Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-12-21

endency.
Farmer Rankin and family boarded
train with tickets for st. Clair,
Michigan. The visit they intend to
make will probably consume the entire
winter, but when the birds begin to
sing ''Jim' will be on hand to put in a
hundred and odd acres of No. l Hard.
Conductor McClarion has resigned
his position preferring to be without
job rather than sign the iron-clad guar
antee, ETC., which the Northern Pacific
folks require of all passenger conductors.
Lew Vincent, an old-time N. p. con-
ductOr, now runs the train ON this branch.
Miss Mercury is not as lofty minded
in her associations this week as has been
her custom during the season. She has
several times in the past few days con-
descended to register at points evenlow-
er in their standing as resorts than is
the stopping place of wicked Zero.
Mrs. j. b. Whidden writes from
Chicago that she is already longing for
spring and the date of her departure for
Cooperstown. Mrs. Whidden did not
like Dakota when she first landed last
summer, but now she is like all matter
of-fact women, who know our falr land
only to love it.
Moses Carleton, accompanied by his
wife and daughter, departed for their
St. Clair, Michigan, home Monday. Mr..
Carleton is well satisfied with his trial
trip to Dakota, and will return next
spring to make this his permanent abid-
ing place it it is possible for him to dis
pose of his interests in st. Clair county.
-Roadmaster McNally, of the s. G. &
T. NJ. was over the line last Monday
during the zephyr" and reports that he
anticipates little or no trouble in keep
ing the road open this winter, as there is
only one or two cuts and both of these
being north and south ones are little apt
to fill.
Xmas is coming, and Whidden Bros.
and prosperous people in making their
friends and relations still happier. at
this festive season have opened and still
to arrive large and varied assortment
of Xmas presents. Call early and make
your selections from full stock.
The maslling editor Of the Hope
Pioneer in his baby attempt to evade
the wheat market issue proves the
maxim that 'sa man who talks of what
he knows nothing needs great wit to
escape making an ass of himself" :"
Willy William lacked the wit and SO ac-
cepted the alternative.
Stevens & Enger, the energetic and
prosperous hardware men, are already
preparing for big spring trade, having
received several car lots of nails, build
ing paper, seeders and the like, this week.
Their commodious store hasn't capacity
enough for the business they propose to
transact the coming year and the result
is that Messrs. Muir & Christie have
orders to slam up 2Ox4O warehouse,
quicker if not sooner.
AS evidence to our eastern readers
of our mild climate we might site an in
stance of outdoor carpenter work per-
formed by Messrs. Muir Il Christie. 1t
took them just six days of last week to
erect, on Pinkerton & Shue's stock farm:
a l6x24. two-story house, which they
double-boarded, sided. double floored
cased, ceiled and finished for occupancy
They worked without gloves and with
their coats Oft. which is something that
cannot be done at this season of the yeal
in New England, the central states OF
any other section north of Mason and
Dixon's line.
Ere another issue of the Courier
greets its readers the 6ld-time congratu
latory ''Wish-a-merry-C -Christmas'' will
have passed the lips Of nearly every one
Christmas comes to the palace and t1
the hovel, to the young and to the old
but it comes not alike to all. The
thoughts of the middle-aged and the ole
it sends roaming sadly among the tonbf
and wrecks of the past-back to thai
/ ''schooiboy spot,
We ne'er forget, though there we a>e forgot
back to the joyous Christmas morn OF
their youth. To others this is the great
day of the year for the exchange of to
kens, for family reunion, for merry-Baak
ing and for the renewal OF friendships
But the orphan on Christmas feels lon
lier, the stranger more hOmesick an(
the poor more mindful of their poverty
In our efforts to make the coming one :
complete Merry Christmas let us bt