Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-08-29

posite their elevator, to be occupied by
the manager of the elevator.
Don't forget the s,llky plow race at
Cooperstown September Fifth. The
Hapgood will lower the record.
John d. Farrand, the versatile and
talented young attorney of Sanborn,
spent Sunday in the Terminal Town.
Andrew Torfin reports the completion
Of the Torfin school house, OH Looking
glass prairie. School commences Sep
tember 1.
The Wheatland Eagle is on our table.
1t is issued by G. E. Stone, of the North
Dakota Farmer which we presume is
discontinued. Wheatland is undoubt-
edly good point for paper.
A. b. Zingg has Joined the silent ma
jority.
One by one the roses fade.
One by one the boomers skip,
Leaving all the world behind them,
That they can't jam in their grip.
Cases of pronounced leprosy are re-
ported in yellow Medicine county,
MINI. One man has had the disease so
long that his fingers have rotted off and
he is reduced to skeleton.
The September Manhattan exhibits
what purports to be new poet, in the
person of Mr.. Chas. 7. Dazey; but po-
cts from time immemorial, have been
dazy, and this particular daisy has pre-
viously bloomed as class poet of Har-
ward college in lSsl.-Fargo Republican.
The Fargo Argus lithograph and
binding rooms were burned Wednesday
morning. The Argus loss is covered by
insurance. but the proprietors of the
lithograph rooms will loose about 81 600.
The Argus appeared as usual, the work
going on in one end of the building
while the other was burning.
[. w. Barnum, of Sanborn, will not
sell his farm for the price advertised in
the Enterprise. He has ''riz." When
he hefted a few of the bundles he thought
better of his proposition. We offer in
this issue as fine a farm as there is in
Barnes county for half of the money
originally asked by Mr.. B. Case why?
We want the money.
The secretary of the interior has disap-
proved the decision of Land Commits
sioner Mcfarland, that breaking the
soil, and turning the sod does not meet
the requirements of cultivation in COM
muting Oh homestead claims. The en-
tries Cancelled or suspended under Nc
Farland's decision will now he restored
and proved up as heretofore.
John and Hattie Dilley alleged murder
ers ofH. II. Hackett, were arrested by
Sheriff Larson, of Dickey county on the
26th, and are on their way to Glendale
for trial. They were arrested at Bos-
cobel, Wis. The parties are supposed to
have passed through Cooperstown, and
struck the Manitoba road at Bartlett,
from whence they proceeded into Wis
consin. They are hard characters,
middle aged, and will stretch hemp at
Glendale in course of time.
All the farmers are busy cutting their
grain. Some of the binders are acting
badly on account of the extra strain,
caused by the rank growth of grain.
The further we progress in the harvest
the more certain it becomes that the av-
erage yield Of wheat in Griggs county
will not fall below Is bushels per acre;
oats from 60 to Is bushels. Occasionally
patch of wheat will yield as
high as 40 bushels per acre. Wheat is
bringing more here to-day than it is in
Michigan; and yet land is extraordinar-
lily cheap. and better time never exist
ed to procure farming lands than now.
Among the most important of the re-
Gently issued circulars of the general
land Office is the one dated July 81, 1884,
fnst,ucting the registers under the act
of March 8. 1879, relative to final proof
notices. This circular tolls the death
knell of 80 called final proof newspapers
that are published at farm houses. AS
will he observed, there must be post
Office at the professed place of publica-
ton. also town, "a farm hous and sta
BILE do not constitute town., hen there
must be legitimate circula ton, and
and proof Of circulation must be pre-
sented. Next, mere geo graphical dis
tance will not decide the registers ac-
tion. Whatever newspaper he deter
minis upon as the nearest. all things
considered, is the one in which the no
tice will appear.-Argus.
oTWhidden Bros. have some odd
lots Of summer goods left, which they