Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-03-02

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Charles Cooper, of the Washburn &
Cooper farm, departed for brief visit
at the paternal home in Chicago Monday.
If there's any young producer of No. l
Hard in these regions who has earned
recreation, it is ''Charley,' for he is
perfect mailer" to drive things when he
is OH duty.s
One of the clerks in Odegard &
Thompson's was asked, by pioneer
from up the river, yesterday, where Mar
dell was located, stating he had always
supposed it was OH the Goose river, but
that he heard it intimated few days
since that it was i'll Griggs county. The
gentleman and all others are informed
that that prosperous little burg is just s
miles east of Cooperstown, on the Shey-
enne.
The following item, from Southern
Michigan exchange, makes us slludder
as we think of our many friends and rel
atives who must undergo all the horrors
depicted, While we are enjoying the
steady dry weather: '',The whole coln-
try has been literally locked in the icy
bands of winter this week, and rarely
have we seen the fields, forests and in
deed everything visible, was encased in
Il acovering of sleet and ice fora long time.'
! F. b. Adams. of Deer Greek, Wis,
has seen the capital of Griggs this week
and been captured by the lovely lay OF
the place and its enterprise Heh;,s gone
straightway to Wisconsin, and if he can
so arrange his affairs, will be With us
again ere the Wild flower blooms ON the
verdant prairie, in the capacity OF live
business man. MIR. Adams says he is
thoroughly aroused to the fact that Coop
erst"wn has bright destiny, and he is
determined to get a slice of our prosper
ity.
The whirligig of time is great ON
sudden and unanticipated changes i'll
this land of sunshine and promise. y
man in this CLINE often retires poor
with naught of earthly possessions save,
perhaps, a piece of land OF Il few lots
which cost him Il paltry sum.--only to
awaken and find some one anxious to
give him comfortable competency for
his beggarly estate of the day before.
Oh. but it $ deliSl tGul to live in land OF
such capabilities One never knows
when to dodge the blow of fortune, and
he is just as apt to get struck as not.
Anticipating the great infuS ofpeople
and stock that is soon to strike this couli-
ty, the settlers up in Justice Goldtmnte' S
neighborhood and i'm the Red Willow
Lake vicinity. refuse to sell their hay
and grain. maintaining that the Now
settlers arriving in the spring without
those commodities must be provided for.
Ii is a spirit that will aid greatly i'm set
Ting our country. and it does the CoUR-
TER good to see ii manifested. Looking
to the comfort and accommodation OF
nnknown future neighhols is generosity
no other land can boast of.
Twenty thousand working girls in
Boston alone labor hard forS4 per week
and pay $3.50 OF it for board Those
same girls could come to Dakota. take
up piece ot land and get domestic work
near their claim at $40 to so mouth
and board. In six months or a year they
could prove up and be worth. at low
estimate. 81 ,:-GO. No telling how many
might find more valuable claims in the
shape of loving life partners. Several Of
Cooperstown S prosperous bachelors have
already expressed the wish that females
would immigrate to this section more
plentifully. Any inflammation concern
ing the country. its resources, or its cell
bates will be furnished by the COURIER.