Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-06-24
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

GUSSlP AMI MULES.
Lanedon has q potatoe famine.
y Lakota wants to play ball at Langdon
on July 9Th.
Crops look tine now and are growing
at the rate Of one inch per day.
Some twenty or more Langdonites
took in the races ut Crystal this week.
The fun in Harvey which opened up
with the late school election still waxeth
hot.
The monthly school report shows an
enrolment OF 1872 children for the closing
month OF the present school year.
Preparations for the Fourth ofJuly go
on swimmingly. There will be rousing
observance OF Independence Day here.
The baseball teams OF Langdon and
Milton are announced to cross bats on
the diamond OF the later town July 3rd.
The Cargill Elevator Co., have crew
OF fifteen carpenters putting up house
Of 10000 bushels capacity at Easily this
week.
The Langdon City Band is another
home institution which will more than
make itself heard all day long while we
celebrate the great and glorious Fourth.
Two. new elevators will be built this
summer by the Langdon Elevator Co.,
one Of which will be located at Easily and
the other on the new extension at Dres-
den.
Grading on tho Walhalla branch will
be completed in about ten days when
several OF the outfits come across to
Langdon to take hand in the extension
here.
Special train for the convenience oil
those attending the Park Riverraces will
leave here tomorrow (Friday) morning
returning at an early hour Saturday
evening.
On Saturday forenoon, commencing at
10 o'clock Co. Treasurer Robertson will
open the sale OF permits to cut hay on
state and school lands. Permits will go
to the highest bidder.
Surveyor Hebert was out west yester-
day plating out the new town OF Ores
den. The new townsite company is
understood to consist OF W. r. Winter,
Henry Hahn and Robt Fleming.
The local baseball ''fans' are working
up O. whole lot OF enthusiasm with the
near approach Of the Fourth and Will en-
deavor to close negotiations for match
game with either the Park River or La
kota mines for that day.
WHY this discrimination in fire lnsur-
ance rates? InsAneta, where they nave
no protection against fire, the business
houses are insured for 2K and 3 per cent.
In Langdon, where there is good fire pro-
lection, both steam and chemical, ltcosts
our merchants aud per cent.
The state board OF railroad commisslo'
ners werein the city this forenoon OH
their annual tour OF inspection OF tne
Ct. Northern road. No kicks were re
gistered at this point and. weunderstano
very few complaints were head along thf
line. Supt Wilson accompanied TN
board.
Joseph A. Brennan, one OF the carr
settlers on the Snow Flake creek IN Lin
den township, returned here YESTERDAY
on visit after six years absence II
British Columbia to find his Cavaile
county holding budding into prospectiV
townsite property at the terminus OF TN
new railroad extension.
In another column a call is issued Z
the German population OF Cavalier coul
ty urging their attendance at meeting
to be held here on July 5th for the pun
pose Of organizing society when WI
have Tor its object the holding OF socla
meetings so that "Reminiscences
Fatherland may continue to De KEEP
fresh and the German language De no
allowed 10 become extinct among lie u
growing sons and daughters OF Germ"
parentage.
Work on the new hali-mie track OF IN
Langdon Driving & Agricultural assoe y
ton has this week nearly reached perez
ton. Five teams and big force OF me
have TRANSFORMED the recently purchase i.
site into perfectly formed track VIII u
plenty Of slope on the turns and w'a'
OF thirty feet all the way around, 'nc'e 60,
ing to fifty feet on the home stretch II
lumber for the eight-foot fence is eHpe,
ed t, arrive this week when a 90 VIII
formed and the twenty acres OF grou'''
enclosed in short order.