Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
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Mandan wants market days estab.
lished.
DR.. Guest Of Erie has deserted the
bachelors.
Abercrombie has a home talent the
atrical company.
A Hankinson man whipped collect
or, and was fined.
Miss Amelie Brose of Abercrombie
died at Davenport.
DIR. j. H. Coe of Valley City has re-
moved to Hankinson.
Tax sales seem to have caused lively
bidding all over the state.
Old Man Letter of Chicago is inter-
ested in North Dakota Ignite.
Erie people are not alarmed over the
small pox case near that town.
The civil calendar for the Grand
Forks term of court was light.
Jamestown aldermen recommend that
the city herd law be strictly enforced.
The armory for Company E at Lang
don will be ready for occupancy Jan. l..
Business is reported good in the
western and northwestern part of the
state.
A Lidgerwood druggist is said to
have been closed by the enforcement
league.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. ]. Kvam of Clifford
celebrated their golden wedding re-
Gently.
Preparations are being made for a
steady run for the cement works near
Milton.
The small pox epidemic at Wheat
land will cost Cass county something
like $4,000
Mrs Hiram King dropped dead at
New Rockford while attending to her
household duties.
The Wheatland public schools have
reopened, after delay caused by the
burned building.
Hay thieves have been operating
around Marvel. Hay is about as yalu-
able as diamonds.
An Iowan named Stewart has invest
ed $4,000 in sheep for his new ranch,
north of Stutsman.
Ormsby McHarg has resigned as city
attorney of Jamestown, and o. W.
Thorp has been appointed.
A mail car now runs from James
town to Darlington, the mail carried
under star route contracts.
E. P. Wells of Jamestown is secre-
tary of an automobile trust which has
been organized in New York.
William Greb of Valley City, nnu-
sician during the late war, has been
examined at Fargo for pension.
A. E. Hamilton has been appointed
postmaster at Flora. and H. w. Bum
at Hoople, both in Walsh county.
Physicians at Fargo recommend sew
eral vaccinations there, in view of the
existence of small pox in the county.
McHenry had flax day last week,
on which over 5000 bushels were mar
keted, and brought SLIGO to $1.70 per
bushel.
Andrew I4indelin, farmer living
near Rugby, was killed in a runaway,
his neck being broken. He leaves
wife and family
"A number of stutsman county farm
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the winter, taking number of head of
horses with them.
Brockrnan &, Wells of Fargo may buy
a few car loads of Montana horses and
keep them on their Stutsman county
ranch until spring.
It is now claimed that the Rambouil-
lette will replace the Shropshire sheep
in this state. They shear heavier and
are but little harder to keep.
People on the new extension of the
Milnor-Oa branch of the Northern
Pacific are disappointed because they
don't get daily train service.
The North Dakota presidential elect
ors will meet the second Monday in
January to cast the vote and select the
man-officially-to carry the vote ITO
Washington.
William Mckinney of Valley City
has bought the business of the Binford
Mercantile company. at Binford and
will conduct it as a branch of his Val
ley City establishment.
Farmers of the James river valley
are getting work with their teams
wherever possible. They lost their crop
last season, and are anxious to lay by
something during the winter.
Hal Curry, who punctured a Steel
county mans hide with pitchfork
and was captured in Missouri, has
been bound over to the district court
His case will not come up till June.
Charles Halliday, who is suffering
from some mental trouble at VIII .at-
land, attempted to escape last wcak on
the train to go to New YorksE He is
being cared for by relatives, who do
not wish him sent to 81 asylum.
Joe vennum proposes to raise Ango-
ra goats among the hills in the north
western part of Stutsman county.
There are hills there, the climbing Of
which will afford good exercise for the
goats. Twenty years ago that country
was full of antelope.
Litchfield, on the Casselton division,
will have two banks, three general
| stores, a drug store, hotel. furniture
| and hardware stores. The buildings
are now being erected. Trains are be-
ing run irregularly, but regular SER
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