The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-07-14

ship to town and occupy rooms in the
Sully Co. Bank building.
William Miller of Morton now oc
cupies the Shilling farm recently va.
Gated by ID. A. Arnold, who has moved
his herd to his fathers farm near
Blunt.
-Chas. H. Warncke of Goodwater
township, returned last week from a
visit to the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
He was in town Saturday relating his
experience.
.-Chas. W. Houck and daughter and
VIM. Reed and wife and daughter, all
of Norfolk, passed through town We'd
nesday en- route to the river in search
Of fruit and pleasure. .
The Baptists of this vicinity Or
ganized church society at the resi-
dence of D. @. Jordan last Saturday.
We understand that they contemplate
building church soon.
Geo. Vending, of Washington,
ILL.,, father Of Mrs. Lauritz Jenson of
Pennington, spent Monday and Tues
day in town. He is a former neighbor
of Carl Schwertfeger Of Hartford.
According to figures from the
Pierre land office there is 21 ,321 acres
of vacant Government land subject to
homestead entry in Sully county.
The most of 1t is very fine farm land.
-The late hail and wind storm a.
"molished H. E. Klmmel's barn on his
farm In Summit township, and damag-
ed his residence considerably, besides
scattering his wool clip over the prairie.
Monday evening the youhg
people of Onida and vicinity drove out
to the residence of j. M. Porter and
gave Harl a surprise. Ice cream and
cake were served and all report a
splendid time.
j. A. Lang of Harrison and Frank
Walker of Elk township, have recently
traded real estate for stock of dry
goods to Rock Rapids, Iowa, parties,
and will open store at Bowdle, Ed
munds- ,'::'----
During the storm on the 3rd inst
G.. G.. Howard Of Elk township had
some ribs broken by the falling in of a
barn In which he was milking at the
time. We have not heard of any one
else having bones broken.
i -S0me-et tthe~farmers report the
hailed wheat as Strengthening and
promising small yield. In the center
of the hail belts, however, there is no.
thing left to grow. In was completely
hammered out of existence.
Miss M. j. Scott and Mrs. W. j.
Johnston left the first of the week for
Madison, S. D., to attend the summer
meeting of the Chautauqua Society,
now in session at Lake Madison, one
of the prettiest resorts in the State.
-Launtz Jenson of Farmington was
brought before Justice Livingstone
Tuesday on the charge CT cruelty on a
warrant swore out by his wife. He
was bound over in the sum of 800 to
keep the peace. Married life with Mr..
Jenson-seemsto-Aaye been anything
but bed of roses.
IS. M. Shelter of Lincoln township,
is reported to have lost about 800 sheep,
mostly lambs, IN the heavy RAIN and
hail storm of last week Wednesday.
They were stunned by hail and drown
ed in a ravine overfowing with water.
Mr.. Shelters loss is a bad one to him
at this time.
<Our base ball team went down to
Bluntfss Saturday to entertain the
Bluntites Displaying game of bsn
with the club at That -plaeeAt the
end of the 9th inning the score stood
81 to 16 in favor of Onida. One week
from tomorrow the Blunt club will
play a return game in Onida.
When flies become troublesome in
a house they can always be expelled
by very simple mixture. A half
teaspoonful of black pepper, finely
ground, should be mixed with double
the quantity OF brown sugar, and the
compound be moistened with cream.
The flies will generally eat greedily of