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TIE EULL7 CCTOTT WATCHMAN.
Published Kverj Saturday,
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WALTER & OROPFAGIESER,
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$2 Per Year, in Advance.
"OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate in Congress—J. H. Raymond.
Governor—N. Orilwty
Set ret ary—J. II Teller.
Treasurer—W. H. McVsy.
Auditor—George L. Ordwaj.
Surveyor General—Corte/. Fessenden.
Superintendent of Public instruction—
W. II. II Beadle.
Chief Justin- of Supreme Court—Alonzo
J. Kd^erton.
Associate Justice* of the Supreme Court
—Wm. E. J. Church,
J.
P. Kidder. i$. B.
Hudson.
United States District Attorney—llugli
J. Campbell.
United iStnten Marshal—Harrison Allen.
SI LLY COUNTY.
Commissioners.—(J J. MilleU, 8r B. P.
Hoover. N. H. Yninp.
Sheriff—(J. J. MilleU, Jr.
Treasurer—Charles Afar.
Coroner—I)r. A. Stevens.
Surveyor—William Aihley JoDM.
Assessor—Orr \V L«-e.
Clerk of Court—II. \V. Ediferton.
Jtld eT)f Probate—Merit Sweeney.
Superintendent of Sriioula—Davlil
pies. y
lie sinter of Deeds and Ex Offlcio
carefully
Couhty
Clerk. J. A. Melonn.
Justices of the I'eare—Win. I'. Ito^, G.
W. Everts. P. K- ily, D. D. Bryant
Constables—Henry W. Spra^ue. Gebrge
Bowers, (leu. H. lVa.se.
CLIFTON HOUSE,
WM. P.
ROSS. Proprietor,
CMI'TIIY DAKOTA.
Flint-clans aeeonuundations.
aonable. Livery in ('onneetion.
Hates rea
tt
JESSE M. SPOON'RR.
Contractor and Builder,
PI iRRI. DaaOTA.
Parties who eontemplatc the erection of
buildings, either in town or country. would
do well to ret my figures. Estimat* s furn
ished on short notice. 13-ihn
wwm. P. KOSSp
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I O N 1
Transacts a general
Land Business.
Locating a Specialty.
Office at t'lifton xvi
S. H. NEAL,
Attorney
11 Law. and
hi, Lou ui tavun Agent,
CLIFTON. DAKOTA.
GSA1TT & ROBERTS. Huron, D. T.
Cmitest-
prosecuted. Final
Proufs made $,"0,000 in Loan on Fi
nal Proofs. Some excellent claim* on
hand. l7-im
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Whiu-
aSSHN, RA"D3LPH I WHITE,
Attorneys and Counselors nt Law and
La & Loan Agents,
BU NT, DAKOTA,
With offices at Blunt and Huron, are
^Mjccially prepared to do prompt and care
ful work in Laud matters before the
U. S. Lund Office. Q60t000i" Loan
on Sully county Final Pro..t- See them.
n i K O Y K K O S K
S.E. DJCKOVER, Proprietor,
BLUNT, DAK.
Headquarters for all Stage
north itnd northwest.
Linen for
the
Good
hath
rooms
in connection with house.
TIIK KIKST CI.ASM HOTEL or TIIK TOWN.
E. 1'. WKSTOVER,
hi Estile iti lois Agent,
BLUNT, DAKOTA.
Final l*Pofs attended to. Locate par
ties on lands in Hugh's, Sully, and ad
joining counties.
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\t. M. CRAIIAM, l'rwrt. A *. LDKBM, Cashier.
BANK of BLUNT
BLI .NT, 1 A K »T V
TkAMIACT A UkKKKAI. liAJtKIJfO BCIISIW.
Refer by permission to I'nion National
Hank, Hacine. WK Hon. Wm. Lyon,
'Associate Justice Supreme Court, Madison,
Wis. Hon. It. A. Maxwell. State Treas
urer of New York. Albany, N. Y. xvi
0. N.
HAWLEY AGO..
W
o'-estile and Ret.ill De ilersia
Groceries, FroTisisns, Crockery, Glut-
ware, Cigars and Tcbacc-B.&c.,
HUNT, DAKOTA.
By selling good goods nt .small profits
and"bv
fnir dealing, we hope to merit the
confidence and esteem of our patrons and
friends. Call and see us. augli jr
HOME HAPPEN INCS.
—Blunt has a lady physician.
—Money to Loan by O. W. Lee, Clif
ton.
—Carl Werner, of Blunt, was in
town, Monday.
—J. A. White, the stirring land
agent of Blunt, was in town -proving
'em up," Monday.
—Now is a good time to buy your
coal—provided, always, that you have
the money to do it with.
—B. I*. Hoover has been building a
new barn at his ranch adjoinging town,
this week, Fred Beyer bossing the
job.
—John Deveny returned, Monday
evening, from Brookings, and is look
ing after his claim and cussing be
cause he cannot prove up.
—Moat of the weather prognostica
tors fore-tell a inild and comfortable
winter. Much obliged. That is the
kind we are longing for.
—With letter postaigeonly two cents
the lmys can a/ford to remember
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the
girl I left behind :ne." often, until they
bring her out intiir sprin
(JjiXfV \V. Leo to get money on
RiafdProofs.
—IX C. Nicnt, of Chicago, was in
Clifton, Monday, to record the deed of
the plat of Fair Bunk, a new town on
the river in the western part of Sully
county—sec. 8,115-80.
Many homesteaders are nowjaiM"
ing on their liim\jixttorrrTT~muw spring.
an?t eTCT5HTme one goes out into the
country new improvements greet the
eye.
C^^Tlie first Lax paid in Sully county
was
handed in,Tuesday, by Charles
Nu^toon, (if section 10/113-78, $4.!1.
The next lucky man
was
W. Harvey
»ri„ p.. ir.nin.^.i.n'
—The |eople who live back in the
frigid zones of the Eastern Suites are
to be eoinmiserat**!. Come out and
bask in the genial rays of the Dakota
sun and breathe our balmy and health
giving atmosphere.
—The soldier boys at Fort sully
are now cutting their winter supply rf
wood, each company cutting 125 eon Is.
(i uess the boys wont hurt themselves,
as each mail is only required to cut
half a cord, each.
—A custom flouring mill is some
thing greatly demanded in this section
some place where feed can lie ground
to onler, and the man or company put
ting such an enterprise into operation
will unquestionably reap a lionanza.
—The tax-l»ook foj- Sully county u
now in the hands of Deputy Trcasurei
J. A*. Meloon. Though not strictly
due until Nov. 1st, all parties who de
sire to pa}- can do so at auy time and
get their receipt therefor. There an
doubtless some who are intending to
leave who will be glad to avail them
selves of the opportunity, as it will
avoid the |xssibility of their Iteing re
turned as delinquents while away.
—If there were .a few tenement
houses in Clifton to rent at reasonable
figure, there is no question but what a
nutnlier of fumilies would move in to
town for the purpose of schooling their
children this winter but many who
would like to do so are unable to buy
lots and go to the expense of putting
up a building suitable to pmtect them
from the cold. Is there any one who
will look after the matter
—Some!
ly fan us. The diction
with which the l'ierre Signal allegori
cally ascends the most altisonous rhe
torical amplification of a subject takes
our breath. Hear it: It is not every
man that has the sand to talk sand.
But sand, its component parts, quick
sand, and its relative bearings are
themes of geological deduction that
are creating argumentative discussions
upon the relative merits of an under
current, or subtratum flow in the pots
dam sandstone of a late de|xsit, over
lying the primitive or fundamental
!ed-rock of silurian, lime aud slate
which formed a contact vein, of which
the mighty Missouri took advantage.'
All kinds of blanks printed st this
olUce. Leave your onler.
Viwuwasiwi
(J.
VOLUME I. CLIFTON, SULLY COUNTY, DAKOTA, SATURDAY, OCTOBKR M, 1883. NUMBKR 26.
—John Blaisdell returned from a
trip to Ft. Sully, Monday.
—O. W. Lee will write up your pa
pers and loan you money on final pnof.
—Thomas J. Wolff, Esq., of Pierre,
was in Clifton on business, Monday.
Fred Oaring, a dairyman at Fort
Sully, sjMmt the first part of the week
in town.
—K. F. Whitman and Frank R.
Colburn left for their old home at
Belvidere, III., on Wendesday.
—Itev. Henrv Truro Bray, of sec. 5,
112-78, and B. F. Summy, of sec. 29,
113-78, were in town, Tuesday.
—Snow has visited Muine, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, but fine fall
weather still prevails in this section of
Dakota.
—The Fort Sully soldier boys won
two out of the four prizes at the re*ent
Fort Snelling shooting tournament.
Good for the boys.
—Notwithstanding Huron and Pierre
parties have shut down, County Clerk
J. A.'•Meloon is still lending money
on Final Proofs..
—All the wheat we have heard of
being marketed in this part of Dakota
^Hdetl NO. 1 hard. That's the kind
we phnxse to raise.
—o\\ Warden, George G. Ware
and Geo.i A. Warden, of Clearwater,
spent Jwnday night in Clifton and
proved/tip, Tuesday
^-^Ve notice that a good many
through the country are banking up
their shacks. Good idea, for it is get
ting time to look for cold weather.
—The price on both coal and lum
seems to be gradually advancing,
atml those who will have to buy will
hjubtless save money by doing it at
tlieir earliest convenience.
-'Parties desiring money with which
to prove up should notify us at least
ten datys previous to day of proving up.
IIoOVKR & ElMlKRTON.
—The soldier IK»VS at Fort Sully
raised some sujerb garden truck" tlm
summer, each company tilling a patch
•separately. John Blaisdell brought
us over an 8-pound beet, grown by
Company "E." Altogether the IH»VS
ifrew some
400
bushels of the finest of
potatoes, said to average newly a
pound, each.
—Our senior had the pleasure of
spending last Sabbath evening and
night at the hospitable home of County
Commissioner
J. Millett, Sr., and
his genial wife. Mr. Millett is pleas
antly located on the Missouri river
on
what is known as the island,' at the
mouth of the (kobojo, with plenty of
jjood waiter, plenty of timlterand a rich
alluvial soil. He has .'JO acres cleared
of tiinlier and under fence and a good
state of cultivation, from which some
of the finest cereal and vegetable pn
1 actions of the country has been grown.
Heaps of the finest melons, squashes,
onions, eabbaiges, turnips, beets, &c„
were lying amutul in profusion, and
ye quill bore away a whole load as
trophies of his visit. Mr. Millett is a
valuable gentleman to have in our
county, not only in his oflicial cajwicity
of County Commissioner, in which po
sition he has show n rare judgment and
unswerving integrity, but in the
pursuit of agriculture, in which he
brings to bear both long and valuable
experience and successful exjierimeiits.
New varieties of vegetables, grains,
fruits, &e., aud the Ijest methods for
their culture, are given careful study
and experiments, and the results are
something which we can all profit by.
Mr. Millett has an almost unluniUHl
numlter of fine cottonw»od, and willow
trees, besides evergreens, box-alders,
&t\, which he is selling very cheap.
Teachers' Examination.
A Teachers' Examination will l»e
held at Clifton, on Tuesday, October
23,1883. 1). STAPLES, Supt.
School Convention.
There will
be Ii Convention
of the new
school township officers of Sully county,
held nt t'lifton on Saturday. Oct. 27. lHs.
at 1 o'clock, a.m., for the purpose of ad
vising together in regard to the udoption
of school hooks any furniture.
I),
STAIM.KS. Superintendent.
—October's as pleasant as May.
—Whnat is bringing about 75 cents
per bushel.
—We predict that the festive rattler
will be aliout exterminated this seaisoii.
—The Forest City Press editor litis a
potato weighing 4 pounds and 2 ounces.
Next?
—Andrew McFall is getting material
on the ground for his residence in Clif
ton.
—Henry W. Edgerton, Clerk of the
District Court, paid a business visit to
Hunm this week.
—Ira N. Jones,of Owattonna, Minn.,
has been looking after his claim east
of town, this week.
—W. If. Cornell of section 23. a
couple of miles southeast of Clifton
has finished a well at 30 feet with five
(feet of good water.
—Our Rattlesnake William is on
the war path again. M. M. Kenny
heads him ofr by recently slaughtering
his sixth rattler.
-Final Proofs made by 0. W. Lee,
Notary Public.
—For good reliable Final Proof work
call on S. II. Neal, attorney, Clifton,
He will lend you money at reasonable
rates.
School Convention.
As will be seen by notice, elsewhere,
a convention of the township school
ltoanls of Sully county has been called
to meet at Clifton two weeks from to
day, Oct. 27, 1883. The object of the
meeting is to take intelligent and uni
ted action upon the adoption of text
books and school furniture for the
schools of the county. There has lieett
long studies of improvement in both
books and Airnit tire for the convenience
and health tf children since the school
days of the men and women of to-day.
The books that we used to study have
Income obsolete and behind the times,
while the old w»»oden benches without
backs upon which we used to sit, so
high that our feet would not touch the
floor, would do for torture in the days
of inquisition. Su|er:ntendent Staples
has a uumlier of series of text-lxoks
and some school furniture, and we also
have three or four sets of books ait this
ofllce, while it is exjeeted that other
school officers will have samples for
imqicction at said convention, so that
the united wisdom of the many may
be bn»ught to bear in selecting the
!est for the schools of the county.
The best figures obtainable from the
publishers of books and manufacturers
of furniture will le obtaired, so that
in the long run many hundreds, and,
|Hrhaps, thousands of dollars may le
saved, to the people, for if the same
lxoks and furniture are adopted the
publishers and manufacturers can af
f'onl to give us belter prices than if the
same were purchased here ami there in
township quantities, and a uniformity
l»e had in all the schools. We hojH.' to
not only see every elected school ofll
tier, but every |)erson interested in the
success and progress of our schools,
present at this convention. Turn out
and devote a day to this important
matter aind the little ones will rise up
and call you blessed.
BOSTON. MASS., October2.—A heavy
storm of rain aud snow has prevailed
in Eastern Vermont for the last twelve
hours. Freight cars coming from
Northern to Central Vermont are cov
ered with snow. Rain is very much
needed. Springs and streams are low
er than before for twenty years. Cora
ami jM)tatocs are badly affected by the
drouth, and the apple cnp will }c near
ly a failure thnmghout the Staite. The
heavy rain is quite general thmughout
New England. At St. Johnsbury the
weight of the snow damaged apple trees
and telegraph [tolcs.
MORAL:—Come to Dakota where we
have almost perennial fine weather.
THK death of Jefferson P. Kidder,
of the Dakota Supreme Bench and
Judge of the 4th Judicial District,
which occurred last week, is mourned
by all Dakotaians.
WA NTKI.—I want to trade a yoke of
oxen aind a pair of |»onies for a driving
team of young American horses. For
particulars inquire at once at WATCH
MAN office, Clifton.
G. J. MiLLrrr, St.
S. P. HOOVER,
Parties
This space l»elongs to Hayden Bros.,
Pierre, Dsikota, but they are so busy
unpackinga and marking down to the
lowest possible figure the largest and
most
complete stock nf
DRY GOODS
ever brought to the Territory, that they
have no time to prepare an aidv until
next week. In the interim don't buy
a cent's worth of anything until you
have given them a call.
Hoover & Edgerton,
Money Loaned on Final Proofs.
INSURANCE ON FARM PROPERTY.
Improvements made on Tree Claims and Taxes Paid
for Non-Residents.
Collections Made.
PLATS CORRECTED TO LATEST MAILS,
de«iring money wub which to prove up ahoulti
previous to day of proving up.
MR. HOOVER, having been a resident of 8wlly county for seven ywm, Mi
familiar with all lands in Sully ami Potter counties, is well prepared to do
locating.
REFERENCE:-FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
ANlHinm.VS' HANK.OF I'IKKRK
EDMUNDS,HUD
SON & CO., HANKKKS, YANKTON, D. T.
H. W. EDOKETON,
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