The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1889-04-06
Mrs. j. Ii. Echelberger, of Fair

h"o'''ia s'' 81 Aat ~ iathii1 VA saANh@a
to mourn her loss.
DR.. Pease has been engaged to
board a party of Minneapolis gentle
men, who will soon be here for the
purpose of plating IN addition to the
town site of Carson.
Now is the time to get in your
work on the gophers. Lay them out
while preparing the ground for crops,
and your bother and loss will hereafter
be materially diminished.
Now is the time to buy spring
clothing, and John d. Hilger & Co.,
the Pierre clothiers, have the largest
and only complete stock west of Hur-
on. They also sell at prices to suit
the purchaser.
Don't forget that April 24th is
Arbor day for South Dakota. Prepare
yourself to set out trees and thereby
leave some evidence that you have
done your little mite to change the
boundless prairie into n blooming fer
est.
At the teachers examination at
Onida, this week, fourteen applicants
for pedagogical honors were seeking
authority to teach the young shoot
how to idea. Supt. Porter informs us
that if all the applicants receive certi-
ticates the county will still be short of
teachers.
MIR. NJ. G. Pershing, of Okobojo
township, carries cane which his
father cut from hickory tree the day
that Andrew Jackson was elected
president, in 1923. This is undoubt-
edly the Oldest cane in the county and
probably in the territory, and MI
Pershing not only prizes it as q mo-
mento of his father but of 'Old Hick-
ory" also.
The Sully County Farmers ALI
ance met in Onida Saturday last
Owing to rain the meeting was not
very well attended Resolutions were
passed denouncing the Binding Twine
Trust recently formed by the Twine
Manufacturers, and declaring that the
Alliance would use no twinc during
the season of lSS9-unless it can be
bought at reasonable prices-but
would devise other means of harvest
ing their grain. The farmers certainly
have this branch of business in their
own hands and, united can control it.
Alliances in other states have recently
passed similar resolutions.
With this issue the WATcHMAN
closes the sixth year of its existence
Settling down upon the Dakota pra-
rie six years ago it has witnessed the
ups and downs of this Paradise Of
the Peri. Though not exactly nur-
tured in the lap of pampered luxury,
the WATCHMAN, during It's infancy,
has had Its share of this worlds goods
and has no grounds of complaint.
While thanking its many friends for
favors past it hopes by renewed efforts
to make itself deserving Of future
patronage, and, believing that Sully
has bright future, will continue to
camp on her verdant soil and uphold
the principles which have been its
beacon stars for the period just closed.
We clip from the Blunt 1dcocdte
the following notice of the death of
Jonas Oleson's children, at that place
Mr. Oleson was former resident of
Pearl township, this county.
DIED: At Blunt, on Saturday,
March 22nd, 1899; Katie, the six
year old daughter of Jonas Oleson.
DIED: At Blunt, on Monday, March
25th, 1880, George, son of Jonas Ole
son. aged five years.
1t is with feelings of sadness that we
are called upon to chronicle the death
of the little ones named above; these
being the last children lett to Mr.. and
Mrs Olcson, Oscar, their eight year
old boy, having died less than two
weeks before. Their death was caused
bs ~ome lung trouble complicated
with the measles Thus is once
happy home made desolate by the
early demise of these little ones. The
friends of the grief stricken parents
unite in extending their heartfelt SYM
pathy in this, the hour of their terrible
Iatiiictio", and while some are tempted