Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-04-21
GOSSIP AND NOTES.
Ride Monarch and keep in front.
Sold by e. G. Dedrick.

Ride Monarch and keep in front.
Sold by e. G. Dedrick.
Sunday was an ideal summer day.
Wheat, No. Hard 81 cents today.
The new township of Berlin elected it's
officers Tuesday.
Seeding operations will be completed
by May LIST in this county.
Operations on a new brick hotel, at
Hannah, are to begin May LIST.
Wheat has reached war prices-No.
Hard was 81 cents on yesterday market.
The contract Tor additional cell room
in the county Jail will be let on Saturday.
The Langdon fire department is we'll
off, heving balance of $4,000 in it's
treasury.
Judge Sauter comes up from Grafton to
hear few court cases on Tuesday of
next week.
Mt. Carmel post office will removed to
the store of Peter Zettel the change
taking place about May LIST.
Hannah sports raised $3.50 in few
hours one day last week for the equip
ment of their base ball team.
The property Of the Langdon Imple-
ment Co on Oak street has been painted
and otherwise improved during the past
week.
Lovers of beautiful lawns and gardens
have begun their spring work and get
ting ready for what nature will do very
rapidly in the course of week or two
Another of the good things that Osna-
brock will get this summer is a $4,000
hotel. John McNeill, the wealthy grain
and stock farmer, of Loan, it is reported
will furnish the capital.
Editor Fahnlander is spending few
days among Cavalier county friends this
week and incidentally added new names
to the list of readers of his popular Ger
man paper, the North Dakota Press,
published at Wahpeton.
More new settlers have moved into
Cavalier county this spring than in any
other part of the state. New settlers
means more business and an increase in
business means a big thing for this
community. Langdon is getting its full
share and more to of this tide of i'm
migration.
Nearly two hundred descriptions of
land, in most cases quarter sections, were
proved up on in this county the past
year and are this spring being place on
the books of the assessors as property
subject to taxation. The land will
aggregate something like $4,000 acres at
at value ranging from So to $40 per
acre, thus increasing the real property
in the county, subject to taxation some-
this like $262, $500. This together with
the improvements on real property will
make big increase in taxable property
of this county and will have tendency
to reduce the rate of taxation in the
future.
Langdon will this summer stick an
other big feather in it's business cap and
take long stride forward III its march
of progression along the line to metro
politan fame and prominence. The new
enterprise that will locate in our midst is
the Northwestern Telephone Exchange
line which has decided this summer to
extend it's service along this line from
Park River to Langdon, making this their
terminal point. This company has dur
ing uthe past five years introduced its
telephone service into every state west
of the Mississippi, as far as North Dako-
ia, and as far south as Texas and during
the last three years has established con.
nections between the Twin Cities and
Chicago with the leading cities of this
state now including Grand Forks, Fargo
Jamestown Grafton and Park River, and
now Langdon is to be added, taking
in the towns of Milton and Osnabrock en-
route. E. E. Lindley, the right of way
representative Of the company, has dur
the past few weeks secured the right OF
way between here and Park River and
the construction will be completed by
August LIST. The company place theil
wire and poles on the opposite side OF the
track to that occupied by the Western
Union telegraph company and thirty
feet clear of the right Of way. They est
mate the cost of construction at S40o pei
mile and though the schedule Of charges
has not yet been fixed it is ascertainec
that the local toll on this branch will b'
twenty-five cents for use of the phone
the time limit being five minutes. Al
a conversation of at least two hundred
words can be conducted in that length O.
time the saving in it's use locally will b'
easily appreciated.
w. J. Mooney secured cheal
money or farm loans when NJ
uac aast Don't make any LOAF