Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-07-12
GOSSIP AND NOTES.
Wool to IL cents pound.
1.-The Daughter of the Regiment"
Board of Ennalization mot Mondov


"The Daughter of the Regiment
Board of Equalization met Monday
The boys are all looking as brown as
berries.
Now is a good time to talk up a
county fall fair.
Attend the democratic caucuses on
Saturday evening.
Well, we're under martial law in
more than one sense of the word.
The city band gave the militia boys
hearty welcome when the train pulled
in Tuesday night.
We get it on good authority that the
boys OF Company E. were the "lady-
killers Of the regiment.
Harvest hands are already beginning
to arrive-they promise to be as bounti-
full crop as wheat this year.
The republican state convention
which was called for yesterday. the
18th inst. Is postponed until the N.
Z. strike is declared off.
Samuel Myers is temporary stage
driver on the Moscow and Dash route.
He made his first trip Tuesday. The
government allows him $500 per trip.
A letter was received last week by
M. Morrison, buyer for the North
western elevator at this point, stating
that they would suscribe $25 toward the
Presbyterian church that is being built
at Osnabrock.
''Billy' Boyle of Cavalier County
''entwined the lily and shamrock in a
wreath of good fellowship" the other
day at Olga. 1t is said to be his
maiden effort, but as we read in The
DEMOCRAT, it's good.-Fargo Forum.
The local and editorial columns have
suffered somewhat this week from the
rush of ''legals'' and the proceedings
of the board of county commissioners,
but with the return of our force from
encampment we expect to get to the
front again next week.
The democratic state convention will
be held at Grand Forks, on Thursday
the Goth inst, and the democrats of the
county will meet in this city on Satur-
day the 21st to elect eleven delegates
to the state convention. Primaries
will be held at the various precincts on
Saturday night Of this week.
Word reaches us that Editor Doherty
Of the Michigan City Independent, is
quite i'll and that doubts are enter
tanned as to his chances of recovery.
Many of his old friends in this city join
us in wishing that Charley" may con-
tinue to guide the destinies of the In
dependent for many years to come.
C.L. Thomson, the old-time demo-
craft and postmaster from Woodbridge
was in town Saturday after mail for
the people Of his neighborhood. Since
thesopening of the new route via
Moscow, Woodbridge and Dash they
have suffered considerable incon-
venience, but expect Uncle Sam will
have things in shape soon.
Quite a tribute was paid to the
gallantry of our local militia company
by Mrs. Allan Plnlerton, who accom-
panied the boys home from Jamestown
where she has been spending part of
the summer with friends. She was a
frequent visitor to the quarters of
Company E. during the encampment
and speaks in the highest terms of the
orderly and gentlemanly behavior of
'sthe pride of Langdon''-its local
militia company. After her arrival
home last Tuesday evening she called
at the Armory and presented the boys
of the company with box Of fragrant
Havanas as a slight token of her appre-
citation of courtesies received by her
self and friends at the hands of Co. r.
during encampment. The gift and the
few kind words accompanying it were
received with cheers for the giver.
John Mcleod was in from Harvey
Centre last Saturday and found time
to tell US that the farmers around there
were busy pushing the project of in
ducing Com'r Beauchamp of Olga, to
move his cheese factory into their
neighborhood. He states that it is
proposed that those interested in the
scheme meet at the Rosa Lake school
house on Friday afternoon the Goth
inst, when the question will be
thoroughly discussed. Harvey Centre
is indeed to be congratulated if it
secures this industry as it is bound to
give an impetus to branch of farming
that is of fully as much Importance as
raising wheat and a good deal more
reliable in it's results. Mr.. Beauchamp
has been looking up a new location for
his cheese making plant for some time
as he finds there is not a sufficient
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