Cooperstown courier., November 02, 1883, Image 1

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THE COURIER.
I'UBLISIIED EVKKY FRIDAY MORNING
By Ed. D. STAIR.
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Official Paper of Griggs County
GRIGGS COUNTY'S TICKET.
Election, Tuesday, May 6,1883.
For County Treasurer,
AX TON* ENGER.
For County Coroner,
GEORGE F. NEWELL.
For jQttice of the Peace,
P. A. MELOARD.
For Constable*.
ALLEN PINKERTON,
OLE P. BALKAN.
LOCAL LACONICS.
—Is this our Indian summer?
—Plowing is nearly over for '83.
—Fall weather must be nearly over.
—November came in smiling and lamb
like.
—Ten states hold elections next Tues- munition,
day.
—Our merchants all report a thrifty
trade.
—"Judge Melgard" won't sound bad
alter election.
—Wheat continues to arrive at the
elevator in "paying" quantities.
VA fresh lot of cranberries just re
ceived at Odegard & Thompson's
—Pinkerton & Shue are having a sixty
foot shed annexed to their livery stable.
—Geo. A. Brock, of Spiritwood, visit
ed Harry Pickett a couple days this week.
jarone good second-hand Singer Sew
ing Machine for sale cheap by Buchheit
Bros.
—Davis & Co., the liverymen, lost
about sixty tons of hay by prairie fire,
Tuesday.
—Civil Engineer Edwards of the S.,
C. & T. M. railway, is up north on a re
connoitering tour.
t^If you want one, ten or fiftv cords
of good wood get prices of E. D\ Stair,
at the Courier office.
—Operations on the river bridge are
statu quo, owing to trouble connected
with the pile driver.
—Wheat has been coming in at a de
cidedly lively gait the past week, the
ruling price being 81 cents.
—Grading on the Sheyenne bridge ap
proaches is progressing satisfactorily,
and by another week will be well nigh
completed.
—Harry Clark was down from Red
Willow with three dressed beeves the
first of the week, for which he found
quick sale.
—Bashful bachelors and anxious young
ladies may find solace in the thought
that leap year is less than two months
in the future.
—Contractors Muir & Christie are put
ting up a 16x32 harness shop for A. M.
Pease on the corner of Burrell Ave. and
Ninth street.
—A flour and feed store would pay in
Cooperstown, and the building Mr.
Cooper offers for rent would be just the
checker for such an establishment.
Hope, has been in the capital this week
smiling on his patrons in the very be-
coming please-settle-vour-account-fash
ion.
—The Northern Pacific express com
pany has established an office here,
with R. M. Cowen as agent. This will
improve and cheapen our express facili
ties.
—According to President Arthur's
proclamation, which will undoubtedly be
endorsed by Governor Ordway,the fat
turkey will this year do duty to epicures
on the 29th inst.
—It will be pleasant for his many
friends here—who are limited only by
his acquaintance—to learn that Charley
Ferguson is having a big run of business
in his Missouri quarters.
—The Clay County Times, published
at Moorhead, comes to us this week
Mr. Cool, accompanied bv his com- depart from this favored clime the more
pauion Freeze, may now be expected to distance they put between themselves
arrive in this city most any day.
—Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Leham, and °f Prof. Z. A. Clough, and came within
Miss Fanny, have been in Cooperstown an of winding up his mortal career,
a fewdays this week, attending the last The only fault of the Professor in the'
sad rites of their brother and uncle. matter was his endeavors to cheat the
nre
a professional visit to Fargo, last even
ing. He reports matters lively in tha
metropolis, and says a huge boom is
"on" for Minnewauken, at the west end
of Devil's Lake.
—The new depot is now doing the duty
it was intended for. and they all say it
is the finest railroad building in the
Northwest, of its kind. J. B. Edwards
was the architect, and he has covered
himself with honor.
—A young German farmer came down
from lake Jessie yesterday with a fine
white pelican he had shot. The bird
measured 9 ft. from wing tip to tip and
5 ft. 6 in. from tail to bill. A character
istic Dakota production.
—Another week of this sublime weath
er and every Dakota farmer's cup will
be full to overflowing. No other laud
can produce as large a quota of rejoicing
hearts as can this very quarter of the
great "wild and barbarous northwest."
—General Manager Roberts, H. J.
Curtiss and J. Sagmun comprised a par
ty who sallied forth from the Palace,
Tuesday afternoon, with guns and am-
ail(*
a
'ar^e ^ose fright
brimming full of choice local and pen- lust rates the march of progress (or stand
end matter. The initial number does
8tui)
2 •.! i.i e:,5^vs. ^--.-v-••s.-r^•
Fred Buchheit is at Sanborn on bus- —Speaking particularly of church af
rness connected with the crooked doings fairs in that place the Hope Pioneer
or a young man who has been giving! thinks there is such a diversity of opin
mortgages on chattels most too promis- ion in camp that it is almost impossible
cuously to appear honest. to find a half dozen people in the place
—Judge Byron Andrus returned from, who are not at variance, and their pas-
The tally at night snowed
up four fat geese and a large grist of
ducks and chickens.
—At their next session the county
commissioners will undoubtrdly provide
for a permanent cemetery near this place
Though it may seldom be required, the
sad occurrences of this week demonstrat-
1
Well, we trust he'll get there, but if he
should fail he is not to be pitied, for he
is only an editor.
-Many people who have hitherto went
east in winter time to find comfort will
remain in Dakota this season, for they
I have discovered that the farther they
ed that exigencies are liable at any time Courier tells the great, unwashed world
to place the community in sore need of that a soap mine has been discovered
an established place to bury their depart-1
ed ones.
—A very light vote may be expected
in Griggs county next Tuesday, as the
election thus far has elicited little atten
tion from the people. However, we trust
a sufficient number will present them
selves at the polls to declare the nomi
nees elected and warrant the judges (we
are one of -em, of course) in drawing
their nay.
—G. B. Thompson, editor of the Port
land Inter-Ocean, is a candidate for com
missioner of Traill. Poor fellow, hasn't
he been in the newspaper business long
enough to learn that it is the heighth of after a gopher it discovered a bath tub
folly for an editor to inn for an office? mine and invited Cooperstown to bring
and the comfort they seek. Griggs coun
ty's population this winter will be fully
double that of last.
—Cooperstown now has a black list
of unfortunate bibulously inclined indi
viduals, and the saloonists are being
duly notified, under seal, that they will
be afflicted with the full penalty of law
if they allow any intoxicants to be sold
or given to those against whom com
plaint is lodged as being in the habit of
drinking to excess.
—Julius Stevens now treads old moth
er earth with exultant mein and is al
most unapproachable by the common
herd. She is toothless and arrived at
his home Sunday morning, announcing
emphatically her intention to abide there
permanently. Mrs. Stevens is doing
well and the happy papa bears up under
the dispensation most nobly. ,,,
-.1 gun recently exploded to the hands
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—The ever nleasant Geo A
of Courier of an item, and in which he sue-j "I
a'l
the in­
jur}' sustained from the accident.
—The Morenci (Mich.) Observer, a pa
per which has noted with pain the de
parture Dakotaward of several scores of
the town's best citizens, remarks: "Da
kota is indeed a fruitful land, as we
hear that our former townsman, M. F.
Fuller, harvested a thousand bushels of
wheat from thirty acres and A. W. Page
gets three hundred and fifty bushels from
9J acres, besides a nice ten-pound boy,
which come to stay about harvest time."
—Dakota editors may be justified in
this universal uprising against the postal
service, but what would they say or do
if they all lived down east, where an
Exeter (N. H.) lady recently received a
letter which was mailed in Washington,
D. C., four years and nine months ago?
This may be an unusual case, but it il-
that self-styled cultured country
tor, Rev. K. F. Norris, is solely discour
aged. A few of Hope's church leaders
would profit greatly by spending a few
weeks in Cooperstown, where unity and
harmony always prevail. The lesson
might prove beneficial to the social status
of that turbulent town, and it is per
fectly free.
Tie up Those Cows.
The following few words handed us
Hre
to the point, and are very properly
aimed at those whose stock are allowed
to eat the good doctor's hay:
ED. COURIER:—A great deal has been
I Mid about the cheapness of keeping
stock in this territory during the winter.
Now, sir, I am satisfied than cows can
be kept in this village for nothing, but
it will take forty tons of hay to keep my
horse
Yours,
NEWELL.
Our Soap Mine.
Clipping our soap mine item the Fargo
Argus prefatorily utters:
"The extent of the resources of Dako
ta probably has scarcely a limit. One
should not be surprised at or doubt any
alleged developments. The Sheyenne
flows past golden banks, silver and coal
are coming to light and in view of possi
ble political discolorations, a soap mine
is reported by the Cooperstown Courier
as discovered in Griggs county."
in
that vicinity. The Clipper is excited
and delighted over this piece of informa
tion. We have just this minute dis
covered a bath tub mine. How'll you
swap a bail of soap for a bath tub? We
want to begin work on the Sargent coun
ty commissioners before the water tanks
freeze up.
An exchange haying read of the dis
covery of a soap mine near Cooperstown
took a walk out into the prairie to catch
breath after the surprise and came out
with the announcement that while out
on the prairie the day before digging
on their soap.—Jamestown Alert.
A Characteristic Act.
R. C. Cooper is not a temperance sen
timentalist, but just the same he has his
ideas as to the limit the rum traffic can
be allowed to attain in a civilized vicin
ity, and he has adopted a very squelch
ing way of curtailing the flow of tangle
foot in this place. He had taken dinner
at the Palace, Tuesday, and while pick
ing his teeth the conversation led him
to meditation on the painful increase of
drunkenness in our midst, and a leading
saloon keeper coming in at that moment
induced an idea to the generous hearted
farmer prince. In thirty minutes he had
purchased Pinkerton & Shue's entire
stock, pool table, fixtures etc., and leased
the building for one year.
Thus was the doors of the leading sa
loon in Cooperstown closed, and thus is
a new system of temperance work intro
duced by the man Cooperstown is proud
to call "parent."
Sad and Singular.
llie e\ei pleasant Geo. A. Luce, of .. iterated wri«t hidden application ica 40 years of that lite, though being a
lope, has been in the capital this w-eek _Ior
A iaceratea
wrist
Mr. W. J. Mc Cord, general agent of
the New York Life Insurance company,
has just received notice of the death of
insured some two years ago at the San
Francisco (California) agency of the old,
4lVpw Vnrl.
1.
fnr.«S2
nrm
mnm nn th* life nin»
for §2,000 more on the ordinary life plan.
When the application reached the com
pany, for some unknown reason, they
refused to take him on that plan, but
on a more expensive plan. Mr. McCord
wrote to him, and sent the company's
letter with his, and advised him to ac
cept the increased rate, but he answered,
refusing to accept it. The sequel comes
to-day in the notice of bis death, which
has been forwarded to the company, and
blank proofs ordered for the adjustment
at an early date of the loss.—Fargo Re
publican.
The amount of the first policy is $1,000,
which Mrs. Whidden will undoubtedly
receive at an early day.
Card of Thanks.
To the People of Cooperstown:
The undersigned feel most thankful
for the honor and respect bestowed to
our late Brother William, also for the
attention given us when in Cooperstown.
Louis S. LENHAM AND FAMILY.
GONE TO MSST T2SXB MAZSB.
Two Valued Pioneer Citizens
Cross the Dark River.
JOHN BLAIR WHIDDEN.
With double force comes to us this
week the admonition that the unerring
archer, commissioned with the work or
death, is liable to hurl his ruthless shaft
into our midst without warning, strik
ing down the loved ones of our homes,
and that no age and no condition are
exempt—no, not for a single hour—from
the liabilities of death. The demise of
J. B. Whidden, whose spirit passed to
that other bourne with the sinking sun
Monday evening, leaves a lamented gap
in a bright young family and saddens
the hearts or a multitude of friends.
One week ago he felt slightly indisposed,
but entertained no alarm. Saturday
morning he was in a high malarial fever,
and to his attending physician the end
was apparent for he perceived that dis
ease was rapidly approaching the citadel
of life—the brain. Three days of terri
ble suffering followed, and he passed
away as softly as the leaves on an au
tumn eve drop to the earth beneath the
the gentle sighs of a western wind and he
died with a christian's faith and a christ
ian's hopes.
He was born at Antigonish, Nova
Scotia, Sept. 4,1853, being 90 years old
at his death. For eight years past he
had lived in San Francisco, where he
met, wooed, won and wed MisB May
Lever, who, with her bright little fifteen
month's old boy. are called upon to
mouni the loss of a husband and father
whose sterling worth can never be cal
culated. Mrs. Whidden's heart bleeds
not alone in this, her severe hour of
trial, for none knew the departed one
but to respect and love him. The strong
est of sympathy from many souls goes
out for the living wife whose idol, whose
very life is thus torn asunder, for those
friends know how she, though brave
woman she be, must suffer, and how the
world must seem bleak, bare, desolate
and dreary. The light of her life the
husband of her affection, whose strong,
noble character knew no sacrifice that
would be too great in his family's behalf,
is at peace forever. Never more can he
reach out those strong arms to that
prattling babe he loved so well never
again can he return caress for caress to
a loving wife, for all is over. In the
agony of woe that comes to the wife
there are many who deeply share the
bitter pangs of compassionate grief.
Just six months ago the departed man
came to Cooperstown and engaged as
junior partner with his brother. W. R.
Whidden, in a general mercantile busi
ness, and prospects never bore for him
a ruddier hue than when he was taken
ill. A prosperous trade and a nice little
home nearly ready to move into was all
that he could desire aside from the pos
session of his family. During that six
months he has endeared himself to all
who came in contact with him. Never
ready to indorse a harsh opinion of an
other always unselfish possessed of the
most scrupulous integrity and honesty
never impatient ever genial extremely
assiduous very generous, warm-hearted
and public-spirited, he was a friend and
citizen to be prized. His loss to our
community is a sad blow, equalled only
by that which his brother, his wife, lit
tle son and mother are forced to sustain.
The funeral obsequies were conducted
by Mr. Rockwell at 4:80 o'clock, Wed
nesday afternoon, at the Palace Hotel
parlors, and were attended very largely.
The services opened by the singing of
that soul stirring hymn, "Safe in the
Arms of Jesus," followed by prayer and
the appropriate hymn, "Gathering
Homeward from Every Shore, One by
One." Mr. Rockwell chose no text, but
from a scriptural standpoint answered
the questions always propounded to our
minus upon the death of a dear one,
namely: "Where has he gone?" "How
did he go?" "Shall we see and recognize
him again?" The services closed with
the hymn, "We shall sleep, but not for
ever," after which the friends were per
mitted to take a last look at John Whid
den. lie was buried in a metalic coffin,
so as to permit the removal of his re
mains at some future day.
WILLIAM S. LENHAM.
Scarcely had the people begun to real
ize the loss of Mr. Whidden when the
sad word announcing William S. Len
ham \s death was passed, he having died
On Septem- very unexpectably at the hour of six
ber 17 Mr. McCord visited Cooperstown :^IJes'lay morning. Mr. Lenham.
1
bettar known to us all as "Uncle Billy,"
company, and yvaso3 years old, having lived inAiner-
German
liv hirili.
He
German by birth,
early manhood,
happiness was of
was married i..
He was married~in
lint lii^ flnniPHtif* HlOHlpSOn
short duration his!
snort duration, his,
Everyone in Griggs county knew "Uncle
Billy" and respected his many sterling
qualities of heart and soul. Intelligent
beyond an ordinary degree, he was a man
of positive opinion bluff as a lion in
speech he was gentle as a child in spirit,
and his great big heart knew no limit
to kindness a man who loved his word!
and integrity better than gold he had
no enemies unless it was his own excess
ive kindness. As Mr. Rockwell exclaim
ed in his discourse, at the Palace parlors
Wednesday afternoon, where the funeral
Srr-T W
h?d' hr
ripeness of life an earnest, outspoken,
manly citizen is suddenly striken down,
leaving a community wno mourn with
the sorrowed relatives
at Sanborn. Peace
be to the ashes of this generous man.
Dakota Newspapers.
Dakota has not, as a commonwealth
spent a dollar to stimulate emigration
to the prairies and towns. Her news
papers have been the great spectacles
through which homeseekers have looked
and been fascinated with the beauty of
her valleys and hills and they have been
the agents which have traveled without
script or staff through the highways and
byway8 of the whole land drumming up
emigration. The patronage of which
home men have given the newspapers
is of course all that has furnished the
backing which the work required, and
they have nobly stood up to the rack.
The Cincinnati Times makes the follow
ing comments in regard to the matter:
"The rapid development of Dakota,
which is tne wonder of the day, is more
largely due to the newspapers of the ter
ritory than to any other cause. A town
is scarcely mapped out before a weekly
paper is established, and a population o*f
a thousand souls is sometimes considered
sufficient to justify the publication of a
daily. So generally are the benefits from
a newspaper appreciated that the mer
chants often offer a printer inducements
by the way of bonus or subscription for
acertaiu number of copies to start a
.. merchants ad
vertise in the newspaper and by circu
lars is astonishing. A Dakota town
whose newspapers are not literally filled
with advertisements is considered dying
or dead, and not a desirable place for an
energetic and enterprising man to locate.
A feature of some of the Dakota pa
persis the "boom" editions, which are
being sent all over Europe, has given
every town in the territory a wide rep
utation. It is not to be supposed that
the newspaper men are the wealthy men
of Dakota. They sow and others reap,
but theirs is a labor of love, ami usually
it is enough if they are able to afford
their families a comfortable living."
fiTA car load of Flour just received
at Nelson & Langlie's.
ai"!
examine the "Monitor"'
at Whidden Bros.'
Odegard & Thompson will sell von
good calico for ,5c per yard full wfdth
sheeting 8c and dry goods cheaper than
ever.
New goods by every train for Whid
den Bros.
ISP'Old newspapers
Courier office.
for sale ot the
ia?~The farmer and mechanic want to
see the "Monitor" at Whidden Jlros.'
STWm. Glass loans money for final
proof and on real estate. astf.
Brown Bros. &Co., San Francisco,
manufacture the "Monitor." For sale
only at Whidden Bros"'
BSPBoys don't forget to get a box of
get torn
that choice candy at Whidden Bros.'
?fvou want Drv Goods, just see the
stock at Whidden Bros.'
f^Fresh Groceries received this week
at Whidden Bros.
UST All who have tried it say that But
ter Scotch at Whidden Bros.' can't lie
beat.
—A car load of Pork just received at
Odegard & Thompson's.
iSTLadies' and gents' knit underwear
and outside wraps at big bargains at
Odegard & Thompson's.
The best smoke in town for .5c is the
Henry Clay" cigar at Whidden Bros.'
A fine calf boot for $2.7.5. Also a
TO?
8twck of
winter foot gear at Odegard
& Thompson's.
A new line of Ladies' and Gents'
Hosiery jzst opened at Whidden Bros.'
For mens'fur goods go to Nelson &
Langlie's.
SpTDon't purchase your Underwear
until you have examined the immense
stock at A elson & Langlie's.
ISTFirie line of fresh confectionery at
Odegard & Thompson's.
KITCoal in quantities to suit all at bed
rock prices. Lenham E. & L. Co.
a"kinds
are
was ui DIUJ1L uurduun, HIS 1 flf.uf.pinti,,,, ,l.,ilv
wile dying within two years of the wed-!
ding day, leaving as the only solace for
her nusband's grief an infant boy, now
living in Pennsylvania. At the instance
of his brother, Mr. L. S. Lenham, of
Sanborn, the deceased came to Dakota
three years ago, and two years of that
time he has spent in Griggs county being
connected in a responsible way with the
Cooper farm until a few months since,
when be purchased the restaurant which
he was conducting at the time of his
demise.
at Ode-
receiving lumber of every
Lenham
Elevator &
will surprise the smoking com­
munity to smoke that "University" at
Odegard & Thompson's.
GiTDrop in at the Pioneer Store and
try some of those California pears, just
received.
Ladies and Gents' Underwear
Whidden Bros.'
at
A Billiard and Pool Table
Combined, for sale at a bargain by
R. C. CoopKit.
Wood, Wood! Wood!!
If you would get good wood for your
money, then call on E. D. Stair, at the
Courier office. Cord wood delivered in
town, or for sale at low figures on the
river.
For ICent.
A well appointed store in excellent lo
of Cooperstown, suitable for am
cation
but! kind of busSrc^e iS pp
their heart went out lo him. In the ing to, R. c. CoorEit