Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-01-26
LOCALS.


Senator Cooper returned to his
I duties at Bismarck Wednesday morn
! Ing.
Palmer Johnson left Tuesday MORN
ing for Minneapolis, where he will at
tend II business college for q term.
We have enjoyed unusually fine
weather the past week or ten days, and
what little snow we had has almost
disappeared.
as Wanted 1000 bushels of oats. Will
pay 25c per bushel cash.
j. C. FLYNN.
Master Norman Opheim hands in
40 cancelled stamps for Miss Mary
Wright. The young people are look
ing after Miss Wright's interest in
good shape.
DR.. Featherstonc, the dentist, is
again at the Palace Hotel, attending
tn his large list Of patrons. The
doctor never fails to put in an appear
sance 40 advertised.
Pearl Painter has been very low for
some days past, having had a
severe attack Of Peritonitis. We un-
derstand that he is on the mend and
practically out Of danger.
Up DIR. Featherston, the pain
+ 01Y4Yy1 less dentist, will be at
Cooperstown on Mon, %, Tues. "a,
We'd, o, Thurs. %. Fri. q of Janu-
airy.
Mr.. "a. /. Widlund, of Grand
/ Fopks, visited with his relatives here
part Of last week. Mr.. Widlund is a
member Of the Arm of Trepanier &
Co., druggists, Grand Forks and is
enjoying very nice business.
A motion 10 vacate the judgment
against Attorney Taylor Crum was
made before Judge Glaspell the other
day and the motion was denied. Mr..
Crum was disbarred from practice for
using Insulting language to a judge
while the court was in session
To those kind friends and neigh.
bors who ministered to the wants OF
4 my wife during her sickness and last
hours, and the many favors shown US,
we desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks.
A. E. SHuE and family.
Petrus Erickson lkeeived a telegram
from Minneapolis yesterday convey
Ing the sad intelligence of the death
! of Mrs. Peter Skanse which occurred
Wednesday. No particulars have
been received yet. The deceased
leaves husband and six children to
mourn her. The many friends of the
family in Cooperstown and Griggs
county extend heartfelt sympathy to
the stricken family.
The old Houghton schoolhouse
four miles vest of town, has been sold
y to Wilmot Houghton. Last Monday
the school board decided to build a
new schoolhouse to cost about 81 GOO
the present building being inadequate
/, to accommodate the number of pupils
from that district. Wilmot will move
the old building onto his farm to be
used as q residence until he, can get
his new home built.
Dr.sJ. A.. ii. Winsloe. Veterinary
Surgeon, graduate of the Ontario Vet
Urinary College. Office at 81. III. Bate
man & Co. Is drug store. All calls
promptly attended to. @
The Williston Press sums up the
week 8 happenings as follows: A wo
man shot in saloon Sunday morn
ing, another shooting scrape Sunday
afternoon, marriage of a woman forty
two to q boy Of twenty Sunday after
noon; Monday leading merchants
i hayez fist fight over game of cards
Tuesday horse-thief breaks Jail; Wed
nesday articles of incorporation o
: bank filed; Friday night eminen
merchants serenaded with tin pans
And still some people say there il
nothing going on in Williston.
The familiar rule that leap year il
every calendar year with q number
divisable by four will be broken il
1900, which fact need not be regarded
as an Indication that even then it viii
be time for q change. Then there il
no leap wear for eight years. Febru
airy, 1900, will have but twenty-eigh
days, the extra day not appearing
from 1928 TO 1904. Centenary year
are not leap years. That year will b
broken IL the leap year 1000, when tn
s interruptio ion may beregarded as an in
& dication that It Is time for q change
{ Centenary years divisible by 400 arr
leap years, consequently there wer'
trenty-nine days IN February, 1900
I and the same number OF days ii
4 Eehf,lar.v 20(()g and AGAIN II, 24OO