The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-02-02
HOME HAPPENINGS.

-SnOrtcSt mOntn Oh Tue yeaT-SJ
days.
-Henry Potter and Joseph Kokesh
returned from Pierre, Tuesday
Miss Flora Rounds left for Yank-
ton, Wednesday, on Il visit to her sister
MAKE YOUR LOANS of
Dearborn & Stinson, Clifton.
%. w. Lee and family visited
their farm, south of Fairbank, Sunday
last
Miss Alice Bower, of Fort Pirre,
made her Clifton friends visit Satur-
day and Sunday last.
Miss Mary 4. Rickert has accepted
the position of superintendent of the
Clifton House dining room.
Roscoe Stinson returned home
from Miller, Wednesday, where he had
been IN attendance at District Court.
The right of way for the G.. & NV
railroad from Redfield to Fairbank was
filed i'm the Huron land office on Sat
urday last.
Walter r. Burton has disposed Of
his pre-emption, recently proved up,
and taken homestead in the same
neighborhood.
Deputy County Treasurer j. A.
Meloon has informed us that the first
warrants issued in Sully county will
be paid on presentation.
Clifton is attracting the attention
of business men of the east. Nearly
every mail brings letters inquiring for
vacant business houses.
-Fairbank is enjoying a healthy
boom. Several substantial new build
ings are in course of construction. and
numerous lots are being sold daily.
John and Jay Hoover, who have
been Mt Fort Sully putting up ice for
Post Trader Townsend, returned home
Monday, after an absence of about ten
days.
All who reside near and receive
mail at the Clifton postoffice should
not fail to sign the petition for mail
route between Blunt and FairbaRk via
Clifton.
C. j. Haines, editor of the Carson
Herald. made our town a pleasant VS.
it Saturday. 1t is unnecessary to say
that he spent most of his time at the
WATcuMAN office.
B. p. Johnson, of Dekalb, ILL.,,
was in town Monday, and located a
claim north of town. He reports a
hard winter, with snow three feet deep
on level, in illinois.
&C. T. Stebbins, formerly grocery
man in Blunt, has closed out his bust
ness and last week removed to his
farm south of town We welcome all
new comers to Clifton and vicinity.
N. j. Willitts, who is holding
down the north halfof sec. 12-ll4-79,
has recently repaired his residence and
made it comfortable, and is now costly
quartered with the intention of remain
ing upon his land in the future
We very much regret to learn of
the death, on Jan. 18th, of DIR. James
C. Myers, editor of the Attica, D..
Journal. The Doctor had numerous
friends in this county, who deeply
sympathise with the bereaved family.
N Porter of Alba, Monroe county,
Iowa, passed through town this week
enroute to his homestead, two miles
north of town to make his first improve
ments His family will arrive here in
March, and take up their residence on
the claim.
YESTERDAY the little "thingimijig'
IN the thermometer stood ut 36 degrees
above zero all day long, and yet the
people in the East are lowering around
their fires and sympathising with all
who are enfortunate(? enough to spend
their winters in balmy Dakota.
e. B. Mead, of this township, was
in Clifton Tuesday examining the va.
cant store room under the Odd Eel.
lows Hall, for VIM. Strong, Of Genoa
ILL.,, who is negotiating to rent it and
establish first class hardware store
as soon as he can close out his present
business at Genoa
The Clifton Literary was honored
on Thursday evening by n visit from
Misses Alice Hamil and Callie Cas-,
and Ed Hamil and q. f. Thompson, o
Banner township. members of the Ban
ner and Onida Literary Society. A
cordial invitation is extended to oul
neighbors To meet with us often.
A Mr.. Eckert, of Belmore, Indi
ana, was in Clifton, Wednesday, ac
companicd by Mr. Little. who resides
southeast of town, looking for deedeC
land, but was unable To find claim n
the price he wished to pay, SI0O. Those
of our people who have proved up OF
their claims are not DESTROYS of sellin.
for less than 81, 900, Land within ;
few miles of the county seat of Il count,
like Sully is bound to be valuable IN ;