The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-07-09

I Go to F1Rsr NATIONAL BANK for
your Farm Loans.
Lard! Lard! Pure kettle rendered
lard l0c per pound, for few days only.
Pioneer Meat Market.
tt e. e. DOwNE, Prop.
Supt. F. D. Hall Of the Fargo Chill
dren's Home, was in the city Tuesday.
He came up to get Johnnie Cole who
had skipped out from the place where
he had been placed by Mr.. Hall and
was taken back to Fargo.
Editor Irysh, of the Wheatland
Eagle was in the city during the ccle-
bration, and umpired the bail games
In his usual fair and impartial manner.
Mr.. Irysh is A No. 1 with the indica-
tor anu his work always gives satisfac-
tion.
Druggist Andrew Reite and Livery
man Fred Sinclair came down from
Portal to spend q day at our celebra-
tion. Mr.. Reite had not been back
here since he went to Portal aid was
surprised at the growth Of Coopers-
town.
f. II. Retzloff last Monday sold his
residence to Bert Parsons who will
take possession September LIST. Mr..
Parsons now possesses one of the best
houses in the town and we shall be
pleased to welcome himself and family
back to town.
Commissioner of Agriculture and
Labor r. j. Turner, accompanied by
Mrs. Turner and daughter, were the
guests Of Lieut-Gov. and Mrs. Bartlett
during the celebration and returned to
/ Bismarck Monday afternoon. They
were very much pleased with their
| visit to our city.
! The rain which visited this section
last Thursday was a good one and broke
| up the months drouth. Up to that
time crops were suffering for moisture
and the rain came in the nick of time
Should we have favorable weather with
plenty Of moisture we shall yet harvest
fair crop although the early sown
grain has been damaged some
I. The Fourth of July was not nois,
but passed of quietly and peacefully
The noisiest thing in existence ap
peared to be the caller at the bowery
dance and he seemed to think it was
. his duty to yell loud enough so that he
!, could be heard at McHenry. He !.
gifted with strong lungs and whooped
it up until about a. m. Sunday morn
ing.
II The circus with its shell games, red
lemonade, the big elephant and all the
extras that 60 with a circus will be
, with us next Tuesday. People will
spend 75c for an afternoon at the cir.
Gus but will kick like q mule ii they
are asked to pay SOC to see some good
races and fine stock exhibit. lncon
sistency lisa ruling passion with some
; folks.
o. v. Florea the catcher of the Han
naford ball team received crack in
the jaw from batted ball last Friday
during the game with Cooperstow1
that cracked his jaw bone in two places
and put him on the bleachers for a few
days. Oscar is enjoying jaw-ous time
for few days, but says he will be In
) shape to put it all over Cooperstowr
: the next time they play.
Il n. %. Nelson an old resident of thi.
,, county came in from Hettinger Co., Z
few days ago, where he has a fine farm
Mr.. Nelson took advantage Of the
homestead rush and located on the
Cannon Ballriver. Thisstrip ofcountry
= he says is being taken up very fast by
farmers and the whoop of the cowbo,
r will soon be thing of the past. r. r
land has all been bought up by specu
lators and sold for an advanced pric,
! (which ranges from 5 to 7 dollars pc
{ acre. The land is rich and productiv,
with but very little stone. The rai1
, fall is about the same as here. He say
5 all that country reeds lisa few of Grigg
county farmers who know how to til
$ the soil and reap the rich harvest. TIL,
country is new and young man would
: wish for nothing better than to liv,
v and grow up with that country, hav
s ing the same chance as us old time
had in 1872 and down to the presen
time.
3 Working Night AMI Day.
The busiest and mightiest littl'