Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-07-06
THE COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
BY Ed. ID. STAIR.
Official Paper of Griggs County
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.
The breaking season is virtually over.
Strangers are muchly plentiful in
town NOWADAYS,


A dance was given at Jackson's hall
OH the night of the Fourth.
-Messrs Holiday Bros. are erecting
Il neat office on Burrell avenue.
Manly Davis is laving out a track"
in Charlie Cooper's big wheat patch.
DIR. Newell is having his store paint
ed in a neat drab tint. with dark TRIM
mings.
Bartlett Il Stevens can give big
bargain in a business hOuse-centrally
located.
The surveyors of the s. G.. T. L. NJ.
Railway have pitched their camp OH the
public square.
Mrs. q. F. Newell is experiencing
Il little nmpleasantness i'll getting accli-
matiZed to our climate.
MIR. Retslaff has named his new
place the ''Union Hotel,' and a new
sign decorates the house.
-Supt. Fernald expects to have the
road we'll ballasted and trains running
on regular time by July Goth.
The Bald creek bridge was eros Sc
by tracklayers Tuesday, and the music
of the spikers now marches this way.
Commissioner Rukke has been llav
ing hard siege with rheumatism this
week, but is tritle OH the mend, now.
The seltshness of some young men
crops out most conspicuously wheu they
have Il monopoly in the acquaintance
line.
Bartlett & Stevens and J. n. Jorgen-
sen have put a conspicuous land office
sign across the walk opposite their hall
way.
r.. G.. Cooper and Jack n. Brown
failed to report for the foot race OH the
Fourth. 1t is said ssJack' ate too much
dinner to move easy.
AS a country village the days of
COcperstoWn ale numbered. and they
can he enumerated on ones fingers, too.
The cars are upon us. Glory!
"A letter from Chas. Ferguson brings
the intelligence that he was held at
Kansas City several days by the flood,
while enroute to southwestern Missouri.
One Martin Olson is on trial to-day
before Justice Matthew Davidson for
ahsconding with a team of mortgaged
horses, without consent of the mort
gagee.
-Supt. Fernald and his clerk, Robert
Cowen. represented the Sanbon y Coop
erstown railroad at the picnic. Wednes
day. while j. M. Burrell did honor for
Sanborn.
Our citizens are expecting the ar
rival of special agent of the interior
department whose duty it is to see that
the requirements of our land laws are
lined up to by settlers.
-Vice-Presdent n. L. Lehman ac-
companied by C. E. Ritenhouse. cashier
of a prominent st. Paul bank. were re-
freslled by the pure atmosphere OF Coop
erstoWn few davs since.
The two ravines this side of Bald
creek have been spanned with l5O-feet
bridges, which in addition to two slough
bridges is all of that class of work re-
quired between the track and town.
eg-John n. Jorgensen. Clerk of Dis
trict Court. will from this date be found
in his new office over the dry goods store
of Nelson Il Langlie, where he will be
glad to see all his old customers and
friends.
-Rob't T. Pinkerton has purchased
a one-half interest in the CooperstOwn
1ANCly tallu III SNlloiStSitsllViI lASlSVA AZ
f. Shlle has taken an interest in the bus
mess of Mr.. Pinkerton. They propose
to rush things at lively pace.
Our bustling harness dealer. Mr..
Hunter, was greatly surprised by the
arrival Of his mother. who lives in st.
Paul, Thursday evening. Mrs. Hunter
is decidedly pleased with Cooperstown
and will visit with her son a few days.
The first dirt thrown OH the railroad
grade in Cooperstown's borders was
kissed by the sun on Monday. Very
little more work on the grade remains
to be finished, and the track layers are
closely following the dirt manipulators.
d. Newell. a wealthy and thorough
farmer Of Mardell, was in town Wednes-
dry and reports crops good and farm inn
provements on the bound. The nice
piece of wheat on Mr.. Frost's farm is a
sample of the kind Of farming he be-
lieves in.
w. II. Burke, of the Jamestown
Capital. has recently taken unto himself
Il wife i'm the person of; an accomplished
Wolverine lady. The indefatigable,
level-headed and versatile pencil pusher
has the heartiestcongratulatio in stock
at this Office.
Mrs. S. Goldthrite recently arrived
from her old home in Ottawa, Ont, and
joined her husband, Griggs county's
we'll known farmer justice. Mr.. Gold
thrite had been separated from his bet
ter portion two years, and it is needless
to add that he is now as delighted as a
boy with new cOppertOed boots.