Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-03-16

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goods for his patrons.
WANTED-man and wife to work on
my farm this summer.
Sec. 1O-l45-81. MAT TH1EL.
There is evidence that Cooperstown
will experience quite building boom
the coming season. Let her boom. "
Mr.. H. c. Ames, OF Helena. recently
returned from an extended visit to
Wisconsin-glad to get back of course.
Married-in Cooperstown. March
10th, 1889, by Rev. E. T. Silness. Mr..
PetaYKelgaard and Miss Anna .Jor-
genson, both of Broadview, Griggs
county. The Courier cor graduates.
The S., A. NJ. N. club met at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. E. Warner
last Wednesday evening and the time
spent in playing cards. Miss Eckstein
exhibited the most skill and secured
the high score pin.
The next union temperance meeting
will be held on Sunday ev. ming March
26th at the congregation church,
at which the prize tenpera nee essays
will be read by the writer's. Special
music. The public is invited.
Hon. David Bartlett and wife re-
turned home yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Bartlett has been away for seven
months and her numerous friends are
pleased to welcome her home again
To the public: Hereafter and until
further notice mail closes at $50 a. m.
As it takes quite few minutes to
make up the mail all letters brought
to the postotfice after that time will
hold over until the next day. Under.
the present schedule people have
plenty of time to get, their mail into
the office uD to that time.
Prot. B. K. Clinic. who is lecturing
ON human science in Wisconsin. will
deliver lecture entitled .'The
Microcosm' or mans place in nature,
March "a. This will be a lecture that
you cannot afford to miss. Our peO-
pie should turn out and give our
tOwnsman a good audience.
The folio wing appeared before the
county superintendent to take the ex-
animation last Friday and Saturday:
Messrs. Il. C. Taylor, S. H. Holland,
George Graf, Will Sinclair, Misses
Clara Brown. Daisy Williams, Bertha
Soniu, Lilyan Haskell, Ethel New
berry, Caroline Halvorson, Edith
Anderson. Betsy johnson and Clara
Nelson.
Next Saturday and Sunday will be
the fourth and last quarterly meeting
occasion in the M. E. church for this
conference year. Services as follows:
Saturday afternoon, 1, quarterly CON
ing at II O'Clock, followed by the
Lords supper. Again in the evening
at 6:30 p. M. Epworth League and
love feast followed by preaching.
Rev. S. Z. Ryan, of jamestown will
officiate at all services.
The new Northern Pacific coast fly
ers were put in motion last Sunday
necessitating n new time card all
along the main line and branches.
The Cooperstown branch Jared we'll in
the change. The train now leaves
here at I a.. IN. and returns to Coop
erstown at 1925. This is q very con-
venient card and will give the travel
ing men a chance to get breakfast and
dinner and thus place and incidental
ly turn afew half dollars into the pocket
Of the general landlord of the Palace
hotel, Fred Stone.
The business men have all put their
signatures TO the early closing
petition, and from this time on until
August 1st, the stores will close at
D. m. This is y move in the right
direction and we feel that every one OF
our merchants will be gamers in the
end by 80 doing. The clerks will be
given chance to enjoy an hour or
two, these nice summer evenings that
are coming and we feel sure that each
and every one of them'will work hard
er for the interests of their employers.
The boys appreciate tie concessions
of the merchants very highly.
The "perfect man, is somewhat OF a
moral coward or he would have at
tached his name to the half column of
slush that he penued. The trouble
with the aforesaid egotistical chunk
of humanity is that he and a few
Others of his crowd 'scan't see the
beam that is in their own eyes," We
can assist them in pulling the beam
out if they want any mud-sllnging
done. s'fbe perfect man." in his
usual underhanded manner, rushed in
to print in last weeks Sentinel and
wilfully and maliciously accused a
person of writing an item in the
Courier two weeks previous when the
little narrow-minded pinhead knows
we'll that no one but the editor of this
paper wrote the item.
The D. S. B. Johnston Land Mort
gage Company are building a hotel or
land seekers home at Melby on Sec:
5-l47-62, in the northeast portion OF
Foster county. The carpenters and
lumber are now on the ground and the
work will be rapidly pushed to COM
nletion. Mr.. E. Hohneck is in
charge of the work for the company
and informstheC Concentrating building
will be 3Ox4O, two stories high, with a
one story kitchen attachment. In ad-
dition a good barn and other outbuild-
ings will be built and the place will be
made comfortable in every way for
home seekers and others who favor it
with their patronage. Sixty thousand
sI .f I,,.olo,, ,v;jl ha ,,aad in the