The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-06-23
LOCALS.

LOCALS.
The County w. G. T. q. convention
opens next Tuesday at p. m. in the
Baptist church. The evening meet
ings will be held in the Opera House.
II the Temperance question has any
Importance it concerns everybody,
and has a claim upon your personal
attention. The day meetings will
have interesting features as well as the
evening. The open conference on
Wednesday afternoon will afford an
opportunity for free discussion of
views. Come and help consider this
question in its various bearings upon
the body polite. We are confident
the people, men and women, will give
it the consideration which its i'm
portance merits. Press Supt.
a lady observer says: II enjoy going
to the bail games only for one thing
and that is that you have got to sit
during the game with some man
either in front of you or near by who
persists in smoking and blowing the
smoke in your face. 1t seems to me
that any man with the instincts of a
gentleman would at least cut out his
smoking during the process of a game
where there are ladies. OF course the
grandstand is public place, but then
gentleman might get along without
this luxury for short time out of re-
spect for the ladies anyhow. I hope
the management will enforce the rule
OF no smoking in the grandstand as
passed by the Fair Association.
Binford and Cooperstown played a
game of ball on the home grounds
here lasts Friday afternoon. The
game was all one sided until the
eighth inning, Binford having six tai.
lies to Cooperstown's one. In the
eighth inning the locals succeeded in
crossing the rubber couple of times
more. In the ninth Binford was
shut out and Cooperstown started up
a batting streak and ran in four more
TALES winning the game by score OF
Z to 6. The poor base running of the
home team came near losing the game.
On several occasions some of the boys
had chance to score but were ap-
parently glued to the sack. What is
needed is coaching on base running.
Geo. Graft umpired and his work was
all right.
The fire department. returned home
last Friday from Darlington bringing
back with them several first prizes.
The boys made very creditable re-
cord and the town is proud of them.
The boys did not have as good a
time as they expected because the
Darlington people seemed to be pull.
ing against each other instead OF
uniting to make the meeting success
full. The boys coming in on the 500
walked mile or more to town with
no committee to meet them and. had
to hunt their own accommodations.
The prices were decidedly high toned
and the whole affair was punk. When
a town asks for an affair of this kind
it ought to be united and try. to do
the right thing. We don't blame the
boys for burying the town.
The W. G. T. U. convention for
Barnes and Griggs counties will. be
held at Cooperstown next Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. The local
union intends to make this conven-
tion pleasurable one to all concern
ed. A very neat and interesting pro.
gram has been prepared for the &C.
casion. Everybody is invited to at
tend every session Of this convention,
and the ladies think that It will be in
teresting to all. The program for
Wednesday afternoon is Of more than
usual interest. Commencing at 2:30
there will be an open conference
"The Cooperation of Temperance
Forces" There will be talks ssFrom
Fraternal Standpoint" by Rev. O.
d. Purinton;'' "From an Educational
Standpoint" by Miss j. Hilda Feir-
ing; "From a Political Standpoint, "
by MIR. Perry A. Pickett, of Leal;
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