The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-05-24
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The sou VIII now mop over at u
lively rate for crop of flax.
-Fairbank has a Goldfish Hill. We
suppose that is where the aristocrats
live.
Everything in the line Of vcgeta-
ton is now just more than humping
itself.
Judge W. p. Ross, Irwin Rickert
and A. S. Tobias, paid Ft. Sully visit,
yesterday.
L. w. Trumbull, of Waverly town
ship, made us a short called while in
town Monday.
L. W. Trumbull, of Waverly town
ship, 1879, has in 60 acres of small
grain and ten acres of corn
See j. ID. Hilger & Co, Pierre, be-
fore buying anything in the line of
Gents Furnishing Goods. 3
B. =. Hoover has made arrange
ments to fence portion of his farm
just north of town, for stock pasture
A $4,000 rain fell in Sully coun-
ty the middle of the week. Crops of
all kinds are doing splendidly and
breaking is fine.
Henry Potter has taken up his
residence on his new claim three fourths
of a mile east of town, the contest hav-
ing been decided in his favor
John G. Thompson has been visit
ing friends southeast of town during
the past week, arriving here from his
Potter county farm Sunday evening.
The largest and best line of Hats
and Caps to be found in this part of
the Territory are kept by j. ID. Hilger
4 Co, Pierre, with prices the lowest.
B. p Hoover and his friend, II. b.
McCord, accompanied by their ladies,
have been taking in Fairbank, TT. Sui
ly and other points along the river dur
ing the week.
&C. NJ. Henry contemplates starting
harness shop at Clifton. He is a
practical workman and we believe could
make the business success. Let en-
couragement be given him.
1t is said that several of the Fort
Sully soldier boys have "gone hence, F"
lately, without the formality Of Il dis
charge. Uncle Sam does not whack
up enough to make It much of an in
duccment.
-Mcssrs. Rickert & Tobias, who are
digging well at Dawson, in ll7-76,
are down 270 feet without striking the
precious fluid, and will get additional
apparatus and go on down for flow
ing well. The last l60 feet was pure
clay.
The young men of Clifton and vi
cinity talk of organizing a base ball
club. From the manner In which they
handle ball and bat we are confident
a splendid club could be gotten up and
we hope to see the organization per
fected and the ball open at once.
A meeting of the School Board of
township lI5-7S will be held at the
residence of s. ii. Neal, on sec. %, at
two o'clock Saturday afternoon, June
u, 1884, to devise means to raise
money to start schools and talk over
educational matters. Let the people
of the township attend.
L. j. Chapman, well known to
many of our readers, has opened Il law
office in Pierre, and will practice in all
Courts of Dakota. Mr. Chapman is n
graduate Of the law department of the
University of Michigan, and both an
able and clever young gentleman,
Give him a call when needing an attor,
ney.
Buy the celebrated StudcbakeI
Wagon and everything on wheels al
Warner Bros, Pierre, and Blunt, Oak
The world removed Casady Sulky
Plow, the only successful sulky plow
made, for sale by Warner Bros, Pierre
and Blunt, Oak. A.
The recent vote ut Blunt on &
proposition to bond the township te
build school houses was voted down b,
large majority. We understand thai
this result was not due to the peopl,
| being opposed TO schools, by an,