Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-02-17
NORTH IA xOTA

jamestown has sol children Of school
age.
Sargent county farmers will erect Il
creamery.
Mandan schools are still closed on
account of scarlet fever.
Gotfried Heinrich is commissioned
postmaster at Jewell.
Valley City will enlarge the capacity
Of its electric light plant.
Deposits of state funds in Fargo
banks aggregate $SG,O0O.
There is large demand for citizens
papers in Walsh county.
n county-seat war is billed for Penn
bina county next fall.
\ number of Valley City residences
will be lighted with acctylene gas.
Milton will erect IL commodious
school building of brick.
DR.. A. G. Patterson is appointed a
member of the board Of pension exam
iners Mt Lisbon.
\ postoti;ce has been established at
Kellogg, Walsh county, with Frank j.
oVtave rs postmaster.
jamestown has a school population of
/
1891.
Dr. Smith of Dickinson will go to
Klondike to practice, and locate good
claim on the side.
John L. Moore, the defaulting presi-
dent Of the M.not Coal company left
debts amounting to $500 at Minot.
Lieutenant Albright. the new govern
ment military instructor, has arrived at
the state university at Grand Forks.
Morton county has 1902 children of
school age, an increase Of 100 over last
year.
Montana ranchmen report sheep as
suffering in that state while in North
Dakota they are rolling fat.
Six blind pisEers have been convicted
and three have pleaded guilty at
Grafton.
Joseph Ncuber was thrown from his
horse near Minor and died as result
of the injuries.
Articles have been filed for the or
ganization Of mutual insurance COM
pnny at Wahpetcn.
II. A. British of I,angdon got
fractured skull and other injuries while
playing hockey at the ice rink.
The Y. P. s. G. E. of Silliston, has
purchased an organ for the Congre-
gational church.
Farmers at Enderlin will organize
cooperative creamery to handle the
product of six hundred cows.
Work on tho new Catholic church at
Bismarck Will begin as soon as spring
opens.
Charles II. Newton of Harwood, gets
an increase of pension to $50 per
month.
Frank j. Votava is the new post
master at the new postofiice, at Kel-
logg, Walsh county.
The ten-year-old daughter of Peter
Clooten, Bismarck, died Of strangula-
ton as a result of severe throat trouble.
State Bank Examiner Langlie found
the bank at Hannah in very prosperous
condition.
A postof1ice has been established ut
Maple River, Cass county, and Arnold
Mastul: named as postmaster.
A petition has been signed in Stark
county asking for the calling of a grand
jury, to investigate various things.
The penitentiary farm management
is purchasing a large supply of seed
wheat from Mclean county.
Petitions are in circulation in Dickey
county for a law fixing a ? cents a
mile passenger rate on railroads.
Orlando Cornell, an old man of large
family, committed suicide near Dickin-
son.
The public schools at Mandan have
been closed for Il week on account of
scarlet fever, which is prevalent.
In district court at Grafton, six blind
piggers were convicted and three plead
guilty.
Pembina county has school enumer-
alton of 1886, an increase of lis over
last year.
church at Wulhalla, has been called to
the church at jamestown.
Covers will be laid for sixty guests
at the banquet to be given by the
Crookston Bar association, Feb. %.
The Agricultural college board will
assist the students in securing Il few
hundred dollars for gymnasium
Capt. James Carpenter Of Forest
River, has held the office of justice Of
tho peace continuously since 1879.
+. T.. Wells gave a banquet to the
bank officials in attendance at the
Bankers association at jamestown.
George Thompson, an Northern Pa
cific bridge carpenter employed in the
shops at Fargo, lost the ends of two
fingers in a circular saw.
Casselton is furnishing city arc lights
for $65 year. Cando has also started
it's light plant, which gives general
satisfaction.
j. w. Watson, arrested at Morden,
Manitoba, will be returned to Walsh
county for trial on charges Of embeZZle
ment and forgery.
The village Of Knox is moving for
cemetery. In the last eleven years,
there have been but four deaths in the
town.
J. B. Streeter was president Of the
Larimore bank that suspended and
thinks that the bank will be able to re-
sumo.
Charles II. Newton Of Harwood
Cass county, has been granted an in
crease Of pension from sos to $50 per
month.