The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-05-16
CLIFTON, SULLY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, MAY

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an order against hunting on the For
Sully Reservation.
An insane man named White wa.
taken from Pierre to the Asylum a
Yankton last week.
A $4,000 rain visited Sully coun
ty Thursday afternoon and yesterday
and everybody is smiling and cheerful
j. G.. Philes, the former mail agent
on the Clifton and Pierre route cele
brated his - China wedding last week
at Pierre.
Last week we failed to record the
marriage of Michael C. Kelly and Miss
Paulina Koch, of 1878, but wish the
happy couple much joy in their new re,
lation just the same
The Traders Bank of East Pierre,
will pay the highest market price in
Cash for School Bonds. We will pre-
pare Bonds and all necessary papers at
our own expense. Send direct to us
for blanks and savdsexpense and com
missions. Il
The Superintendent thinks there
is liable to be a scarcity of teachers in
Sully county the coming fall. There
are lots of old teachers in the county
who will again take up the switch " if
necessary, They should provide them
selves with certificates and he ready
when called.
Mrs NJ Sedgwick, late of Chicago,
has opened up II new Millinery and
Dress Making establishment opposite
the post-otfice, Main street, Blunt, ID. T.,
where she has large stock of new
goods and notions of the latest styles,
which she proposes to sell at the very
lowest cash prices. The ladies of Cliff
ton and Sully county are invited to call
and examine them. Opening May y,
22 and %, 1885.
We elswhere publish certified
copy of the school law rs amended by
the late Legislature. We don't exactly
understand the object of their payment
being confined to the financial agencies
of the cities of New York and Boston,
and it looks as though there might he
a corner, somewhere, on this kind of
securities. 1t might be possible that
some of our own people might want to
invest in school bonds, and they GER
tainly wouldn't want to send them
1000 miles from home and pay per-
centage for collection.
There will be meeting at the
Christian College, Clifton, Sunday,
May "a, 1885, for the purpose of or
ganizing County Temperance Ali
ance. The meeting is called for =
o clock, p. IN. Good speakers will be
present. and it is to be hoped that the
IN the good cause will turn out
from all over the county and make the
interesting and success
The liquor traffic is the great evil of
the land. Our people have now got
the monster well downed, and We hope
to see public sentiment on the question
Kept up to such a pitch that it will
never he able to gain foot-hold in our
midst.
We are greatly pleased to learn
hat Irwin $. Rickert, whom We lately |
mentioned as leaving for Highmore to
secure water for the city, has struck it !
'ich-rich for llighmore for he has Sc
,ured them an inexhaustible supply of
he precious beverage, and rich for
himself for he rakes i'm "cool thous-
md Tor the job. BY the terms of
lis contract he was to put them down
ix holes each 200 feet deep, tor which /
he was to receive $3.50 and 1900 if |
he secured water. A strong vein was
truck-if we mistake not in the first
lole-at Il depth of 1876 feet. Mr..
tickert is an honorable, square dealing
'oung man who will carry out his part
# an agreement every time, and is de-
erving of the success with which he
has met. The Vox Populi says: THE
,lories of Alexander, Columbus, Grant,
It. al. sink into insignilicance when
with Irwin s. Rickert, the
nan who discovered water in High
more. Rickert knows his business and
Ioes just what he tells you he will. If
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