Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-05-12

Tomorrow is Arbor Day.
Tree planting is in order tomorrow.
The Milton base ball kids are not i'm
pregnable.
Wheat is on the jump, both in price
and in the ground.
Langdon carpenters are not likely to
be idle very much this summer.
Our country cousins already report
that local politicians have begun to make
themselves agreeable.
The teachers and scholars of the city
schools invite everybody to attend their
Arbor Day exercises tomorrow afternoon.
The court house officials are Just as
patriotic as anybody and all fly the stars
and stripes over the entrance of their
respective offices.
Let everybody devote as much of their
time as possible tomorrow to planting
trees. If you put in the whole day at
this work You will never regret it.
Next Tuesday IS the 18th del Nal, the
85th anniversary of the independence of
Norway and will be fittingly observed by
the Scandinavians of this county at
Milton and Wang.
Judge Sauter will be here to hold a
brief term of court next week, arriving
on Tuesday. Parties desiring to perfect
their citizenship should not fail to make
q note of the fact.
Since the city council have ordered the
side walk along the north side of Spruce
street extended from the foot bridge west
to. the Dorval addition, that boulevard
will be more popular than ever with our
young folks in taking evening st1olls:
Osnabrock raised $40 for charitable
purposes in thirty minutes the other day
and now the base ball kids are hopping
mad-they have been passing the hat for
over a week raising funds to buy $40
outfit and not red cent could they get
Nuff sed.
Langdon fire department. gains much
need acquisition through the generosity
of Mayor Mcmillan, who transfers his
years salary Of 800 to the city treasury
to aid in the placing we'll and windmill
at the fire hall for the purpose of filling
the cistern.
A mail sack filled with packages of
garden seeds was received at this Office
during the week from the department of
agriculture, with the compliments of
Senator Roach. They are for free distri-
button and will be handed out to demo-
Gratis and republicans alike, while they
last
A report was going the rounds Mon
day afternoon that Admiral SIMPSONS
fleet had an encounter with the Span
iards off Porto Rico and suffered defeat
and heavy losses. It turned out, how
ever, to be fake, one of those stories
which spring up and no one knows how
or where and acquire certain amount
of credit from being oft repeated.
There's matter enough wrong with the
the fenced half-mile track of the Lang
don Driving Association andif the officers
and directors expect to be here and do
business on July 4th it would be a good
idea for them to demonstrate whether
said association is still in existence. If
they expect to celebrate in Cuba this
year let FER 60 Gallagher, or any old way.
Wheat is worth money at present and
lots of it at that. Saturday the price
here was $1.17, OH Monday it closed at
$1.24, going up to $1.40 Tuesday and
yesterday rose to $1.44. The amount
marketed since the rise began is surpris-
ing everybody all the buyers reporting
the delivery of several loads each day
The only time at which anything neal
the present figure was realized being
back in 1882 when the county was first
settled, when for short time it was
$1.30. There is difference of Is cents
however between No. Hard and No.
Frank F. Ross, who ranked as sergeant
in Go b.. of the state militia up to the
time of It's disbanding this week, left
yesterday for Fargo and hopes TO enlist
in one of the eight companies of the
militia now in camp there. Frank hat
consented to furnish the DEMOCRAT will
an occasional letter concerning camp life
and IN case the company goes to the
front for active service to keep our read
ers posted on incidents relative to NORTH
Dakota's volunteers on the field of bat
tie. Mr.. Ross is we'll informed having
graduated from the Iowa state university
and we predict his letters will be decid
eddy interesting.