Cooperstown courier., November 16, 1883, Image 1

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THE COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
By Ed. D. STAIR.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One copy, one year.
six months,
Cash Invariably in Advance.
$8.00
1.00
Official Paper of Griggs County
LOCAL LACONICS.
—Clear but cool.
—Concert to-night.
—Plowing for 1883 is over.
—Who could ask for finer weather?
—Ten below zero yesterday morning.
—How do you like the first edition of
winter?
—Probate Judge Andrus went down
to Sanborn Wednesday.
—J. H. Montgomery went to Fargo
Sunday, returning Tuesday.
-R. T. Pinkerton has been quite ill
for a week or so, but is now out again.
—Either go to the concert this even
ing or send up fovr bits as your regrets.
—Very little sickness in this vicinity
now, as compared with a couple weeks
ago.
from her extended eastern visit next
week.
—H. P. Smart has been "shelved"
this week, with an inflamed eye to care
for and sooth.
—We have enjoyed a little bracing
weather this week, but the sun doesn't
forget to shine.
rne county sear mis veeK, collecting
for Chas. Booth & Co.
,ri ....
ff
-The publisher, aftei lusticatind
u, get back to the central city, Tuesday
to-day and our little city presents
metropolitan appearance that is pleasant
to behold.
—E. B. Paxson, and C. A. Radford, of
Fargo, passed north yesterday for a so
journ on their claims, after spending a
day at the Palace.
—The Sanborn railroad station feels
itself quite an institution, and well it
may for the ticket sales the first of this
week run up to $300 a day.
-Mr
oraded the Cooperstown railroad has
tne
UR.
Mrs. T. F. Kerr is expected home ax he was swinging managed to de-,
v-oopei!jK"vn iauioa°,
columns of this great family journal are
open for such purposes.
—Agent Cowen now has temporary
electrical connection with the Sanborn
office, and the boys can chatter with
each other. The regular instruments
for this line are looked for every day.
—Fanners who want a fall ballad may
hum, without infringing upon any copy
right, the following:
No mere the reaper mutilates,
The thrcehet chew* no arme
No mere the boiler portable
Depopulate* oar farms
To roost the plow has gone,
To market onr No. 1 is drawn.
to
purchased a residence and taken his ^n®ey
permanent abode in Fargo.
—A letter from David Bartlett in
forms us that he is pleasantly settled in
Boulder, Colorado, and that the weath
er there is extremely pleasant.
-Vice-President Oakes, of the North
ern Pacific, and president, of the Coop
erstown & Turtle Mountain, with his
special train and party is expected to
ar­{the
rive in this place to-morrow forenoon.
—The Lenham Elevator Co. of San
bora are reaching out. They have just
purchased the Spiritwood elevator, and
will hereafter manage it.—Jamestown
Capital.
—Since the freeze-up wheat has been
rolling in at a big rate, and our elevator of a cord of wood
in
county got snowed under along with
Butler and Mahone. He takes it calmly,
and thinks he can stand it if the people
can.
—The Fargo Southern has at last
scored that impending victory over the
Manitoba road at Wahpeton, and the
crossing has been effected. Track lay
ing now progresses finely on the new
road.
—Ben. Bennett, of the Sanborn Enter
prise, will be up and participate in this
evening's concert. Ben. is an old friend
of Z. A. Clough, and was also a printer
neighbor of the publisher when in Mich
igan.
—Mrs. R. C. Brophy and her sweet I
little child, came up Tuesday evening
from Glyndon, Minn., to take charge of
that neat little home on Rollin street.
C." is now just a trifle the happiest
man in town.
Geo. McCormick came in from the
gash just above the knee that he wanted,^
anonrt in thflwrnnop nlnpfi. I
I upper apartments
Knudson building.
-Wm. Wellman, of Sanborn, has been ,r-J'liSTuw
the countv seat this week collecting Red W mg, departed Tues-
foj. t^pir
Mr. T.
I-aigo, Cass county, a tew days was glad return at once to this field oi
-The streets are thronged with teams!
1 pleasant campaign in the great territory, jal)01. jg
j.
Cooper
cnergftl0 bll8i„ess
J?°k afte'the
a
men are hard worked to care l'or it. The Ed.. The Clipper congratulates you."
merchants report an increasing trade in
consequence.
—W. J. McCord. general agent of the
New York Life Insurance Company.
has been in Cooperstown a few days this
week, writing new policies and settling
Mr. Whidden's.
—The good society and our excellent
schools are inducing numerous farmers
take winter quarters in Cooperstown, season
that their families may have these desir-!
able advantages. Fernald completed their Turtle Moun
—This is just about the season of the tain prospecting tour Tuesday evening,
calender year th
plant their Holiday
ri
Past
,at enterprising dealers Mr^wards and Mr.Bradley returning
f^v weeks'
and it has been quite impossible to gi.e
Aiae ia\ ion na» oeui compieieu
the list
",c
Iist wiU be placcd in
uas
I Jamestown who platted Cooperstown.
came up this week to find a bristling
running lines and driving stakes on an
open prairie. Mr. Foster claims to be
first printer on the Northern Pacific,
beginning at Duluth in 1868.
—Lisbon Clipper: "Ed. D. Stair, edit
or of the Cooperstown Courier, one of the
best of Dakota's good newspapers, ad
vertises that he has wood for sale. This
is the first instance on record of a news-
VOL i. NO. 43. COOPERSTOWN, GRIGGS CO., DAK., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16,1883. $2 PER ANNUM
—An immense passenger traffic is —Lisbon Clipper: "The Cooperstown
looks as though we
shall have to part with
our religious practices and convictions.
—We are grateful this week for a pack
of extraordinarily well written visiting
cards, aud we shall hereafter pass our-
as 811
all-winter trip to Illinois and Indiana,
nui seen 101 iwenij years.
miss Mr. P. more than the Courier, and
we expect to hear frequently of his
g^ort crop.
accompanied the ladies preparinr
evening. __sh0uld anv of our readers incline, to
—J. S. Bronson, the Sanborn jeweler
and newsdealer, has a card in the Courier ,,/•,•
that may be of interest to manv of our ^ee^s Pa" tuming his fourth mile post last week
readers.
thi»?s
there j8
the pleaeure of paying their little assess- hereabouts may be limited. Unhealthy
ments for the first time in Griggs coun- excitement that is quite sure to some
ty. ,dav lfovf retroactive is not desired by
-E. H. Foster, the civil engineer of
in sight atone time.
successful trip so far as seeing the coun-
—Fred A. Sabin after two weeks labor ising place in North Dakota.
at 1" aigo in the inteiests of the clients j^?""Wo.)d cut from good live trees can
of his firm returned Tuesday evening. he bought cheap of H. D. Stair, at Courier
reporting matters a trifle close in the ollice.
monetary market, but easing up some,
Mr. Sabin inil'oniis us that his partner, I
Mr. 'amphell. one of the best office men
in the territory, will help him at this
place during the balance of the busy
Ci\ ll Engineer Edvsards and Supt.
I
"booming" operations down in the land
of corn, for he is an enthuiastic Dako
He will depart next week.
tian.
—When the wheat crop in Canada was
printers wood lot yesterday with a ^.e tariff whieli prevented the importa-'vv"10 tame to Ypsilanti from Saline where
Qf
stitched up. Through some hocus-pocus But this year there is a
being enjoyed by the X. P. folks, and Courier styles The Clipper a great relig-1 The ladies of the Cooperstown church tei'cd upon a winter season with much
what may seem strange to many is the I jous luminary. Well, for a couple of society have at a considerable expense actual wealth as she possesses this fall,
fact that the throngs of travellers are years we were pretty gol darned relig- of pains prepared for a concert which There is probably 100 per cent more grain
bound both ways west as well as east, ious, but the stretch has left our sus-' they will give at the Institute building 'n storeamong the farmers here to-da\,
—The Portland Inter-Ocean editor as! penders and they begin to hurt our this evening beginning at 7 o'clock. Not
a candidate for commissioner in Traill shoulders when we kneel to pray. It a person in Cooperstown can afford to I venience to commercial circles may be
accomplished quill driver.
We know not where they came from,
but
W
son who can spread ink on cards as finely
as upon the ones in our receipt without
perfect eyesight is indeed a genius.
—Mr. C. C. Phillippee, our veteran
architect and contractor contemplates an
.x ,. Mr». L. A. Clough., Mrs. J. N. *rown, Mettern.
to visit among relatives whom he has PhtihppoeandciVmgb.
not seen lor twentv venrs Vnnn will
one
win
not
enough wheat to
scend in the wrong place. keep the mills running, and" the indig-! summer and such was the bracing in
Attorney Iver Jacobson is at Fargo ngnt millers are protesting against the' fluence of the climate that Sunday, Oct.
attending to the interests of his firm (ax
0f
clients. We notice that Mr. Jacobson the United States. standing upright and preaching a vigor
nlnhW r-The north half of Maine has snow ons and forcible sermon very acceptable
tropolis of Guggs, hawng secured the
nearly ft foQt deep and good sleighinK!to
in the Jackson &: mercial.
as Illinois ever gets in January. In
Florida the pine-apples are all gathered
1 and tl,e orailge8 are
the sun shines brightly, the season of
over an(j tjie
paper, thus giving 61 columns, or about
eight roda Gf
the paper propel attention. the largest paper ever printed in Wash
—J. S. Dam, the Sanborn landlord, tenaw county. For a Michigan paper
we learn now admits that he cannot that was quite an innovation, but just
make any money at the extortionate rent wait, until about the Holidays and then
he has to pay for the house, and is about gaze upon the average Dakota newspa
to quit the business. Let's see, what per production.
did the Courier say a few months ago in —Cooperstown has occasion to feel a
regard to this matter that gave offense?
—The tax roll has been completed bv l'ave been made near here, at the mouth P,amea
count, clerk Smart. »,k1 just as soon as BalI Hill ™ek. Tins place d,
Treasurer
er's hands, when people can have *t is trusted the gold mines discovered
steadv
reading matter. It was
gave offense? trifle uneasy, as reported rich gold finds
1
Geo. Foley,the contractor who1!!'r IS soil and railway,, make a| «-A car load of Hour j„»t ,„.lv,,l
80«»8 citizens, and to be can-
we
™.ust
admi are 111 sotne
an®ei elu®
1S ur
little city where one year ago he was I —While at Fargo this week the writer! tunately purchased ten years ago of Jay
was pleased to meet and listen to Iargo (j00k. Xo his first purchase he added
favorite boomer, Mr. Dickinson, the others, such as a limited bank account
Broadway druggist, for the first time,
of which he carries a big stock. Pat.
a a a a a a a
know that, next to Fargo, said rival
considers Cooperstown the most prom-
Political Pick-L"i»s.
There was a republican gain of
votes in Nebraska last week.
A number of dead presidential candi-
x, dates are lying about in different parts jand
coulltry
The negro who was reported to be!other
goftl b8ide
ay advertisements. The to this place. The party report a very ,, you can, and hold
rroot -farnSlv iniimal ova Qlin^Afiafnl fviII en for n« QMlnrr tha nni,n_ hcl\ sever3l lOtS already pre-empted a
1 nave severai 1018
try is concerned for they went to within iat waters of Salt River,
three miles of the dominion line before
am an
camPaign
that she will appear in one of her charm-1 ®"t'e^a'one having spent about $125.
ing dramatic recitals at this place and Over $100,000 changed hands on
Sanborn within a few weeks. Mrs. Ithe
Walker is a finished elocutionist having The report that Riddleberger, Mahone's
a full mastery of the science of expres-: partner, will cultivate the Democrats
sion by voice and fiction. When given and act with them is probably true. Re
the entertainment will probably be under cent events have shown that it may be
auspices of the church society. Look very convenient to have a Democrat in
out for future announcements. the family.
stay away from this entertainment, as
the proceeds are to augment the organ
fund. Following is the
PROOHAM
Anthem—"Oh, cive Thanks unto the Lord."
Inetrumeuuil £uet—''Hunters' Chorus," Mrs.
Zimmerman, Mrs Rockwell
Soprano Solo and Quartette— 'When the Mists
Have Rolled Away," Miss Gjmblett, Mrs. Rock-
it among the cards is one reading, '-by JMrs.z A.
P. Cooper, almost blind." The per-1
r, I pr®fSZSA0clou°h
ciough. Mis. j.x. Brown.
Soprano Solo—"When 'Tis Moonlight," Mrs.
A. Clough.
"Simultaneous Declamation," Messrs. Clough
and Walker."
..Quartette-"Come Where the Lillies Bloom."
Instrumental Duet—"Wiener Bonbon," Mrs.
Pickett
wa?
aicl
riPeni»8-
gi0rj-us
0
homes, after enjoying a
15 cents a bushel on grain from I "th, he occupied the Baptist pulpit,
Here in
I
Dakota land the air is balmv,
happv resident is
for a
devoted
a joyous
iong
complain of a lack of houie news in this the Saline (Mich.) Observer, and upon
a ousan
ail('one
9peii
(.i,ipriv
to be
iAl pniovmeut What
,iIe. S te Statotan.
-Our brother, Orin Stair, publishes
he treated his readers to a double-sized
The meeting will be held in the upper
room of the school building which will
afford the use of an instrument.
CORRECT TO A DOT,
Is the Following from the Cleve
land (Ohio) Leader.
InTDakota, enterprise breaks the broad
mim of
be]ieves
10,000
^hestory wasaougaboo. Enteryour legacy
cost not less that $1,000,000,
electl°"in
Concert To-Xight. Fargo Republican: Dakota never en-
Crad'e
of a staff he went to Dakota last j,u-v 'n
the audience.-* psilanti (Mich.) Com­
Temperance Meeting,
Sunday evening the Temperance Union I
will hold a service
111
1 1 1 1 1,1 1
merdal and industrial resources, hence tencyin a few years. In 1879 an at'Xelson & Langlie^
a(j( uaintai,ce eutftI^, U|
i* it l^i (ii'HuuiiiL'«ii\i, viit'.n v* upon the pie-
einption lawg one
ever
°f
DWP'
Tenor Solo ancf Quartette—"Poor Jilted John
athan," Mr. Bennett, Mrs. Clough, Mrs. Rockwell.
Prof. 2.
A.
Clough.
11.
Rockwell.
G. Pickett. Mrs. F. M. Rockwell.
.Male
Phil
Quartette—"Speed Away," Messrs.
Mr. and Mr*.
ContraltoSolo—"DayisDone,"Mrs.J.N. Brown, tlio 1rn»itmn ,Y».„k
Anthem- "Praise \Vaiteth for Tli-e." I
Effects of Dakota'! Climate.
A few months since llev. 11.
steamer ploughs the ocean. Energetic can he rented smtrlv or together bv ai-
hundred and sixty
s. raised wheat and in
three years
8old the land f(U. fit A
,,,
t|red of the dull routine of
eastern
watering places, reinvested in Northern
Pacific railway lands a $500 bond unfor-
aiiowed
'•Dick, 'as he is familiarly known, is as Now he estimates the profitts of
earnest as he is grandiose in his advo-
severi
cacy of Dakota gospel, and it seems a R0foust health, vigorous sermons, an
pleasure for him to annihilate any croak-
occasionally sold and reinvest-
vacations in Dakota as follows:
ejeganj. new chur
er who may unwitingly drop into his pf0p]e happy, esper'ially the pastor, who
store, with sledge-liammer arguments,
built, pastor and
i,js misfortune in bonds has re-
suited in a fortune of $"0,000 in lands.
Lately I rode with the son of a college
president, whose debts if credits ten
years ago would have made him com
fortable. Now he is president of a na
tional hank, and the hank's deposits are
over SiOO.OOO. Charles Goodwin has the
He has 40,000 cattle.
west is
jpenencesof ten thousand investors in
states'
who have
rising" in Virginia has concluded to lands at three dollars and less per acre
A
already pre-empted
set^ler
turning homeward. ®ut^er'
—The Courier publisher has a promise mated that the Massachusetts
from Louie A. Walker, nee Anderson,:
in that region.—B. F.
and around Boston alone.
died and fifty miles of fence is required. Linil|'ei-'(v,^a''-'
Wealth in Dakota e^/'It will surprise the smoking eom
by the ex-1 rnunity to smoke that "University"' at
guaranteed
P»rcliased
good
and culti\ate
what
A Billiard and Pool Table
Combined, for sale at a bargain by
R. C. COOPER.
For Bent.
twenty years, if necessary. This rule Bros.
has and will make millionaires. ISTlf you \yant one. ten or fifty cords
________________ I ot good wood get prices of E. 1). Stair.
fiTDon't purchase your Underwear The great rush at Nelson & Lang
until you have examined the immense ijes is occasioned by the largest stock of
stock at Nelson & Langlie s. general merchandise ever hroughL to
A well appointed store in excellent lo
cation of Cooperstown, suitable for any yers must live.
kind of business, can be leased by apply-
ing to, R. C. COOPER. October 12th, 1883.
before, and while some incon-
felt because of the low prices and slow
marketing of wheat, yet the wealth is
here nevertheless and will show itself
before another seeding time.
There will be three hundred and twen
ty-five members in the next house of
representatives, instead of the two hun
dred and ninety-three of the last house.
The eastern representatives have the
seventy-five they had in the last house
the western states have one hundred in
stead of ninety-two the southern states
have one hundred and twenty-one in
stend of one hundred. The democrats
have a majority of sixty-four.
The grand jury at Grand Forks, Dak.,
have considered the ev idenee placed be
fore them in the matter of Dr. Scott, a
capital commissioner, against whom
charges of corrupt ion in connection with
by the
Grand Forks Herald. The district at
torney ruled the matter out, owing to
the fact that the corrupt bargain and
lne
aP,lal
M.
Gallop
lOuUlOll \\eie UlUfU
C01'ruPt
breadstuff* from the he had been pastor of the Baptist church, I county. It is understood some
unable scarcely to walk with the ?v'rfe
consideration was received in
nce
Nyill
Of the circuit
the school building
Scripture reading and prayer.
Quartette.
lteeding
Solo and chorus.
Recitation
Vocal duet.
Reading
oe:lVWi at
at 6:30 o'clock. All are invited. The save money buying of them rather than
following program will be observed:
Song service.
.. .Mrs. Haskell.
.Bertie Haskell.
...Mrs. Carlton.
be submitted to the grand
an°tber
county before the close
COUl't.
It will do you good to call at Od.i
gard & Thompson's if you want Hour
or provisions. We will give von good
bargains.
OTA car load of furniture just re
ceived by Odegard & Thompson.
few suits Buckskin Underwear
selling at cost at Whidden Bros.'
A a a e-
whidden Bros.' You can
hauling your wheat to the milll.
KaiTWhidden Bros, have never before
urged their customers for a dollar, hut
any thinking man can understand that
owing to the sudden change--the death
of one partner—it's necessary to wind
up the present business. Don't forget
to pay.
I^TSee Whidden Bros.' new ad. Tliey
offer a premium on all current funds by
selling goods lower than ever.
63TWe will not be undersold in North
Dakota. Lenhain Elevator & Lumber
Co.
I I3TA few Grain Sacks still on hand
at Whidden Bros, will be sold for cost.
$THave you got a yoke of oxen, sheep,
hogs, etc.? We wilt always give yon
g°°'IS f°!'them'
0degard
tS®"Three good rooms 011 a second Hour
jn l^aH-! plyiiiff to ft C. CiMper.
Odegard & Thompson will sell you
good calico for oc per yard: full width
sheeting He and dry goods cheaper than
ever.
New goods by every train for Whid
den Bros.
for sale ot the
I^TOld newspapers
Courier ollice.
(Sf'Wm. (ilass loans money for tinal
•proof and on real estate. HHt f.
(gjTBrown Bros. &Co., San Francisco,
manufacturr the "Monitor." For sale
only at Whidden Bros-'
63TFresh Groceries received this week
at Whidden Bros.
—A car load of Pork just received at
Odegard & Thompson's.
USTLadies' and gents' knit underwear
avid outside wraps at big bargains at
(Odegard
&, Thompson's.
A fine calf hoot for 82.7.". Also a
large stock of winter foot gear at Odegard
I & Thompson's.
I For mens" fur goods go to Nelson A
Lang lie's.
largest cattle ranch in the world at the rock prices. Lenham K. iV L. Co
head of Red River, Texas. lie began paints and Oils of all kinds at Ode
buying land four years ago, getting 270,- gard At Thompson's.
000 acres. To inclose hislands two hun- 9
KT('oal in quantities to suit all at lied
a"'
receiving lumber of evi
Lenham
cry
Elevator A:
Odegard Ai Thompson's.
£3?~Drop in at the Pioneer Store and
try some of those California pears, just
r6C6i V6d
j^"(jne good second-hand.Singer Sew-
on to titles tor ten,, jnK Machine for sale cheap bv Buchheit
Cooperstown,and the low prices placed
thereon.
Important Xoticc.
All those indebted to us hv book ac
count or otherwise are herei'V nutilied
to call at once and settle. Don't hang
back, for we mean business, and the law-
Odegard
Tu(jju
&
•ox.