The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-19
FLlcKERTAIL NUGGETS.

up lot Of land in this neighborhood.
fargo.-Our new pump has been
tested and found all that was wanted.
knox.-A hobo fell off the rods Of a
passenger car and lost foot as a re-
suit.
spiritwood.-Roy Humbly went out
after duck and shot off one of his fin
| gers.
Norwich.-Miss Jessie Newcomb
walked into an open cellar aud broke
rib.
Glover.-N. P. Rasmussen had dur
UNI wheat which averaged twenty nine
bushels.
Fargo.--An ice palace is suggested
as an amusement feature for Fargo
this winter.
Maxbass-The wheat yields around
here are reported to average twenty
five bushels.
Llsbon.-The city now has two fine
artesian wells for a water supply for
| fire protection.
Dickey.-George Waldie lost foot
while endeavoring to extinguish a fire
In separator.
| Fargo.-A lady has picked two bar
refs or fine apples from six trees plant
ed seven years ago.
Aneta.-Mrs. Jones Offers a reward
In the Panorama of IS for every wolf
killed near her farm.
Buffalo.-Mail Carrier Masterson
was mixed up in a runaway and had
one of his ribs broken
La Moure.-A commercial club may
De organized IN n ha
OF investors to that section.
Fessenden.-Some toughs slugged q
woman who insisted on being paid for
meals the men secured in restaurant.
ansford.-Farmers near here are
said to have attempted to evade the
regulations regarding glandered horses.
Rugby.-"Cowboy" Shaw was held
on a horse stealing charge and sent
to the Devils Lake Jail for safe keep
Ing.
Lakota.-The new town of Tolley is
starting with concrete sidewalks from
the word go. That indicates enter
prise.
Sheldon.-A new rural route is to
be established out of here to carry
mall ito Coburn. Owego and other
points.
Jamestown.-It Is thought counter
letters are at work here a spurious $40
gold piece having been passed by q
woman.
Drake.-There Is a row here because
long strings OF boxcars are left on the
sidetrack and the people have to crawl
under.
McCumber.-The National elevator
sprung leak and about two hundred
bushels Of wheat was strewn on the G.
N. tracks.
jamestown. "A Stutsman County
man claimed to have secured yield
of flfty-eight bushels Of durum wheat
to the acre.
Fargo.-The North Dakota exhibit
that was at the state fairs Of Mime
sofa and Indiana will also be shown at
the Illinois fair.
Velva.-A dog undertook to inspect
q threshing machine in operation, and
twinkling of an eye.
Grand Forks.-Crosby is to get q
Great Northern branch from Palermo
and expects the extension OF the 500
to pass through that point.
Bismarck. - Congressman Marshall
has organized new bank at the town
of Forbes. He already has banks at
Cakes. Cogswell and Gwinner.
Bowbells.-The box car merchants
are doing a big business around here
and the farmers are passing up the
merchants who gave them credit.
Fargo.-Bank clearings for last
month amounted to $2,453,252, COM
pared with $2.146,148 for the month OF
September. 1904, q gain OF about Is per
cent.
Coleharbor.-The postofice depart
ment has ordered the removal Of the
postoffi.e from the old site occupied
for twenty-three years. to the new
Coleharbor on the 800"
Judson-About ten horses belonging
to Mrs. kueller had to be killed on ac-
count OF having CHAMBERS. 1t would be
we'll for all horse owners to keep
Careful Waterfront for this disease.
Jamestown.-A 15-year-old girl COM
Ing to st. Johns academy walked of
q passenger train near here, fearing
the train would not stop at the depot.
She was bruised but not seriously hurt.
Washington.-North Dakota post
masters Joseph A. Tuamme at Mar
tin. Mclean county, vice Andrew B.
Hanson, resigned, and John o. john
son at Mer, Ramsey county. vice P. L.
Solberg, resigned.
Jamestown.-Thec crop Of potatoes at
the insane asylum farm Is said to be
excellent. and the yield will be over
1000 bushels. They are being dug by
machinery and large force Of men
is ut work picking them up.
Fargo.-Just why the Northern Pa
ciilc named one of its stations after
the step-father Of the libel law is not
clear, but one Of the towns on the
Edgeley- Dawson branch will bear the
name of Streeter henceforth.
Linton.-An Emmons county man
has threshed 80 acres Of fax that
yielded 20 bushels to the acre. His
total investment, figuring his land at
ten dollars an acre, including the ex-
pense Of breaking, seeding and har-
vesting, was $1,2s8, and his gross re-
turns from the fax were over $l,400.
showing that he received in one year
$126 more than the cost Of the land
and the entire expenses. North Da-
kota is full Of such examples. and the
prospective homeseeker should take
notice.
Hazelton.-Some Indians swlped Q
dog near here, but the owner recap
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