The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-09-12
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The Pierre street railway will soon
be completed.
Have you read what the Oak
Loan & Trust Co. says?
Tom Phillips has harvested near.
ly sixty tons of hay and millet.
w. C. Walter sold a cow to a
Blunt butcher for $40, this week.
The County Commissioners were
in session at Onida Monday and Tues
day.
A. Z. Prentice and lady, Of Pierre,
have been visiting at Sheriff Bruner's
this week.
w. M. Winter a resident of Potter
county died in Blunt, after an illness
Of four weeks, one day last week.
The first annual fair of the Potter
County Agricultural Society will be
held at Gettysburg, Oct. Z, 8 and 9.
The McGannon Brothers, of Py-
mosr township, commenced the manu-
facture of sorghum the first of the
week.
A. Z. Botsford, about three miles
south of town, struck an abundant sup
ply of water at depth of about l | feet,
few days ago.
MIR. and Mrs. G. J. Haines, of
Pierre, are spending the week with Mrs.
HIS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Postmaster
Bryant, of Carson.
The fall term of school in district
No. 4, Fairbank township, was begun
Monday last with Mrs. w. w. Wooliever
as teacher. Fourteen pupils arc in at
tendance.
Prairie chickens and grouse do
not seem to be as plentiful hereabout
as sportsrpen hoped for. They are
said to be numerous over on the reser-
vatlon.
Our village school opened for the
fall term, Monday, with good attend
ance. Mrs. Y. NJ. McFall, one of the
best teachers IN the county, has charge
of the school.
The WATcHMAN force returns
thanks to S. E. Dempsey for some de-
licious plums left at our office Tuesday.
Mr.. Dempsey brought about two bush
els home with him from the river.
The social dance at the residence
of j. B. Roberts, in ll6-78, Thursday
night, is reported to have been well
attended, some 30 couples being pres
ent A number from Clifton attended.
Rev. H. A. Barden, of Clifton, has
secured the exclusive agency for "Gen.
Grants Personal Memoirs" for Sully
and Potter counties. We understand
he will establish sub-agencies in por-
tons of his territory.
Farmers We prove up parties,
furnish money for final proof, and lend
money on improved farms. Our mot
to- Low RATES and plenty of security.
Address, John Sutherland, President !;
or, Dakota Loan & Trust Co., Pierre.
Our genial friend, Daniel Howe,
who has two fine claims north Of town,
returned to Clifton, from Iowa, where
he has been engaged map surveying
since last spring, yesterday morning.
Dan expects TO remain with us during
the fall and plant 10 acres of trees upon
his timber claim.
THAT prince of merchants, Willis
Parker, of Pierre, carries the largest
and finest stock OF Dry Goods, Boots,
Shoes, Notions, &c, of any house in
Central Dakota, and the remarkably
low prices at which he is selling is at
tracing an immense run Of patronage
1t will well repay those who have a
few dollars to invest to make a pill
grimage to Pierre from even a long
distance.
The Judge of Probate and Clerk
of Court have notified the land attor-
nays doing business in the county that
the fees for taking testimony in final
proof cases will he $500 for each and
every case in the future, the fees to be
paid before the proof papers are for
warded to the land Office. This is an
unexpected rise from 81 for proofs
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