Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-01-07

Flickertail. Al
Carnival tonight. What is your COS
tune?
Walhalla flour for sale by Jos. Craw-
ford.
1t is settled fact that the man who
neglects to settle his newspaper bill
will never prosper.
Remember, we give free to every
cash subscriber to the CoURIER-DEM-
ocRAT two dollar thermometer.
The "owls'' have decided to give
another social hop next Thursday
evening. Invitations will be sent out
this week.
January 26th, 9th and 2Sth are the
dates fixed for the Catholic bazaar to
be held in this city. A large list Of
useful articles has been secured and
everything looks favorable for sue
cessful bazaar.
If any of our correspondents are out
of stationary they will confer favor
by letting us know at once. We fur
nish our correspondents with all the
necessary material to supply us with
the news of their respective neighber-
hoods.
Rev. A. Il. Foster, presiding elder of
this district, will preach i'll the M. E.
church in this city next Sunday morn
ing and evening. Also at Osnabrock
at 2:3O p. m. The sacrament of the
Lords supper will be administered at
the close of the morning service.
Bishop Stanley has contributed a
crayon portrait of himself for the ba-
zaar. The crayon was done by Miss
Norton, of jamestown, and is true to
life. The picture is handsomely
mounted in gilt and mahogany frame
which adds materially to its money
value.
S. II. Barteau, solicitor for the St.
Paul Globe, paid our city a visit this
week and secured large list Of sub
scribers for his paper. The Globe is
the acknowledged representative Of the
democratic party in the Northwest,
and as such has many friends in North
Dakota
The band boys have secured the rink
for one night and are now making ar
rangements for holding skating con-
tests. The principal event will be a
two mile skating contest between
Robert Truax and Charlie Mcmillan.
Besides this there will be contests
among the little folks, barrel races,
etc., and prizes awarded to all. The
date has not yet been decided.
The we'll defined rumors flying about
regarding the approaching bendictism
of certain young business man has
brought a sad love-lorn expression
upon the usually bright countenance
of our old friend Frank Moran-more
apparent probably after stealthy visits
to the apartments over the double
store. We surmise from this and Other
little matters that tend to show which
way the wind is blowing that Franz
will soon follow in the footsteps of hi
old chum.
A sweet girl graduate who probabl!
has an eve to business, told a De-
Moines News reporter that she hat
looked up pointers for leap year ant
wanted to divide her knowledge among
other girls. She says 1892 will be leaf
year, also 1896, but that no Other
can be so styled until 1904, and by thi!
awful gap yawning in prospective sh'
says it behcoves all the girls to keel
their wits about them and take advan
tage of every pointer during the yea
1872 Furthermore, they should put i
down that leap year will be 1865 days,
hours, 48 minutes and 9 7-16 seconds
long and see that they are not cut of
with the even number. =
Park River Witness: A specia
train came up on Tuesday. bearing thu
officials of the Great Northern to maxi
settlement with the passengers injured
/ in the recent railroad accident. TIT
party consisted of Hon. W. 3. Dodge
of Fargo, general counsel for the com
pany; DR.. Murphy, Of st. Paul; Gen
eral Claim Agent Yale, of St. Paul
Satisfactory settlements were mad
between the company and Benoni Sti
fonson, who gets $500; Christian Olson
who gets 81 100; and Jas. Mcdonald
who gets $500. In addition to thss'
awards, all their expenses are paid t
the time they are able to go home
IWm. Flanagan, the young man VIII
was 30 badly burned, refused settle
ment in the meantime. All the pa
|tients are reported to be doing AZ vel