Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-05-04

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laws as that in this country.
.--Beecher Cox is a young man
who has come all the way from Novia
Scotia to ''swing a yard stick for our
new and popular general dealers, the
Whidden Bros.
Notwithstanding the great expense
Of freighting, the Cooperstown Lumber
Company, with commendable public
spiritedness, have lowered the price of
lumber So to So per thousand.
The new postal law makes the TAX
ing OF newspaper and the refusal to
pay for the same theft, and any person
guilty of such an act is liable to prosecu-
ton the same as if he had stolen goods
to the amount of the subscription.
All the men that can be gathered in
by the employment agencies are being
set to work on the Sanborn & Coopers-
town railway. Contractor Foley is ex-
pected every day, when grading will be
showed with all possible speed.
Mr.. NJ. s. Dwelley, Esq. a promin-
ent citizen of Jackson, Mich, was in
town Tuesday. He will return to his
HON and send out his SONS with full
force of farm teams. and thus add to the
grand improvement army of Griggs
county.
MIR. and Mrs. A. n. Adams have
taken compassion on several of our hom-
liest bachelors to the extent of furnish
ing them table board. The cuisine is
par-eNcellent, as any one could tell by
observing the close fitting Wristbands
of the boys asthey arise from their meals.
Contractor Foley has arrived at the
end of the track with a car load of horses
and is getting things in readiness to
push grading OH the road at once. Mr..
Foley is rustler and We'll look for him
and his gang of dirt disturbers in Coop
erstown most any day after he gets well
started.
Lisbon Star: The Cooperstown
Courier is us neat publication as Da-
kota produces. 1t is in charge of Bro.
Stair, formerly of the Davenport Dis
patch. and is model of excellence, typo
graphically as we'll as editor tally. We
are glad to note that our friend Stair is
meeting with the success he deserves.
Some careless person set fire to the
grass over near Roberts street Monday,
and it was only by valiant fightingon the
part of the men working on the school
house that that valuable structure was
saved from the jaws of the fiery demon.
BE cautious, gentlemen, about setting
prairie fires or serious damage will result.
Contractor Foley dropped into our
office last evening and gave us the en-
couraging information that he will have
the road bed graded to Cooperstown by
the 1st of June. He will operate two
grading machines. a big force of teams
and doze rs of men. Track layers will
not be over one weeks work behind
him.
-Knudson Il Jackson, of Valley City.
surprised the citizens of Cooperstown OH
Monday 10y filing into town with long
team train of lumber. They are BOOM
ers of the first water, and already have
made big inroads on the completion of a
two-story, 24x4O business structure.
What branch of trade they will engage
i'm wt have not learned.
-NIessrs. Geo. l.. Lehman and j. NJ.
Burrell, of the Barnes County and the
Cooperstown Banks, spent last Saturday
and Sunday in our proud young Hub,
but as the COURIER scribe was out on
his claim lie did not have the pleasure of
.button-holing' them. We understand
they expressed great qualification with
the progress of the city. and became
quite enthusiastic as to the future of
Griggs county's queen city.
General Manager Crane informs us
that he now presides over one of the
finest lines of builders hardware in Da-
kota. recent addition to the stock of
the Cooperstown Lumber Co. Lehman
e. Co. never do anything by halves, and
when it was announced that they would
put in a stock of trimmings it simply
meant. as everyone in these parts well
knows, a most complete line in the
strongest sense of the term.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Temperance Christian Union will be
held next Sunday evening at s o'colck
at Retslaff's Hotel. An interesting pro-
gramme may be expected of readings.
recitations, and addresses, interspersed
with singing. If strong temperance