The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-10-20

to sew for the Soldiers Home at Hot
Springs.
John Bradley of Okobojo, and F.
M. Bennett and James Pearman of
Little Bend, have been drawn as petit
Jurors for the term of the u. s. Court
to be held in Sioux Falls, commencing
November 21st.
Miss M. j. Scott left Tuesday
morning for Chicago to visit the Worlds
Fair. She will attend the Y. P. S. G.
E. State convention at Sioux Falls, as
a delegate from the Onida Society, be-
fore returning home.
County Superintendent of Schools,
Mrs. V. M. McFall, and Mrs. D. W.
Cronan of Clifton township, departed
for the Worlds Fair Tuesday morning.
Mrs. McFall will visit friends in Wis
consin and Mrs. Cronan will visit in
New York before returning home.
The South Dakota Presbyterian
Synod has approved the location of the
University at Pierre. During the past
year Huron and Aberdeen have worked
hard to secure the removal of the Col
lege from Pierre, but the question is
now settled.
-Hakan Person of Lewiston was
in town Monday, accompanied by Mr..
Nelson, of Dunbar, Nebraska, a brother
Of the late Mrs. p. w. Pearson of Lew
lston, who came to make some arrange
ments for the care Of the orphan chill
dren.
Fred A. Bill of Hot Springs, Ark,
and father, Capt. E. G. Bill of Winona,
Mimi, have been visiting Hon. Thomas
Mateer and family at the Park Farm,
in Llewe]lyn Park township, the past
week. The former Is a brother-in-law
of Mr.. Mateer.
WIN. Toomey, L. E. Snyder, A. A.
Faust and Ed. Toomey composed a
hunting party that visited the west end
in search of chickens last Saturday.
When they arrived at Fairbank they
were joined by Treasurer Johnston.
All returned we'll pleased with the trip
and brought with them an abundance
of game.
The M. E. Conference which met
at Brookings appointed Rev. M. Ash
to take charge Of the Onlda circuit the
coming year. Rev. R. l.. DeGolier
goes to Warner, Brown county, and
Presiding Elder Bradford, who has
had charge of the Huron District dur
ing the past four years, has been sta
toned at Mitchell.
Dan Adams met with a serious
accident last Saturday evening. While
coming out of Blunt with a load of
household good belonging to Fred
Boyer, he drove upon the new railroad
grade in such way as to overturn
his wagon upon himself, resulting in a
broken shoulder blade, from the effects
Of which he Is now suffering.
The patrons of the TurIey post
office have not been receiving their
mail regularly of late. The office re-
Gently changed hands and was taken
by Mr.. Landau, the new postmaster,
to his home, but as the mail carrier
has not been ordered to leave the mail
at the new location he carries it by to
Kaspar on his trip up and back to
Blunt on his return. This state of af.
fairs will not long exist.
Last Saturday evening as T. M.
Summons was going from Okobojo to
Blunt, in company with a young lady,
travelling at pretty good gait, he ran
his team into a wire fence recently
built across the old angling Clifton and
Blunt road, resulting In the killing of
one horse, crippling Of the other and
overturning the buggy. In jumping
from the buggy Mr.. Simmons so badly
fracturing one Of his feet, that he will
be laid up for some time from the in
jury. The young lady, we understand
escaped uninjured. Having lost their
bearings by the accident the couple
wandered around on the prairie
searching for house and finally came
to the residence of D. w. Cronan,
where they remained over night. The
team belonged to j. L. Eichholtz, the