Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-05-18
FRIDAY, MAY IS, 1883.
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.

LOCAL LACONICS.
Magnificent weather for wheat.
w. r. Whidden is away on business.
The prairies are donning their suits
of green.
Seeding finished and breaking under
full head.
EYFGood Iowa shelled corn for sale by
Nelson Il Langlie.
The roads in Griggs county are now
in fine condition.
"A nice little vegetation starter show
er visited this vicinity yesterday.
-Thos. Chapman will now proceed
with his forceto plaster the school house.
The store of Whidden Bros. is now
adorned with a very tasty gilt lettered
sign.
Attorney Bartlett paid Sanborn a
business visit the first of the present
week.
Maynard Crane is growing lux
uriant mosquito protector on his phis-
iognomy.
-Supt. Fernald, of the S. c. 4 T. NJ.
R'y, paid his respects to CooperstoWn
Wednesday.
Lewis Hotop, recently of Fargo, but
now Griggs county granger, was in
town Tuesday.
Contractor Muir is putting a very
nObby front OH the drug store and post
office building.
The county capital now has native
born citizen, and Knud Thompson steps
lighter than ever.
The hard finish is all ON the walls of
the palace" and the painters now hold
sway in the building.
Those iron hitching posts in front
of the Pioneer Store are pronounced
just the thing by farmers.
HMrs. J. G. Myers announces her
readiness to do all kinds of laundry work
in the most approved manner.
j. G. Myers has returned from a
weeks seeding siege upon his farm on
the other side of the Sheyenne.
Our general merchants are smiling
uuder the pressure of good trade; like
wise the machine and livery men.
"A couple more residences have been
erected this week. One on Court House
Hill and the other on the Boulevard
Little Victor Whidden was quite
badly scalled a few days since by an over
turned coffee pot, but is now doing nice
ly.
Water is only three feet deep in the
Sheyenne at Nelson's ford, and travellers
can now cross the river with perfect
safety.
Song service was held at w. II. Whid-
den's home Tuesday evening. and prayer
meeting will be conducted at the same
place tonight.
Assessor f. w. McCrae is busy in
yoicing up the coumty's backbone, pre-
paratory to the first annual tax gather
ing in Griggs.
The county officials have all been
stocked with printed stationery from the
COURIER office, and are now doing lots
of corresponding.
Fargo feels quite certain of direct
line of railway to Chicago. 'Twould he
big thing for Fargo as well as the vii
lage at the other end.
Men are at work mounding the stakes
in township l47, range 50. and settlers
are anxiously waiting to hear of the land
being "shot'' into market.
The man who borrows his neighbours
COURIER. when he can get the same for
50 per annum. it strikes us IS not what
might be called a good citizen.
-Messrs. E. II. Steele and D. p. Bald
win, of Hope. werein Cooperstown Tues
day, and dropped few glowing words of
praise for our bristllng burg.
The way new goods have been hauled
into Cooperstown this week is very in
dicative straw for it shows which
way the county's commerce blows.
-Messrs. Armstrong & Stewart, the
new and energetic firm of plasterers,
have taken orders for considerable work
in their line, and are putting in long
days.
Our reading space is somewhat en-
croached upon this week by the lncreas-
ing advertising patronage of the paper.