Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-06-02
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

GOSSIP AND NOTES..
War news has been very quiet the past
week.
Wheat dropped cents yesterday, from
$1.18 to S1.05.
The band was out again Monday even
ing with more patriotic music.
Farmers should bear in mind that hay
permits on school lands will be let on
June 18th.
Langdon's dustless streets and fine new
residence are hard to beat by any town in
the state this summer.
A curfew ordinance to keep the kids
off the streets after nine o'clock at night
went into effect at Milton last week.
Hannah citizens will join us in celebrat-
ing the Glorious Fourth and promise to
bring along their invincible ball team.
There we're fourteen applicants for
certificates to teach at the examination
conducted by Co. Supt. Fox last Friday.
The term of district court dated for
yesterday, June LIST at p. m. has been
postponed to Monday June Goth at the
same hour.
Hannah claims to have the crack ball
tea m for miles around and is now organ
izing team of kickers for their new
football club.
Chas. Keenan, was in town Sunday
from weeks trip west talking hail insur-
ance and reports writing up policies for
$4,000 worth.
The appointment of Peter Zettel as
postmaster at Mt Carmel was made at
Washington Tuesday. The Office will
change hands July 1st.
The children of the Langdon schools
subscribed $3.50 to the Maine monument
fund at the exercises held Thursday
afternoon of last week.
Langdon will celebrate the Fourth of
July in proper style this year. The
people all see that it's good thing and
are giving it a good big push.
Our local contributor of news from
Woodbridge is on deck again this week
and tells of the big line of new buildings
and Improvements in his section.
The oft postponed ball game between
the school kids Of Langdon and Milton
will be played next Saturday on the
grounds of the latter-if it don't rain.
Milton schools have closed for the
summer to enable the board to remodel
and enlarge the buildings. They will
open up again in September with double
their present capacity ....
Hon. Jes. Dobie was among the callers
of Friday and appears to be we'll salts
fed with his first year, experience in Ca
Waller county. He predicts the early
harvesting of big crop Of county politics
down in Pembina.
The only war news Sunday was the
terrific encounter between the baseball
mines of Langdon and Dresden on the
grounds Of latter in the afternoon. The
result was DISASTROUS for the Langdon
boys, but they have recovered.
Co. Treasurer Robertson will sell hay
cutting permits on tho school and state
lands Of this county on Saturday June
11th The sale being at public auction
and beginning at ten o'clock a. m. No
bid will be entertained in which the sum
is less than $3.50 per quarter, Or fraction
part thereof
The Armory Hall, where the ladies
of the Baptist church served ice cream
and sold fancy work on the afternoon
and in tho evening OF Memorial Day was
most lastly decorated with flags, flowers
and bunting. They cleared ID the neigh.
horhood of 1925, which is proof sufficient
that the good things provided were liber
ally sampled by our citizens.
One of the incest patriotic displays il
this city on Decoration Day was found
in the plate glass front of the First Ma
tional bank. A background of red. white
and blue bunting set off with great effecr
framed portrait of Admiral Dewey anc
and picture of the battleship Maine
1t is evidence of the artistic taste O.
Cashier Thompson and attracted muol
attention.