Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-10-19

Official Paper OF GrlggS county
LOCAL LACON1CS.
Fine fall day.
Don't forget the caucus tonight.
Will Stearns left for jamestown,
Monday.
The weather the first of the week was
disagreeably damp.
Prairie chicken and duck harvest Is
about over for the season.
Stevens & Enger have secnred fine
we'll of water at a depth of l8 feet.
The little freeze up last night does
not interrupt plowing operations.
&C. G. Philippe has been recreating
in Jamestown and Bismarck this week.
Fred Thompson is having very
neat cottage built over near the Boule-
ward.
The county election approaches very
calmly, and the interest manifested by
luc pcOplo ~ AuAcWd1m.
~Ladies' and gents knit underwear
and outside wraps at big bargains at
Odegard & Thompson's.
Joseph Allen and family have NOV
ed in from the country and are establish
ed in their Boulevard cottage.
Sheriff johnson is having an addi-
ton to his meat market erected. His
growing trade must be accommodated.
Cashier Pickett smiled on his San
born friends Wednesday, and Fred Sabin
greeted his Fargo acquaintances on
Sunday.
&C. A. VanWormer, Sanborn's ora
tor, accompanied by H. Thayer, an east
ern friend, took in the Hub Monday and
Tuesday.
Contractor Jas. Muir was down to
a pretentious town called Fargo, this
week, as witness in the Nc Mahon-
Smart case.
-Cooperstown is developing as an
educational centre, and Prof. Clough re-
ports seven foreign pupils already booked
at the institute.
The Steele Herald of last week gave a
page of solid facts concerning the growth
of that place. Bro. Britton is boomer
of great magnitude.
-.Jno. N. Jorgensen has a new barn
and a lot Of laying chickens as well as a
COW. John has granger proclivities and
may yet turn farmer.
"A playful mill" between two busi-
ness men Of the Hub created some mer-
riment Monday morning. No black
eyes and but little blood drawn.
Geese have been numerous in the
air this week, and some have been in
terrupted in their southwark journey
by rifle balls fired from the doors of
villagers.
"A barber, a barber! Why don't
some enterprising tonsor with an eye to
wealth and relish for sobriety put in
an appearance. There is money here
for such chap.
in the departure of David Bartlett,
Monday, Cooperstown lost valued citi-
zen, and by the remarks that have been
uttered since, it would seem that near
ly all are aware of the fact.
-sinfully says the Enterprise: "The
telegraph wires along the Sanborn and
Cooperstown Railroad are strung, and
now the wicked deeds of Cooperstown
are made known to listening world in
flash.
n. A. Hicks, of Holy Cross, Minn.,
and father of Mrs. J. n. Jorgensen, ac-
companied by H. A. Hicks, of Fargo,
have been guests at the district clerk g
home this week. They evidently relish
the activity manifested in Cooperstown.
1t will do you good to call at Ode
gard & Thompson's if you want flour
or provisions. We will give you good
bargains.
The day of townsite swindles in Da-
kota is over, and it is high time. too.
Legitimate, we'll located towns and Da-
kota generally have suffered amazingly
from the unprincipled operations of the
bogus town lot boomer. 1.-The town lot
rascals must go.''
Mr.. Swenson, an experienced brick
manufacturer of Fargo, has been in
town several days testing clay and finds
that superior quality for brick making
abounds hereabouts. He will establish
an extensive yard here early in the
spring. Score another for Cooperstown.