Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-04-26

Buffalo people are planning for a
| new town hall.
The Lidgerwood mill is being still
further improved.
There are eighty children at the
Elbow Woods agency.
The Bartlett postotticc has been
made a money order office.
!. Z. Rance succeeds Prof. hlmball
as the principal Of the Mimic school.
The Alliance Hail association is in
the field for business again this season.
Albert Thorne. an Englishman. Sui
cided at Portland, by the poison route.
An Ontario man is to bring some
French Canadian settlers to PclnDlna
man.
James Liberty of Mimic has sold his
Elevator to the Duluth Elevator COM
pany.
The St. Anthony and Dakota Elcva-
tor company is erecting an elevator at
Bartlett
T.. L. Willoughby of McHenry re-
ports sales Of machinery aggreyating
$1,000 day.
The wife and daughter Of eX-Gov.
Shortridse have located at Devils Lake
TO practice osteopathy.
| McHenry has sixteen bsuiness firms
and more coming i'll. There is Il good
opening for a flour mill.
An Iowa man will submit to the
council of Washburn Il proposition to
put in an electric light plant.
II or
Dickinson H. j. Gruscl.us was elected
first lieutenant. vice A. ]. Osborn.
Prairie fires have been numerous in
the vicinity Of Williston. but not near
enough the settlements to do any dam
age.
Owing to the early seeding this year,
farm hands are scarce. as the usual i'll
flux of workingmen has not yet ar
rived.
Ground has been broken in Bottineau
for block to be 2GX7O and built of
brick made ut the Bottineau brick
yards.
Five of the hoboes who held up a.
train at Hebron got thirty days. The
others will have Il trial in the district
court.
The weather was never more favor
able for seeding and spring farm work
than it is this year in the Red river
valley.
w. c. Candee of Dickinson was
stricken With complete paralysis as he
was recovering from an attack of rhell-
matiSm.
A Wheatland citizen complains that
his seven-year-old son was Brutality
tlogged by two of the local school
teachers.
Attorney Simcoe of Dickinson has
been i'll since his return from Maine.
where he was called by the illness Of
his father.
The old settlers of Ramsey county
will organize an association and will
hold their first meeting at the Chau-
tauQua on July 3.
Three brick business blocks, several
residences and more paving are on the
list as some Of Wahpeton's Improve
ments for the year.
Harris drug store and Bishops
butcher shop at Cakes were burglar
lied and Sheriff AXtell is taking steps
toward the capture of the thieves.
A fire started to burn off hay land
got beyond control and a large amount
of hay in stacks belonging to w. Gros
vcnor, near Casselton, was burned.
There is plenty of vacant land about
McHenly that can be bought on easy
terms but the country is rapidly being
settled with good class of settlers
from the East.
The railroads in this state are
making war OH the hoboes who are
caught stealing rides. and one was ar
rested mt Bismarck and given ten days
for beating the railroad company.
w. w. Star. a new settler. found $50
OH tie streets at ChurchS Ferry that
another immigrant had dropped and
left it ut the bank for the owner. Il,
man named Hausman. who rewarded
he man for his honesty.
The board of management of the
Valley City normal school has re-
elected the old faculty for the ensuing
year with the exception of Miss IIar-
ris. who has resigned.
Controller Dawes approved the con-
version of Bottinelu County Bank of
BOttineau to the First National bank
with a capital Of $4,000. Il. b. Noble
and y. e. Thompson are named as in
cOrpOratOrS.
James Wardel. night clerk at the
Ontario hotel at AIinot. is missing, to.
gether with some money and watch
belonging to the proprietor of tho
house. Wardel has heretofore borne
Il good reputation.
Mrs. John Proldlovc Of Batlgate has
begun suit for 5000 against the Great
Northern Railway company for ill.,
jurieS received last fall from fall con-
sequent on broken planks in the depot
sidewalk or platform. Her arm was
broken and she received other injuries
for which she thinks SaOW would
about compensate her
Sheriff Jones closed all the resorts i'll
WahpetOn and confscated about 81 800
worth Of bar fixtures and supplies. No
warrants We're issued for the arrest of
the propretors of the places. The raid
has effectually closed the places and
it is said that no criminal proceedings
,xysn ~,