The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1885-04-25
HOME HAPPENINGS.
ID. w. Cronan has invested in an

other cow.
Tom Phillips has sold his white
pony 10 W. r. Burton.
Butter begins to wear tinge of
gold and flavor Of fresh grass.
The young grass has already
made growth of three to five inches
in many places.
WIN. Walter, who has been stop
ping at Pierre, is now with his son, the
senior of the WATcHMAN.
There are nineteen pupils in At
tendance at the Clifton public school,
with one or two more to come in a few
days.
Buffalo bones are illegal tender"
in many sections of Dakota, and nu-
merous coal dealers swap coal for
them, even up, ton for ton.
A good many fence-posts and
barbedwire is coming into this section,
indicating that some of our farmers
intend fencing in pasture lots for their
stock.
Tom Phillips returned from Min
nesota. last week, with some 45 or 80
head of fine streers, which, together
with those he already had, will make
him fine herd.
B. 7. Hoover came within nine
tenths Of cent per pound of getting
the contract to supply the troops at
Fort Sully with beet, at the letting the
first of the week
DR. J. G. Baldwin, who came from
Minnesota this week, says he is sur
prised to see farming so far advanced
in Dakota, as little or nothing has been
done back in Minnesota, where the snow
banks are still piled up.
We wish to warn all liverymen or
private individuals in want of Buggies.
Spring, Delivery or Farm Wagons that
they should not purchase before in
specting the full line of these goods on
hand at Warner Bros. Pierre. 81
Many of our farmers are coming
to the conclusion that barley is good
crop to raise, and quite an acreage
will he sown in this section. A num-
ber of fields were raised last year, and
proved conclusivelv that it will do
well on our soil
-Apropos to the theory In regard
TO the cultivation of the soil increas-
ing the annual rainfall, a gentleman
remarked to us the first of the week
that he lived in Minnesota for five
years when the country was new be-
fore he saw any such a rain as we were
then having
Mrs. Roberta A. yesey departed
for her old home in Indiana on Mon
day last Owing to the poor manage
ment and recklessness of the Doctor.
her stay in Clifton has not been the
pleasantest, though our people did all
they could under the circumstances
to make it so, for which she expressed
herself as very grateful.
&C. NJ Henry has bought lot on
our main business street below Pot
ter's store, and will at once commence
the erection of building to be occu-
pied by himself as Il harness shop.
Mr.. Henry has had many years Of ex-
perience, and this new addition to our
business will be found great conven-
ience
The Dickover House, Blunt, will
hereafter keep all residents of Sully,
Potter and Walworth counties for 81
per day. The Dckover sets the best
table of any hotel in Blunt 2t
For REST-13 acres of breaking on
sec q, ISIS Will take breaking,
in payment for rent Address
Miss EpPIE MCMILLAN, Pierre.
The highest cash price paid for
Sully County Warrants at the Dakota
Central Bank East Pierre, ID. T. ~
Farmers that are in need of Seed
ers, Drills, Pulverizers, two horse and
hand corn planters, Plows, Ilarrows,
or in fact anything needed on the farm
should not fail to call on Warner Bros,
at Pierre or Blunt. 81
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