Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-10-26
LOCAL LAcoN1cS.

j. F. Holiday has been at Sanborn
for few days on "biz."
r. T. Pinkerton has been down to
Fargo three days this week.
The Courier's prayer has been an
swered and Cooperstown now has bar
ber.
Justice VIM. Glass has been looking
into matters and things at Fargo the
past few days.
The depot is nearly completed and
is decidedly well planned and beauti-
ful structure.
DIR. Kerr's new house has been hav-
ing a little boom of its own and is now
well along toward completion.
"A large surfacing gang and train
are at work hauling in gravel and level
ing the railroad yard at this place.
-Knud Thompson and B. c. Brophy
have the finest residences in town, and
each brag of a splendid well Of water.
Henry Hougen has enlisted in the
building army and is having neat lit
tie cottage erected in block forty-nine.
Mrs. j. Stevens is being visited by
her mother, Mrs. Iverson, and her BROTH
er, Nelse Iverson, of Lanesboro, Mimi.
Attorney jacobson has been down
giving Fargoites few pointers on the
best town in North Dakota, this week.
The lands of this territory set apart
for school purposes are now valued at
$50, 600 10000, and are on the rise, too.
County Treasurer Pease, of Barnes
county, was in town consulting the in
terests of his harness business yesterday.
Skinner & O'Keefe, contractors for
the county bridge over the Sheyenne,
had the misfortune to break their pile
driver yesterday. Damage, about $50.
Mrs. j. P. Bronson and MISS Lima
Barnard represented Sanborn in the
county capital Monday. Landlord Dam
did honors for the same place ON Tues
day.
Mrs. Jurine Bull, aged 80 years, died
Wednesday morning of consumption at
her home six miles southeast Of Coopers-
town. The funeral occurs next Sunday
morning.
AS Landlord Fitch remarked the
other day, "when it's necessary to build
fires it's time to shut DOORS" Some
people don't appear to appreciate the
force of this fact, however.
District Clerk Jorgensen accompanied
Baron Lund as far as Holy Cross, Mimi,
Wednesday, and will visit there a few
days. ]. Stevens is deputy clerk Of court
and will act in his absence.
Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar a
word as any one in our language; the
first two letters of it are male, the three
first female, the first four brave man,
and the whole word brave woman.
j. T. Odegard was up from Fargo
last Saturday noting the long procession
of Cooperstown improvements and
planning with Mr.. Thompson for the erec-
ton of that double store on Burrell
avenue.
-Fargo's Argus of Wednesday says:
r. c. Cooper, the Cooperstown boomer
and bonanza farmer, came in from the
west last evening and report; plowing
at least two-thirds done in that part of
Dakota.
MIR. and Mrs. H. J. Curtiss. of San
born, We're at the Palace yesterday. Mrs.
Curtiss had on display very fine line of
millinery goods and the optics Of more
than one Cooperstown lady was delight
ed thereby.
Mr.. Omund Nelson, the pioneer OF
the Sheyenne Valley, has been nomin-
ated by the republicans of the first pre-
cinct as commissioner. He will nc
doubt make competent and careful
county legislator.
Miss Caro- Smith left, this week, fol
her Wisconsin home, stopping for a
brief visit at Fargo. During her few
months sojourn here she gained many
admirers through kind cordiality who
regret her departure.
We learn from Mrs. Barnard that
Geo. Clark reached Detroit safely after
three days on the road, though he suf-
fered greatly during the trip. Mr.. Nc
Graw, famous surgeon of Michigan,
performed an operation on his face, but
it is feared his spine is also affected and
that another operation will be necessary