The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-01-07
HOME HAPPENINGS.
Snow badly drifted.
-lSSs has 53 Sundays.

| -DHoW battiy uIh1eu.
-lS8s has 53 Sundays.
JAS. Howardson of Fairbank, was
in town Tuesday.
| The past has been week OF snow
storms and billiards..
Postmaster Tallman, of Carson,
made us call, Thursday.
Miss Cora Rickert's school at
FairEank closed on Friday of last week
Stage drivers now have hard roads
to travel. The snow drift is numerous.
Geo. w. Haight and III. w. Pick
ard spent Tuesday in Onida on contest
business.
Owing to the blizzard, Tuesday
the Blunt stage dld not proceed to
Fairbank.
Coal has taken another jump up
ward Hooking Valley is now $3.50
at Blunt.
VIM Dennis and wife, former resi-
dents of Clifton, will keep house for
Dan Adams.
There Is talk of holding an old
settlers meeting at the Carpenter
school house soon.
Jonas Olmstead has moved his
well machinery from ID. w. Cronan's
to the farm of Chas. W. Holmes near
Onida.
The railroads have been having
serious trouble with snow blockades in
Minnesota and Eastern Dakota the
past ten days.
The saloon-keepers In many Da-
kota counties swore-of and shut-up
shop January 1st. The late prohibl-
ton vote did 1T.
S. g. w. Stokes, of Goodwater tp.,
who has been spending several weeks
in Iowa and Nebraska, returned home
the first of the week.
Commissioner Mateer, of western
Sully, returned from visit to Mime
sofa last Friday. He spent nine hours
in snow blockade east of Huron.
Il. S. Rickert was appointed to the
Office of justice of the peace for Clifton,
vice \. J. Wasgatt resigned, Monday,
by the County Board, and has qualified.
The Clifton post-otiice was last
| week moved into the building one door
east of the WATcuMAN Office, where
Postmaster Rand also has his family
domiciled
We are sorry that it becomes our
duty to chronicle the death of Mrs. r.
J. McConkey, at the residence of her
husband, DIR. McConkey, near Okobojo,
on Sunday morning last.
Foster SAID the weather for the
first week in January would be much
warmer He, like many others of his
ilk, is proving himself to be a base
fraud. The past has been the most
disagreeable week of the winter.
| If those of our subscribers who
" turned over new leaf and resolved
to pay for their paper will call around
before they forget it and drop back
into their old habits, we will remember
them for whole year. Our exchequer
is becoming very much depleted.
Sheriff Bruner and Capt. B. Suth-
erland spent several days last week at
Gettysburg looking for stolen horse.
They found the horse, but their proof
was insufficient to warrant bringing le-
gol proceeding to recover the animal
1t was stolen near Spearfish, in the
Black Hills.
Money to Loan on real estate at
better than the best rates.
w. A. LYNCH,
Clerk of Court, Onida.
Last Sunday was the time appoint
ed for the annual election of officers of
the Union Congregational Sunday
School for the year 1888. After taking
three ballots for superintendent,
James Otis was elected. Wallace Lilly
for Assistant Superintendent, and Miss
Ella Toomey for Secretary and Treas
urer were elected by acclamation. The
reports showed an average attendance
of 80. The first death of any person
who has been a member of the Sunday
School, which has been running for Al