Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-07-10
HANNAFoRD.

And the eagle screamed, and then
screamed some more, and becoming
somewhat hoarse towards morning
some OF the boys turned in and slelped.
A fair day, q good crowd and pro-
gramme sums up the results of Hanna
ford S first celebration. A good many
trees had been brought from the river.
stands and stores were prettily deco
rated, while ''Old Glory was dis
played in every conceivable position.
Exercises commenced by reading of
the Declaration of Independence and
q few remarks by w. S. Hyde. A
totally deaf man who was present said
it was the finest effort he had ever
heard basing his opinion on the
rapidtiy with which the hah was
emptied. S. Almklov followed with
an address in Norwegian, which
seemed to strike the folks who UNDER
stood very favorably. An adjourn
ment was then taken to the race track.
lst was a pony race in which there
was seven entries. After one or two
attempts they got away in a bunch,
fought every foot of the ground and|
came in with o hair raising tinishV
This was repeated in the second heat.
The winner, w. Glaspell's Slim, hav-
ing only - few feet to spare over E.
Greenland's S Charlie. Horse race was
also good. In the first heat A. M.
Sinclair's frankie had q walk over
on account of Frank Paulson's Puss
boiling the track. The second heat
frankie lead to the third quarter when
Puss pulled ahead winning by a
length. Paulson tried the same tactics
in the third heat but waited q little too
long and only won by neck. The
trotting race will go down to posteri-
ty along with records of Maud S..
There we're two entries. E. Martin S
Dan Patchen, and Will Robertson's 8
Spotted Nell. They got away beauti-
fully AT the first quarter Martin was
adead but Robertson was near enough
SO that they compared notes on the
crops, respective merits of their sui
kies, ETC., etc. The half was reached
in about two minutes. From this out
the black drew ahead finishing some
six lengths to the good. Time, about
six minutes. Time cannot be correct
ly given as the man holding the watch
went to sleep and could not be walked
until the horses had passed the wire.
Next was the ball game between the
Helenas and a picked up nine which
at first was called Hannaford but was
soon dubbed Cooperstown by the
crowd. This So discouraged them
that the Helenas won as they pleased.
Score "a to 5, five innings. One of
the Helenas wants to know if we don't
think that they could~do Cooperstown,
SO the Coooperstown boys must not be
surprised If they receive q challenge
some Of these days to play for $l00 a
side. Foot race was won by Robt.
Fluke. Potato race by G.. Idland.
Boys race, Geo. Mills. Fireworks
concluded the performance. This was
really the grandest display Of pyro-
technics we ever saw. 1t happened in
this wise: They were using a basket
rack from which to fire and had the
various articles thiclSly strewn over
the bottom. The second rocket they
let shot in the wrong direction, set fire
to some of the things, and in about
half minute exploded the whole shoot
ing match. Rome burning was
nowhere. The wagon was envcloped
in flames of many colors, with rockets,
Roman candles, pin wheels, and fiery
serpents shooting in all directions. 1t
took just q second for the large crowd
to disappear while one of the opcr-
ators took a flying leap from the
wagon, plunging headlong to the
ground just in time to escape being
bored by a large rocket. He was
found some Is minutes later in che
stock yards, feebly gasping for breath
and wondering where he was at.
The bowery dance was a high success,
the boys and girls hoeing it down ''till
broad daylight. All in all Hanna
ford can feel proud OF it's first attempt
at celebration. We only hope that
the next time the police force will be
larger SO that no more such accidents
as befell one of the Kittelson children
will occur. Some drunken fools be-
gan racing up and down the main
street crowded as it was, and the little
fellow was run ovel'having his head
bruised and three ribs broken.