Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-08-19
PITnY PENCILINGS.
Picked, Pointed and Preserved
For Reading by Regular
Correspondents.
ELM POINT.

ELM POINT.
William Russell and wife of Snowflake
visited the family of his brother, Alex
Russell, over Sunday.
Com'r c. r. VanNorman drove to the
county seat OF Monday to attend q meet
ing of the county board.
Mr.. Walker has located on a claim
twenty-one miles west of Langdon, where
he expects to move with his family and
take Up permanent residence before the
winter sets in.
Our Nimrods are preparing for the
hunting season which opens Friday.
Harvesting is we'll under way and some
will have finished cutting their wheat by
the end of this week.
Our Superintendent Of Schools appears
to be we'll satisfied with the progress
made IN the different school districts
He reports School No. l having ~
scholars enrolled, all we'll advanced aud
the attendance remarkably good Al
School No. there are 81 scholars on the
roll with school making excellent pro
eress. School No. 5 shows 81 pupils
but only small portion OF this number
attend: this would indicate lack
of interest on the part OF the
parents. The teacher is doing her best.
School No has 25 pupils enrolled. The
older pupils here are poor scholars owing
to poor opportunities to attend except
during the summer months. With a
number in the lower classes it is their
first term and the teacher is doing good
work. School No. ) has an enrolment
of 10. the school Is well conducted and
the pupils show up good, but the attend
ance does not appear to be as large as 1t
should be. In all except No. the ma
iority of the pupils speak foreign Ian
euage and when they come to learn 10
read English, they not only have to learn
to pronounce it and know the words at
at sight, but must learn the meaning OF
each little word. This makes the pro.
gress slow and We cannot expect them tc
advance as fast as pupils who are learn
ing to read their native tongue. The
teachers are all doing excellent work anc
that the principle cause OF deficiency
where it does happen to exist, is the lacl
of regularity in attendance on the part O
the scholars.
(From another correspondent
News is scarce but mosquitoes ar
more than plentiful.
Harvest is in full swing now and tn
hum of the binder is heard all over.
Chas. Jameson after vacation of tw
weeks has returned to Fremont again.
Heavy rains last Friday put a stop t.
harvesting operations for the time being
Miss Bella Grey, from Minnesota,
visiting her sister Mrs. Fraser, of thi
place, for few weeks.
Charlie Galloway went west last wee
to build and make other necessary i'm
proyements on his Rock Lake CLAIM.
Our young folks spent most EMO.
able time at the dance held last Frida
evening at the home William Sabraw.
CIR. VanNorman and James Pask al
doing quite an extensive banking bushes
this sumner-that is in the way of san
banks and gravel pits.
The Jerusalem school teacher was
in town Tuesday evening on his way
Walhalla to attend meeting of tt
Workman lodge, returning to the Ho
City the following morning.
An error in the Elm Point items of la
week made the recently held ice c1ea
supper appear to have been pulled-off {
Sunday evening when Friday was Il
day on which it actually occurred