The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-01-28
HOME HAPPENINGS.

Wednesday.
Henry Potter visited Onida on
business, Monday.
County Treasurer Toomey is in
Illinois on business.
will Potter went to Fairbank on n
trading expedition, Tuesday.
Sheriff Bruner and Attorney McFall
spent Thursday and Friday at Onida.
Mrs. Sadie Stockton departed for
Pierre Thursday morning to visit
friends
B. =. Hoover, of Fairbank, passed
through town en- route to Blunt, this
morning.
The Onida Journal came out on
the half-shell last week It's out'ards
got stuck in the snow drifts somewhere.
A woman was lost and frozen to
death a short distance east of Norfolk,
in Hyde county, during the blizzard of
the 18th.
Robert j. Courtney closed sue
cessful term of school i'm the Matter
district, Llewellyn Park township, yes
terdav afternoon.
The social hop at the Carpenter
school house on Friday evening of last
week, was quite we'll attended and en-
joyed by all present.
A number of our people took ad-
vantage of the pleasant weather and
made trips to Blunt and Pierre to re-
plenish their coal bins.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs Frank NJ.
Chamberlain, of south Clifton, Wednes-
day, January 25, 1888, a daughter.
Mrs. DIR. Afiia Burns attended.
Miss Azelie Owen, of Carson, left
for Onida yesterday to begin prepara-
ton for opening the winter and spring
term of the school at that place.
Mrs. DIR. A. Burns, accompanied
by her son. A. ID. C. Ward, returned
from Miller to her farm IN Hartford tp.,
this week, to remain permanently.
The artesian well ut Gettysburg
has reached Il depth of ,225 feet and
no water yet 1t is doubtful If flow
will be found at less than 500 feet.
There was no one frozen to death
in Sully county during that memorable
blizzard ON the 18th but number are
reported rs having narrowly escaped.
+ Jake Schlarb, of Falrbank, passed
through town, Wednesday, en- route to
Stuart, Iowa, where he will remain
Mrs. Schlarb will follow in the spring
Harry Stockton captured two
wolves few days ago, and now has
their pelts drying and their scalps
ready to deliver To the County Clerk
for the 81 each bounty.
"A school house in Llewellyn Park
township, near Augusta, was burned
Wednesday afternoon. We have moi
learned how the fire originated. Miss
Cora Squirting was teaching the school
A. n Rickert and daughters, til,
Misses Cora and Mamie, arrived from
Fairbank, where they have spent the
winter, yesterday. They will remain
here visiting friends for Il few days be
fore taking their departure for Chicago
A large deposit of Ignite coal ha.
been found in the shaft ut Huron ut
depth OF about 30 feet 1t burns wei
and gives an immense heat, but tn,
miners care nothing for lignite-the,
are after coal and expect to find it at
depth of 800 feet Times.
M. Adams, writer IN the Blum
.4dUocate of last week, says the storm
of the 18th was tame affair compared
with blizzard that visited Hand coun
ty in March 1882. He says the dark
ness on that day was rs impenetrabl
at midday as if it had been midnight
and the bowling was terrible.
Harvey Gates, of Pearl township
went across the river one day last wee
|, To procure Il load of wood for fuel an,
was taken in charge by the Indian po
lice, who escorted him to Ft. Bennct
to account to the agent for purloinin.
wood from the reservation, and recciv
punishment for his otfense. He got o
with slight reprimand from the oil
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