Griggs courier., 1898-03-18
Yesterday VA. St. PATRICK. Day.

Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day.
Wauted-S pigs about 2 months old
Enquire at Palace Hotel.
i We have been enjoying typical
March weather this week-a regular
equinoxial period.
| Engineer Costello is taking . vaca.
ton for q few days. and Engineer
Gran Is taking Toms place in the
meantime.
Lawyer Baldwin: Why is heaven
like church at midnight.
DR.. Winsloe: Because there isn't
a damned soul in it.
The Courier called Mr.. H. A.
Williams, editor and proprietor of the
Steele County Tribune, a ssconsum-
mate ass.'' A good label but a mighty
poor libel.-Golden Slope.
A. 81. Berg returned home Monday
afternoon after a absence of a month.
] He went away to get medical treatment
and says he is feeling much better.
He brought back with him ten head of
fine farm horses.
4 papers gloss starch for 25c at
Jimeson's.
Evangelist, Ed Bye will preach lin
the Scandinavian language) at the
Congregational church 10 night and
Tomorrow night at O'Clock, also at
the M. E. church Sunday night at 1880.
Music by string band. Welcome!
The wind was a heavy one Monday
night and blew perfect gale all night
long. The north gable of Monson &
Johnson's livery barn was blown in,
several chimneys we're blown down,
and lumber piles in the yards were
scattered around,
DR.. Featherston, the painles
dentist. will be at Cooperstown on
Tues. We'd, Thur. Friday, Mar.22,
%, "a and Is.
N M. L. Ruggles dropped in Wednes-
aey morning to inform the Courier that
there were five boys at his home.
Louis was a little bit ratified and
meant that a new boy baby arrived at
his home Wednesday morning, which
makes five boys all told.
Rev. B. A. Burns leaves next month
for the annual M. E. conference. The
Courier hopes that the appointing
power will again locate Mr.. Burns at
Cooperstown. The reverend gentle
man is q hard working pastor and is
popular with his congregation and the
people generally.
l have another barrel of that fancy
Tennessee sorghum.-Ji
| Mayor johnson, of Fargo, sends us
a membership receipt up-in the
North Dakota Tax League, and wishe.
us to use the Courier in the interest:
of the League. The Courier know.
very little of the organization. but i
it is found to- be as represented vii
cheerfully do what it can toward at
tanning the end desired.
The annual immigration of Dunk
ards from the older states to Nortl
Dakota has commenced. Last week a
train load of settlers and their house
hold goods, stock and farming imple
ments arrived at Grand Forks on the
Great Northern and were sent out tc
Knox, Nelson County, where they viii
locate. The party came from the
vicinity of Melbourn, Iowa. The
Great Northern expects 5000 Of these
settlers to North Dakota this spring
DR.. S. B. Langford, Registered Vet
erinary Surgeon. Office at S. Aim.
klov's drug store. All calls promptly
attended to.
A young Valley City physician took
his best girl to the concert short
time ago. The curtain was late in
raising and the young lady complain.
ed76f feeling faint. The doctor smiled
s#eetly upon her, took something out
of his vest pocket and whispered to
her to keep ''the tablet in her mouth
but not to,aswallow it. She shyly
placed it on her tongue and rolled il
over and over, but it would not dis.
solve; she felt better, however. Sc
when the show was over she slipped
the tablet in her glove, being quite
curious to examine at home this tast-
less substance which had given her
such relief at the concert. When alone
! in her room she pulled off her glove
and out came a-pants button.
Record of Boys Brigade weekly
| shoot made with @ Stevens rifle al
forty-fve feet, target one foot in dia-
meter, with bull's-eye one inch in
diameter. This record is out of a