The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-02-16
HOME HAPPENINGS.


%. w. Lee visited Okobojo, Mon
day.
Buy your lumber of Laird, Norton
Co. Blunt. 43tf
Chief Justice Edgerton is in
Washington.
The roads are said to be badly
driftcd with snow.
New settlers are beginning to
make their appearance in Sully county
H. w. Edgerton, Clerk of the Dis
trict Court, is expected home next week.
IF YOU HAVE DECIDED LAND
or claims to sell, address s. Fl. Neal,
Clifton.
The Misses Alice NJ and Matte
NJ. Bower were in town proving up,
Thursday.
Elmer f. Fuller and j. c. Thorne,
who have claims near town, came up
from Pierre, Wednesday.
There is more snow in Dakota
now, SO saith the oldest inhabitant,
than for number of years.
The Pierre Signal says Frank A..
Lee will open drug store in the Hol-
brook building, East Pierre, immedi-
ately.
We understand that the recent
snow storm has blockaded the railroad
east of Huron Regular trains are run
between Huron and Pierre.
j. +. Ziebach Clerk of Court OF
Potter county, accompanied by three
of Potter counties young ladies, were
in Clifton the first of this week.
The WATcHMAN office was the
recipient of "A short but pleasant call
from Misses NJ. Il. Rickert and Rinnie
Snyder, Wednesday afternoon last
-Sully county being one of the
best i'm south central Dakota, and To-
Gated between two lines of railroad,
will be thickly settled next summer.
Roscoe Stinson has our thanks for
handsome calender, sent TO him by
the Phenix of Brooklyn, for which in.
surance company he is agent, for dis.
tribution.
The FIRST issue of the Fairbanks
paper, to be published by Miller &
Dewey, late of the Pierre Signal, Is
expected to make its first appearance
next week.
Hubert Mayer, of Gettysburgh
Potter county, spent couple of day:
in town this week He came for the
purpose of making final proof on his
claim near that place.
MIR. Wagner arrived here from The
east, Wednesday, with load of house
hold goods, which he took to his farm
six miles north of town. His famil,
are expected here IN April.
The testimony 6f C. o. c. Barke
against Chas. Hanchett, for tree CLAIM
south of town, filed on by both partic.
last spring, was taken before Deput,
Clerk of Court Hoover, Wednesday
We are informed by II. Mayer, o
Gettysburgh, who has just returned
from Illinois, that ITO ears have beel
ordered in the vicinity of Bloomington
that state, to be used by parties comm!
to Dakota this spring.
We are reliably informed that J
p. Mcdonald, proprietor of the Onid
Hotel, will shortly remove to Fores
City, Potter county, and open tn
Baxter House, where he will have
more lucrative business
A man by the name Of Thoma
Ross, carpenter, became intoxicate'
at Blunt, Tuesday night, and in goini
to his house and failing to open tn
door, he fell over on the snow, wher
he was found frozen to death, Wednes
day morning.
The Onida Journal, which ha
been busily engaged removing tn
county seat, Odd Fellows Hall, &c
from Clifton, all unknown to our pee
pie, and has succeeded in none, no.
com, to the front with the informatio
that Commissioner B. p. Hoover, VIII
knew nothing of it until he read til
Journal, was intending to remove I
, Fairbank in the spring Mr. Hoovt
!, denies ever having thought Of such