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

Seeding at Earnest HAS JUST ueeu
ished.
Maple lake will be stocked with bass
next month.
Dennis D. Williams of Cummings gets
ali S. pension.
Langdon is building considerable
sidewalk this season.
The Hankinson Touring mill Will put
in a dynamo for lighting purposes.
Judge Young of the supreme court
has returned from an Eastern trip.
7. II. Bowers got the contract for the
Masonic temple at Fargo, at S2' ,63l.
Ex-senator Casey has returned 10
Jamestown after an extended Eastern
visit.
At Kuhn committee has been ap-
pointed to agitate the question OIL nte
protection.
July LIST the Mimic postotfice viii be
raised from fOurth-clasS to preslden-
tial office.
The new asylum buildings will re-
Uuire the enlargement of the electric
light plant.
\ golf club has been organized at the
state pen. ,Jimtown hospital ought TO
have one.
Cooperstown has decided to buy some
twenty acres of land, fence it III ana
have Il fair
The NJ. T.. church at JimtoWn Will
provide a shed for farmers teams. "A
good scheme.
Martin AIarluson of Cooperstown
had a choking tit, and died before help
could reach him.
Little May Foshay of Langdon had
her foot severely injured while playing
at the turntable.
Walsh county residents propose to
have a county fair this year that will
be second to none.
G. G. Koerner of Portland was spilled
by a runaway team and sustained
dislocatcd shoulder.
Railroad business has SO increased at
Jintown that Supt. Wilson has been
given an assistant.
Miss Preston, of the W. G. Il. T.. has
started on her summer lecturing tour
through the STAGE.
Gus Bell of Jimtown lost two fingers
in roundup out at Dickinson. Ihey
got tangled in the lassO.
Articles Of incorporation have been
filed by parties who will erect Slo,VVO
125-barrel mill at Drayton.
Mrs. ]. l.. Brown of Hamilton is
claimed to be one among $50 heirs to
$4O.UOO,OO0 estate in England.
Crystal reports that every shop there
has had to increase it's capacity this
year. Looks bad for hard times.
Dinnie Bros. are building a kiln of
100000 brick, the first new Red River
valley brick on this years market.
The D. s. B. Johnson company is ask
ing $500 for corner lots in the new
townsite of McHcnry, in Eddy county.
Langdon seems to be furnishing a
sort Of continuous performance Of vari-
Gus kinds Of misdemeanors this season.
\ we'll caved in upon "Doc" Reed of
Fessenden. but he stood the pressure
all right. and will soon be as good as
ever.
A Is per cent dividend has been de-
clared on the First National Bunk Of
Larimores assets amounting to some
100000.
Mrs. Bertha NJ. Johnson of Minor,
an aged widow of a veteran Of the Civil
war, has been granted Il pension OF SS
per month.
The electric light plant at Dawson
City, the property OF j. ID. Trenholm OF
Bathgate. was not harmed by the big
klondike fire.
The town of Kenmare, recently al
most totally destroyed by fire. will be
rebuilt at once. The origin Of the fire
is still mystery.
C. r. Hamilton, druggist. Hunter,
was pulled for violation of the prohibi-
ton law. but the charge fiZzled and the
case was dismissed.
Il. d. ALERT. the popular Langdon
druggist. is trying to organize Il X. +.
lodge at NorthwOod. with the assist
ance of Henry Dillenbeck.
A wholesale grocery house is soon to
be established at Valley City, it is said,
and great things are expected of tho
500 in the way of freight rates.
Alfred Masters. the tive-year-old son
of George Masters of jamestown. was
fatally injured last week by falling I'm
der a dray, the wheels passing over
him.
Wells county is in line with the prog
reSS OF the state. ana reports more max
and wheat sown. and more settlers ar
irving than ever before in the history
of the county.
June the board of management Of
the Valley City normal school will
open bids to award contracts for i'm
provements and the erection of an add
itional building.
|, According to reports from Devils
i Lake. that city Is gradually becoming
prohibition city, liquor now being
sold by the glass instead Of by the
quart as heretofore.
DR. Flaten Of Edinburg has His resi-
dence about conip.cted> and with the
improvements recently made. will have
one of the handsumest residences in
that part Of the state.
A blacksmith and machine shop,
large two-Story brick. a livery stable,
a creamery. a lumber shed. a bank, and
several fine dwellings are under course
Of erection at Edinburg.
Frank Lathrop Of Darlington will
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