Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-08

AK for Baby Lou-a good five cont
smoke at the Postofice Annex.
j. w. Mahon received another addi-
ton to his family Friday IN the form of
a nine pound boy.
Dr.. Gibson announced the arrival of
son at the farm of Jas. Morrison east Of
town last Thursday.
Mrs. A. I. Koehmstedt and family have
moved out to the farm at Mt. Carmel for
the balance of the summer.
FoN SA1E:-Fresh mich COW, grade
Shorthorn. Will sell reasonably cheap
for cash. II. Clarke, Daniels P. o.
e. Sherwin invites his friends old and
new to call and look over his line of
tailoring samples at the bost-ofice annex.
j. q. Harlan fraternized with the local
machine trade day or two this week.
"Hank" has standing record for big
sales and halls from the good town of
Grafton
e. Meiklejohn's new machine shop is
rapidly being equipped with complete
line of machinery. This week hs has in
stalled fine turning lathe that cost
over $3.50.
Robt. Griffith was in town Monday
from Osnabrock and gave the DEMOCRAT
an order for printing the season bills of
his Clyde horse, General Lee, purchased
this spring in st. Cloud, MINI.
A dance and picnic is to be held at Mt.
Carmel on Tuesday, June Goth, when all
the usual attractions will be offered to
make the day enjoyable to all. Better
make up your mind to goi you want a
real good time.
A business change that has occurred at
Wales this week transfers the Amos
Abbot drug store property to Jacob
Rich, who also merges into the farm
machinery business this summer. A COM
petent pharmacist will be given charge
of the drug store while Mr.. Rich will
give his personal attention to the imple-
ment trade,
Last Friday q telegram from Erins-
vile, Ont, brought the news of the
sad death of Mrs. Thos, Evans, Sis
ter of j. j. Mahoney and Mrs. Thos.
Flynn, of this city. The extremely long
| distance combined with the delay attend
ing the receipt of the message here, made
it impossible for either Mr.. Mahonsy OF
his sister, Mrs. Flynn, to attend the
funeral rs they wished.
Langdon is likely to have telephones
galore before the summer is ended. For
nearly week past Mr.. D. D. Epson, of
Chicago, has been in the city interesting
our citizens III The National Automatic
Telephone Go. He has also asked the
city to give his concern a franchise on
the local telephone business for stated
number Of years, leaving the length of
time to be fixed by the council. This
matter. as far as the city authorities are
concerned, will be settled at meeting
held tomorrow evening During his
stay here Mr.. Upson has called on many
of Langdon's leading men, explained the
system he represents, showing how It's
automatic principle does away with the
necessity of maintaining central Office
and gives the patrons the use of the
phone night or day. The cost to SUBJ
scribers is placed at two dollars for busi-
| ness houses and one dollar for residences
per month and if Mr.. Epson succeeds in
getting sixty subscribers here he guaran-
tees TO have tho local hello system in
operation inside of sixty days. The way
in which the business men are taking up
the matter indicates that it will be 20.
The only sticker apparently being the
question OF how long the concern should
be given franchise for.