Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-07-13
THE COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
BY Ed. ID. STAIR.
Official Paper of Griggs County
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.
"'Twould be Joy to press the pillow
OF a cottage chamber bed,
And to hear the pitter patter
OF the soft rain overhead"

Wheat is heading out.
"A new high-board fence now sur
rounds the hotel yard.
The drug store and the postoffice
each sport a new sign.
These cool days and cooler nights
are just the ''stuff'' for wheat.
-Haying is well under way, and farm
ers report the crop of good quality.
The COURIER shop has been under
going the finishing process this week.
E. j. Nc Mahon and Charley Ward,
of Hope, were in the city Wednesday.
-Odegard & Thompson's store looks
AZ per cent. better with that new front.
Mrs. J. G. Myers has gone to reside
on Mr.. Myers claim, northeast Of town
Is miles.
The COURIER has a new and wide
sidewalk, but the price of subscription
remains the same.
The pile driver on s. G. & T. NJ.
Railroad is now at work in the depot
yard at this place.
-Messrs Read 4 Hyde took their de-
parture Tuesday. Their probable desti-
nation is Boston.
Fred. A. Sabin. the live land attOr-
ney, went to Fargo last Saturday in the
interest of his clients.
MIR. Covill, pleasant young land at
torney of Darlington, was in town a
couple days this week.
Nelson & Langlie are having a eel
lar dug under their store; ditto A. N.
Adams under his house.
"A church social will be held at the
school house this evening, to which the
people generally are invited.
Many are betting that the tracklay-
ers will enter the port of Cooperstown
tomorrow Saturday evening.
Mrs. Iver jacobson is now resi-
dent of Cooperstown, having arrived
from Valley City last Saturday.
The Cooperstown depot will be a
fine structure and work thereon will be
commenced upon arrival of the cars.
III. p. Merrill, thepopular restaurant
er, has been having some fine lettering
executed ON his windows by II. S. Hill.
DIR. Virgo was over from Mardell
Wednesday, and reported everything
moving along in an even tenor on the
Sheyenne.
Citizens. do you fully realize the fact
that we are SO soon to he linked to the
great outer world by the strongest of
iron bands?
-Knud Thompson is made happy by
the receipt of very flattering reports con-
cerning the condition Of crops on his
Brookings county farm.
MIR. Hohnock, of Kansas, agent for
the Northern Pacific railroad, has been
in town the past week engaged in select
ing indemnity lands for the company.
Before another issue of the COURIER
the cars will be footing and tearing into
Co0perstown. 1t will be an epoch in the
towns history long to be remembered.
Mrs. Hunter, after enjoying pleas
ant visit with her son in this place, de-
parted the first of the week for Pembina
county to surprise her other boy before
returning to st. Paul.
-Cooperstown is on the verge of
start in the improvement line, and al
ready men are laying the plans for big'I
buildings. Let the building boom strike
us broadsides, for we're prepared.
%. A. Thompson and Geo. q. Strom-
er. land agents of 1iayville. were in
town Wednesday, and among other
things asserted that crops hereabouts
look much better than in their vicinity.
Martin Olson Cheley, the man who
skipped the country after buying team
of S. Nelson by Misrepresentation, Ian
guishes in durance vile, not being able
to furnish the $40 bail asked by Justice
Davidson.
The date for the formal railroad
opening has not yet been fixed owing to
the uncertainty as to when Mr.. Kelley
will be able to open the Palace. We
will be able to inform our readers next
week as to particulars.
GA good office ON ground floor for
rem. Apply to David Bartlett.