Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-11-02
Harvey voted not to incorporate.

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,Ihe old court house at Williston was
sold to w. r. Parshall for $4oo.
n Carlos McAllister may start Il
class in music at Whcatland.
Robbers secured $40 by burglariz'hS
Fred JohnsonS house near Oahes.
Tho Northern Pacific has issued
now man to show extensions out west
THE flax fiber committee at MayVllie
has raised $500 for Il site fof Il lie"
mill.
,Jo,tin q. Rrekke. a scvcnty-seFeil-
vear-old resident OF Jalnes'o""' IL
dead
Peter McLachlin has sold his farm,
and will become Il permanent feslue''l
of Hunter
Peter NIorbou was brutally assaulted
and robbed by. two masked men al
Wahpcton.
A Park River rcstauranter turned us
wife and baby into the street, ana WAS
run out of town.
Mai. White has gone into the law
business with Attorney S. NJ. Locker
by at Valley City.
Lieut. NJ, a. Hildreth OF Company
and r. f. Ingwaldson have formed
law partnership at Fargo.
Miss Maria Gertrude Murphy dausii-
ter of Thomas Murphy OF Sahoofh' IS
dead. AT the age of fifteen.
Cen, Washbmn and party are looS-
ing up terminal facilities lof the Dis
marck- Washburn railroad.
rho state transportation commlttee
rnt n check from ChriStiana. Norway
for So for the soldier boys.
Frank Rutten. Jr., and MISS carrie
Mcnamara were married at Devils
Lake by Rev. Father Placius.
Rottineau raised $3.50 clear of ex-
penses at an entertalnmeht lof 'ne
benefit of the returning soldiers.
The eisht-year-old son of Anton Bak-
az of Oliver county. while playing Wllh
another hoy. had his arm broken.
G. X. Scales attempted to shoot i.
G. Dolan ut Harvey, and was arrested,
but the prosecution was dropped.
Courtenay has in course of erection a
two-story. four-room school house, to
he completed inside OF sixty days.
Officers with search warrants round
ed I'D all Casselton the other day, LOOK
ing for blind pigs. They found one.
w. ID. Washburn and party were at
Washburn again last. week, on busl-
ness connected with that new railroad.
De La Mere has a new saw mill,
new state bank building, a new livery
stable and many other improvements.
4 three-and-;l-half-foo rattiesnake
with nine rattlcs was killed in w. +.
Cochrane's barn at Bismarck the other
day.
Tom Lamb has returned to Washing
ton. and it is understood has secured
an appointment at the Paris EXPOSE
tion.
Mayor Patterson's new block at Bis
marclz is about completed, and is also
about the finest ever in the capital
city.
Receiver Lindstrom Of the Grand
Forks land office has been looking af-
ter his farming interests in Benson
county.
The recent rains and SHOWS have
caught a great many Ward county
farmers with their potato crop only
about half gathered.
Horses have disappeared from VIM
bledon with such frequency that the
citizens are convinced that some thief
is working overtime.
A pair of threshing hands at Valley
City were arrested for stealing Wo-
mans clothes. They were fined $50
and costs for the job.
The city of Grand Forks is said to
have violated the city ordinance by
erecting frame annex to the city hall
for q machinery shed.
s. r. Finley of Harvey is excavating
n cellar and building Il foundation for
q new house on the corner of Ehlers
avenue and Second street.
The citizens committee on reception
to Company c find that they will have
some money. probably $780, to turn
over to the monument fund.
Rev. Powell, the new Congregational
home mission superintendent. is get
ting into his work over the state and
receiving some kindly notices.
Enderlin is to vote OH the question of
bonding for $4,000 to purchase fire APP
paratus. and the State Bank of that
place offers to take all the bonds.
A Canadian attempted to abduct his
children, who were with their mother
near Neche. The little fellows were
rescued by the brother of the woman.
The Baptist parsonage at Coopers-
town caught fire from a lamp, and was
thoroughly soaked by the fire depart
ment before the flames were eXtin-
guished.
At Sykeston dam Einety feet at
the base and twelve feet at the top
will be built across the Pipestone. and
a lake of considerable extent will be
created for ornamental and useful pur-
poses.
At De La Mere some men were fool
ing with a revolver. The blamed thing
went off-as usual. The bullet Went
through the cheek of one man and hit
another in the forehead
Brakeman Penny was caught under
an engine Of the Great Northern at
Rugby and dragged some distance. He
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