Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-01-05


The COUR1ER-DEMoCRAT wishes all
its readers "a Happy New Year"
Considerable swearing off, has
been iudulged in by the boys recently.
Monday was a legal holiday, conse-
quently business was almost at a
standstill.
Some seventeen of our readers have
awaited themselves of our valuable pre-
MUM offer of the Farm Stock and
Home during the past week.
The band was in attendance at the
rink New Years eve and the city as
sumed quite a metropolitan air.
All of our subscribers paying all ar
rears. and a years subscription in adj
vance will receive the Farm Stock and
Home for one year free of charge.
Louise de Lorimier, the elocutionist
at the school house tomorrow evening"
Hear her, you can't afford to miss it.
Quite a number Of invitations to the
inaugural ball at Bismarck last Mon
day evening, were received by our citi-
Zens.
Since the last issue of this paper the
affairs of the county have been placed
under the guidance of new officials.
We trust the new ADMINISTRATION will
receive the hearty cooperation of all
good citizens.
a treat may be expected at the
school-house tomorrow evening when
Miss Louise de Lorimier will render
some of her choicest selections. She
will be assisted by local talent. Ad-
mission IS and IS cents.
Editor Gagnier, of the Bathgate
Democrat was visiting friends in the
city this week. Mr.. Gagnier casually
mentioned to us that he expected some
fifty Canadian-French would come to
the Red River Valley from the domin-
ion of Canada this spring.
A Citizens State Bank has filed arti-
cles of incorporation and will COM
mence business III this city about the
first Of next month. We understand
that it will have the financial backing
of large number Of our business men
and will start out with a capital stock
of $500. There is ample business in
the city for two good banks. Langdon
is certainly on the progressive.
Where are our correspondents that
used to send us the news items from
Elkwood, Olga, Alma, Milton, Cypress
Byron, Mt Carmel, Harvey and Mont
rose. Surely brethren at this season
Of the year you can find a few spare
minutes now and then to write up the
items Of interest that occur in your To-
cality during each week. If out of sta
tionery let us know. Brace up and
let's hear from you.
Several times Of late farmers haul
wheat into the city have been heard to
complain of the amount of ashes that
are daily thrown out into the street,
they claiming that it is quite an obsta-
Gle to traffic rendering it almost i'm
possible for the team to draw the load
where ever the nuisance has been
thoughtIessly committed. It may ap-
pear to be trivial matter TO our citi-
zens, but we would ask them to bear
in mind that in so doing they violate
section of Ordinance 7 and leave
themselves liable to fine.
Lately we have received a number
of complaints from our readers who
live north and northwest of here, stat
ing that quite often they fail to get
their paper until the middle of the
week following its publication, Doubt
less many of them imagine that the
fault lies entirely with this office, how
ever, this is not the case. Reader,
you probably know that a newspaper
cannot be issued before it's stated day
of publication, and in the winter it is
impossible for the printer to work the
presses and machinery of a print shop
until it is all warmed up, thus making
it necessary for the press work to be
done toward the close of the day. If
the stage that conveys the mail in these
directions did not leave the city until
couple of hours later than it now
does, or still better if mail was carried
at the same time that it was last sum-
mer, previous to the present change
taking effect, our subscribers would
not suffer the inconvenience that they
now do. We wish to impress upon
them however that as long as the diff
Guilty continues to remain, we shall
strain every effort to catch this mail
thereby placing in the hands of our
readers good live paper for their per-
sual at the close Of each week.