Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-08-03
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.
Wild raspberries are ripe.


Farmers busy preparing for harvest
work.
The crop prospect continues uain-
terruptedbly favorable.
The watermelon harvest is Oh the
way. Let us all rejoice.
j. w. Christie returned Wednesday
from a weeks visit at Fargo.
e9Ladies' and childrens' slIlmpooing
a speciality at Cash's barber shop.
Geo. Nc Cormick is now right hand
man at II. p. Merrill's popular resta,l-
rant.
A heavy shower Tuesday night was
All exceedingly acceptable dose to ripen-
ing grain.
-Messrs. Knud Thompson and j.
Stevens do some pretty good driving OH
the Avenue these cool evenings.
Mrs. Marquardt, the German wo-
man, has increased Cooperstown' pop
ulation by the birth OF hearty boy. Vi
-Odegard & Thompson are packing
their store full of fresh goods, and want
the public to bear the same in mind.
As harvest time draws near it comes
in order that farmers consider thorough
ly the vital Importance Of we'll stacking
their grain.
Charley Melriell was over from Hope
Tuesday, meeting with cordiality his
numerous friends and customers OH this
side of the Sheyenne.
e. B. Paxson, secretary of the Fargo
Electric Light Co., has been gazing with
pride upon his Griggs county possessions
this week.
-Mardell is now without an M. d. OF
drug store, DIR. Virgo having removed
his stock to Page City, alively little burg
on the Hope branch.
Be sure that the gloves you buy
arebranded 'Lippitt. Leak &Co." None
others are genuine California Buck.
Base ball has superseded foot ball
among the village athletes, but as yet
there are no broken bones to chronicle
and the arnica market remains normal.
The Palace is already for opening,
the only delay now being the want Of
cook, who is expected daily, as Mr.. Fitch
is in Jamestown for the purpose of Sc
curing one.
MIR. F. g. Holmes, lately of Connec-
ticut, has associated himself with Camp
bell & Sabin, the rustling real estate and
land men, and thus lends additional force
to an already strong firm.
POSTMASTER Barnard has a field OF
wheat that competent judges book for 40
bushels per acre. This sounds big for
an ''otf'' season, but the thresher's bill
will show up not far from that figure.
"A large force of men are at work on
the elevator foundation, which is an
amazingly formidable piece of masonry,
and in shape represents an immense
wheel, with stone hub, spokes and felly.
AS will be seen by their announce
ment in another column, b. B. Brown
s. Co. are prepared to do threshing in
the best manner. Leave your orders
early, and thus ensure expeditiousness.
Ex-senator Conkling, of New York,
while passing through Fargo with a
party of friends, chatted pleasantly with
an Argus reporter, land commented freely
upon the future greatness of this great
northwest.
DIR. Newell has supplied an urgent
want Of the public by putting in a nice
line Of writing paper and stationer' ssun-
dries at his drug store. You can now
get anything in that line from pen to
a ledger.
Our good natured citizen, j. B.
Whidden, was made unusually happy,
on Wednesday, by the arrival from San
Francisco, California, of Mrs. j. B.
Whidden, his little son, and Mrs. Lever,
his mother -in-law.
-Supt. of Schools T. F. Kerr will di-
vide among the twelve school townships
OF the county, according to the number
of school children in each town, the liq-
uor license money now in the county
treasury, which amounts to 81 ,s75.