Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-18

county, and especially Cooperstown. 1t !
made good showing.
-Enterprising people are beginning
to learn the value Of advertising the
year round. The persistency of those
Who are not lntimidated by the cry of
dull times" but keep their names ever
before the public, will surely place them
on the right side in the end.
Steele Herald: The bright and
sprightly Courier, of Cooperstown, outdid
itselfin its twelve-page boom edition.
The Courier is valuable exchange, and
shows the git-up-and-git enterprise so
manifest in its efforts for Griggs county.
May success always attend it.
Hope Pioneer: The Cooperstown
Courier's holiday boom edition is about
the neatest, mechanically, Of any gotten
out by our territorial exchanges, and it's
local layout is meaty. Ed. displays good
judgement in employing the proper in-
gradients for good press work.
g. 50 Oats make hoss latf," says
Josh Billings. Laughter makes fat
ness" says the proverb. and we say that
200 pounds of meat onto his frame over
q load of our oats. Dayis 4 Pickett.
An exchange truthfully remarks
that ''the atmosphere Of Dakota seems
to be infected with the malaria of ell
thusiasm." No matter how impressive
or prosperous country man may
leave, he finds something in Dakot;.
which he has never seen nor ever expect
ed to see this side of paradise.
Evidently Cooperstown is getting
the ''go by" this year in the blizzard
line, and not a single tenderfoot in town
but that is praying for one. Last
Thursday night, the 10th. another severe
storm visited the Sanborn vicinity block
ing three trains on the sidings of that
place, while here it was comparatively
quiet.
Parties who are spending their first
winter in North Dakota begin to think
the old stories about blizzards is due to
the influence of imagination for which
old settlers in all countries are noted.
They want to see genuine blizzard il
there is such thing, but we think their
anxiety is not likely to be relieved this
winter.
The genial face of our old friend and
neighbor, A. N. Adams, is once more
beaming on the streets of Cooperstown.
He has been sojour,ing with his family
for the past two months in the Club"
Boston. On returning he says Dakota
is the land of his choice. notwithstand
ing the many delightful features of old
Mass" His family will return in the
spring.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the Iown Farmer Co. This is
one of the best and most practicable
farm and stock journals in Iowa. and
with the view to doubling or Thrilling
their present large circulation they make
the extraordinary liberal offer in their
advertisement. Read the same and send
the Company 81 to Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
at once.
"A local correspondent to Michigan
paper pertinently portrays the condition
of affairs among producers in that -four
ishing and highly civilized state thusly:
sMyself and family are as we'll as usual,
and are getting along the best we can
these hard times: for these are the worst
times I ever saw to do business. About
half of our farmers have to buy all their
grain for their stock. and havenothing to
sell. We have no money in the country,
with whichto do business
The Courier press treated itself to a
serious break down last Thursday. when
the weeks edition was about two-thirds
printed. But for the extraordinary skill
of our village blacksmiths. Messrs Moore
& Sansburn. we would have been COM
PEELED to take our forms to Sanbon or
Hope until the part broken could reach
us from New York. As it is their fine
workmanship saves us much inconven-
ience, and we more than ever appreciate
the presence of such good mechanics in
our midst.
DIR. Newell SAYS that his experience
in Dakota since last spring fully con-
vinces HIM that there is no place in the
Northwest where so pure an atmosphere,
healthy climate and fertile soil can be
found as here. While our friends in
Illinois, Wisconsin and the western
states are suffering with an immense
quantity of snow, drifted roads and ter
r;hle cold weather. we are eniOying fine