Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-01-17
PITHY PENLINGS
Picked, Pointed and Preserved
For Reading by Regular
Correspondents.
ELM POINT.

Alex. Russell, wife and family visit
ed with friends and relatives near
Bathgate during the holidays, and re-
port an enjoyable time.
Frank Switzer and George Fleming
with their wives and families eat
Christmas dinner at the hospitable
mansion of Ed. Andrews, where Mr.
and Mrs. Andrews had prepared an
elegant Christmas tree for the little
ones.
Fremont is strictly in it along with
the balance of Cavalier county and if
d. w. Hines does not run spur line
as far as Elm Point why d. w. Hines
will find spur running into him about
a foot.
In township politics there is Il great
deal of still hunting being done, ex-
pect to be able to name the winning
ticket in the near future,
One Of our citizens Who took in the
Masonic hall and installation at Lang
don incidentally Informed me that he
overheard a young lady refuse to dance
with a certain gentleman because he
evidently had a very bad attack of
t'celluloid'' and she was afraid it might
be contagious.
AT the Fremont club house on New
Years eve large gathering appeared
principally in a conspicuous place on
woman hater's thumb. He said it was
a felon. So, as all felons when recog-
nized are excluded from the debales.or
exclusiveness Of the club meetings, he
was respectfully but firmly requested
to withdraw and take the felon with
him, but if he would leave the felon at
neighbours to be called for later, he
could return, for the members Of the
club as he well knew picked their COM
pany. The gentleman, although Il
woman Halter, has a large chunk of
humanity, arose to remark as he held
up the offending member which was
wrapped in pink polonaise cut and
gored on the inside in q painfully APP
parent manner, the whole being covered
by q dark green veil cut on the bias, he
evidently having dressed the felon with
view to protecting the weather or
keep it like all felons from getting out.
Gazing dreamingly at it he remarked:
eff the felon goes go with it, for as
you say your company is picked, so is
mine, and like Fremont voters picked
early and often. I go With it to stay
for have not been nursing this felon
so long that there has unconsciously
grown on me a great friendly feeling
for it. But there will depart il it is
the wish of tire club and take the
offending member with me, forI would
be doubly base were l to desert COM
fade who has shared my bed, my board.
my bread and milk and my remarks.
One whom J. have dressed and I'M
dressed as carefully as a mother does
her infant baby, gently rocking it on
my manly bosom while I fed it with
the milk of human kindness with
patience and q spoon. Never! never!
will desert. OUGHT land suddenly
there WAS 1, dull thud followed By
large sob Of feeble moan) the brother
had tainted. The members of the club
forgot in their efforts to resusicate the
brother all about the troublesome
visitor till the secretary after unwind
ing table cloth, pillow case and a
mass Of something that looked like
underdone mince meat, found that the
remarks Of the brother had been too
many for the felon-it broke and run,
which the secretary SAID was no won
der for it almost made him break and
run too. AS soon as a bucked full of
water. a mop and u broom had brought
the brother to-the felon having run
out and escaped during the excitement.
The club Was called TO order and the
new business proceeded with. new
president was elected the secretary and
treasurer reelected, When it came to
the question good of the club" the
president arose while silence and his
chew of gum dropped ostentatiously on
the assembly: Brothers, 1 thank you
for the honor conferred upon me;
hope / shall merit your appreciation; I
just wish to remark that it might not
be inappropriate to say that the county
officials elected last fall are about to
enter OH the duties Of their respective
Offices and although few changes are
made weir" about to hear the other
fellows "McHugh" and cry oyer the
way the new officers "McGauvran''
the county, but it seems to me so long
as they are ALERT to the county's in
terests and will keep the "Truax" TO
trim down excessive appropriations.
That "Ii0bertson," who made
s1Mach0n'' the eminent detective,