Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-08-23
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wild ducks are said to be very thick,
around Velva.
Last week was the hottest in seven
years at Williston.
Eight new school houses will be built
in Stutson county this year.
Fingal will incorporate and secure
some form of fire protection.
The News wants a wholesale gro
Gerry house established at Hankinson.
Potatoes and late corn is said to be
growing faster than anything else.
The team stolen from keenan's livery
barn at LarimOre was found at Wheat
land.
Stockmen out west are having a hard
time to get sufficient water for their
herds.
The Missouri River is changing its
bed at Williston and cutting into the
bank.
The Minneapolis Cold Storage Co.
will establish a branch house at Hank
inson.
Ramsey County has $500 school
children, an increase of 290 for the past
year.
Recent rains have put out western
prairie fires, which is a big thing for
stockmen.
Railroad representatives are on hand
at the meeting of the state board Of
equalization.
There will be no grand jury at the
October term OF the United States court
at Devils Lake.
VIM Boswell of Tower City was
thrown from rig and suffered dislo-
Gated shoulder.
The friends of ]. r. Cruff of Lucca
are urging him to become a candidate
for clerk of court of Barnes County,
A Stutsman County man is sowing
turnip seed and expects a good crop
now that the rains have commenced.
A cigarette fiend started fire at
Brand ranch, near Kuhn. The big
barns, granary and a stallion were
burned.
Wimbledon isn't satisfied with the
waterworks, electric light and other evil
dences of metropolitan, but wants
a new park.
1t is thought George Glover who fell
forty-five feet from a railroad bridge at
Grand Forks and smashed a few ribs
on pile of rocks, will recover.
Tom Thompson was arrested at
Grand Forks on the charge of being
the father of an illegitimate child. He
settled the matter by paying $500.
T. d. Harold of Wheatland shipped
a car load of wheat of. his own raising
that yielded ten bushels to the acre and
went 81 pounds to the bushel of No, l
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! Up at Balfour Herman Aerke is con-
testing the claim of Christian Olson,
deceased, and later developments show
that the dead man has widow and two
children at Hillsboro. !. -.
Three Colgate boys rode down to
Kansas on their wheels to help har-
vest the big crop and were disguised
when the ylearned the farmers were
paying only a dollar a day.
| Postmasters throughout the state
have been notified that military pos
| tai station has been established in
China. Uncle Sam is getting postof-
fees all over the world.
Ed Ditman was shot and severely
wounded at Reva, S. D., by officers
who attempted to arrest him. He is
the young man who stole a horse at
Cakes, which he left at Eureka in ex-
change for another.
| Col. Lounsberry has been driving
through Ramsey county and says that
they will have nearly full crop Of
flax and a half-crop of wheat up there.
But that was before the rain.
| A Wahpeton man went to his hay
claim near Velva and found some one
had cut and cooked his hay. He Sc
cured team and hauled it into town
and was that much ahead.
! VIM. Carlow af Hankinson, whose
wife was recently burned to death
while attempting to light a fire by
kerosene, received a letter announcing
the death of his brother by drowning.
Farmers along the Northern Pacific
main line intercept men bound west for
| railroad work, and parties of railroad
| laborers grow smaller by degrees, and
| beautifully less the further west they
go.
| Russians in Stutsman county are
| coming to American ways of thinking
and four school houses are to be built
in a Russian settlement. For a long
| time the Russians have refused to edu7
| cate their children, but they have come
to see their error.
Bismarck's big fire was two years
| ago Wednesday, and the best business
| portion of the city was at that tine
wiped out. Since that time BismarcS
has played the Phoenix to perfection,
and is to-day thriving city, tie CEN
ter of what will in a very short time
be porulous and wealthy region.
The resignation of George Aud. as
captain of Company K, of Dickinson,
has been accepted by the department.
Adjutant General Miller placed Lieu
tenant Oscar Skeen III charge of the
company. The company will be re-
cruited to the full number allowed by
the department and in due time the
members will elect their own captain.
Captain Aud stands we'll with the men
and the whole volunteer army of the
state.