The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-11-02
fLrckeRrA,L NUGGETS.


Rugby.-A lot of fakirs have been
working the people.
Dunseith.-The creamery will get
the milk of $50 cows.
Towner.-The postoffice has adde's a
lot of new equipment
Rugby.-This place is the first place
to report traces Of ice.
Minot.-There is a row because stock
is permitted to run at large.
Minot.-Safe blowers tappe' :ne flour
mill but only got $12 for their dyna-
mite.
Edgeley-Hon. L. A. Iceland has
grown a number Of varieties of fine
apples this year.
Fargo-McClusky has organized a
fire company and burned a fire break
around the town.
Fargo-The mills are getting all the
grain they want while the elevators
are filled to the roofs.
Oberon.-Some tough people who
were camping in a tent near here were
run in by the officers.
Flaxton.-A big machinery ware
house belonging to Arnold & Rebstock
was destroyed by fire.
Wyndmere.-A.d drunken man was re-
moved from the train and placed in
Jail until he could sober up.
Fargo-Berthold has the longest
loading platform along the line-and
independent shippers are rejoicing.
Hunter.-A plow foundry may be es-
tablished to manufacture a pillow in
vented by citizen of that town.
Forman.-Andrew Gunderson, q
thresherman, fell under the wheels of
the engine and was killed near here.
Observation-Disclosures Frank Ko-
MIA was instantly killed at Darlington
when switching in the yards there.
Kensal.-A 17-year-old boy was
killed by a freight train. Got in front
of cars being shunted onto a siding.
Afinot.-An analysis of the deep we'll
water reveals the presence of SO much
alkali as to render the water unfit for
use.
Mandan.-Yields of fifty-four bushels
of fife wheat to the acre are reported
in the Little Heart valley in this
county.
Fargo.-Farmers are beginning to
complain of boys robbing their apple
trees. That sounds strange in North
Dakota.
Rugby.-Minot people are worried
over the water supply. The new wells
do not seem to have resulted as we'll
as hoped for. -
Glenburn.-The Advance states the
wheat around here is going from twen-
ty to twenty-five bushels per acre and
grades No. / northern.
Jamestown.-The old steel cage
which has done duty in the county
court house has been cut down to iii
and placed in the city Jail.
Minot.-Overly, one of the new
towns on the 500, has made applica-
ton for Incorporation and claims a
population of $50.
Wahpeton.-The Richland county
fair was great success. Among other
good things there were over 100 ex-
hibits of corn.
Fargo.-Most of the business mems
clubs of the state have been taking
a vacation during the summer months
but with the advent of cold weather
Their activity means much to the
state.
Grafton.-Agent Grace has held down
the Great Northern station here since
1882, and in all that time he never
before had so few cars in the yards
as one day last week, when the total
stock consisted of one box car and a
hand car.
Fargo.-1n the central and western
sections of North Dakota some large
yields Of durum wheat have been re-
ported, and in nearly every instance
the growers state they will seed more
next year. I.
Fargo.-M. r. Swanson, North Da.
kota member Of the Wisconsin ware
house commission, says the farmers Of
the Dakotas should build large ele-
vator at Superior and thus break the
back of the Minnesota grain combina.
ton.
Grafton.-A boarder at hotel ac-
cumulated too much booze and created
a disturbance that he was arrested.
He had to pawn his watch to get out
Sarles.-While excavating for the
500 right of way near here coffin
was unearthed. Old settlers stated it
was the burial place of a woman who
died in that vicinity fifteen or twenty
years ago. ~
Center.-The Republican says that
during July the Center creamery paid
to its patrons $1,163. A few moro
scattered around the country like this
would make everyone more prosper
Gus.
Minot.-1t looks as If the gang Of
cattle thieves which has been operat-
ing for long time in the northwestern
part Of the state had about reached
the end of its tether. It is charged
that men of considerable local promi-
hence are implicated in its operations.
Center.-Fire fiends visited the
homes of Bernard Meyer, Frank Saun-
ders, D. Saunders, l.. Landice. Mr..
Faince and several others on last Sat-
urday night, and set fire to the hay
and grain stacks on each place.
Bismarck.-The clock presented to
the officers of the steamer Dakota,
seems to have been appreciated by
them, according to a letter sent Gov.
Sarles, who made the presentation.
Minot.-The receipts of the United
States land Office for the month Of
September was $34,041.96, which was
an increase Of over $4,000 compared
with the receipts of the corresponding
month last year.
Fargo.-Two or three state banks