Griggs courier., 1898-09-01

There will be no services at the
Baptist church next Sunday morning.
The pastor will preach in the evening
at So'clock. Sunday school at IL
o'clock.
The jamestown Capital plant will be
sold at chattel mortgage sale next
Saturday. It is not thought that
the plant will bring anything near
what it IL worth.
Griggsby' y's,rough riders, made up
of several companies from South Da-
Dakota and two companies from
North Dakota, are to be mustered out
of service right away.
We are pleased to state that Julius
Stevens is rapidly improving right
along under DIR. Brimi's skillful treat
ment, and in few days he will be
down town attending to business.
Charles Z. Mitchell has been APP
pointed postmaster at Jamestown, N.
D., to succeed G. A. Klaus, the pres
ent incumbent. The present post
master has made a very efficient Of
fetal.
Freight Agent G. r. Merritt, of the
Norther Pacific, came up from Fargo
Tuesday, to look around and see how
we were prospering. He seemed we'll
satisfied with the sutlook-for q good
freight traffic.
81. G. Champlin went out hunting
with Frank Retzlaff and his Lewellyn
pup Monday afternoon. He was SO
pleased with the dog that he made
Frank an offer for him and he now
owns the dog.
Theo. Marquardt has an offer from
a friend at Sheyenne, N. D., who
wants to start him up in the confec-
tionery business. Theo. is q good
boy and if he can get a good deal we
would advise him to take it in.
Miss Hattie Kins arrived in Griggs
county Monday of last week from
Buffalo county, Wis.,, and the same
day was united in marriage to Mr..
Christ Furaas, of Hannaford, Rev.
M. Must tving the nuptial knot.
The school board desires to call the
attention of the parent to the rule of
the board, requiring all children
entering the primary department to
enter school the first week of the open
ing term. After the first week no
pupil will be received.
Hon. David Bartlett recently re-
ceived a letter from Governor Devine's
private secretary saying that after
hearing the arguments in the case of
Iver Jacobson, who had applied for a
pardon, that the governor refused to
grant the pardon for the reasons pre-
sented In the argument.
A medicine company selling new
remedy for all the ills of life, called
Herbs OF, Health, are giving street
concerts and selling medicine every
evening this week. There are
three in the company and they furnish
some good singing to amuse the crowd
and incidentally sell few bottles of
medicine. The manager, DIR. West
fall, guarantees that the medicine will
cure as represented, or money re-
funded.
Fred D. Williams has made ap-
plication to the patent Office at Wash
ington for patent for an improved
wedding hoe that he has invented.
The hoe is three pronged arrange
ment. In the center is double blade
and on either side of that is single
blade. Tie inventor claims that the
hoe will cut the roots of weeds under
the surface of the earth without clog
ging up the ground as with common
hoe. He has good garden hoe and
II he secures a patent he ought to
make something out of it.
Mrs. David M. Coolidge, a form
er society belle of Boston and now
heiress to 81, 500, 900, is living on a
ranch thirty miles north of Bismarck
for the purpose Of obtaining a divorce
from her husband, and the people of
Boston are so shocked that their
breath comes in short pants. AS soon
as this Boston heiress can obtain a
divorce she is to marry a Mr.. Alfred
G. Lewis, who is now in this state
anxiously awaiting our courts to give
him chance to file a lien on that
million and a half of bean city money.
The Courier is in receipt of a
complimentary ticket to the state fair
at Mandan and in the same letter is q
couple of columns of free advertising
for the fair-which we are expect
ed to publish Il, nav for tho comnN.