Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-10-05
THE COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
BY Ed. ID. STAIR.
Official Paper Of Griggs County

Official Paper Of Griggs County
LOCAL LAcoN1cS.
-First-class time of the year to catch
colds.
Winter has no terrors for stove deal
ers and coal men.
Let's see, did Dakota have an equi-
noctial storm? Guess not.
Joseph Aliens cottage on the Boule-
ward, is up and enclosed.
EBoys don't forget to get box of
that choice candy at Whidden Bros
Business is booming at the lumber
yard and Manager Crane finds himself
hard pressed to keep the stock full.
Boards are now the rage in Coopers-
town, and the faces Of our male popula-
tion present pubescent appearance.
The school house stoves not having
arrived church services were held at Mr..
w. r. Whidden' 8 last Sunday evening.
The largest days threshlng we have
heard mentioned this season was 1850
bushels of oats, on the Peter Fiero farm.
The first rain in this county since
threshing commenced descended last
night, and was welcomed by the thirsty
earth.
The public land sold this year in
Dakota to private persons aggregates
twenty-seven times the eacreage of Rhode
Island.
"A Chatauqua reading circle has been
organized in this place, and the society
have the full complement Of literature
to start with on hand.
DIR. Newell has about seventy acres
ready for crop on section IL, and another
year will find him horny handed gran
ger with No. Hard to sell.
"A prairie fireon Wednesday swooped
in and threshed out three stacks of wheat
for Chas. Mosley, of town 145, range 60.
Grain lost, about 800 bushels.
We buy anything and sell every
ing over our stock of General Merchan-
disc. Odegard and Thompson.
1T is gratifying to know that the
new two-cent stamp is popular. and that
congress will not be criticised for the
passage Of the cheap postage bill.
Artist Myers is embellishing the ex-
terror Of the Courier building with his
little paint brush, and we feel ever so
much prettier since he put our first coat
on.
j. H. Montgomery has leased A. n.
Adams place and will soon move to
town for the winter. Mrs, Montgomery.
we are informed, will take few board
ers.
@Fine line Of fresh confectionery at
Odegard & Thompson's.
N. L. Lehman came up yesterday
for peaceful nights rest on a Palace
bed, and to take squint at the extern
sive interests of his corporation in this
place.
Work on the engine house of the g.,
G. & T. NJ. Railway was commenced
last Tuesday. The structure will be
Sexe0 and is being erected just south of
the elevator.
The telegraph construction force
commenced stringing wire Wednesday,
and average six or seven miles Of line
per day. They will be at Sanborn to-
morrow or Monday night.
SOdegard s. Thompson have re-
ceived the largest stock Of Ladies' and
Gents Furnishing Goods ever brought
to the county, land don't you forger it!'
MIR. Peter Nelson, now chief man at
the establishment of Nelson & I.anglie,
has been ''up to his ears in work. this
week receiving new goods. and he says low
prices shall rule henceforih IN Coopers-
town.
Christian Johnson, living a dozen
miles northwest of town, in atussle with
refractory heifer had his shoulder badly
dislocated, last Saturday. DR.. Kerr's
skill was called and the sufferer was soon
made easy and able to be about.
Last Saturday while wheat was
bringing SO cents in Fargo, farmers were
unloading their No. Hard for IS cents
per bushel in Cooperstown. That's the
difference between large and smallme-
tropolis and the buyers. Nuff ced.
Cash, the barber, has gone to roam
in places unknown to his Cooperstown
friends and creditors. This leaves a
profitable field open for some sober tonsor.