Cooperstown courier., 1883-09-28

some splendid work with their Eclipse"
threshing machine, and are confining
their field of operations to the Valley
and the northern part of the county.
-Cooperstown has its railroad at last,
and now Stair and the Courier will
whoop 'er up. Shake, Stair, wecongrat-
ulate you.-Tower City Herald. All
right Bro. Cornell here's our tB, and
may you see the Dakota & Great South
ern an accomplished fact ERE this time
next year.
If YOU want Dry Goods, just see the
stock at Whidden Bros
Farmers and town people will save
and possibly inconvenience to
themselves by laying in their winters
supply of fuelnow. Prices are almost Ger
tain TO be considerable higher. and again
the company at this place take orders at
present prices and deliver at any time to
suit purchasers.
On Friday evening last Mrs. ]. N.
Brown entertained, in manner char
acteristic of the we'll known hospital
ity of Meadow Brook Farm, a large
company Of young folks and others not
so young. Music, song, games, social
intercourse and the splendid repast
served made it an enjoyable event, in
deed.
The uncertainty of weather in Mich
igan is tersely told by these lines from
the Saline Observer: "The season Of
1888 will be noted as a season of ex-
extremes. From May IL to July 20
(seventy days) there fell twenty-six in
ches of water, and from July 20 to Sep
tember (forty-nine days. less than one
fourth of an inch.''
Chester Kingsley, late of the Hope
House, has gone back to Minneapolis
from whence he came. The Pioneer
credits him with being great boomer,
but wherein the title is appropriate we
cannot discern. Such unreasonable, in
cessant Dragging as he was wont to ut
ter can only result in disgusting the un-
fortunate listener.
-Messrs. Smart and Glass returned
from Fargo and Valley City Sunday
evening. They appeared before the
grand jury in the case Of Griggs county
against the Hope mob who stole the rec
ords last fall, and were successful in
having the eight originally charged with
the crime together with an additional
man, Douglass. indicted. The trial will
probably occur at next term of court.
While it cannot truthfully be said
that the average yield of wheat in this
vicinity is larger than last years crop,
it is fact that it grades much higher
Hardly load comes to town hut that
goes for No. l Hard. 1t might he re-
marked right here that Griggs county
had an exceptionally large crop last seas
on, the long continued wet weather that
proved almost fatal to Red River Valley
grain not affecting crops hereabouts a
particle.
AS threshing continues it becomes
more and more evident in all parts of
Dakota that the yield has been UNDER
estimated by about fifteen per cent. It
is now foregone conclusion that the
one million acres seeded in the territory
last spring will yield an average of twen-
ty bushels to the acre. This is the great
failure heralded by the eastern papers in
July, and we must say it is a decidedly
satisfactory collapse of crops for all con-
cerned.
Wheat is firm here at 50 cents, and
has an upward tendency. No. Hard
was held at S1.O6 in Duluth. Wednesday,
and S1.O3 to S1.05 in Minneapolis. The
market in these places was not as active
as it might have been at last account, as
buyers don't seem anxious to purchase
except at lower figures, and holders are
Indifferent about selling except at an
advance. 1t is conceded at the leading
markets that farmers now hold the key
to the situation, and that by holding off
a trif,e they will force better prices.
Afittens and Gloves to no end at
Whilden Bros
When man gets mad at something
and orders the newspaper stopped it is
amusing to see the persistence with
which he hangs about until his neigh
boris next weeks copy is brought in, and
the eagerness with which he scans it's
columns to see il there are indications
of the concern ''gojng up'' because he
has withdrawn his patronage. This Oh
seryation, reader, is a general one-not
founded upon any recent experience of
our own; though human nature is pref