The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-21
FlIcKERTAlL NUGGETS.


fine cement sidewalks.
Dickinson-Some deep wells are be-
ing sunk at this place.
Dickinson.-Grey wolves killed .
full grown horse near here.
Bowbells.-The population around
here is increasing rapidly.
Lansford.-A barn fire almost start
ed serious confagration here.
Fargo.-Threshing is in progress in
the southern part of the state.
knox.-Tolley has just secured .
rallroad-and has two newspapers.
Minot.-A number of additional
rural routes will be established here.
Minot.-This place has voted in
favor of the issue of $4,000 school
bonds.
Bottineau.-Partridge hunting is
said to be good in the Turtle noun
tains.
Osnabrock.-Efort are being made
to establish a local telephone ex-
change here.
Churchs Ferry.-Our dealers are
said to have sold $4,000 pounds OF
Irvine this year.
Jamestown.-At Spiritwood Lake q
skunk suicided by getting its head
in a salmon can.
Bottineau.-The farmers are inter-
esting themselves in a mutual hail in
surance company.
Antler.-A man who attempted to
establish a joint here was glad to
get out of town.
Williston.-The fire apparatus has
arrived and has been duly paraded
through the Streets
Towner.-There are complaints over
the way the street crossings are
blocked by freight trains.
Sawyer.-The business men have
succeeded in getting good road es-
tablished south of that town.
Casselton.-Lisbon has a tannery
and the citizens are wearing clothes
pins on their nasal organs.
Fargo.-There is an effort being
made on the part of the breeders to
have more hogs raised in the state.
Minot.-There has been an effort
to reopen some of the gambling
houses that were closed by the police.
Edgeley.-Mrs. H. w. French was
badly scalded while prying of the
top of a can filled with boiling water.
Wilton.-A couple of small boys
quarreled while playing, and chops
ped each other up a good deal with
hatchets.
Minot.-The city has granted a
franchise for central heating plant
1oonV
power plant.
Grand Forks.-The people are petit.
tioning the city council to dig up
$1,000 annually for the maintenance
of a brass band.
Wahpeton.-The cement stone
plant is compelled to shut down to
allow the laborers to Ego thrashing''
for higher wages.
Devils Lake.-Bert Ohmstead, a
farmer, sold two townsites on his
farm, one to the Farmers road and
another to the 500.
Jamestown.-Audito Blewett has
issued ninety hunting licenses so far,
about half of the number issued at
this time last year.
Munich.-The football training of
Banker-Attorney Burdiclz stood stead
the other day when he captured an
escaping blind pigger.
Fargo.-Farmers are warmly urged
to organize on the grain proposition
and wear some of the diamonds now
worn by the grain dealers.
Fairmont.-The first load of wheat
sold here was an excellent yield, but
the presence of smut in the grain
knocked the grade a point.
Dickinson.-A lot Of native horses
from the ranges in the western part
of the state have been sold to the
valley farmers this summer.
Fargo.-Some of the farmers pro-
tested against the date of the state
fair and thought it should have been
held after the rush of harvesting was
over.
Observation-Disclosures of Agri-
culture Gilbreath is getting some
swell notices from the state press on
the folder he has just issued adver-
Using the resources of the state.
MISUNDERSTANDING to the local
papers A. c. NlcGillivray has sold
two more townships of land in the
western part of the state, which, ac-
cording to latest computation from
his own statements, makes 172 town
ships sold this year.
Wahpeton.-The people of Rich
land county are preparing for great
fair to be held here Oct. 4, and 6.
Great interest is being displayed and
as the harvest will be out of the way
by that time there should be Moth
ing to stand in the way of big
attendance and successful fair
Rolette.-There is said to have been
lot of confusion over the title to
lots here, the new 500 town in Ro-
lette county, and the point selected
for the county seat.
Jamestown.-A.M Mckenzie is expert.
menting on his own account with a
variety of seeds which he believes
can be growh to better advantage
here than elsewhere.
Jamestown.-The occupants of the
Gladstone hotel were alarmed by
fire which starte!. in the rear of the
building. The blaze was confined to
a small area, and did little damage.
Rugby.-The Northern Pacific is
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