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

A new hardwood floor is being placed
in the store of Mercer & LAWN this
week.
Insure your crop in the st. Paul Fire
& Marine Insurance Co., j. Gerding
agent, Dresden, N. Oak.
]. w. Fagg has been making quite a
number OF improvements on his snug
little home on Oak street lately.
Does your watch keep good time? If
not take it to Jeweler A. @. Void, at N.
E. McGruer's drug store, for repairs.
Bradley, the, tailor, can make you a
suit Of clothes that will fit, with the best
finish and the latest style. His prices
are right.
Charlie Smith is in from his farm for
the balance of the summer and hos re-
sumed his old job as second man in Col.
Wentworth's lumber yard.
D. j. Laxdal, the lawyer and base ball
manager of the Cavalier nine, drove over
Tuesday with Liveryman Greenwood to
close arrangements for the game with
the Langdon team at Walhalla next
week.
Mrs, Young returned Friday to her
home at Springfield, Ohio, having spent
couple of weeks very pleasantly visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. B. R. Click. Mr..
Click and son, Rush, accompanied her as
far as the Forks.
Editor Lindstrom spent several days
of this week at Oberon, N. D., his old
stamping ground, leaving here Friday
and returning overland with horse and
buggy, that he left behind when moving
to Langdon last winter.
Langdon's twenty odd visitors to Nor
den last week came home with the glad
tidings that our Canuck COUSINS will
send at least hundred to Langdon's big
celebration on July 4th and 9Th. Those
Morden boys are the proper kind of stuff.
II. D. ALERT and w. F. Winter have
further ornamented their spacious office
apartments IN the ALERT Winter block
with several pieces of elegant new furni-
ture this week. Their new roll top
desks, which form part Of the suite, are
certainly the handsomest thing in that
line in the city.
Mrs. G. W. Holmes received the sad
news by telegraph Monday afternoon of
the sudden death of her youngest sister
residing at the old home in Iowa. The
dispatch arrived while Mrs. Holmes was
at the depot ready to start for the Chris
tian Endeavor convention at Mimic, to
which she was delegate. The news SO
FRUSTRATED her as to render the under
taking of the trip impossible
The seven year old son of John Serum,
who lives mile and half south west of
town, received bad cash on his fore
head Tuesday afternoon while climbing
into his fathers buggy over the back of
the seat. The rig was standing in front
of Elford Bros. store at the time. The
wound bled profusely, but was not con-
sidered serious by DR.. Semple who was
called to attend.
Co. Sup't Fox is busy this week max
ing arrangements fov the opening of the
teachers institute here next week. The
conductor appointed by State Sup't Hal
land will be Prof. W. E. johnson, of the
state normal school at Mayville and Miss
Ella Stout, of the Fargo schools, will
have charge of the primary grade work.
It is highly probable that Lieut. Gov.
Devine will be here during the week and
deliver lecture.
Alex Wilson, one OF the two Cava-
lier county wheat thieves that were sent
to the state penitentiary at Bismark to
serve three and half years sentence
by Judge Sauter in '97, arrived in the
city Monday having been released on pa
role by the penltentiary authorities, the
length to which the parole is extended
being governed by his future good con-
duct, and his friends being held under
heavy bond therefor. Wilson has gone
out to the farm of his brother in Grey
township, where he will work and en-
deavor by future good behavior to live
down the shame that has been brought
upon the name of the family by his
wrong doing.