Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1883-06-15

Tickets for the entertainment next
Thursday night can be secured at Whid-
den Bros store and at the post office.
Only 25 cts. and good time guaranteed.
No man should try to prove up on
his claim until he has hanging in his
shanty one of those spring or calender
clocks that can be had for trifling sum
at G. E. Ferguson's jewelry store.
Butcher Glenn came near losing his
house by fire Tuesday. A pile of shaw
ings and boards near the house caught
from a spark, and had not help been
handy the house must have burned.
Mclaughlin, the famous machine
man Of Fargo, has started a branch in
Cooperstown and Mr.. Geo. Morrison is
the local man in charge. Take note of
the inducement they offer to purchasers
Of plows.
IS. s. Sessions, star route contractor
for carrying weekly mail from Sanbom
to Martlell, via Cooporstown, is in town
trying to re-let the job. He also has the
transportation of mail from Mardell to
Larimore.
Architect Burnett, of Minneapolis,
and the builder of the circular elevators,
Sundayed over in Cooperstown, the guest
of r. c. Cooper. Mr.. Burnett hopes to
obtain a contract for an elevator from
Cooper Bros.
john Conley, of Hope, was in town
Tuesday as the escort of Misses Roe and
Miss Robinson, of Mardell. The Misses
Roe are Dakota farmers according to
law though they did not present the ap-
pearance of over-toil.
Mr.. Wallace Wheeler, hotel man
of Winona, Minn., took in the sights of
Cooperstown Monday. He was almost
overcome with the towns beauty, but
concluded not to remain, the field here
in his vocation being well occupied.
Several loads of furniture have ar
rived for the Retzlaff House, and it IS
expected that that hostelry will soon
open wide it's doors to the hungry pub
lie. Cooperstown will be well supplied
with hotels and we're glad of 1T, too.
-"R. G." is in love with his new ha-
cienda over on section 5, this town and
range. The buildings are erected on
the banks of beautiful deep-water,
gravel-shored lake of about 200 acres
area. The site is said to he very lovely
one.
F. III. Adams and Register of Deeds
j. G. Evans, noted personages of Valley
City, were in town yesterday and this
morning. They were on their way to
DEVILS Lake, on the classic shores of
which pond they own the townsite of
Grand Harbor.
Jas. Muirhas associated with himself
in the building business J. w. Christie,
a very apt young man when it comes to
handling tools. The new firm is drove
with jobs, and it IS not to he wondered
at when the superior character of their
work is sconsidered.
Prof. j. G. Brown, of Southeastern
Ohio, is in Cooperstown and he appears
to fully appreciate the many advantages
this domain possesses, if one is to Judge
from his flowery praise. He expects to
become permanent citizen of the great
Dakota and possibly Of Cooperstown.
There is nothing small about Coop
erstown when it comes to preparing for
proper observance of thegreat natal day.
She has already offered $500 and ex-
penses to her first choice for orator of
the day, and will spend even more than
that sum but what good orator shall be
secured.
The COURIER last week inadvertent-
ly neglected to mention the arrival of
Mrs. L. A. Mccullough, from Boston.
She is in search of health, and it would
seem that in the purifying, vigor-giving
breezes of Dakota her desideratum lies.
While in Cooperstown she is the guest
of her friend, Mrs. A. N. Adams.
Over at Hope cannons are said to be
booming and flags flying over the fact
that Gov. Ordway has in substance
created Steele county by approval of the
count returned by the bogus commits
sionere of Traill county. There is some
question as to whether the new county
will stand, and it is barely possible that
the old saw, "He laughs best who laughs
last, - may be verified in this instance.
The duty on tobacco having been
duly removed in accordance with the
act of congress relating thereto, Knud
Thompson has instructed his clerks to
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