Cooperstown courier., November 09, 1883, Image 1

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VOL i. NO. 42.
THE COURIER.
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By Ed. D. STAIR.
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Official Paper of Griggs County
LOCAL LACONICS.
—No excitement in town on election
day.
still the belated farmer can
C7"A car load of furniture just re
ceived by Odegard & Thompson.
-Ex-Commissioner Allen Breed passed
a couple days of this week in Coopers
town
—H. 6. Pickett has been appointed
special administator of the Wm. Lenham
estate.
—Julius Stevens has been at his old
field of operations, Valley City, part of
the week.
—H. C. Fitch has been recuperating
from the effects of a heated campaign,
at Jamestown.
—The ladies of the church society are
preparing for a concert to be given next
week, we believe.
—The dearth of local events this week
has been well nigh distracting to the
poor Courier apostle.
—Dr. Newell has had a very neat "Drug
Store" sign painted on the west side of
bis building this week.
—Knud Thompson and family have
taken up their abode in their new and
capacious residence on the Boulevard.
—The Lenham Elevator & Lumber Co.
have been having their buildings at this
place very elaborately lettered this week.
fiTA few suits Buckskin Underwear
selling at cost at Whidden Bros.'
—J. W. Shannon, the live and popu
lar furniture dealer of Sanborn, paid his
respects to Cooperstown on election day.
—The weather has behaved so mag
nificently that we can only refer to it
with terms of great respect and admira
tion.
—Why is it that Cooperstown has the
finest qualities of the smokers' delight?
Because she has good country to-back-'er.
See?
—General machine agents have been
numerous in the metropolis this week.
They are out gathering in their share of
notes and collaterals.
—Mr. Retzlaff's two-story addition to
the Union Hotel is now well under way,
and when completed will add materially
plow.
—The Courier and American Farmer jeas* place and a brother of the
one year for two dollars. first precinct county commissioner-elect,
fWAnother car load Flour just re
ceived at Whidden Bros.' You can
save money buying of them rather than
hauling your wheat to the milll,
—J. Pierce, sheriff of Nelson county,
was down this way the of tbe week
gazing around in quest of a horae thief,
who has stolen Lieut. Creel's horse.
—Trade has been unusually brisk this
week and the merchants ail wear weary
smiles, while the clerks are Languid and
feel deeply impressed with the seriottg-1
—Geo. W. Mackey, of Minneapolis,
«a« in town yestecdar and^yreMd
himself as being decidedly infatuated
of our partner—it'« necessary to wind
remember correctly this beats the best
record made in Dakota this year.
—The restaurant of the late William
Lenham has been leased by M. E. Skin
ner, who haB been rejuvinating and re
arranging the same. He proposes to
monia at the age of 38 years. He was
an industrious farmer, and leaves a wife
to the capacity of that hostelry. arrived in Cooperstown Monday evening,1
'in answer to a message that John was
very ill. He did not learn the sad news
until he arrived. Mr. Whidden is a
brave soldier boy, being a musician in
the regular army and is stationed at
North Dakota* I
-Manly Davis has beea quite this proposed by some of the young
week from an attack of quinsy, but at!mes -°0®I*bra£« defeat of Ben But
this writing is on the mend. C.A, Moore 1'someevening next* dance
has also been suffering from seyjerciy 121 the Park Ave. Hotel, Maidetl. It
sore tonsils for several days. would be well and it is des*ed that as
large a number as possible will take
'SSZtSZH
this place. Their well was evidently
sank in an unfortunate «pot.
—Dr, Ross and SOB, of Adrian, Mich..,
were in town again this week, and re
port that thus far in their lau4 explora
tions they bave come upon no region
that suits them better than Griggs coun
ty.
—J. M. Melville. our whiion citizen,
came into the metropolis yesterday after
an absence of six moss
the. He could
hardly recognize the place, and felt as
though be had never seen Cooperstown
before.
^Whidden Bros, have never before
urged their customers for a dollar, but stuck a stick up in a hill of eorn to see
any thmking man can understand that bow much it would grow by morning,
owing to the sudden ehange—tbe death
shacks.
—Geo. B. Whidden, youngest brother
ai'd
the late J. B. Whidden,
Fort Custer, Montana. He hasa twenty
day furlough and will remain here a
couple weeks.
—We have yet to hear the first Dakota
man express any sympathy for the Man
itoba railway company in its unholy
a«ainst
the
nessoflife, feet there is a general and hearty cen
sure of their proceedings that can only
iar&°
taitt
Southern. In
md
gained many warm friends through the
very
eervieeabie,
starting the wheel of sociability for tbe
goming winter.
—Dakotians who return on visits to
their old homes are accredited as being
very enthusiastic in their neettais of this
Land's productiveness, but the East
Tenesseean, who many years ago emi
grated to Illinois, had an imagination
that excelled. While on a visit to bis
friends, be gaye a glowing account of
the fertility of tbe soil of Illinois, and,
by way of illustration, declared that be
and bis wife went out to look at their
corn one evening and found it about
knee high astd growing so fast that they
wet t'* flrni'
„nH
uext
up the present business. Pon't forget walks bad three ears of corn and tbe
to pay, slick had a juubbio,
aa?rmug
COOPERSTOWN, GRIGGS CO., DAK., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER q, 1883.
—Sifton & Pinkerton, with their Min-1 ,\ THE ELECTION.
nesota Chief thresher, pounded outl,
040 bushels of oats yesterday. If we Returns Prom Grlg*» County and
now ensconced in their new quarters as! course the regular ticket
cosily as you please, and the happy liege
—Sever Ilalverson, living six miles Rybinsiwi 'eS ^''^erUm and M.
In the first precinct a commissioner
was elected, and the little strife for this
died Tuesday night of typhoid1 pneu- ^rippte" thMinliSaM
11a woa
and several children to deplore the fate
that called him away.
4#~See Whidden Bros.' new ad. They
offer a premium on all current funds by
selling goods lower than ever.
—Prof. Z. A. Clough purchased a new
cab for his little progeny the other day,
and some ladies who viewed from an
upper window his proud, elastic tread as
he wheeled it up the street for t'ue first
time felt so highly entertained that they
gave the Courier permit to paragraph it. Fitch, who by his zeal worked in four
Ullf tl'A ft«n
But we are not in a joking vein, and good
material for a neat item is thus lost.
WOur last order for Buffalo Coats
could not be filled but we have a few
that will be sold at the same way down
prices. Whidden Bros.
—It seems strange that in this day and
age of enlightenment men exist who
don't even know the price of postal
cards. However one will turn up nowj publican ticket. In Barnes the battle
and then to display his painful ignor- ended in probable victory for the faction
ance, as was illustrated at the postoflice of which the Valley Citv Times is the
yesterday, when a well-dressed man was
surprised to learn he could purchase one
for a cent.
—We have traveled over a goodly por
tion of Griggs county this week and no
ticed the fields were pretty much all
plowed back. However, a small per
centageof plowing yet remains unfin
ished, but as the weather still continues
favorable it looks as though nary an
acre will have to be "carried over" until while Minnesota squeezed in
spring for plowing.
—Unlike many new towns of the!®1^1^®^tonce of the republican ticket
Northwest, Cooperstown'* improve
ments have been of a substantial and
enduring nature. Not an industry has
been started here but that has proved a
flattering success, and our citizens are
all alive to the fact that a steady, health
ful growth is ten times preferable to the I amendment proposition will carry by
mush-room style of rushing up mere12,000
•.
Other Scenes of Ballot
Battles.
keep a good place, and no doubt will be region, and with the exception of the moning to his aid all the resolution that
a popular landlord.
—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pickett are
first Drecinct there was no interest man
ifested, the total vote being a little less
carri«*the da-v
lord anticipates much condensed com-'0U1 offices-elect:
fort this winter while the blizzards olay
among themselves on the outside.
hence
any interest in the election. Oniiuid
...
1 Nelson was the regular caucus nominee,
but the people deemed it meet to ruiiOIe
Halverson and E. C. Butler. A strange
election freak gave Mr. Nelson but 2
votes, Mr. Butler 7 and Mr. Halverson
15. The commissioner-elect we learn is
an up-in-the-morning, enterprising man,
fully qualified for the importaut position
his constituency have yoked npon him.
The brilliant records made by inde
pendent candidates deserve mention.
For instance there was Landlord H. C.
votes for coroner, and Fred H. Buchheit
who got two for treasurer then there
was F. C. Holmes who got up a boom
of two votes for justice of the peace, and
Joe Marshall who got ten ballots for
constable.
In Cass county there was strife, but the
result was favorable to the regular re-
New York to. ton a littte
The democrats still maintain their
grip on Mississippi, Maryland, Virginia
and probably New Jersey. Connecticut
is considered republican.
There being only one ticket in the
Griggs county field no excitement was ®!Ieral wandered in an aimless
occasionedby Tuesday's election in thisji^fbl&SX®
Mowing are
Treasurer—Anton Eriger.
County Coroner—G. F. Newell.
Justice of the Peacen-P. A. Melgard.
In South Dakota the constitutional
majrity-
of unanimity.
which doesn't savor much
Come and Get a Home.
[Jamestown Alert.]
E)
hysically, as, for example: "Come un
me, all ye that labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.". "The
spirit and the bride say come." "Come,
ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you," etc. All
being a pensioner on the family bank
account at home. Come where health is
the boon of all and where wealth is with
in reach of all.
Morally, we say to the young man
here and elsewhere, come out from the
glaring light and dazzling temptation of
the gambling room which promises you
a glittering fortune of gold and gives
you a beggar's bed of straw. Come out
from tbe ranks of the loafer's gang who
toil not neither do they spin, who
Come up to the higher plane of the
ascending scale of progression which
centers in the sublime perfections of
the deity. Come to that jplane of spirit
ual elevation which "raise mortals to
the skies.," and forever renounce and
abandon that which "drags angels
down." Be true to yourself, be honest,
be just, be generous, be sober, be vir
tuous. be noble, be a MAN,
THE DAKOTA GIRL.
champion. that. He was stuck on that carving out
TliP rmiiihiiranfl in Mnaasif.hiiu.Hi a fortune business, and wanted me to
I lie republiuins in Massachusetts try my hand at it. I had been engaged
snowed old Ben Butler under by a ma- for ten years in carving his fortune, and
jority of 10,000 to 12,000 and elected the that ought to have satisfied him, but it
balance of their ticket. I didn't. At last he got hold of a Dakoji
and gives the republicans a working ma-, and taken up a homestead and a timber
jority in the legislature. Nebraska and
Kansas also "bob up serenely" with
their expected republican majorities,
Hubbard
for governor by some 14,000 votes and showed me the article, and said I ought
to be ashamed of myself. I told him
that it was no fault of mine that the girl
by larger surplus.
How She Paralyzed the Would-be
Masher from the East.
There is more import in the word
"come" than one might at once discov
er in a casual consideration of the term.
tES Sfo I took the first train lor the
has ever been produced, the word always
calls to a better, a higher Btate of condi
tion. The idea coupled with it is eleva
tion either spiritually, intellectually, or
A young man who looked as if he con
sidered the burden of life too heavy by
the new testament scriptures, the!Jg*®ofKSnta
west, and three days ago I drove out to
her farm."
"Did you see the girl?"
"Did I see her! Well, don't I look as
if I had been interviewing a Dakota girl
—or did you suppose it was a threshing
machine or a puck of coyotes that I had
encountered? 1 admit that the mistake
would be a natural one. Yes, I went, I
saw,—but I didn't conquer hence these
rftrngto abetter a„a higher eondi- ofrnffidS
TemDorallv we sav to the voun* man
heart to a
a^cPfinSly
sum-
he had about his person, opened the door
of the editorial sanctum and walked in.
The young man had evidently seen sor
row—and sorrow had raised him one,
and he had called, and sorrow had
downed his Hush with a full. It some
times happens in that way.
The sad-faced youth seated himself,
and in a voice that evidently welled up
from a broken heart, or perhaps a dis
eased lung, said:
"You see hefore you, sir, the wreck of
a once glorious manhood.'"
The scribe replied tiiat he had often
read of wrecks of once glorious man
hoods, but had never before hail the fe
licity of meeting one—a fact which
greatly enhanced the pleasure of the
present interview.
'•Yes," continued the Wreck, "I am
done up, beyond all hope of resuscita
tion. Four weeks ago I was a bright and
ioyous masher, full of life ana hope,
longing to part the mystic veil of the fu
ture and gaze upon the glories of the
dreamland which my fancy painted in
such roseate hues. Now my cognomen
is mud."
The scribe sympathized with the
Wreck, and begged to bear his story.
"Well it is all on account of the truck
that you newspaper fellows write about
the enterprising girls of Dakota, who
sneer at the conventionalities of society,
and have come to this land of promise to
carve out their fortunes, ana all that
kind of stuff. They are good carvers, so
far as that goes," and the Wreck reflect
ively rubbea a two-inch scar athwart his
nose. "Yes, that sort of thing makes a
big sensation east, where the young lady
who builds a pie once a mouth thinks
she is being hurried to an early grave by
excessive toil. The guv'nor—my old
man, you know—had been feeding me
for the past six months with good advice
about bracing up, rolling up my sleeves
and going to work, and a lot of gags like
'ounK w£?
inThlf east who is^ up^u the ^mt^!f diSS
branching out upon the world aSthe ar- J"1M [K*ht %hen I me£
chitectofhis own fortune, come to Da- ™8to her she siSnlv
&™rreUfaKtoCdtoSteS1S &me»pinaS|dklnd<'a "W,&
ana live on tne rat or tne iana instead or jnqUiretj if
my
drooM in the busy* hive of nature and puSase(f^Uh thfpr^eds^rmy'in
hurdens upon society. Come out from
the dark and devious ways of that dark
alley which leads to places you are
ashamed to be seen approaching in the
tight of day. Come away from the siren
voice that lures you on until you are
hopelessly ensnared in the toils of her
shame and degradation. Come away
from that demon drink before the with
ering gaze of whose Gorgon eyes mil
lions nave been brought to tread the
win# press of sorrow, to finally be lost
to the world in the obscurity of tbe un
numbered, unmarked and unhonored
graves of the potter's field.
1
S32LS
pre-emption and a final proof and a lot
of things and how she had gone to work
and buut a house, and a sod barn, and
broken up a section of land, and made a
fool of herself generally. The guv'nor
had carried on so, but he said if I pos
sessed one-tenth of the enterprise and
industry and sand of that female I might
be a rich man inside of a dozen years
and he wound up by declaring that he
would give fifty thousand dollars for
such a daughter-in-law as that. That
made me prick up my ears, and at last
he said if 1 could induce that girl to
marry me he would draw a check for
$50,000 in my favor on the wedding day
for he was convinced that such a wife
as she would make was just what I
needed. The paper gave the girl's name
and told where her ranch was located, and
I concluded that as she must be pretty
well fixed herself it would be a good
P»ving her a
mother was aware of my
absence from the paternal roof. Her un
kind remark cut me to the quick. I
don't know what the quick is, but there
is where I was cut to. Then she got my
hat and cane, and led me out into the
front yard and pointed to a field as big
as the state of Rhode Island, and said
"Young man, I broke that land with
my own hands. This wheat field that
you see over here I plowed, harrowed,
sowed and harvested myself. That herd
dividual labor. I am worth at least
$10,000, and I have accumulated every
cent of it here in Dakota, without the
slightest assistance from any one. The
man whom I choose for a 'protector'
must be one fully worthy of my respect
and admiration. I do (not wish to ap
pear hasty in declining your offer, and
will make you a proposition. You can
stay in this neighborhood for a week or
so. I have some fall plowing that I wish
to have done and will give you the job.
If you succeed in back-setting four acres
within the next three days, and do it in
a good, workmanlike manner, I will let
you help me haul hay for the balance of
the week. You will be expected to milk
ten cows night and morning, and must
make yourself generally useful. At the
end of the week I shall know whether
you are the kind of man to whom a
Dakota girl can safely entrust her hap
piness."
"I suppose that rather dampened your
$2 PER ANNUM
enthusiasm?"
"Why, the exceedingly definite coh
spicuousness of the utterly unanimous
conglomeration of the thing knocked me
silly. I tried to back out of the affair
gracefully but I suppose I made a mull
of it. I am not very clear in my mind
as to what happened alter that. I onlv
know that when I came to I was half a
mile away, and that I felt as if I had
been run through a quartz mill. I paid
one of the natives five dollars to drive
me to the nearest railroad station, and 1
came here. This is the first time I have
been out of my bed since. I tell vou,
sir, you can't put it too strong whenyon
are talking about the energy of vour Da-
kota girls. It makes me tired to think
of it and I shall get back without anv
unnecessary loss of time into a country
where they take things a little easier.
This may be a grand country it prob
ably is but a man who is constitution
ally weary don't want any truck with
it. '—Sioux Falls Leader.
West vs. East.
The facts are that the average working
man out west is better fed, better clothed,
and enjoys more true independence than
the average working man east. If vou
don't believe it, go and see. Again, your
children have a better chance. Awav
out on the prairie they grow up to be
men and women, knowing very little of
the terrible sufferings of city tenement
house life, or its evil influences. City
squalor has no charm but iu the two
room western cottage, surrounded with
flowers, and breathing an atmosphere
that brings joy with every zephyr, there
is a feeling of contentment that cannot
be described.—N. Y. Witness.
—The Fargo Republican thiuks that
with Vice-President Oakes holding the
Northern Pacific managerial reins may
be regarded as the opening of an em of
better understanding between the road
and people.
—La Moure Progress: One of the
very few things that the two Fargo rep
resentatives of republican journalism
agree on, is in the opinion that Ben
Butler would make a good president,
fortunately their influence in national
politics is not yet so great as to create
a stampede in the party ranks.
WWe will not be undersold in North
Dakota. Lenham Elevator & Lumber
Co.
tS*A few Grain Sacks still on hand
at Whidden Bros, will be sold for cost.
sfe"Have you got a vokeof oxen, sheep,
hogs, etc.? We will always give you
goods for them. Odegard & Thompson.
fiTThree good rooms on a second iloor
can be rented singly or together by ap
plying to R. C. Cooper.
A carload of Flour just received
at Nelson & Langlie's.
Odegard & Thompson will sell you
good calico for 5c per yard full width
sheeting 8c and dry goods cheaper than
ever.
New goods by every train for Whid
den Bros.
83P01d newspapers for sale ot the
Courier office.
«TWm. Glass loans money for final
proof and on real estate. 3Htf.
(iTBrown Bros. &Co., San Francisco,
manufacturr the "Monitor." For sale
only at Whidden Bros-'
C^Fresh Groceries received this week
at Whidden Bros.
—A car load of Pork just received at
Odegard & Thompson's.
Ladies' and gents' knit underwear
and outside wraps at big bargains at
Odegard & Thompson's.
A fine calf boot for $2.7/. Also a
large stock of winter foot gear at Odegard
& Thompson's.
For mens' fur goods go to Nelson &
Langlie's.
KTDon't purchase your Underwear
until you have examined the immense
stock at Nelson & Langlie's.
C^Fine line of fresh confectionery at
Odegard & Thompson's.
fSTCoal in quantities to suit all at Ited
rock prices. Lenham E. & L. CA.
(g^Paints and Oils of all kinds at Ode
gard & Thompson's.
We are receiving lumber of every
description daily. Lenham Elevator &
Lumber Co.
OTt will surprise the smoking com
munityto smoke that "University" a
Odegard & Thompson's.
at
ISTDrop in at the Pioneer Store and
try some of those California pears, just
received.
ISTOne good second-hand Singer Sew
ing Machine for sale cheap by Buchheit
Bros.
orif you want one, ten or fifty cords
of good wood get prices of E. D. Stair.
A Billiard and Pool Table
Combined, for sale at a bargain bv
R. C. Cooi'EIT.
Wood, Wood! Wood!!
If you would get good wood for vour
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 Rent.
A well appointed store 111 excellent lo
cation of Cooperstown, suitable for any
kind of business, can be leased by apply
ing to, It. C. COOI'EK.