Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-11-09

remember correctly this beats the best
record made in Dakota this year.
The restaurant of the late William
Lehman has been leased by NJ. E. Skin
ner, who has been rejuvinating and re-
arranging the same. He proposes to
keep good place, and no doubt will be
a popular landlord.
MIR. and Mrs. Harry Pickett are
now ensconced in their new quarters as
costly as you please, and the happy liege
lord anticipates much condensed COM
fort this winter while the blizzards play
among themselves Oh the outside.
Sever Halverson, living six miles
east of this place and brother of the
first precinct county commissioner-elect,
died Tuesday night of typhoid pneu-
monia at the age OF 80 years. He was
All Industrious farmer, and leaves a wife
and several children to deplore the fate
that called him away.
~See Whidden Bros new ad. They
offer premium OH all current funds BY
Prof. z. A. Clough purchased new
cab for his little progeny the other day,
and some ladies who viewed from an
upper window his proud, elastic tread as
he wheeled it up the street for tie first
time felt SO highly entertained that they
gave the Courier permit to paragraph it.
But we are not in ajoking vein, and good
material for neat item is thus lost.
EOur last order for Buffalo Coats
could not be filled; but We have few
that will be sold at the same way down
prices. Whidden Bros.
1t seems strange that in this day and
age OF enlightenment men exist who
don't even know the price of postal
cards. However one will turn up now
and then to display his painful ignor-
ance, as was illustrated at the postoffice
yesterday, when well-dressed man was
surprised to learn he could purchase one
for cent.
We have travelled over goodly por-
ton of Griggs county this week and no.
ticed the fields were pretty much all
plowed back. However, a small per
centage of plowing yet remains unfin-
ished, but as the weather still continues
favorable it looks as though. nary an
acre will have to be carried over'' until
spring for plowing.
Unlike many new towns of the
Northwest, Cooperstown's improve
ments have been of a substantial and
enduring nature. Not an industry has
been started here but that has proved a
flattering success, and our citizens are
all alive to the fact that steady, health
full growth is ten times preferable to the
mushroom style of rushing up mere
shacks.
Geo. B. Whidden, youngest brother
of w. r. and the late j. B. Whldden,
arrived in Cooperstown Monday evening,
in answer to message that John was
very i'll. He did not learn the sad news
until he arrived. Mr.. Whidden is a
brave soldier boy, being a musician in
the regular army and is stationed at
Fort Custer, Montana. Hehasa twenty
day furlough and will remain here a
couple weeks.
We have yet to hear the first Dakota
man express any sympathy for the Man
iIotsa railway company in its unholy
var agains. the Fargo Southern. In
fact there is general and hearty CEN
sire Of their proceedings that can only
rebound to their injury. The Fargo
Southern wil. be built and it will have
gained many warm friends through the
opposition il has to battle with.
1t is proposed by soae Of the young
mea TO celebrate the defeat of Ben But
Ter some evening next week by dance
At the Park Ave. Hotel, llardell. It
would be xe,s, and it ia desired that as
large a number as possible wiM take
part, A fine ride, singing and dancing,
and dne eupper gotten up by "mipe
host' Robicson viii be very seryieeable.
starting the wheel Of soeiability for the
coming winter.
--Dakotians VINO return on visits to
their old homes are accredited as being
very enthusiastic in their zeeitais of this
lands prodHetiyenesso but the East
Tenesseean, who many years ago emi-
grated to Illinois, had an imagination
that excelled. White on a visit to his
friends, he gave glowing account Of
the fertility of the soil OF Illinois, and,
By w2y of illustration, declared that he
and his wife went cut to lock at their