Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-02
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

Threshing has commenced.
Wheat, No. l. Hard 70 cents today.
The fall term OF school begins next
Monday.
Seven applicants were in attendance
at the teachers examination last Friday.
Why's the DEMOCRAT like paper OF
needles" Because it's full OF good points.
Beaulieu farmers have notices posted
notifying hunters not to trespass on their
land.
The ladies OF Langdon should remem-
Der that they can secure calling cards at
this office.
Supt. Fox: light frost or mighty
bad chill touched up my cucumber vines
Sunday night.
Ripenlng grain crowded some farmers
so as to compel them TO keep their bin
ders running last Sunday.
This year the orders for binding twine
taken at Milton amount TO 155, 600 lbs;
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A regular passenger train is promised
by the CT. Northern to the end OF the eN-
tension by Sept. 18th. 1t will be wei
coined by all.
Those OF our readers who have special
ly fine products would do well to exhibit
them at the Grand Forks street lair.
Entli les in all classes are free.
Agent Stevenson is now able to take
things a little easier since the CT. North
ern assigned an assistant operator to
help in handling the business.
Farmer W. Il. Cushing has been APP
pointed by Gov. Briggs as a delegate to
the National Farmers Conference that
meets al st. Paul next month.
The Donovan hall will be opened by
grand concert given by the Ferguson
sisters Monday September 18th. The
hall will be lighted by electricity.
The work OF laying steel on the extern
sion was resumed early this week after a
delay OF nearly ten days anditnow looks
as if the construction train will reach
Hanna by Saturday night.
Only moderate sized crowd took in
the stereoptican and talking machine ell
tertainment at the court house Tuesday
night, although the program as a whole
was fair. A second performance last
evening met with similar results.
The Langdon Courier-Democrat. always
cleverly edited and full OF interest, with
perpetual rent-roll in the shape OF hall
a-page OF legals, though on the wrong
side OF politics. has Just entered upon Its
thirteenth annual volume.-The Park
River Gazette.
P. McHugh: The supreme court has
decided that poultry running at large is
wild game and the party upon whose
ground they trespass has perfect right
to kill them. The chicken season has
upened-in our part of the town-you
can bet on that.
The old time friends OF Archie Shelp, a
popular liquid dispenser here back in the
SOS, will be glad to here that he is
among those who have had a big
streak of good luck in the hunt for gold
in Alaska. Archie has spent nearly eight
years mining out there and his recent
SUCCESS in tie interior enables him to re-
turn home and enjoy the comforts Of
civilization.
Arch'd McCully the deputy collector o.
customs at Woodbridge, who recently re-
turned much benefited in health from q
trip to Banfi, the celebrated health re-
sort of the Northwest Territory, was II
in town shaking hands with friends yes
terday. He didn't overlook to call us tt
account for the error in the items iron
Woodbridge of last week which accredl tee
him with gain of 300 pounds i'll weigh
resulting from the trip when 80 was tn
the correct thing.
=. W. Hennessy, deputy u S. marsha
and Chief Elliot. Of the provincial polio
force at Winn ipeg came in on Monday
train with papers calling for the arres
Of Jack Scott who is wanted on the othe
side on the charge OF rape. and wa
known to be in hiding over here. Wit
the assistance OF Sheriff McGauvran b
was finally located near the houndar
1iue and induced to go back to Winnips
without the formality OF requisitio
nnnrs. The crime was committed enrl
in the spring since which time he he
been working in Cavalier county undo
an assumed name.
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