Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-02-18
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

GOSSIP AND NOTES.
Wheat is up two cents today.
The city of Fargo had an $4,000 fire
last week.
Presbyterian service will be held at
Lyall next Sunday at 8 p. M, at Mr.
Mclaughlin house.
The band boys are expecting Their
new uniforms tonight-and then look
out for "risc' in music.
Washington's birthday next Monday
You can celebrate the occasion appro-
priately by your presense at the mill
tary ball.
Capt. Treuman and the members of
Co. G, of Grafton, have sgnifed their
intention to be present at the military
ball on the 22nG.
The funeral services of the late j.
M. Blakely will be held tomorrow at l
O'Clock under the auspices of the Ma
sonic lodge of this city.
Methodist services will be held next
Sunday as follows: At the residence
Of G. w. Graves, Mona, at II O'Clock
a. m.; at Isaac Ullyotts, Harvey Cen
ire, at p, M; and M. E. church this
city at 1880 p. m.
Mr.. Crawford Blakely, of gainesville,
linn., Mr.. Frank Blakely, Mr.. and
Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Clarke, of Ar
villa, relatives of the late j. NJ. Blakely,
arrived Wednesday to attend the fun
eral of their deceased relative.
Duncan Mclean, Of Harvey, some
time ago left for few weeks visit with
friends in Ontario, and now the word
comes back that when he returns he
will be accompanied by ablushing bride.
To cap the climax he has purchased a
band of sixteen horses. Say, Duncan,
haven't you got some brothers who
could be prevailed upon to follow your
example if we transported them to
Canada for few weeks
The train was stuck in the snow all
Tuesday night in the cut about three
miles south Of town. Teams were sent
down in the morning to bring in the
passengers. For some time after their
arrival the air around the Columbia
was noticeably sulphurous and the
choice epithets bestowed gratituously
upon Jim Hill and his ''strcak of rust''
would make that gentleman's ears till
gle. This pinch-penny policy of the
Great Northern must result in giving
us RAILROAD soon.
The annual edition of the Grand
Forks Herald comes to us this week
containing forty pages of matter de-
scriptive of this great state and it's
inexhaustable resources-the advan-
tages poor man has here to make a
home for himself and family, and a
formidable army of facts and figures
that should serve to set at rest forever
the eynicism Of the effete east. Secure
a copy of this special edition before
the supply is exhausted and send it to
your eastern friends that they may
form truthful idea of the country yeu
live in.
The Cooperstown Courier contains
the following which may be of particu-
lar interest and benefit to farmers all
over the state: Our farmers should be
careful as to what kind of wheat they
seed next spring and not sow seed that
has been stacked. We are Informed
by reliable farmers that wheat that has
been stacked all winter is no good fol
seed. The theory advanced. is that toe
much sweating and gases that are Gre
ated while the wheat is in the stack
kills the germ. Of course the wheat il
lust as good for flour as any other wheat
but not for seed. Farmers should lool
this matter up before seeding time, al
we rather fancy it will be too late aftel
the grain is seeded. Some of this whoa
will no doubt grow, but majority O.
it will not.
Our friends in the northwestern por
ton of the county will be pleased t.
learn that the Great Northern has al
last made an attempt to extend thu
Langdon branch. On Sunday the Ell
CINE attached to the train coming tx
Langdon, ran out of water in the cut
about three miles south Of town. The
engine was uncoupled and started fol
this city for water. The engineer, who
was a new man on this branch, did moi
know the end of the road was at thu
water tank, and came sailing along a
about twenty-five miles an hour-whicl
by the way is an extraordinary speed
for q Great Northern engine. The en-
o;na rafusad to reverse and plunged of