Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-16
GOSSIP AND NOTES,
Wheat, No. 1 Hard. 70 cents today.

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Wheat, No. 1 Hard. rs cents today.
Walhallas second bank is to be opened
shortly
Warm weather during the last week
ofSeptember is what Foster promises.
Builder Loynes sent big crew OF
carpenters out to Hanna this week to
finish the work on H. O. Biornerud's
general store which will be opened right
away.
A pleasingly arranged impromptu hop
was enjoyed last evening by the young
folks at the Donovan Hall. The excel
lent music for which was furnish by
Prof. Hops.
The first freight train to go northward
and distribute whole carloads Of much
needed freight at the new towns Of Dres
den. Wales and Hanna was pulled over
the extension last Thursday with Con-
ductor Jimmy Kenney in charge.
The party OF Ct. Northern surveyors
that have spent nearly two months here
left Monday to report at st. Paul for
further duty. They have been here from
the time the first stake was drivened
until the line was opened for traffic.
Travelling men who makes the new
towns along the branch say that Hanna
is one OF the liveliest. 1t already has five
stores. livery, meat market, etc., and
situated in the center OF fine farming
community, where the crops are excell-
eilt, it's business men are likely to reap
their share OF the crop.
A dozen or more OF excursionists made
the trip over the extension to Hanna on
Sunday in the freight train caboose and
made the round OF q calls on the Lang
don boys that compose the main push of
''the new stately city that is growing at
the end of the branch''-that's the new
name that Wyard has for Hanna you
know.
A gay pair OF neutrality-suspicious.
struck the town one day last week.
They had quite a strong graft but it
wouldn't work. The fair sorceresses
gave the public to understand that they
were the authorized representatives OF a
hoop skirt and corset firm, but the way
they Haunted their frozen charms before
the unsophesticated OF the other Sex
made it imperative that they pull their
freight" down the line the same evening in
search OF nights lodging.
This week we published the Grand
Forks Street Fair premium list which
will show the premiums offered by the
merchants OF Grand Forks for farmers
display OF the products. Themain draw
ing card for attractions, however, is the
two diving horses, "Cupid" and powder
Face" that dive from platform 81 feet
high, into u tank OF water ten feet deep
by forty feet long and twenty feet
wide. This is a feat never before thought
of and draws wonderfully.
The new time card for the Langdon
and Hanna extension OF this branch OF
the Ct. Northern was made public and
went into effect last Monday. For
awhile past it was generally supposed
that the passenger service now in use
between Lungdon and breckenridge
would be continued to the new terminal
noint at Hanna. But the schedule issued
shows Shat for tie present the nc"
towns along the extension will be served
by daily mixed train leaving here at
4:35 ir the afternoon, latter the departure
OF the south bound passenger. The
time table she WIS that it is due to reaci
Hanna at GAO p. m, and leaves on lts
return trip at 1870 the next morning
reaching here at nlne o'clock.
The past week has manifested that
Lancdon's iar-sighted capitalists re
alize that the new towns along the ex
tension offer the opportunity Tor SAL
and profitable investment. On MON
day choice business location at Ores
den was purch ased by Messrs Is. IL
Click and T. Dawson on which a drug
store will be opened within thirty day
and the same day NJ. Kelly closed q dea
for the site OF hardware store that N
has concluded TO put in at Wales TIN
fall. Another OF Lnngdon's young mel
that have sized up the situation
Wales as being good business center Il
the future is Amos Abbott, who i'll co
partnership with an acquaintance iron
the east will locate a drugstore at tina
rdace. The second town, Wales, did no
strike as hot Il pace us the other ""
towns nj the start but promises Ell
both u close finish when the trio settI
down to business next year.