Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-10-19

Oh puOllC CONSTRUCTION lOf New OK
state, is to succeed government architect
Hill. Mr.. butchers Griggs county
friends will be pleased to learn of his
appointment and confirmation.
-Cooperstown is now ahead by large
majority. In making an excavation the
other day they found soap mine which
they claim surpasses all the chemical
saponaceous compounds ever yet dis
covered and everybody is going into the
laundry business.-Jamestown Alert.
Baron Lund, very comely young
nobleman of Sweden, is in the capital of
Griggs, visiting with j. n. Jorgensen
and other old country people. He has
slaughtered some game, but the hearts
of our maidens remain untampered with.
He expects to start for his home within
few days.
NC Mahon and Small's hearing
against H. P. Smart's night to prove up
on his pre-emption adjoining Hope was
heard at Fargo Wednesday. 1t is con-
ceded by the most candid men acquaint-
ed with the facts that Nc Mahon and
Small havn't the respectable skeleton of
case, but that their action was born
of vindictiveness.
An eastern paper says: Dakota
may be bleak and cold, but some way
immigrants 60 there, write to their
friends to follow, and the entire land is
being plowed and planted. 1t is even
doubtful whether the entire world pre-
sents picture Of larger thrift and COM
fort than in these new homes of the
Northwest
AT the commissioners meeting yes
terday Knud Thompson s. Co. were
awarded contract for grading the turn
pixies to the Sheyenne bridge at - cents
per yard. Skinner 4 O'Keefe secured
the job of driving the piles at SIS each;
building the approach at $4 per foot, and
building bridge at SIS per lineal foot.
There were five bidders and the work
was awarded to the lowest.
Mr.. A. Johns, at present stopping
in Cooperstown with his daughter, Mrs.
z. A. Clough, is reported by the Sanborn
Enterprise as remarking: mo use,
Michigan climate don't agree with me.
Since my departure from Sanborn my
health has been steadily declining, and
find myself to day many per cent worse
of than when left last spring. l am
confident from experience that Dakota
air has more healing qualities than all
the doctors medicine in christendom. -
A fine calf boot for 1915. Also a
large stock of winter foot gear at Odegard
& Thompson's.
If this thing continues we shall feel
constrained to buy a shot gun. The
house-hunters presuming that editors
know everything, or knowing that they
usually presume to know everything,
besiege this Office daily. But there is
no hope for them, unless they build their
own houses, for cottages are generally
leased before their construction is COM
menced. What great avenue for re-
munerative investment of capital the
erection of tenement houses in Coopers-
town offers. Thirty or forty families
would be added to our population inside
of four weeks if tenements could be had.
The second Chautauqua meeting
was held at the house of Mrs. w. r.
Whidden last Saturday. At roll call
eightresponded. secretary's report read
and accepted. After reading the pro-
gram it was carried out, with one ex-
ception, and proved to be profitable and
interesting. The president adjourned
the meeting until Saturday, Oct. 9th;
place of assembly, Palace Hotel Parlors.
The circle bids fair to become source
of enjoyment and decided means of
improvement. The officers are: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Pickett; vice. PRECEDENT, Mrs.
J. B. Whidden; critic, Mrs. Pickett;
secretary, Mrs. j. N. Brown.
The best smoke in town for SC is the
Henry Clay" cigar at Whidden Bros
If 1t be true, as the Fargo Republi-
can alleges, that the merchants of St.
Paul have combined to bulldoze the
Milwaukee and St. Paul into refusing a
favorable connection with the Fargo
Southern railway at Ortonville, then it
is high time that n North Dakota, of which
Fargo is part and parcel, bend unitedly
against st. Paul. The business men
throughout this entire portion of the ter
ritory should, and will, lend all their en-
couragement of trade to Fargo just as
soon as the wholesalers of that city can