The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-11-21
j. +. Hughes, Esq, of Pierre, visited
Clifton this week.


Clifton this week.
Al. Tobias has been officiating a:
post master for day or two.
Many turkey gobbler will COB
BILE his last gobble the coming week.
Farm machinery OF all kinds fol
sale by S. E. Dempsey, Clifton. 25
Elder F. NJ. Kenny departed fol
Iowa, Tuesday, where he will spend
the winter.
Frank Peterson has built an ad.
dition to his residence, two miles
south east of town.
Dakota has been enjoying the de.
lightful fall weather for which she is
noted, for some time past.
H. C. Earnest, on sec. "a, south
east Of town, has secured good well
of water at depth of 40 feet.
-Ex-comr. G. J. Millet grew a 9s
pound pumpkin on his Missouri river
nursery farm in Sully this season.
The late snow storm hustled peo-
pie up to improve the fine weather
since, IN getting fixed up for winter.
w. P. McCready, Esq, of the firm
of Gaffey & McCready, Blunt, was in
town on professional business, Wednes-
day.
j. A. Meloon has moved his house
to Onida. 1t looks little as though
Joe meant to join the ranks of the
Benedicts.
The Sully County Temperance AL
lance will meet at Christian College,
Clifton, one week from tomorrow. at
2 o'clock, P. NJ. Programme else
where.
The remains of all regular and vol
unteer soldiers inferred at the old Fl
Sully burial ground, abont ten miles
east Of Pierre, are being taken up and
re-interred at the barracks.
Christian College starts out with
better patronage than almost any
school of the kind in the territory, ex-
ceeding the most sanguine anticipa.
tions OF most of it's friends.
j. K. Armsby, a heavy canned
goods dealer in Chicago, owns stock
ranch on the Missouri near the North
western part of Sully county, and has
been looking after it the past few days.
The editor Of the Norfolk Spy ap-
tured jack-rabbit last week, and will
have meat this winter. Don't want to
take good "boy" to board during the
winter, tor what he can eat, do YOU
Grant?
Mrs. j. B. Cotton and daughter,
Miss Belle, who reside about SIX miles
northeast OF Clifton, will spend the win
ter at their old home at Grand Rapids,
Mich. Mr. Cotton will ''hold the fort"
and long for their return.
Frank Koch has an acre Of fine
strawberries and large number of
blackberry, grape and other small
fruit plants on his nursery farm north
west Of Clifton, which will come into
bearing another season.
There will be Thanksgiving servi-
ces at Christian College next Thursday.
All are invited to attend, and it is sug-
gested that they bring along some
pumpkin pies and other eatables, and
have an old-fashioned Thanksgiving
dinner.
Frank KING, editor Of the Gettysburg
Herald, is about to start out on win
ter lecturing tour, with "seven noses"
- his own and six others - rs sub
ject Mr.. King has a good nose for
news, but, it strikes us that after he
has camped cut on the prairie few
nights, and caught bad cold, one nose
will be about all he can attend to IN
good shape, and it will need as much
"blowing" as seven ought to.
Friday night several inmates of
John Young's saloon, main street, got
into row and one of their number Jas.
kehr mason, was badly wounded.
There are different versions of the fray
but all lead up to the same end, viz:
that Kehr in the melee got one rib
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