The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1884-06-14
HOME HAPPENINGS.
Warm days and cool nights.
The Missouri is now on its June

hear the eagle scream p
"A new stock of staple hardware at
the old Pioneer Store of Henry Potter.
ID. F. Swcetland, the land attorney
at Okobojo, has l60 acres of breaking.
DIR. Vesey has been appointed and
sworn in rs deputy postmaster at Cliff
ton.
To celebrate or not to celebrate,
that is the question which has been
agitating many towns.
The crop Of candidates begins
to get little "mellow' on one side,
and will ripen up during July.
Townships 1874 and 1875, this
county, were both named Lake. OF
course one or the other will change
Two Englishmen were transmogri-
fed into American citizens, last Tues
day, by Deputy Clerk of Court Gro
pengieser.
e. +. Fuller, who is running pro-
vision and feed store at Fort Pierre,
smiled on his old Clifton friends the
middle of the week.
w. b. Perkins, who left Forest
City for Oregon early in the spring, has
returned, having made up his mind
that Dakota was good enough for HIM.
County Commissioner b. p Hoover
left for Owatonna, Winona, and other
points in Minnesota, on Sunday last,
and will be absent week or more on
business.
Are YOU needing anything in the
line of Summer Clothing? If ESQ, don't
fool away your money, but call on j.
d. Hilger & Co., Pierre, and profit
thereby.
A branch of the Woman's Chris
tain Temperance Union has been started
at Pierre. Few towns in this section
stands more in need of its restraining
and elevating influence.
j. W. Carpenter, r. T. Whitman
and others in this vicinity have had
potatoes in blossom for ten days or
two weeks. Dakota beats the world
on murphies, and is the Irishman's de-
light, or any other man"
R. J. Whitman has our thanks for
some of the finest radishes we have
seen in many day. They were from
S 20 s inches long, and some OF them
three inches in circumference. Mr. W.
has been eating them for three weeks
At regular meeting of Re-Echo
Lodge No. IL, |. 0. q. f., of Clifton,
held on Saturday night last, the follow
ing officers were elected:
n. G.-J. NJ. Hoover.
V. G.-J. H. Gropengieser.
Sec.-Roscoe Stinson.
Treas-B. p. Hoover.
Trustee. Ii. Gropengieser.
The Pierre Journal relates how
Swede jumped claim down in the
southern part of Sully county which
had been taken as u pre-emption by a
man who is doing business in Pierre,
and how the said Pierreite slung on a
belt full of artillery and went up and
" fired" the said Swede off the claim
instanter, shack and all.
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
Tom Phillips colt made lively
runaway, Tuesday. While watering ut
the creek north of town, the bride hav-
ing been taken of, the colt became ex-
cited and started of ut lively rate.
Our junior, who was sitting in the bug
", went along for short distance,
but in going through the dog town
where 1t was rough, he suddenly got
out and started off on his right ear,
which was somewhat peeled and his
legs slightly disfigured. The colt took
dctour down the creek and then
struck for town, where it circled around
for time, trying to run over the
blacksmith shop, finally brought up on
top of the livery hay stack Damages
merely nominal.