The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-04-20

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feed mill and lost one thumb.
Work has been started on the Great
Northern extension out of Towner.
A runaway team at New Rockford
badly damaged the trees in the park.
At Hunter it costs 10 cents to call up
a person by telephone after 9 o'clock.
Some Wisconsin farmers have sent
to North Dakota for spring wheat for
seed.
Accidental shooting at Devils Lexe
nearly resulted in the death of a young
lady.
Enderlin and Sheldon-seven miles
apart-may have joint electric light
plant
Efforts are being made to complete
the erection of the Catholic church at
Pingree.
Washburn is to have another ele-
vator to replace the one recently
burned.
At st. Thomas the school year will
be ten months instead of nine, as for.
merly.
Liberal rewards are offered in the
slope country for the capture of horse
thieves.
Health officers in some towns are
getting strenuous on the cleanup
proposition.
Some opposition is developing at
Casselton to the new school building
proposition.
Lakota followed the illustrions ex-
ample of Hankinson and arrested some
local burglars.
The N. p. is after people who have
been stealing from the road around
Jamestown and west.
The trucks broke off the tender of .
Great Northern train at Cando, but an
accident was averted.
It is said the Hankinson thieves are
the parties who stole four horses from
Wheatland two years ago.
Hoodlums broke glass in the high
school buildings and the Congrega-
tional church at Jamestown.
Some Sheldon hunters crawled
the mud long distance and
got shot at somebody's
Prairie fires will be less frequent in
the western part of the state now that
the country is settling up SO rapidly.
A small boy at Willow City rode
horse to water, fell off, was stepped
on, and the doctor patched up the
broken bones.
A Casselton man is said to have i'm
vented an attachment for a harrow
that will bring him fortune and the
users comfort
A Pembina. boy fell on the ice and
fractured his collar bone. The frac-
ture did not knit satisfactorily and
had to be broken over and reset.
Spiritwood lake is 20 inches below
its normal level this spring. The lake
is fed by springs, and the dry weather
has caused these to fall to some extent
Churchs Ferry business men who
went to Minneapolis to interview the
500 officials regarding townsite privi-
leges, returned very much disappoint-
ed.
Charles E. Wilhelm, travelling man
who resides in Minneapolis, was killed
near the village of Kensal, being struck
by the 500 train while crossing the
tracks just east of the village.
The proposition to bond the city of
Grand Forks for $50, 600 for the install
lation of q municipal electric light
plant was carried by a vote of AT to
$40. The $4,000 funding bonds car
ried by large majority.
Minot people are reminded of old
times by the sight of q four-ox team
stone for the foundation of
the Leland hotel annex. The oxyteam
is pretty slow outfit, but it has Helped
to lay the foundation for many COM
fortune.
The business men at Casselton and
have organized what they
term the Cass County Agricultural So
ciety and will hold a county fair at
Casselton july 20 and 90. A stock
company has been formed, and already
all of the stock has been subscribed.
y A peculiar incident happened to JAS
Fraser of Sherwood while he was
up bunch of cattle ut the
Fraser farm. His horse stumbled in
such manner as to allow Fraser's foot
to strike the ground, recovering in
time to avoid fall, but broke Fraser's
leg above the ankle. He did not even
lose his seat.
Fargo is having some trouble with
the enforcement of the peddlers' IL
cense law, and it is necessary to arrest
a man occasionally to keep the fact
that there is such a law before the
public.
It is an unusual thing for sheepmen
in western North Dakota to sell their
wool before it has been taken from the
sleeps back, but that is what they are
doing this year. Already 200, 600
pounds of wool tributary to Dickinson
have been sold to Philadelphia house
at 20 cents q pound. This is cents
higher than the prices paid here last
year.