Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-03-09

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apostle of the lower realm has pocketed
Frank Smiths barber shears, and the
boys now fear their hair and boards will
get little shaggy before Frank can get
another pair.
That large veins of pure water un-
derlie Cooperstown has again been illus
trated by the we'll just completed at the
new hotel. The depth of the we'll is
twenty-five feet and the water has raised
some twelve feet from the bottom.
"A stranger entering our busy mart
yesterday might easily have been deluded
into the belief that the town and the
whole countryside were out for an airing,
or something of the kind. so crowded
was Burrell avenue with teams and peo-
pie.
The big granary that stands over
near Rollin street is to be remodeled and
fitted up for an agricultural implement
warehouse. Merrill Bros. l. Luce will
occupy it. A carload of nails for that
firm has arrived and other goods are
following.
-G. NJ. Smedley, who has for couple
years been in charge OF the big Pillb,uy
Il Hubert elevator at Fargo, will come
to glorious Griggs to live and prosper.
Having resigned his position he will stir
the soil of his fertile land i'm this county
and gather in the golden apples.
MIR. G. III. Frost. one of the thrifty
farmers from the east shore OF the Shey
enne, was i'm the county capitol yester-
day. He expresses the opinion that the
county OF Steele ought not to be organized.
as it will impose a heavy tax on the few
settlers who will be forced into it.
With her numerous earnest christian
workers, and population almost ''solid"'
for temperance aud prohibition. Coopers-
town can truly be congratulated as being
Oh the high road to a social and spiritual
status that will equal the moral standing
of the most refined little cities of America
Captain Robinson. mine host of the
Park Avenue Hotel. Mardell. is one of
the most active workers for the good of
Griggs we have in the county. In one
mail recently he received fourteen letters
from as many different persons contem-
plating locating here. who We're desirous
of information.
We always knew Dakota possessed
the best looking women in the universe.
but had a presentiment that they We're
painfully scarce. We know better now.
\ single bashful glance at Il bevy that
We're yesterday assembled in the Pioneer
Store convinces us they are plentiful in
this favored region.
The Cooperstown Lumber Cnmpany
seems to have abundant capital and q
good stock OF enterprise. They have
purchased of one firm l.OOo,rC feet of
lumber. and ROM lave lO0 carloads at The
Sanbom 4 Cooperstown track. We
doubt whether there is humber firm il,
Dakota that deals more extensively.
Long may they wave.
Ed. NJ. Brown. for eight years postal
clerk OF the Fargo x Bismarck run. has
resigned. a more efficient. hettpr-heart-
ed mail Singer never 'stied out q
package and he is tole congratulated up
on freeing himself from a service so hard
worked and poorly paid. Ed. is an
accomplished printer-iournalist, and had
no business to thus bury himself from
the public for eight long years.
"A great big fat badger basked in the
warmth over Oh the Boulevard. Monday.
There being no gun in town Judge
Andl1!s essayed forth with his trusty re-
volver. backed 10y Messrs. Jorgensen.
johnson and Melville, who We're each
loaded with a stick Of cordwood. The
Judge got within few rods of the ami
NAL and b'azed away. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to add that the beast dropped-out
OF sight and into his s,ibterranean home.
The revival meetings at Meadow
Brook Farm under the leadership of Mir.
r. NJ Rockwell are still held nightly. an
Increasing interest being manifested.
The Jealous efforts of Mr.. Rockwell have
already resulted il; the salvation of sew
elal souls, and the good work goes on.
Mrs. r. c. Cooper has generously char
tered bus of Mr.. Weatherbee. which
plies between Cooperstown and the
Meadow Brock Farm every evening.
carrying all who may wish to attend the
service gratis.
Right here the COURIER wishes to be
understood as always ready to extend Il
fraternal hand and good word for it's
brethren of the quill, for we believe united