Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-04-27
nANNAFoRD.

HANNAFORD.
The wet weather has delayed seed
ing operations and those that figured
on getting their wheat In in April are
making new forecasts.
Mrs. p. Craig and child came in on
Saturdays limited. And Craig is him
self once more.
C. Cederson has sold his town prop
erty to w. L. Cave.
Miss Colby unpacked her goods last
week, and is displaying fine lot of
spring goods. It makes US almost
sorry that we don't wear q bonnet.
The streets are pretty we'll deserted
these days, which must mean that the
farmers are finding something to do
at home.
Services at the Francis schoolhouse
we've we'll attended Sunday al
Though many did not know of the
meeting. BY next Sunday suitable
seating and tying ARA ngements viii
be made. Something over SS5U.OD has
been subscribed to the church fund.
Mrs. John Hunter, sister w. Rich
ardson came on Tuesdays train
Walter was getting proficient enough
so that he could get meal without
burning the water every time, but was
glad to drop the reins nevertheless.
Over $500 was distributed the past
week to a few farmers who held their
wheat wisely and we'll.
The express in passing over the
crossing Saturday, broke piece off
from the end of a rail four inches
long.
On our return from Kansas we were
relating some of our experiences while
there, and were asked why we didn't
write for the Courier while away and
tell the people what we saw. Now we
thought that pretty tough, after having
burned the midnight oil and used up
several ounces of our gray matter in
recording incidents of our trip. How
ever it maybe that some of the readers
of the Courier remember that we des-
cribed our journey to Kansas and that
as we passed through Missouri, the
home of Jessie James, thinking of
him and his exploits, two men in the
wee small hours of the night, entered
the car carefully closing the door be-
hind them. We caught the CLEAN OF
steele in the hands of one of them, and
the cold chills chased each other up
and down our spinal column as we
hastily slid our valuables down our
back, while one of them called out in
a voice loud enough to be heard all
over the car, 'sTickets please .
Well they got our tickets, but not UNI
til we had retired to the toilet
room and recovered them ourselves.
1t had been our intention, when we
boarded the train at Hannaford, to
send back our winter wraps, thinking
that in the sunny south, they would be
only an incumberance, but when we left
the train at Topeka, found the last of q
heavy fall of snow disappearing anil
shivered in the blasts of chilly air,
we were thankful enough that we had
them
Topeka, the capitol of Kansas is
a beautiful city of some 40, 900 inhabit-
ants. Intersected by three trunk lines
of railroads; having one of the most
magnificent capitol buildings in the
west; the home of several successful
colleges; it is city of which eastern
Kansas is justly prouc. One thing
that commended it to us in particular,
was its streets. They are nearly twice
as wide as the streets in ST. Paul and
off from the business streets there is q
strip of grass about q rod wide, set
out to trees between the curb and the
sidewalk. Some of the roads leading
into the city have a row of shade trees
through the center, and one can inn
agine that in the summer the effect
would be very pleasing.
We had an 18 miles drive ahead of
us after leaving Topeka, and got an
Introduction to Kansas mud. The
soil is a heavy clay, they don't do
much road work; use narrow tired
wagons, and when the mJd is thick it
will ball and roll up on wagon
wheel much as snow will when rolling
ball of it Well there wasn't any OF
the time but what we could see the
horses ears, and we got to our destin.