Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-07-13
NORTH DAKOTA

have a new bell.
William Hall, at Bottineau, is OPEN
ing up brickyard.
A fiye-legged colt has just come to
life at Devils Lake.
Only thirty-six votes were polled at
Minot's school election.
Jesse Reese has been promoted from
assistant to fire chief at Fargo.
The st. Johns academy at Jimtown
contemplates a $1,000 addition to its
buildings.
Work has begun on the excavations
for some of the buildings at the Bis
marck military post.
Ry a vote of SO to so, Mandan de-
cided not to issue $4,000 in bonds for
new school buildings.
The people of Church's Ferry have
contributed nearly 500 to the New
Richmond relief fund.
Ground was broken the first of the
week for the new Williams county
court house at Williston.
rhirty-two graders have arrived at
Bismarck to complete the first twelve
miles of grade for the Washburn road.
The acting Indian commissioner has
authorized the construction Of a new
warehouse at Fort Totten at cost OF
500.
The new store building Of Ole Me-
mes at Milton was taken up by recent
zephyr and deposited in the middle OF
the road.
Ransom county boasts of farmer
who has wheat over three feet high.
Not a bad showing for this season of
the year.
S. E. Wright of Iowa, arrived at Me-
dina, Stutsman county, last week with
42o cattle, and will locate a permanent
ranch there.
A three year-old daughter of Supt.
Cleveland of the Little Heart cream
cry was injured in a runaway, dying
the next Cay.
The contract for the building Of the
new court house at Williston has been
signed by the county commissioners
and the contractors.
William Mare of Montpelier was
killed by lightning, together with four
horses of the five-horse team he was
driving while blowing.
Right of way has finally been Sc
cured for the Cooperstown extension
and considerable of the grading COM
plcted. Work is being pushed.
\ team belonging to Patrick Nc
Glynn of Stutsman county, ran away,
colliding with thresEing machine, one
Of the horses Draining himself.
Work has commenced on the new
1chool building at Lakota. The laying
of the corner stone was presided over
by the Masonic order of that city.
A farmer near Perth has been oper-
ating steam plow this spring. 1t is
said to do excellent work. About eight
acres can be plowed in a day with il.
While playing in the barn yard, the
five-year-old son of John Henry, at
Darlington, was knocked down and
run over by horse, sustaining brok-
Ell leg.
Judge Glaspell has appointed Ed
Rose his stenographer, as referee. to
take testimony in the Logan county
contest case. Testimony will be taken
early in August.
At Cakes. one of Thomas Lovells
thoroughbred Hereford COWS had twins
last week, weighing $50 pounds when
torn. They looked so much alike o:e
cannot tell them apart.
At Cavalier, Paddy Burke, a four
| +een-year-old boy, while jumping on
board a moving train, slipped and got
his foot between the bumpers. The
foot was crushed to a jelly.
At dance north of Michigan City,
! two men got into an alteration, and a
| revolver was introduced, with the re-
| suit that one man is laid up with an
ugly wound in one of his legs.
A bug somewhat resembling the 20
tato beetle is stripping the foliage from
| some of the trees in Rolla. 1t seems to
attack poplars and cottOnWoOds eX-
clusively, as none have been seen on
! NAPLES.
A farmer near New Rockford had an
ola well which he desired filled up.
Part of the filing consists of a $500
team of horses, which his hired man
absent-mindedly allowed to drop in
head first.
| Farmer j. B. Meacham, near Absar-
aka, is reported to have sold his beau
tiful farm to w. T. Hunter of Wheat
land. Mr.. Meacham is one OF the oi-
oneer settlers of Western Cass, and
has splendid, well titled farm.
Two Benedictine priests, five clerics
and five brothers arrived last week at
Richardtown, Stark county, to locate
permanently. A few days ago ground
was broken there for the foundation OF
a monastery and college, which are to
be erected this year.
1t is not generally known that a
North Dakota man, d. H. Houston of
Hunter, was the inventor of the ko-
dak, the name being taken from the
first two syllables Of the word Dakota,
transposed. Mr.. Houston sold his in
vention to the Eastman people, and
now receives an average income OF
1915 per month from them as royalty.
The botanist Of the agricultural col
lege recommends spraying mustard
and French weed with solution of