Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-07-05
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be in fair shape.
Grasshoppers are reported numerous
in ToWner county.
The Wyndmere sports are enjoying
some horse racing.
1t is predicted that the price of hay
will advance 50 per cent
There is no gopher scare this year,
as there is little for them to eat.
The Wimbledon fire company has
been organized and officers elected.
The unanimous verdict of the census
enumerators is that the job is no snap.
The prevailing drouth has caused 4
celebrated spring at Park River to go
dry.
The good town of Northwood will
have a new school house and good
one. .u-
Attorney Gram of Sheldon is candi-
date for probate judge of Ransom
county US Va
Miss christina Monroe, who was sent
to the asylum from Page, died in that
institution
The Leonard depot was visited by
hobos recently and the till was relieved
of IA cents.
Park River business men are supply
ing themselves with pneumatic tired
buggies.
The Casscltou city council insists on
the construction Of perfect sidewalks
in that city.
Mrs. Reuben Hyslop of Page was
thrown from a buggy and suffered q
broken arm.
The water in Goose river near May
vile has been condemned by the
health board.
The wind was so strong at Rolla that
1T moved a large barn six inches off it's
foundations.
The 500 has its patent weed burner
Going business with the Russian thistle
along its line.
Darlington Maccabees went to New
Rockford to assist in the initiation of
large class.
Dickinson wool growers expect to
get 20 cents q pound for their wool
this season.
A new town has been surveyed be-
tween Crary and Bartlett. 1t has been
named Doyan.
Fred 1Iattllie of Inkster has arrived
in New York on his way home from
South America
G. f. Clarke accused of burglarizing
a shooting gallery at Grand Forks,
was acquitted.
Tom Beisecker of Fessenden is said
to be a leading candidate for insur-
ance commissioner.
Leeds voteil against bonding the vii
lage for steam fire engine by an
overwhelming majority.
The Wimbledon water system is at
tached to an artesian we'll and is said
to De the best ever had.
Joe Plourd, formerly blacksmith at
Courtenay, was injured in hunting
accident and sent to the asylum.
st. Anthony is the name of the new
postoffice to be established in the Lit
tie Heart country, near Mandan.
Miss Bessie Duneen of Forman will
lose an eye as a result of the explosion
of !; pop bottle she was handling.
The band boys at Casselton will soon
discourse sweet music from a band
stand to be erected in the city park.
Some farmers are buying sheep to
fatten on the wheat fields and will
then sell them at an advanced price
Maj. Black has returned to Valley
City after a severe illness in Milwau-
lee, where he was treated by his son.
Louis Pearson OF I1ensal threatened
to eXterminate some OF his neighbors
and was bound over to keep the peace.
The electric light plant ut Casselton
is unable to supply the proper amount
of power and the council may enlarge
it.
A fellow with a long list of aliases
tried to jump his board bill at the Cas-
selton Occidental hotel, but didn't sue
coed.
~ E"''''"'''s home at Cando was
struck by lightning. He and his wife,
We're stunned, but not seriously in
jured.
A queer condition exists in Pembina
county. The best crops prospectiyely,
are on the hills where the soil is light
and sandy.
There are queries about certain for
mer politicians, but many of them are
so dead that to explain would be like
disturbing funeral
1t is claimed that Col. Creel of Devils
Lake is getting back into the Repub-
hcan camp and will support Henry
Hale for the state senate.
The gold finds around the Sisseton
reservation were on Indian lands and
an agent drove the would-be miners
and prOspectors off the claims.i
Attorney Murphy of Jamestown. who
owns large farm, in Foster county,
thinks the public is becoming alarmed
too quickly over the crop scare.
A soldier named Wagner, who served
in the Philippines with Company A of
the North Dakotas. fell under train
at Spokane and lost a few toes.
A party of ladies and children drove
into the lake near the Chautauqua
grounds at Devils Lake and got in too
far. They foated in the wagon box
till it sank and We're finally rescued.
Last fall Shelly, Polk county
farmer placed a sack Of wheat in the
middle of 4 4OO-buShel bin and left