Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-02-29
LOCAL LAcoN1cs.

sing s"ng of leap year.
Pockets full Of cash;
That's tn. kind Of bachelor
For merry maids to 'mash.'"
Fine day this. with the mercury 25e
above zero.
Tuesday was very stormy day, but
was not severely cold.
Monday was the warmest day of the
present winter, the mercury at one time
being So above zero.
When heard from last w. II. Whid-
den was shivering and shaking in the
gulf breezes at Truro. n. $.
F. N. Brown has purchased the ill.,
terest in the threshing machine they
operated together last fall.
MIR. F. NJ. Rockwell has been absent
the past week. doing revival work at
Crookston, Mimi. and other places.
a. Anyone wanting a first-class piano
can get one at a bargain OF B. B. Brown.
Would take Il good farm team i'm eX-
change.
Miss Lima Barnard was passenger
from Sanborn Oh Davis & Pickett's ex-
press Wednesday. She comes to make
Cooperstown her home.
The railroad company announce that
they will run train to Cooperstown
every Friday. sure pop, but cannot be
depended upon any other day OF the week.
p. l.. Holland, the booming machin-
cry rustler, drove into the county cap
ital from his Aneta farm Monday. He
says the campaign in his line is about to
open in dead earnest.
DIR. j. b. Hall retires from the Fargo
Republican and e. A. Jordan assumes
the management. The paper already
shows marked signs of improvement,
especially in makeup.
MIR. Knud Thompson has been in
Fargo this week on very important bus
mess. He IS great schemer and We
may look for some new project, beneti-
cial to the place, when he returns.
The Cooperstown accommodation
started for Darlington last Monday, TAX
ing twenty men and two engines. Ii
the train succeeded in getting through
and back it will arrive here this after
noon.
"A brick yard will probably be start
ed here the coming spring. Fargo par
ties have tested clay taken from near
this place and pronounce 1t as possessing
extraordinary good qualities for brick
making purposes.
AS will be seen by their advertise
ment in this issue the officers of Wheat
land school township propose to erect
four editices of learning. Contractors
can see the plans and specifications by
calling at the Courier Office.
Mark Twain, speaking of new
mosquito netting, writes: 1.-The day is
coming when we shall sit under our own
nets in church and slumber peacefully.
while the discounted flies club together
and take it out of the minister"
The Courier seconds the motion of
the Steele Herald, to the effect that the
press of North Dakota organize an asso-
CldGAOu W oCCuAC AAOAC C4AOSVISC hCIlO1l
in political and business matters and in
the way of securing immigration.
Berg 4 Larson is the title of new
and enterprising firm in the farm ma
chinery business, with headquarters at
Cooperstown and branch at Ottawa.
They announce themselves through
concise ''adv." which can be read by
turning to page four of the Courier.
While enroute from his farm resi-
dence to the village last Tuesday Mr.. r.
C. Cooper met with very painful acci.
dent. In attempting to get his sleigh.
which had run off the track and was
stuck in the snow, to rights he strained
himself severely in the spinal column.
He is recovering rapidly, and the serious
results at first threatened are no longer
apprehended.
After the present term of school ex-
pires Mr.. Clough proposes to direct his
attention to the raising of No. Hard.
and therefore offers bang-up good bar
gain to anyone desirous of buying neat
little residence in Cooperstown. MIR.
Clough's farm lies few miles south of
Dawson, whence he will move to in
about month. much to the regret of
his friends and neighbors here.