per ton, and being shipped east to
be ground into fertilizers. They will
prove bonanza to the small-boy of
this section one of these days.
The new Wood mower, owing to
many superior advantages, is now hav-
ing the largest sale of any mover on
earth. For sale by Warner Brothers,
Blunt and Pierre, Oak. 8
1t Is said that the Pierre postmas-
ter has been directed to move his office
to n point half way between the origin,
al Pierre and Wells Addition known
rs East Pierre. This will provea great
inconvenience to the old town without
making it but little better for the
other end Nineteen twentieths of the
people will then be compelled to go 4
half mile for their mail
Two residents of Forest City are
under arrest for stealing shack II
convicted they ought to be given the
full benefit of the law. There has been
too much of this kind of business going
on throughout this section, and it is
high time it was checked. 1t is II low
and despicable business at best. The
value of the shack may not be yer,
J much, but its surreptitious remova
might endanger the right of some
claimant to the land upon which Ia
hal ara.tal ~