Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-27
MOSCOW.

G. W, Toews and A. Toews will work
j. Penner's place this spring. John is in
poor health now.
Our new mail driver finds it difficult to |
find the shortest road, but makes his |
trips on time.
1. Dawson. the Dresden magnate, was
in Moscow last Wednesday, looking for
someone to work the Gustafson place.
G. W. Toews has dug we'll near his
house which stands on one OF the highest
points in Moscow. He found water at
33 feet.
II. L. Storey, and efficient teacher from
Milton, with second class certificate is
being engaged for School No. 1. 1t is
not yet quite certain who will teach in
schools No. Banda.
Rev. c. Johnson was up from Wang
on Wednesday last week. The heavy
all OF snow on the evening OF that day
caused many to lose the benefit of his
exhortation at that time.
A. Toews is getting 100 trees from the
Usage nurseries of Iowa. to plant as an
experiment. He expect to sell lot OF
home grown trees this sprlng. Farmers
will do we'll to get naturalized trees.
All things considered. j. O. Enger's
farm is the best for general purposes in
the settlement. 1t is we'll suited for
diversified farming and different kinds OF
sport can be had there One striking
feature is nice level piece OF breaking
land. There is enough slough on the
land to insure plenty OF hay on any Or
binary season. A small pond is favor
itea place for ducks. ]. O. is a great
hunter. The writer remembers some
excellent sport they had in the pond one
fall together, when they We're pioneers OF
civilization around this part OF the Mos
COW Lake. The fertile qualities of the
big hill OH the north side OF the farm are
we'll known. The Norwegian black
potatoes and new kind OF grain called
spiltz are very successfully grown there
MIR. Enger procured small quantity OF
splltz last spring and will again SOW tho
returns. He believes that it will be a
great boom to farmers for feeding pur-
poses owing to it's large yield. AT the
foot OF the hill there is what seems to
be an MISUNDERSTANDING OF good water
only few feet from the surface. A
tankman last fall was surprised when
told that he could fill his tank from a
hole containing only q few pals OF water
but he filled his tank and there was
few pals left. The skunks in the Moscow
lake knowing the wonderful virtues of
the hill sometimes migrate there and try
to take cup permanent abode. This might
be thought objection able by some people
but 1T cuts no figure with Ole who is Il
skunk hunter, al old house. an know the
ways OF skunks. j. o. record for killing
ducks is 16 in three shots He does not
need Il gun for skunks, he kill them two
at time by a method Of his own. One
evening last summer just as Ole was
retiring to rest and had already removed
his shoes and several articles OF apparel.
He became aware that The skunks were
after his chickens, this aroused the war
like spirit OF the old Vikings Selzing his
weapons, without thinking OF appear
ances, thinking only of his chickens Ole
rushed to their defense. 1t was getting
dark, his scientific method enabled him
to kill two skunks without getting any
disagreeable odor about his person, one
OF them was the largest he had ever
seen during his many encounters. Our
friend sometimes studies natural history
and was up early the next morning and
went to take look at his dead foes
He could not resist the temptation to
examine their means of defense Ill the
interests OF science Our friend is only a
beginner i'll natural history but he made
one great discovery, He found that a
dead Joe is sometimes more dangerous
than live one. We do not know if he
felt elated on his discovery but he wore
his next best clothes the remainder of the
day. For diversified farming and diver
sified sport this farm ia certainly the best