Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-03-14
Official Paper of Griggs County
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.

APOLOGET1C.-Patr of the Courier
are solicited to forbear for being COM
PEELED to take their paper OH the ''half-
SHELF this week as 1t is unavoidable.
The thlee-days' storm just ended pre-
cluded the receipt of our paper this week
ON time.
1T has cleared up beautifully.
-Sanborn wants incorporation and
will probably get it.
The winter of our discomfort will
soonbe made glorious.
One of Mr.. NJ. Zimmerman's little
daughters has been very i'll for couple
weeks
DAVIS T. Pickett. the liverymen, are
having another we'll bored Oh their
premises.
1T is said that Seth Mills. Valley
City attorney, contemplates opening a
branch office i'll Cooperstown.
Frank Smith arrived from Sanborn
last Saturday evening, and announces
his intention to open up a barber shop
i'll the city.
E. c. Booth, deputy sheriff Of Barnes
county, spent the first of the week in
the Capital of Griggs, with headquar-
ters at the Palace.
Geo. b. Custer leaves to-day for
Manitoba, where he goes to introduce
Williams Patent Rail Splice to Can
adian Pacific officials.
"A big general store is among the
new things OH tapis for Cooperstown.
Nothing definite yet. but will probably
assume shape for announcement soon.
MFR. NJ. Sutherland returned from a
trip to Chicago and the suburbs last
Saturday evening. Cook county will
send a full quota of settlers to this re-
gion in a few weeks.
The most tedious storm of the sea-
son was that which arrived last Monday
and remained with us until Wednesday.
1t was a ''snorter" and got it's work in
pretty effectually, occasioniMg COM
plete stagnatlon of business for two
days.
Er According to the decision of the
secretary OF interior John n. Jorgensen.
Clerk of District Court. is again ready
to take testimony in final proof as before
and will serve his customers with his
usual care.
-Sanborn has a live literary club and
said club has decreed THAT the press
has done more for civilization than the
sword" 1t is pleasant to at last have
this much mooted question settled in
favor of the heretofore unappreciated
dispensers of information.
1t is not good sense to boast of your
intention during the ensuing year. If
you are honest in your purpose to do
something, just go about it quietly, and
your efforts will be crowned with as
much success as if you told your neigh
bors what you intended to do.-Ex.
Mg Blizzards may howl; storms may
blow; trains may stop, but Whidden
Bros have no notion of letting you
starve as they received the other day via
Davis & Pickett's sure freight line a
load OF goods suitable to the Immediate
wants Of all with keen Dakota appetites.
This from the Fargo Republican is
a horse on our adept manipulation Of
lath and lumber: Maynard Crane, a
Cooperstown attorney, is stopping at
the Continental Maynard may be
tirst-class in certain lines OF ''pleading.' ,;
but that hardly entities him to the title
of a lawyer.
The secretary OF the interior has
decided that under the acts OF March 30,
1877 and June3. 1880. the clerks of district
courts in Dakota may take final proofs
of homestead entries. without regard to
the counties in which court has held
session. This is a reversal OF the land
office decision on the same point.
Valley CITY Times: Attorney Jacob
SON, OF Cooperstown. was i'll the city
yesterday on business with Clerk of Court
Mcconnell in the matter Of issuing war
rants Of attachments. Mr.. jacobson
says the recent decision OF Commission
er Mcfarland. etfecting county clerks,
causes no little trouble and expense to
the citizens OF Griggs county.