Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-11-22
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

visited the city yesterday.
The Thorpe Mercantile Co. is among
our new advertisers this week.
The governors Thanksgiving procla-
nation is published in another column.
The Manitoba zephyrs of Sunday
caused the thermometer to register l6o
below.
Mass will be celebrated at the
Catholic mission at Mt. Carmel next
Sunday at 10 a. M.
Remember the ladies of the Metho-
dist church invite all to attend their
Thanksgiving supper.
Election of officers of Lebanon lodge
A. F. & A. M, will occur at their reg
ular meeting next week.
Dedicatory services will be conducted
next Sabbath in the recently built
Methodist church near Elkwood at two
o'clock in the afternoon.
Have you seen Schuke's new stock
of holiday candies, fancy pipes and
stationery. Something to suit all.
IT'S said that deputy U. S. marshal
served subpenas on few of our town
boys to appear at Fargo next week.
About 100000 bushels of the 1894
grain crop of this county have been
marketed already. Still the half has
not been told.
The new wage schedule of the Great
Northern went into effect yesterday.
By it the section men are cut from
s1.25 to 81 per day.
This week we give our readers the
full official election returns as found
by the county canYassing board at their
meeting last Thursday.
The contests for Uncle Sans do
main in Cavalier. Walsh and Pembina
counties are as lively as in the boom
days of 1882-Northwest News.
That splendid musical organization
Laffey's orchestra, of Grand Forks,
have been engaged to play at the
Thanksgiving ball of theK. of P. order.
The county seat of Pembina county
remains at Pembina, none of the other
towns having received the necessary
two-tlirds of the votes, though Cava-
lier got a majority.
Mr.. Nils Ottum, of Romfo, was
united in marriage to Miss Kaia Kort-
gordon, of this city last M onday after
noon by Judge Doryal. The groom is
athrifty farmer from the south-end of
the county, while the bride has been
an esteemed resident of this city dur
ing the past year.
Invitations are out for the annual
Thanksgiving ball ofLangdon's popular
Pythian lodge. Excellent music will
be furnished by Laffey's orchestra of
Grand Forks, while special attention
Will be given to the decorations and
nothing left undone that will tend to
the enjoyment of the invited guests of
our local Pythian knights.
Now that the election is over, the
C0U R1ER-DEMOCRAT earnestly re-
quests it's correspondents to send regu-
larly all the local news they can pick
up in their respective neighborhoods.
The CoUR1ER-DEMoCRAT is local
paper, devoted to the interests of the
people of Cavalier county. All local
items of general interest, or of special
interest to your own locality, will be
thankfully received.
A "mite" social will be held next
Tuesday evening at the residence of
Mrs. B. r. Click by the ladies of the
Presbyterian church. 1t is their pur-
pose to have these entertainments
every two weeks during the winter.
An inviting musical and literary pro-
gram and dainty refreshments is prom
ised while those who attend will only
be asked to contribute 10 cents towards
defraying the debt on the parsonage.
Supt. Fox is engaged this week in
mailing to the clerks of the different
school district throughout the county
the enumeration blanks from which
the state department. bases the yearly.
for each district. Each
clerk should realize the Importance of
including in his report all children be-
tween the years of and 90 that reside
in his district on December 8, 1894, as
the apportionment, amounting to So
per child, is based on his report.
Farmers beware Of the cheap John
peddler that goes through the country
selling groceries for Fargo wholesale
house. He will charge you more for
your goods than you will have to pay
your home merchants in Langdon, if
you don't believe it just compare their
prices on the same bill for cash. IT'S
rank treachery to send your money out
NJ tho conntv in this way. Home first