Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-02-01
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\ new $4,000 hall, 2OXoO rect, is De-
ng talked of for Tower City.
4. NJ. Packard was elected chief of
he Mandan fire department.
e. c. Rice has been appointed states
attorney of Mercer county.
Maj. Fawc"tt has sold out his drug
store ut Voss to Minot parties.
Webb Bros. have purchased the De-
iraff furniture stock at Bismarck.
Stark county warrants are at par,
and large ones bring premium.
Fargo Congregationalists will build
4 $4,000 church structure this year.
The Stutsman and Barnes county
farmers are giving the Soc the right OF
way.
The Bottineau machinery company
will erect big stone warehouse in the
spring.
Andrew Anderson has just complet-
I'd the erection of a fine new residence
IL Mayville. :
The Northern Pacific road paid $14.-
500 taxes to the county treasurer at
Dickinson.
The reservoir entries at the Bismarck
land office were over $50 some days
this week.
A public improvement association is
to be organized at Finley. a move III
the right direction.
Stark county loses about 1000 per
year by the change in the school APP
portionment law.
A new church, 2OX40. is to be built
for the Swedish congregation at Mar
He'll, Steele county.
DR.. NJ. w. Miracle has been appoint
ed member of the board of eXamln-
ing physicians at Glendale.
A horse belonging to a Bottineau
county farmer named Hutchinson, fell
while in the stable and broke his neck.
Austin r. Harvey Of st. Thomas has
peen appointed as one Of the officers OF
the customs force at Pembina, to sue
:eed Ole Hanson of Reynolds.
The recently purchased chemical ell
CINE has arrived at Darlington, and
fire company is to be organized at
once.
Among the prospective new enter
prises of Hannafold, Griggs county,
are a new general store and drug
store.
Mrs. Wilson. wife of Cass county's
sheriff. fell on Monday and injured
her spine. She is confined to her
room.
The Cooperstown Telephone ex-
change has siNty-four patrons, and
long -distance connections will be ar
ranged for in the spring.
A man named Powers. claiming to be
a jeweler, got a number Of watches
from Ardoch people to repair. He
made the watches so, and went WIN
them.
Mott & Marsh of Lisbon have the
contract for steam heating plant TOT
the hospital building at the soldiers
home.
Chef Hallett of Casselton goes to
Mora. Mimi. to accept a position as
superintendent of an electric light
plant.
The North Dakota conference of the
Nj. e. Church will be held at Grand
Forks this year. and the opening date
is announced as March IL.
Barber Sexton of Fargo has eloped
with the wife of Il Fargo man, who is
said to be congratulating himself ana
commissioning the barber.
1t is rumored that the Wahpeton
line of the Forman Telephone compa-
NY system will be sold to the North
western Telephone company.
Ernest Noa"k. while hunting, near
Williston slipped and fell. discharging
a rifle which he carried. the ball caus-
ing dangerous wound i'll the thigh.
The wires for the new electric light
plant at Mandan are all strung. and
the installation of the machinery is all
that is needed to complete the plant.
The home Of James Kellas, near Cas-
selton, was destroyed by fire, and the
authorities are looking for negro who
is believed to have fired the place.
An application will be made to Gov.
Fancher for a pardon for Oscar Falk,
who was sentenced to the penitentiary
last May for four years for horse-steai-
ing.
J. Baker, who has lived at Mayvile
since 1884, and was one of it's most
prominent and respected citizens, died
recently after a sickness of only few
days.
A hilarious time was had at a Rus
sian wedding near Merricourt. Dickey
county. the feasting dancing and 9th
er festivities lasting three days and
nights.
The premium list of the North Dako-
ia and Northern Minnesota Poultry as
ISOLATION is out. Some big prizes are
offered for the forthcoming exhibition
ut Fargo.
Maynard Crane of Cooperstown was
elected president of the Northwestern
Lumbermen's association at the tenth
annual meeting at Minneapolis this
week.
]. A. McDougal Of Mandan will build
a two-story brick building with a
frontage of fifty feet. on the site of the
Haight hardware building. recently
burned. ::*&
Joseph Fuller was arrested near
Standing Rock, charged with selling
liquor to the Indians. He was taken
to Mandan, where he gave bonds for
his appearance.
The weather bulletin issued from the
North nal,Oto StnTion SAWS that Decenl-