Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-03-23

St. Patrick's Day was duly observed
by those who are in the habit of cele-
brating everything that comes along.
The green ribbon was strictly in evil
dence.
~@ DIR. Featherston, the pain
N8641} less dentist, will be at
Cooperstown on Mon, %, Tues. 81,
We'd. q. Thurs, p, of March.
D. C. Best arrived from Farming
ton, Mimi. last Saturday, and il
again at his old post in Berg Bros. &
Co. 8 store. We are all pleased to
see Dave back again.
Ndouis Berg returned home from the
east last Friday. with Car load OF
fine horses. Messrs. Berg Bros &
Co., import nothing but good sound
stock and are selling them out very
fast.
Rev. e. S. Ryan, presiding elder:
visited this charge last Saturday and
SUNDAY and conducted the regular
quarterly services. Mr.. Ryan is a
good speaker and preached two very
good sermons.
r.. W. Johnson, Gust Olson's A No.
I tailor, is getting up q new bicycle suit
that promises to be the ''swellest" of
its kind that ever came over the pike.
He will give dress parade PERSONAL
ly when he gets his suit made.
Fole,'s Honey and Tar Cougl, Me.ii-
cine is unquestiOnahly the best
remedy for the i'hroat and
lungs. Pleasant I" take
and is GUARANTEED.
H. Fl BATEMAN Il Co.
vJacob Prydz, who has been con-
nected with w. G. Jimeson's establish
ment for over a year. has gone to the
ranch to work for Il. G. Cooper.
Jake is good man to put any place
where there is any work TO be done.
Rev. H. j. Colwell. of Minneapolis,
representing The Northwestern Con-
week soliciting subscriptions for that
excellent church periodical. Mr.. Col
we'll secured quite q number Of sub
scribers at this place.
If reports amount to- anything the
club dance at the engine house hall
last Friday night was by all odds the
best of its kind given this winter.
About twenty-five couple attenced and
a very fine time enjoyed. Supper was
served by N. A. Ness. Messrs. An
derson, Reite and Lewis Brown furn-
ishod thu. mnsic
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC!-We, the
undersigned merchants Of Coopers-
town. N. D., agree to close our re-
spective places of basiness at the hour
of 8 p. M, from March 18th to Aug.
LIST, 1899. Saturday excepted.
Peter E. Nelson. Anton Enger,
John Syverson. Gust Olson,
G.. T. Whidden. Berg Bros. & Co.,
Hammer & Condy, F. A. Mayer & Co.
w. c. Jimeson.
v That Judge liver Udgard, Of Rom
ness, is going into farming operations
in earnest this spring is evidenced by
the fact that Messrs. Hammer & Condy
sold him last Thursday 1850 worth
of horses and machinery. Mr.. Udgard
purchased four AZ fine horses as ever
we're hitched to harness, the animals
weighting about l60Olbs each. Mr.. I'd
gardis buying good stock andgood ma
chinery. He needs a good wife now to
be strictly in it.
A party of seventeen new settlers
from Iowa drove over to the new town
of Melby last Saturday aud after
looking over the country purchased
1900 acres of land in Foster and
Eddy counties. The way land is be-
ing gobbled up is right. every day
new sales being recorded. Up at
Blooming Prairie where eight or nine
settlers have held sway for many
years. new settlers are pouring in and
we are told nearly every quarter lin
that neighborhood has been taken up.
Foster. Eddy, Wells and Griggs
counties will experience big boom in
new settlers this year that will materi-
ally change the conditions all around.
ATTENTION FARAdERs!-Do you de-
sire to secure hundreds of sample cop
les of agricultural journals. maya
zines, newspapers. books. catalogues
and circulars of the latest improved
farm implements and machinery. and
be kept posted on improved seeds and
stock. for two years or more? If so,
send us your name with ten cents i'll
silver and we will insert the same in
the American Farmers Directory,
which goes whirling all over the Unit
ed States to publishers, merchants
and manufacturers. You will get
more good reading matter than you
could purchase for many times the
small cost of ten cents. We want
every farmers name in the United
States in our Directory at once.
Address FARMERS DIRECTORY Co..
Dept. 1856. Birmingham, Ala.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. HASKELL had been
married thirty-tive years last Thurs
day, and to make the event one to be
remembered, Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Has.
kell assisted by the old veterans and
their wives and other members Of the
family put up surprise party on the
''old folks" last Thursday evening
that was a. genuine surprise and en0
mistake. When Mr.. and Mrs. Has.