Griggs County courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1885, 1885-01-09
Around Town.
C. 7. Whidden is out again.

&C. 7. Whidden is out again. '
Attorney jacobson spent the holi- q
lays in Minneapolis. !
The Darlington branch stops within
our miles of AIinnewaukan.
Charlie Cooper has been slightly un- :.
Ter the weather the past week. 4,
Mr.. A. NJ. Sinclair, of Mont Clair,
vas in town Monday, on school busi-
ness.
Rev. David Writ, of Cleveland, is
holding series of religious meetings in
Cooperstown.
REC Cooper and F.B. Edwards made
a trip to st. Paul last week after court
house furniture, returning Monday.
-Greenleese & Cox have traded
"Wild Bill'' with Sylvester Flick, for
a 2:4O nag to use on their delivery
wagon.
Assessor E. w. Wylie, of Barnes
county, arrived in Cooperstown Tues
day night, returning to Valley City on
Wednesday.
e. T. Jordan. graduate If McMas-
ters Hall, Toronto, formerly of Nova
Scotia and Manitoba, will preach at the
church Sunday.
-Whidden Bros. of Cooperstown,
during the year just past, paid the
Northern Pacific over $1,000 for freight
on general merchandise.
Jack Flynn, the accomplished dis
penser of cheerfulness atthe Palace, has
been laid up with an inflamed eye for
several days, the result of "a cold.
The firm of Gallinger & &Lee.proprie-
tors of the Sanborn hotel, has been dis
solved, Mr.. Gallinger assuming the pro-
etorship.-Enterprise
commissioner n. C. Rukke was in
town attending the session of the board
of commissioners during the early part
of the week, and dropped in to wish us
a happy new year.
MIR. Henry Retzlaff, the genial land
lord of the Union, was presented by his
boarders, under the leadership of John
McD with magnificent gold
headed cane, New Years.
M. J. Davis has returned from q
visit to Michigan. Except a little touch
of chills and fever, from which he will
soon recover in our magnificent climate
he is feeling we'll, and reports good
time.
j. NJ. Burrell, manager of the Barnes
Comfy Bank, departed last week for the
east and south. He will first visit his
old home at Greensburg, Pa, and from
thence proceed to Florida and New Or
leans.-Sanborn Enterprise.
Mr.. Chas. H. Johnson. the genial mer
chant of Willow, was in town Wednes
day, and left some dollars for CoUR
TER subscriptions. The Willow peopl,
complain of their defective mail service
They ought to have atri-weekly mail.
The boys over at the ranch were II
have dance Tuesday night, and M
town boys were invited-only the ladies
1t is reported that Ben led al
OK home that night. Poor company. etc
The OK was one of those India-rubbe
hash oxen of R. C's.
From the number of minister
who have visited Cooperstown, Dl
Newell deduces that our people ar
either very wicked, or the crop Of d
vines, during the last year. was as prolifi
as the average Dakota wheat crop.
The genial and tireless general NORTH
western passenger agent of the G. NJ. i.
81. Paul railway, Mr.. w. II. Dixor
commences the year by an advertise
r ment of his road in the CouE
1 TER. Read it, and profit by its pract
cal wisdom.
8 e. ]. McMahon, county attorney c
Steele county. and resident of; Hope
appeared in court recently ard aske
that an order be issued. restraining tn
1 officers Of Steele county from removin
the records and offices from Hope t
l Sherbrooke. At the last election, az
3 cording to the returns. majo1 ~ vot
4 was cast for Sherbrooke, but the peopl
} of Hope set up claims of fraud and ii
regularity, and asked that the count
commissioners appear ard show caus
why the county seat should be re moved
, from Hope Judge Francis sign ed tn
order restraining the commits; ioner
! from acting in the matter.-Bis marcl
; Tribune.
There was man in another town
and he was wonderous wise, for whel
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