Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-02-16
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

Neche is now postal note and
money order office.
Three cases of dipthera are report
ed to exist at Milton.
The Langdon literary society will
meet Friday evening.
One of Cashiers Fraser's little boys
has been very sick all week.
st. Valentines day was duly observ-
ed by many Of the young folks,
These heavy SHOWS insure plenty OF
spring moisture, which is favorable for
good crops.
Osnabrock is booming and johnson
g. Donovan are in it. Their stock or
lumber is complete in every line.
The ground hog saw his shadow last
week and at once returned to his hole
where he will remain for the next two
months.
Lumber, lath, doors, shingles, and
all building material kept in stock by
the Osnabrock lumber yard. johnson
| & Donovan. y
! Landon Merchant:-It is Il study,
this advertising business, but | never
yet put /, dollar into it that did no re-
turn me fourfOld.
Your attention is called to the fact
that we are offering the combination
of the paper and the St. Paul weekly
Globe for one year at $3.50.
The post office department is smart.
After one of those new Columbian
stamps has been affixed to some letters
another stamp has to be put on for
over weight.
Elford Bros, have placed in their
hardware store several fine gasoline
stoves and ranges. They are dandies
for cooking, baking and summer use.
they must be seen to be appreciated.
Business at the court house is stag
nant these cold days. The officials are
burrowed up in their offices and but
few find their way there except on i'm
portant business. The county officials
are longing for the cold snap to cease,
and for business to pick up.
Nothing has been as noticeable dur
ing the recent spell Of sickness as the
willingness of the young men around
town to render all assistance they pos
sibly could to those whose homes were
visited by the epidemic. More than
one head of a family has been heard to
say that he did know what they would
have done except for the boys.
A fine brick hotel, three stories high,
with all modern improvements, is to
replace the Oriental recently burned
at Grafton. Work is to commence on
the new structure as early as practical
in the spring. The building will be
erected on the site Of the burned build
ing, the necessary money having been
subscribed by local capitalists.
Druggist McGruer:-If any one in
:, town has an idea as to how | can get
, an addition on my thermometer wish
they would give it to me. 1t did the
best it could, it went to the end of its
rope, and l think it mean Of people tt
stick their head in at my door and tel
me to take it in or build an addition
, Forty-five degrees below zero is enough
for any thermometer.
Comparatively speaking, society dur
ing the past week has been in stat
of innocuous desuetude. a number O
events were arranged for various even
ings, but were postponed on account O.
the extreme cold weather. The tim
when the festive pleasure seeker goe
\ forth to indulge in social enjoymen
: must be when Old Boreas is at rest
and to the disappointment of many
that frigid gentleman was, last week
in his elements.
Last Friday afternoon the snow
plow succeeded in opening up the roa'
and late the same evening train wa
run through. Both business men AM
citizens were elated with the prospec
|. of again being in communication wit
the outside world, but the old sayln
, that ''Man proposes, etc. was vivid
impressed on their minds by Sunda
afternoon, when Old Boreas agai1
commenced his horse play and the ele
mcnts have since then been exercising
there prerogative and we are again i'm
4 prisoned until Jim Hill sees fit to sui
: ficiently exert himself and have tn
"barriers burned away"