Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-02-16
Official Paper of Griggs County
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1e, 1888.
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.

-NOulo W
-Cooperstown,
The County Seat, and
The Future Great of the
Grand Golden Garden of Griggs.
-Thos. Chapman, the veteran mason
arrived at the 'sHub'' again Thursday.
The snow fall of Minnesota is au-
thentically reported to be fully double
that of Dakota.
Good fresh fish from the Sheyenne
river on the bills of fare at the various
bachelor halls this week.
Song service at p. m. Sunday even
ing at the Merrill House, to be followed
by preaching. All invited.
Architect Philippe went to Hope
Wednesday to close the contract for the
erection of block of stores.
MIR. Upton, of Marde IL, will be asso-
ciated with Sheriff johnson in the meat
market enterprise soon to be established
here.
Landlord Merrill very wisely proposes
to have cellar under his new bakery
and restaurant, frost or no frost, and has
letthejob of excavating to Smith & Kuhn.
The noble-hearted christian people of
Cooperstown have been holding nightly
prayer meetings this week at Mr.. j. N.
Browns residence on Meadow Brook
farm.
DIR. G. L. Virgo and wife arrived in
the capitol city Wednesday to remain.
Until store can be erected the doctor
will open his drug stock in Mr.. Melville's
building on the Boulevard.
One of our local lady literateurs has
has favored the COURIER with some
splendid verses that neither pertain to
snow or spring. Owing to crowded COL
umns they are held until next week.
The Board of County Commissioners
met at the clerks Office yesterday Thurs
day. and transacted quite grist of busi-
ness, full quorum being present. Pro-
ceedings of the meeting will be published
next week.
The adv. of our new meat market.
Which will be found on page eight. has
the correct ring to it, and it is evident
Messrs. Upton & johnson to please the
public. if variety. prices and courteous
ness will do it.
Track laying on the Sanborn 4 Coop
erstoWn railway has been postponed I'M
til spring, the end of the grade having
been reached. Trains run out with sup
plies, freight and passengers regular. 1t
is about twelve miles from Cooperstown
to the track.
The COURIER was pleased to receive
as callers last Monday Mrs. r. C. Cooper
and Mrs. j. N. Brown. Our den, unfor-
tunately for our pride, had not yet been
swept and brushed up that day, so the
ladies are hardly prepared to Judge of us
as tidy housekeepers.
Little Herbert Langford, son of our
respected farmer friend S. B. Langford,
who had the misfortune to have his leg
broken last Saturday while coasting, is
doing well under careful treatment. An
account of the sad affair by one who was
there can be found on another page.
Sheriff johnson has appointed as his
deputy guardians Of the peace for Griggs
county H. H. Hosford, of Hope, and B.
A. Upton, of Cooperstown. They are
both men Of unflinching nerve, and will
never waiver from duty through fear or
favor, and their appointment reflects
credit upon the good judgement of our
sheriff.
just as we are about to go to press
the positive information that Boyum s.
Holland, a well-known agricultural i'm
plement firm of Mayville, are to establish
a house here reaches us through no less
a reliable channel than Mr.. Holland him
self. Mr.. H. has fairly been captured
with the beauty Of the county, which he
has just traversed, and says he will at
once begin shipping in plows, wagons,
etc.