Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-07-27
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.
is coming ON finely.

AONAL LANONxS0.
Wheat is coming ON finely.
&C. \. Renwick, of Hope, was i'll town
Monday.
A few farmers have already com
menced backsetting.
Farmers are chuckling over crop
prospects, and well they may.
Holiday Bros new office has been
undergoing coat of fresh paint.
Stevens s. Enger now have their hay
and stock scales in running order.
The Muir & Christie building shows
indications Of a very tasty front, when
completed.
The mail between Cooperstown and
Mardell now leaves this place Friday
afternoons.
Fred. Sabin, the invincible land at
torney, spent three days of the present
week in Fargo.
Government surveyors are now at
work in town l4S, range 60, to the great
satisfaction of numerous settlers.
-Boyum & Holland received another
car load of farm machinery this week,
and continue to whoop things up in their
line.
When it comes to crops Griggs coun-
tygets there; in fact she can double dis
count any pretending rival and win the
game.
-Buchheit Bros. report a good trade
in the farm machinery line. They are
rustlers and get no more business than
merited.
The Courier is looking for an UNI
known curiosity in the shape of man
who ever settled in Griggs county and
regretted it.
H. H. Wasem, the leading merchant
of Hope, dined at the Merrill House yes
terday. Cooperstown's solidity rather
astonished him.
The Hillsboro Banner calls loudly
for the establishment of a meat market
at that place, and assures some man Il
bonanza business.
The Willow Lake region has this
week been honored by visit from no
lessaperson than the genial F G. Holmes,
our member" from Connecticut.
An overcoat that 'sstrayed" into
Manly Davis stables has been left at
this office for the claimant, who can OBJ
tain the same by calling and proving
up
The house of James Boutwell, in l46,
60, was struck by lightning during last
Thursdays storm. Several of the fam
lily were shocked, though not seriously
injured.
-Thieving has been exceedingly nu-
merous in these parts of late. \ neck
tie social may yet have to be resolted to
in order to put a quietus to this kind of
business.
How about base ball club in Coop
erstown? Are the boys going to let the
organization of one go by default when
we have such good timber for an excel
lent nine.
A. B. Kent, G. II. Gray and a. R.
Mcdonald surprised ther old friends at
this place last Saturday by their return
from DEVILS Lake. They report things
as lively up there.
The great Cooper farm will probably
yield an average of twenty bushels of
No. Hard per acre, which is not SO bad
for an "otf'' year. Griggs county soil
is the stuff and no denying that.
If this cool weather continues there
is no telling how great the wheat yield
will be. Such favorable weather for
grain has never been excelled, and beats
the calculations of our old timers.
v Mr.. John Syverson, lately of St.
Johns, this territory, has arrived in
Cooperstown and comes to stay. He
has accepted position with Odegard 4
Thompson, the pioneer merchants.
The Sanborn, Cooperstown Il Tur-
tie Mountain road has new ticket col
lector and general '.boss.'' The change
is apparently a good one, for Mr.. Nc
Clarion seems a competent. obliging man.
j. NJ. Burrell, one of our bank pro-
prietors, is now acting as cashier in the
absence OF Mr.. Pickett, while Mr.. Sieg-
fried, who has had temporary charge,
returns to his old position in the Barnes
Comfy Rank