Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-09-06
Langdon Markets.
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

Subscribers now!
Indian summer weather.
.Wheat'is still in the sulks.
The weather prophets all say that
September will be hot.
Tue back bone of the weather has
once more been broken.
Indications are a trihe more hopeful
for a better price for wheat.
The CoURIER-DEMocRAT from now
until January LIST, 1895 for fifty cents.
Two Milton sports killed Is prairie
chickens in 16 shots insid g of one hour.
Next!
Telegraphic communication was cut
off last Friday through some of the
wires being down.
You have to mark the name of every
candidate you vote for this fall. That's
the way the new law reads.
The parents of our school children
experienced quite pull on the purse
strings for new school books.
The activity Of the city streets has
been transferred to the wheat fields and
town affairs are quiet at present.
Saturday was one of the hottest days
of the season. The thermometer
registered 1880 in the shaded for while
in the afternoon.
The members of the Democratic
county committee should bear in mind
the meeting called for Saturday after
noon. Let all be present.
According to the report of the local
correspondent to the Minneapolis
Journal excitement ran high in the
city last Sunday morning when the
barn burner was placed under arrest.
Prairie chicken shooting near the
city is not as productive of results as a
week ago. The coyeys near town have
been pretty we'll cleaned out by sports
men, and hunters have to make longer
trips now, and content themselves with
less game.
The city council held its adjourned
regular meeting Tuesday evening and
audited the assessment. They also ap-
pointed committee to meet the men,
bers of the fire department. and discuss
the grievance that the boys have lately
complained of and arranged for in
creasing the salary of the chief ofpolice
during the ensuing two months.
The city schools have again resumed
their annual grind. Last Monday
morning found both the teachers and
scholars on deck we'll refreshed by the
delightful summer vacation and in
joyous anticipation of the opening of
school to which the long vacation is
always CONDUCIVE. The fall and win
ter term opens with the prospect OF
large enrolment.
Wheat is coming into the city slowly
but what has been marketed so far of
the new crop is of excellent quality and
grades No. hard OF No. northern.
There is complaint of the presence Of
smut in the grain, in sufficient guam
titles, in many instances, to make the
grain lose one grade. Most, if not all
of the local supply Of the old crop has
been exhausted and none but the new
crop is on hand.
During the last week no less than six
boiler explosions have occurred in this
state. That is more than occurred in
two years during the time the boiler in
spection law was in force. In nearly
every case the fatal accident was oc-
casioned by careless or incompetent en-
gineers, who under the late law could
not get license to run an engine.
Some sort of restriction seems to be
necessary as these explosions are get
ting too frequent, and the public safety
demands change.
If every mans obligations to pay his
debt would bound up into his throat
as easily and quickly as that other
lump does when he sees his creditor
and the sheriff approaching his domi-
Gle to wreck vengeance upon his un-
fulfilled promises as per the keynote
of certain note and mortgage duly
executed III the supremely quiet mein
of his more sane moments, doubtless
many a North Dakota farmer would
sooner be able to quit luxurating In
the unpleasant effects of a misspent
life, and more quickly lay up some
thing for rainy day.
Many of the residents of this city are
wondering if the authorities proposes
to take any steps this fall toward put
ting in street lamps to penetrate the
darkness that will surround us so many
hours per day during the approaching
winter. Something should be done to
obyiate the necessity of every way