Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-07-27

Nessrs. Butler & Upton coume.ced
harvest vest srday, starting up teeir
binders III bar.ey Aeld.
A heavy wind storm blew OF part
Of the roof OF the state capital At Bis
marck last Friday night. Loss 5000.
A. J. Johnson 10 new clerk at p.
E. Nelson's hardware emporium. He
has charge Of the bicycle repairing
department.
Charley Hart. of jamestown, was
an arrival at Cooperstown Monday
afternoon. He will assist Manager
E. w. Blackwell in the lumber yard.
Brick work on the Syverson block
is going forward slowly. Contractor
Carlander is unable to get experienced
bricklayers-too much work in the
country.
Ask your grocer for sack of
Phipps' Best, it is the standard Of
purity.
Z. 81. Blackwell, who has been ASST ST.
ing Manager E. w. Blackwell the past
few months, has gone to Jamestown
to occupy position in the lumber
bot
Fred Maver proposes to live in a
home OF his Own. He has purchased
six lots on the corner opposite County
Auditor Melgard and will build q
house in the near future.
The summer school will end tomor-
row. The teachers speak very highly
OF the conductors, Prof. j. II. Calla-
han and Miss Kibbey and say that
they have enjoyed a very profitable
aud instructive session. The town
will Le quiet after the school ma'ams
leave
w. L. Hoover, principal of the
Park River schools, was visitor to
the summer school at this place last
Thursday and Friday. Mr.. Hoover
is also editor of the North Dakota
branch of the Western Teacher, a
monthly devoted to educational
interests.
An Arkansas editor who read that a
lady in New York ''kneads brea.l with
he' gloves on," remarks: 1--WE need
bread with our pants on; we need
bread with our boots on, and if our
subscribers who are in arrears don't
soon pay up, we shall need bread with
out anything on"
Attend to your teeth when DR..
Featherstone comes up in July as he
will make special low prices for this
time on all operations. Dentistry
in gold and silver fully warranted.
Prof. ]. A. Mckenzie gave free
concert and exhibition with his piano.
harp at the courthouse Monday nigh,
to quite large audience. The Prof. il
an artist with the instrument and
entertained his audience in great
shape. A class of pupils on the in
strument assisted by him and very
creditably executed the parts assigned
to them
j. II. McDermott: l enjoved my
trip to West Superior very much.
The people of that city are the most
enterprising and social people ever
met. The excursionists from North
Dakota were royalty entertained and
nothing was too good for us. We
shall al ways have a good word to say
of the people of West Superior. My
opinion is that of all the excursionists
IRON Cooperstown. ~
The ball club returned home early
Sunday morning from Darlington
where they played two games of ball
with the team over there, but the
Cooperstown banners was trailing in
the dust of defeat. The score of the
first game was 20 to 10, of the second
Is to IL. Darlington getting both Of
them. Judging from the score it mus,
have been q poor exhibition of ball
playing all around. What Coopers.
town needs, and needs badly, is a
pitcher, then we would have crack.
ing good ball club. We understand
Darlington will play two games here
at the picnic.
Lightning struck the house of Mrs.
Art Know, of Cottonwood, last Satur.
day night about 9 o'clock or little
after and the building with most Of
the contents were burned to the
ground. Her two little girls were
stunned and were unconscious fol
several hours. The clothes were
torn off the breast of one of the child
rem and the child's body burned down
to the waist. The other little girls
eyes were affected and she could not
Ohen them We are told that both