The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-09-28
FLIckEerAlL NUGGETS.
The ladies of Sharon may organize
0 brass band,,

dC the STATE Ialr.
Stutsman county is letting lot
j., of bridge contracts.
High wind delayed work on the
elevator at Medina.
Burglars are reported to have done
some work at New Rockford.
The Jones ticket swept everything
at the FIRST city election in Rugby.
Hoboes have bad habit in Barnes
| county of stoning railroad employees.
The Catholic church at St. Thomas
has been redecorated and greatly lm-
proved.
Thirty-two bushels of wheat per
acre is reported from Stutsman
i; county.
The Great Northern yards at Grand
Forks are being equipped with auto
matte switches.
Ward county prisoners are TO be
used in building cement walks
, around the courthouse.
The valuation of real and personal
property in Grand Forks is 100000
greater than last year.
Wild cranberries are said to grow
plentifully along the banks of the
Sheyenne in Eddy county.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested at
jamestown on the charge of steal
ing barley from box car.
A hunter near Hanaford was slight
" peppered with bird shot, but it
didn't interfere with his sport.
President Robertson is hard at
work gathering subscriptions for the
Methodist college at Grand Forks.
The Farmers and Merchants Ma;
tional Bank of Hatton, n. d., has
been authorized to commence bust
ness capital, $4,000.
Mayor-elect Jones of Rugby has
standing reward of $500 offered for
information leading to the convic-
ton of thieves stealing his cattle.
Hartell,- who accidentally shot Gil
mic near Dickinson, was discharged
from custody and acquitted OF all
blame in connection with Clinics
ueGth.
A house mover tore down the tele-
phone line and poles at Berwick and
was arrested. He was discharged on
the showing that the telephone people
refused to remove the wires.
The 500 will build a new passenger
depot at Kenmare if the city will
give the company the use of one OF
it's streets between the track and
the lake for additional track room.
At the farm residence of o. Nesset,
near Crazy, Mrs. Christine Tollefson,
mother of Mrs. Nesset, aged IS years.
and blind. fell from a second story
window, sustaining injuries from
which she died an hour later.
While hunting badger in COM
pany of his twin brother, near Bal
four, Henry Bernes, lad ID years
of age. was accidentally shot with a
90 calibre rife, the ball passing with
in quarter of an inch of his heart.
Returns from all sections of the
state indicate that the chicken crop
is one of the poorest on record. Va
rious explanations are offered, but
no matter what the cause, the fact
seems to be that the chickens are not
there.
Thomas Carney, founder of Emer-
in Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 9th, aged 72
years, was well known by all the old
settlers along the lied river, and was
OuC VI IAOSC A1Au VI 1uOA ANVANA "
start any country going.
Des Laos is to be stocked with
black bass, twenty-five gallons of
young fish being planted as trial.
A telephone lipeman broke his
shoulder at Balfour by tumble from
a pole. He had served in the Boer
war without scratch, and thinks
peace is more dangerous.
Miss Amelia Koth has been digging
a we'll on her claim this week, says
the Medina. Citizen, and is using the
dirt from the excavation to bank the
mouse for the winter. Miss Koth is
doing the work herself, and is max
ing a good job of it, say those who
have seen her at work there in the
evening.
4 Jas. Bartho and Jacob Martin, who
reside near Bathgate, went to Hun
gary, their native country, some time
ago to collect an inheritance. A let
ter from them states that Martin
has been arrested as a. deserter from
the army and that their return is
doubtful.
The blind asylum commission has
not as yet met to take definite action
in the matter of plans for building
at Bathgate. This means that moth
ing will be done this fall in excavat
ing or constructing foundation. The
work can be completed next season
in time to open the building for pa
tients in the fall.
A number of the business men of
Bisbee and adjacent farmers donated
some $500 either in labor or money
toward the crawling of the road west
Of the town. Now complaint is made
that the gravel, which was dumped
in the center of the road, has not
been leveled, and the road is in worse
condition than before. It appears
that it was not clearly understood
who should take care Of this part
of the work.
Three farmer neighbors, near Will
ton, Nels Anderson, Ed Read and
man by the name of Wilson, had
gotten into dispute as to the owner
ship Of some farm machinery, when
Read called Anderson a liar, where
upon the latter struck Read and
knocked him down. Wilson was sit
ting in wagon with q shot gun in
his hands. and Read called to him to
shoot Anderson, which. according to
Anderson's story, he did. the charge
tearing away the flesh from the In
side of the thigh.
The Fargo College Bulletin is is
sued. 1t gives special information