The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-12-22
HOME HAPPENINGS.

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will be Christmas.
Miss Belle Beedle has returned
to her home near Okobojo.
-OnIda is bound to keep to the
front. The latest is lawn tennis
club.
There will be an oyster supper
and a good time at Onida, Christmas
eve.
Register of Deeds-elect N. w.
Porter and family are now residents
of Onida.
"A herd of $50 cattle were re-
Gently dehorned by Duncan Gray of
eastern Sully.
"A. j. Lakin last Monday dehorned
eighteen head Of cattle for Andrew
McFall of this place.
-Irv. Rickert and John Blaisdell
visited FITS. Bennett and Sully this
week with load of produce.
In case the direct tax bill be-
comes law, Dakota's share of the
fund will be little more than $4,000.
The shortest days of this year are
come and gone and the daily portion
of sunshine will increase for the next
six months.
-Copp is soon to be without a
paper, arrangements having been made
to remove the Blizzard from that
place to Lebanon.
The Huronite reports potato dig
ging yet In progress in the Jim river
valley, with no indication of harm to
the tubers, by frost.
The fall term of school in the
Starks district, Onlda township, Miss
Gala Case teacher, closed Wednesday.
Miss Case has gone to Illinois to re-
side.
w. Z. Garner, of Onida township,
whose residence was recently burned,
has purchased the A. w. Bartlett
house, in Summit township, and moved
it to his farm.
L. c. Weyand. former merchant
at Onida, is now located and engaged
In company with his brother-in
the mercantile business at Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
IS. G. W. Stokes, of Goodwater
township, lost valuable yearling colt
from imported stockton Monday
night last. 1t was tied up in the sta
bles at night and found choked to
death next morning.
The Pierre Indian school is at
last to become reality. The plans
and specifications have been forward
ed and an immediate appropriation of
s25, 900 to be supplemented by much
larger appropriations in the future,
1t is not likely that active work will
begin on the building before spring,
as winter is too near at hand to ac-
complish much this season.
There are many places in the coun-
try which seem dry, when the water
comes within two feet of the top of
the ground and is prevented from COM
ing to the surface by the upper soil.
1t would be well for the farmer who
has draw on his land to dig trench
across it and thus find out if there is
any water there. We know of two
quarters in l10-7s where living water
was found in this way, one of which
has developed into the finest spring in
the township, and is steadily during
the dry time running at the rate of
100 measured barrels Of water per
day.-Pierre Free Press.
Arrangements have been compile
ted by the efforts of our efficient
teacher, Mrs. Harpold, to give the
people of Clifton and vicinity Christ
mas tree entertainment next Monday
evening The tree will be arranged
in the school house, and the literary
entertainment has been changed for
next week to that night instead of the
night of the regular meeting. All
presents intended for distribution
at the tree should be delivered to the
committee, at the school house Mon
day forenoon. The literary exercises
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