The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-05-23
HOME HAPPENINGS.
Corn is coming up.

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H. II. Butts returned from a trip
to Pierre, Thursday.
Pierre is expecting to have a
"lager" brewery this summer.
Remember the Temperance meet
ing at the Christian College to morrow.
We learn that Dan Howe. who left
us last fall, is map surveying in
Iowa.
Fred Bonsey put some cotton
woods out on his CLAIM southeast Of
town, Monday.
j. A. Meloon and II. W. Edgerton
visited us, Sunday, and attended ser
vices at the Christian College.
Pierre will send "team to the
South Dakota Fireman's Tournament
at Sioux Falls June 23. ~ ard %.
-Nels o. Herred and Henry Essel-
brugge left for the Black Hills, Thurs
day, via Pierre, where they will load
with freight.
As near as we can learn there are
now l5 organized Sunday schools in
Sully county. with several more to soon
be established.
The Potter County Republican,
published at Davidson, has suspended,
and the plant is to be removed to some
railroad town-said to be Blunt.
Capt J. 3. LaBarge, an old steam
boat-man, dropped dead in the pilot
house of the steamer Helona, Saturday,
while it was laying at the Pierre levee.
Joseph kokcsh was kicked on the
leg by a mule which he was shoeing,
Thursday, and quite seriously bruised
so to make him walk awful
proud.
Our senior and his father have put
out four miles of trees around their
tree claims and sowed thickly in drills
$50 rods of box elder seeds, some of
which were sprouting.
Prot. Black of the Christian Col
lege, informs us that physician is en-
route from Missouri to locate at Clifton.
accompanied by his family. He will
be given cordial welcome
Owing to tine Superior advantages
aud adaptability to the soil of this To-
cality the Casaday Sulky Plow now has
all the trade. You can buy these celc-
brated plows only of Warner Bros,
Pierre or Blunt. Aft
The pestifereus gopher is again
getting in its work on the newly plant
ed corn ground, though many report
them not as numerous as last season.
An untiring war should be waged on
them with poison and the shotgun.
Cleveland has written Gov. Pierce
that she regrets the necessity of en-
forcing the order vacating the Winnie
bago reservation AS much as To say
that he will do so If the settlers do not
vacate. The Governor
asks them las favor to vacate peace
ably.
The Walter A. Wood Harvester
and Binder is the only machine that
has a successful Bundle Carrier and
this attachment is great gain and
labor saving invention. Sold only by |
Warner Bros, Pierre and Blunt
Irwin $. Rickert and A. S. Tobias,
who have been engaged securing water
for the thirsty Highmoreites-and sue
,eeded so well rs heretofore noticed
have been spending few days with
their old Clifton friends, but expect to
return TO llighmore the first OF next
week, where other well-work will en-.
gage their attention.
Some of the farmers near the Wes- |
,ington Hills have discovered large |
numbers of grass-hoppers in the old |
grass, and advise burning it over to kill
hem, guarding the fires closely. Have
he farmers of Sully county discovered
the little pests in numbers sufficient to
promise any serious damage? We
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