The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-11-15

And he double d-s aud dances ON the pipe
Hughes county polled i ,35l votes
at the late election.
If this be 'lndian Summer" give
it to us long drawn out. We like it.
will Eshbaugh left for Wolsey,
Tuesday, and his wife for her old home
at Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Carson Herald, of last week,
announced that " ith that issue the pa
per would suspend until next March.
-Wasgatt, of Clifton, will furnish
money on final proofs at straight 10
per cent. 10
The canvassing board Of this, the
sixth Legislative district, will meet at
Huron, Nov. goth, to see who our leg
islators are.
Quite number throughout the
country have changed their pre-emp-
tons into homesteads and gone back
east to spend the winter.
The sodding of dwellings and sta
bles now occupies the attention of
some of our people. 1t is an econom-
ical and effectual way of MAXI ng them
comfortable.
&C. j. Millett, Sr., with force of
hands has been busy for some days
putting out eleven acres of white ash
and box elder trees on the tree claim
of John Shes, one-half mile west of
town.
Last week, county treasurer C. III.
Agar, of Onida, received the sad intel
lgence of the death of his wife, which
occurred in New York, on Wednesday
morning, for which place Mr. Agar left
by the following train.
One week from next Thursday
will be Thanksgiving, and many a
turkey gobbler will gobble his last
gobble. The turkey is II proud bird,
and very much above the altitude in
which poor editors pocket-boo how
ers Prairie chicken is pretty rich for
us. anyhow.
In view of the fact that the small
pox exists quite extensively in the
eastern part OF the Territory, it would
be wise for these who have never been
vaccinated to attend to it at once. An
ounce ofprevention is worth several
pounds of cure in this direction. When
the disease does not prove fatal it fire.
qucntly leaves its victim badly dis
figured.
Now that Uncle Dick" is elected
Governor of Illinois our old friend
James X. Magic should be remembered
with an honorable position and good
pay No man has greater influence
with the laboring men than Mr. Magic,
or is better posted on the politics and
affairs of Illinois. He went back last
summer and has been speaking and
working for Oglesby and Blaine ever
since.
We are indebted to that enterprs-
ing paper, The Chicago Weekly News
the best dollar weekly paper in the
country-for campaign map of the
Western States, with the counties and
congressional districts outlined, be-
sides the railroads and villages OF the
country. On the opposite side various
interesting statistical information, por-
traits of the presidents down, &c, is
given, making il very useful for refer
encs. Send for specimen copy of the
T News.
The damage caused by prairie
| fires is not limited by any means to the
amount Of hay, grass, gram or other
property destroyed, by any means. To
the contrary, this is frequently the
least of the loss Aside from the dam
age in this direction, burning off the
grass leaves the ground bare so that
the snow blows away instead ofleavinl
it in the grass to melt and soak into
the earth, while the sun and wind dries
/ off the rain which should be retained
for the benefit of the grass, itself, which
!, was burned off and the crops which ar,
. to follow. Moral: Keep out the fires