Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-03
GOSSIP AND NOTES,

GOSSIP AND NOTES..
Get your leagal blanks at this Office.
Teachers examination next Friday.
Wheat, No. 1 Hard SO cents today.
Cavalier county has $4,000 in the
cash box aud outstanding warrant all
paid.
Friday nights freight brought in seven
CARLOADS of farm machinery for Langdon
dealers.
The Masonic blue lodge has increased
its membership by eleven the past year,
making total of about ninety.
During the past week wheat reached
tho highest price known since '91-and
the top notch hasn't been touched yet.
It is no surprise to his many old friends
to learn that Col. H. E. Burritt will
again do Tie assessing Of Harvey this
summer. .......
The apportionment of the state tuition
fund for February is 1896 per pupil.
Cavalier county receives $9,5O7.85-a
pretty big slice.
The First National and w. J. Mooney
State banks publish their report this
week. Both show conservative manage
mont with deposits increasing and big
surplus of cash on hand.
Telephone connection with the leading
cities of the Northwest is what Lang
don is promised this summer. The
towns of Milton and Park River will also
be added to the "hello" service
Monday was busy day in Co. Trea-
surer Robertson's office. Every point
in the county was represented by tax
payers who wanted to elk up" their per-
sonal taxes before the penalty WIS added.
DR.. Gibson reports the complete re-
covery of the isolated cases of liphtheria
in Billings. The premises have been
thoroughly disinfected and no alarm
regarding the spread Of the disease in
this county need be felt.
Our report of township election re-
turns this week is far from complete and
We will consider it favor if the clerks of
those townships not heard from will let
us have the results in time for publica-
tion next week.
Base ball talk is warming up and q
league composed of q lbs on this branch
line, between Larimore and Hannah IL
receiving the attention of local "fans :"
It will be 10 If the same interest ie
manifested in other towns as eviuced
here.
Judge Sauter and Stenographer Prince
came up Oh Tuesday to OF en- the adj
iourned term OF district court. A. few
civil cases continued from The last session
are being disposed of and it Is expected
that by tomorrow noon an adjourn ment
will be reached.
Arthur Maby, charged with stealing a
load OF hay from the farm premises OF
Gullick Herland, of Perry, who is at pre-
sent an inmate of the jamestown insane
asylum, WAS given his trial IN Judge
Erickson's court Tuesday and sentenced
to fifteen days in the county Jail and $l5
fine-or twenty two days imprisonment
in all. That load Of hay came pretty
high-at least Manly thinks 80.
Moscow is a ''double" township and
the residents of the eastern half have
petitioned the county commissioners to
be "set.off" and become a separate town
ship. to be known AZ Berlin. The ques-
ton of new school buildings, roads.
bridges, etc in tic newly settled western
half has given rise to the question. An
election for the new officers Of Berlin
will I've held in May if the petition is
granted by the board.
Billings, as shown by the abridged
treasurer's statement published in this
issue, is good one for so young and
newly organized township. No debts,
economical expenditures, entirely within
the appropriations made shows quite an
executive ability GU the part of the Of
fetal board. Billing is one of the towns
in Cavalier county that is now attracting
the attention of incoming settlers and
it's farms in years to come will be among
the most valuable for miles around.
Keep your eye on Billings township.
A letter from juneau, Alaska, dated
Feb'y 14th. tells of the safe arrival OF
Morris Orion and party from this city
thus far on their journey 10 the gold
fields. Judging from the letter received,
til. boys would not have started on the
trip had they known the facts as they dc
now. AS it is, however, they will &C
through to the interior and see what min
ing camps look like, though they hardly
expect to find any pay dirt themsel Ives
cred" Kelly got to Juneau all right, but
is again in difficulty as the authorities
will allow no one to start for the interior
v,th ,eaa than $500 amt nine months pro-