Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-08-01
Official Paper of Griggs County

Official Paper of Griggs County !
The boom has struck us.
The Steele Herald doesn't enthuse
over Pat Donan.
The Palace hotel is crowded, and the
other hotels are full.
Cooperstown postofice became mon
ey order Office July g.
Richard Wikie will start in mercantile
business in Cooperstown.
O. j. Paulson, of Valley City, is
building a fine residence OH Fifth ave-
nue..
u. c. s. Wallace will hold services in
the Freer school house next Sabbath at
Up. m.
Many orders taken for binders cannot
he filed. Our crops have outgrown the
factories.
Mrs. r. NJ. Cowen and Miss Lima Bar
nard went to Sanborn for short visit
Tuesday.
The sale of the Kindred farm to S. X.
Nester, of New York, was consum-
mated Tuesday.
It is whispered that G. H. Dickey
will be the member from Barnes in our
coming legislature.
Editor Mexican, of the Sanborn En-
terprise, spent Sunday in Cooperstown,
and made us friendly call.
The Lehman Elevator and Lumber
company are about to build a $1,000
bushel Chase elevator at Hannaford.
DIR. G. E. Ives, of Savannah, n. Y,
and Mr.. E. l.. Craw, Of Grand Haven,
Mich, spent Sunday in Cooperstown.
Services in the school house Sabbath
morning, conducted by o. c. s. Wallace,
and in the evening by F. NJ. Rockwell.
1t is reported that s. B. Langford will
be candidate for the commissionershlp
this fall, and John W. Zero for the as
sorship.
The corner stone of a new Episcopal
church was held at jamestown Tuesday
by Bishop Walker, with appropriate
ceremonies.
Retzlaff Bros. killed a three-year-old
steer Monday, that weighed 1000
pounds. The animal had never been
fed grain.
Sheriff johnson left for Yankton
Thursday morning, having in charge
Mrs. Catherine Ashby, who was adj
Judged insane.
Davis & Pickett have purchased the
Odegard 4 Thompson building -consid-
Grafton $2,O00-and have removed their
feed store to it.
Twenty-Five carpenters and masons
came in Monday night to work OH the
new elevator 1t must be completed
September first
Knut Kittleson has sold his home
stead, adjoining town, to Mr.. Peter E.
Nelson, salesman with John Syverson
& Co., who has built a house on it.
Mr.. j. G. Evans, of Valley City, took
q trip, across country to Cooperstown,
with the editor Thursday. He notices a
great.improvement in the city since he
yisited it last summer.
Messrs. Tucker and Lamb, of Mich
fgan, will open a general store in
Cooperstown this fall. They have pur-
chased half section of land and several
lots from Cooper Bros.
Mrs. Catherine Ashby, who was
examined as to her mental con-
dition some weeks since, has lately
set fire to her husbands stable. The
The commissioners Of insanity went out
to their farm Tuesday.
Holland & Rukke, the enterprising
machine men, have stack OF binding
twine about the size of the smallest
pyramid of Egyp6. The amount Of
twine used in harvest in q county like
Griggs is something wonderful.
Chas. johnson, of Willow. brings lis
in oats from his own field feet 2 inches
in height, with beads twenty inches Long.
He has lately been through Caas and
Traill counties and has seen nothing in
the way Of cereals that compares with
the Gricgs county crops. He reports q
difference of several inches in favor OF
Griggs county wheat.