Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-07-28
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

vention next Tuesday.
Wheat has advanced three cents in
the local market the past week.
Tuesday is recorded all over the
country us the hottest day Of the year.
Walsh county also sends contesting
delegation to the republican state con-
vention.
\ meeting of the democratic county
committee has been called for this city
next Friday.
There will be a meeting Of the Rosa
Lake Alliance on Friday, August 5,
at o'clock a. M.
a number of our citizens will leave
Saturday afternoon to take in the
camp meeting at Walhalla.
Senator Bidlake was up from Osna-
brock Sunday. He reports the crops
about Osnabrock growing rapidly this
fine weather.
The name of p. X. Haugen was acct
IDENTIFY omitted in last weeks issue from
the list of candidates to the republican
state convention.
Mr.. and Mrs. Flumerfelt, Mrs. Bro
gan and Charlie McDermott drove over
to Devils Lake last Saturday and spent
the week with friends in that vicinity.
There will be Il Farmers Alliance
meeting at Torgeson's grove on Satur-
day, July Goth, at S O'Clock. Cavalier
county organizer, Mr.. Uaight and
others will speak.
Rev. j. G. Linton will conduct Pres
byterian services next Sunday at Elk
wood at II am; Mcintosh school house
at 4:30 p. M; Langdon at 1870. There
will be no service at Lyall school house.
The streets presented avery busy ap-
pearance Saturday. A large number
of farmers were in to attend the annual
meeting of the Cavalier County Agri-
cultural Society. They were all enthu-
siastic for another fail fair.
John Veer was awarded the contract
of fixing the road leading from this city
west, and under his supervision this
road has been placed in frst-class con-
dition. Anyone travelling west will
find it much safer and more pleasant
to take this road.
Donald Shaw was down from Cypress
yesterday and showed us the correspon-
deHce he had had with the officials Of
the treasury department at Washington
in regard to hauling grain to Crystal
City and shipping it in bond to Duluth
or Minneapolis. The details are yet to
be arranged, but it is expected that
everything will be in shape and the far
mers in that section Of country profit
by this arrangement by the time the
new crop is ready for market. 1t will
be a great saving in time and money to
the farmers of that section.
The citizens Of Olga celebrated the
feast of st. Anne on Tuesday. A large
number of people were present from
the surrounding country, besides large
delegations from Langdon, Osnabrock
and Milton. Communion services were
held in the church in the morning after
which the crowd repaired to the grove
where dinner was served. Bowery
dancing and base ball occupied the at
tention Of the crowds during the after
noon and the festivities wound up with
a grand ball IN the school house in the
evening The days proceeds go toward
the church.
Many farmers are very much dissat-
isfed with the result Of their shipments
of wheat to commission houses in Min
neapolis. A case came under our no
tice. this week which gives every
evidence of gross negligence if nothing
else. George Mcdonald, Of RidgeGeld,
shipped a car containing 397 bushels Of
wheat to the commission house Of
Greenleaf & Tenny on or about June
1st. Instead of selling it on the Min
neapolis market, which is recognized
as the best market for off grade wheat,
they shipped it to Milwaukee and
thence to Chicago where it sold for AZ
cents per bushel, and only receipted
for $50 bushels. The freight charges
we're $57.97 and incidental charges
s11 .5s, the 397 bushels netting Mr.. Nc
donald Sl9.5S. Where the Al bushels
went to is still mystery. The wheat
was weighed out of the Red River Val
lev elevator and their figures were 1877
bushels. The return of the state
weights show 1894 bushels, so there
lcould have been but small leakage, if
any. This is but one case among many
!, i'm which our farmers have been sys-
tematically robbed by Minneapolis
wheat sharks.