Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-20
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

GOSSIP AND NOTES.
Watermelons at Taylor's.
FlickertaiI. Al
Barley harvest will be completed this
week.
Harvesting wheat will become gene
raj next week in this county.
| The Enterprise Hardware store is
headquarters for all sporting goods. l
You can kill the festive prairie chick
en- to-day-providing you can shoot.
BY the market reports in another col
umn it would seem as if the ''bulls"
had tho best Of the wheat market.
Wheat is bound to be Il good price.
The Rev. w. T. Currie, his daughter
Miss Ruth, and Miss Dora Van Kirk,
were drowned in the Red Lake river
while bathing Tuesday night. Rev.
Currie has been pastor OF St. Paul's
Episcopal church, at Grand Forks, for
a number of years.
For second-handed Deering Harves-
ters call on j. NJ. Blakely. As
The train has been late several even
ings this week and it's heavy work has
not yet begun. Jim Hill will be OBJ
liged to give us daily passenger train
this fall anyway and may just as well
be good natured about it and let US have
the benefits now.
1t is said that Mr.. McPhail used 1870
pounds of Irvine in binding IS acres Of
barley yesterday. This caps everything
yet as that is over pounds of Irvine to
the acre. Mr.. McPhail must have
made a mist AXE in the number Of
pounds used OF the straw must be
something prodigious.
The Most Worshipful Geo. B. Win
ship, Observation-Disclosures and
ll-round-crank, claims to be a prohibi
zionist, but we notice by the register
which he furnishes the Columbia hotel
of this city, that he does not hesitate to
take the liquor-dealers money and adj
vertise their wares. In fact he adver-
tises nothing on said register but the
Herald and original packages. Come
off the perch, George.
Three years ago Sunday, Aug. IS,
1889, occurred the killing frost that
blasted the wheat fields of the farmers
of North Dakota in a single night, and
was the direct cause of driving many
persons from the state. So far this year
there has been no frost and the wealth
Ell conditions are of the natural and re-
gular order which preclude the idea
that there will be any. The frost OF
1855 was the first one in the history Of
the state. 1t will in all likelihood be
years befor another like calamity oc-
ours, as the records go to prove.
On Sunday afternoon Mr.. Charles
Wrightson, who resides at Easily, had
the misfortune to lose his barn, two
good horses, a couple of young cattle
and about forty tons Of hay by fire. Mr..
Wrightson made valiant attempt to
save his stock and did succeed in res
cuing one horse which is badly burned
however. In his daring attempt MI.
Wrightson was himself severely burned
and will be confined to his house for
some time. The fire was started by a
younger member of the family who
was playing with matches in the rear
Of the stable and was not discovered
until the whole was enveloped in
flames. This will be great loss to
Mr.. Wrightson and family now that
harvest has begun-the time of all
others when good work horses are nee
essary.
Hon. M. L. Mccormack in Grand
Forks Plaindealer-I am heartily in
, favor of the proposed state inspection
of wheat. The elevator men Of Mimi
apolis have stood guard over North
Dakota long enough. They inspect our
wheat and it often being mixed in their
| elevators it is sold in Buffalo on their
inspection. There is no reason why
: the eastern purchasers should not take
our inspection and get pure North Da-
kota No. 1 hard wheat when they want
it. 1 shipped the first car of wheat
sent out from Grand Forks in 1876. ]
! bought wheat here for eleven years
and know something about it. There
is no good reason whatever for the
trouble the elevator men are making
against the enforcement of the law
! The press should stand BY the commits
q eionarc - rs