Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-06-21
Velva wants a drug store.

asset now.
Eddy county early settlers picnicked
this week.
/ Portland will repair the engine room
of the city hall.
The Wimbledon water works sys,ent
! is about completed.
| Former Landlord Cramond of Lang
don has located at Rugby.
The new town of Velva, on the 500.
will celebrate the Fourth.
The horse racing at Hope this year
| will be Il warm proposition.
Fire ut Sykeston destroyed Smiths,
meat market and ice house.
The Great Northern hotel at Cavalier
has undergone extensive repairs.
AT Finsal Mr.. aud Mrs. l.. X. Nayes;
celebrated their golden wedding.
Emmons county people will get to-
gether at Braddock on the Fourth.
The new ordinance at Drayton gives
the MAYOR a salary of $25 per year.
A daily star route mail service is al
vertised for from Glasston to Hensel.
q. Il. House of Logan county was ac-
Quilted of the charge of embezzlement.
One of the trains entering Hanna
ford is known as the "Flying Dutch
man."
Tat Forest. the popular Cando boni-
face. is being boosted for the state leg
islature.
| Comrade William 'Griggs of Lisbon
gets a Sc pension. He is in the sol
tliers' home.
| T oil tad IL
| ton to bond the city for IS, 600 to erect
a new city hall.
1t is said there are more fake insllr-
ance companies this year than ever.
most of them hail
The fire limit is to be observed at
= Langdon and wood and hay market
will be established.
Langdon had another fire scare last
week. but bucket brigade put Il
quietus to the blaze.
Cavalier county officials are dis
gusted with having to pay the bills of
persons quarantined.
A small blaze in the Capital hotel at
jamestown frightened the boarders,
but did little damage.
| The stockmen in the western part of
tllt suite w III hlCh OH tlIC
| herds eating off the best grass.
Old soldiers are smiling over the
completion of the hospital i'll connec-
| ton with the home at Lisbon.
John Vasa of Norman county is re-
ported to have been killed by a falling
tree out in the pine country.
| Henry Erickson. known as the Nor
wegian Yankee, is a candidate for re-
nomination for railroad commissioners.
Two Fessenden men had an argu-
ment. One got out of wind and nSe,N
his knife-anu convinced the other fell
low.
| a site has been purchased and ii
brick block Will be erected at Lakota
for the new national bank to be opened
there.
The dry goods store of \. G. Evans
at Lisbon WAS almost totally destroyed
by fire. He carried $1,000 INSURANCE"
OH stock and fixtures.
While attempting to board freight
train in the Bismarck yards James
Martin. a tramp. fell beneath the
wheels and had his leg severed.
Chairman Gjcvre of the Cavalier
county board called a mass meeting or
citizens to discuss good roads. A gooc
move which might be followed with
profit elsewhere.
An alleged oculiSt got SO fresh at
Minot by insulting young ladies that
he was rotten egged out of town. lie
is said to have been thoroughly deco
rated with ancient hen fruit.
The tuba player in the Bagley band
went to practicing the other night and
charmed a black bear out of the woods
and up to his house. The musician
roasted on the peak of the roof
couple of hours keeping very still and
the animal concluded the show was
over and left the premises.
The two-yCar-oll daughter of John
Hanson. while playing with other chill
dren out in Winger, was missed at :
o'clock one afternoon. and after search
ing ali night she was found two and
half miles away in a swamp exhausted
and wet through. but very much alive.
The Pembina County Fair anil En-
hibition association has published it's
seventh annual premium list. The-fais
will be held in Hamilton on July IL.
10 and 70. An excellent programme
has been arranged and large sum OF
money will be distributed i'll premiums.
A Fort Berthold correspondent writes
of the destruction of the old -Arricaree
medicine lodge above the coolee o:
-Four Bears. which occurred on May
26. 1t was laid low by a cyclonic
swirl. and marked the last vestage OF
the barbaric rites once so conspicuous
in the every day life in the Indian VIII
lage of old Berthold.
The Bottineau County Bank has
passed into the hands of the new firm
with Thurston Stabeck as president.
Miss Thompson will remain for a time
at least until G. l.. Newhouse. tllu
cashier. returns from Revere, Mimi,
where he, has gone to get his family.
The old bank building remains with
the old owners. while the real estate is
transferred. The building will he used
for hank for time. but little later
the new firm. will erect a brick OF
stone structure on their lots. This