Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-06-22

-Beecher Cox says-and we guess it's
so-that the boys who reside or do bust
ness OH Lehman avenue can beat an
equal number from all the other streets
in town at Il game of foot ball. This
sounds like challenge.
The entertainment last evening was
a decided success, both as to attendance
and program. The space at command
this morning will not permit OF partic-
ulariZation, but especial mention should
be made of Miss Odeganl's instrumental
renditions, Miss Gimblett's solo and the
quartette, though their merit, good as it
was, hardly eclipsed the other stars
of the evening.
"A new commissioner will probably
be appointed soon, and the COURIER re-
fleets the opinion of many when it thinks
the southwestern part of the county
should have representation, providing
the new man can be appointed at large.
Mr.. Peter Fiero is an intelligent, repre-
sentative man of Griggs county and
would make an efficient officer. Let Mr.
Fiero's name be doomed for the position
and we opine, but few, it any, would
object to him us the coming mission
er.
AT last the work of the infamous
mob of eight Hopeites, who made amid
night raid OH the registers office at this
place last fall has been etfaced so far as
it effects the interests of Griggs county.
On Tuesday a box weighing several hum
dred pounds and containing the balance
of the unreturned records the mob stole
were landed ut Register Smart's office.
Il. G. Cooper had been abroad with blood
in his eye, caused by the detention of
these records, and the result was as above.
"A highway from Cooperstown to the
Red Willow lake region is Il pressing
need, and we understood that good
road will soon he laid out and worked.
1t is said that two bridges and Il very
few culverts will suffice for twenty-five
miles. Another road should also bear
due north of town OH the section line
between sections IL and IA, II and II,
and SO on. The measure of a commun-
nity's civilization is often gauged by the
condition of it's roads, and in this impor
tant respect Griggs county should and
will rank herself in the front van of
progress.
On Monday G.. E. Ferguson received
a message that demanded his presence
at Stockton, Mo-, and he consequently
started straightway for the state of corll-
fed girls and outlaws The nature of
Cllarley's business will detain him at
least Il month-possibly two-and the
public JON the COURIER outfit in regret
ing exceedingly his necessary absence.
He hopes before returning to have his
Missouri business i'm such a shape as to
permit him a permanent and minter-
rupted residence in Griggs county's cap
ital The jewelry store is in charge of
the publisher, who will be glad to make
an honest dollar by feeling of IL watch's
pulse Or selling all innocent claim holder
a clock.
F. NJ. Rockwell found it necessary
to be absent from town few days last
week, fact which Mrs. r.. G. Cooper,
Mrs. j. n. Brown, Mrs. w. II. Wlidden
took advantage of to the extent of
Mrs. b. B. Brown, and other ladies',
having a very neat little two-story house
erected on his claim one mile north of
town. The ladies each ''came down"
with liberal donation and then passed
the paper to the men, who contributed
the balance necessary for lumber. Mr..
Philippe furnished labor, and when
Mr.. Rockwell returned on Saturday lie
walked into nicely carpeted, lace-cur-
tanned, cosy sitting room that plainly
bore the marks of feminine touch. The
Cooperstown ladies, when it comes to
noble deeds, know how to get there every
time.
"A letter in the st. Clair Mich Re-
publican, dated at Couperstown, May 26,
1888, and signed by NJ. f. Carleton does
not flatter this country to any alarming
degree. The writer starts out with the
remark: II shall endeavor to give facts
as they present themselves to me-" but
in his eagerness to be conservative he
loses sight Of every advantage of the
country and enlarges upon it's disadvan
tages only. The citizens of Dakota have
never claimed that fortunes or paradises
here await the casual, easy-going bo-
nanza searcher, but do allege that in no
other land can an energetic poor man