Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-11-08
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Bottineau> is to have a fire depart
ment.
Bowdon is to have local theatrical
organization.
Partridge shooting is reported good
around Neche.
Lidgerwoods telephone system is
proving popular.
2 Kids and sling shots are creating
trouble at jamestown.
There are number of cases of ty-
phoid around Bottineau.
Edward w. Evans of Dayton. gets
pension of So per month.
WeEzel Simola, an aged resident Of
Richland county, is dead.
The state papers devote considera-
Bile space to school matters.
The marriage crop is good this fall
despite the poor wheat yield.
The star mail route between Havana
and Forman will start Nov. 10.
New Rockford coal dealers are at
war, and the consumers are happy.
The enrolment of the Valley City
Normal is largely increased this year.
The business portion of the city OF
Hillsboro is now under fire district.
Cakes is to have new store build
ing, to be erected by Minneapolis peo,,
pie.
The heavy rains this fall have made
many convert for the drainage sys-
tenn.
Will Simpson has returned from the
T<lOnljkp and jS ,-icitipu yalot;voc
Aneta.
Landlord Smith OF Emerado will as
sumo charge of the Columbia hotel at
st. Thomas.
Kuhn claims to have shipped more
butter this year than any other point
in the state.
An elevator at Ludden has been
closed on account of the poor quality
of the wheat
Pembina county threshers report the
most unsatisfactory year they have
ever experienced.
A Darlington farmer informs the
public that he didn't harvest his flax
for his neighbours COWS.
The young toughs from Grafton who
We're arrested at Hillsboro for stealing
chickens. have returned home.
A new wagon and large stack Of
newly threshed straw We're burned on
L. X. Rich's farm, near Buffalo.
Dawson people are busily engaged
shipping baled hay. The hay crop
was especially good there this year.
A farmer living near Knox. Benson
county, was offered $500 for quarter
section of land but the offer was re-
fused.
Farmers around Devils Lake are
compelled to pay all the way from is
to 30 cents for threshing. Help is still
scarce.
Balfour is, growing rapidly, despite
the bad crops, and it will be one of the
best towns in the northwestern part
of the state.
A Cass county owner of a threshing
rig didn't take his machine out of the
shed this fall, and figures that he is
away ahead.
Many of the new settlers in Bottin-
eau county have erected handsome
residences, showing their unbounded
faith in the country.
The people of Bottineau are rejoice
ing. The streets are to be lighted with
lamps, and an electric light plant is to
be hoped for next year.
Simon Mckenzie of Nelson county
has received word that his sister and
husband, who were missionaries in
China, have been murdered. Their
two children We're also killed.
r. J. Linquist, who owns large
IN Walsh ,t1- r,oitfa7 c1Ji.
eide by taking strychnine. He had no
relatives except sister in Sweden. He
had been i'll for a long time and be-
came respondent,
1t is asserted that John Letson ana
w. E. Smith of Glendale had some
argument over cattle, When it is al
Legged the former fired several shots
at Smith. killing mule on which, Il
Smith was riding. Mules always We're.
unlucky. p
A farmer named NIcInnis rolled oft
scaffold in Griggs county and broke
one side of his shoulder bone, dislocat-
ed the other, broke his leg and re-
ceived a number of serious bruises.
He felt as badly as the Bryanites will
after election.
Inc 1dcl tHdl' III eSliluS AS ~ AUhS,
delayed makes it announcement for the
farmers who want to let their stock
run at large. Still, it appears that
some animals run at large anyway,
and the owners of unthreshed grain
are saying naughty words.
The Kruger reception committee has
issued an appeal to the population of
Marseilles to participate in the demon-
strations that are being arranged for
Mr.. Kruger's reception, but to abstain
from "hostile acts or words toward a
nation friendly to France"
After the Cavalier depot fire was ,
noticed two men We're met driving
rapidly away from the place in a coy
cred buggy, and, as no such rig had
stopped in the town over night it lis
supposed that these are the men who
blew open the safe in the depot office.
and thus set fire to the building.
Work on the new opera house block
at Casselton is progressing nicely. The