Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-07-19
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The Bathgate Gun club has been re-
organized. -.
Wool is being sold at,15 to 16 cents at
Glendale.
Hail did some damage throughout
Griges county, y -
The independent elevator at Portland
has been closed.
Grasshopper stories from ToWner
county are discredited.
Ornsby McHarg succeeds John Knauf
as city attorney at jamestown.
Charlie Jones, the escaped convict,
was recepturcd near Bismarck.
j. r. Mears of Milton has gone to
make his home in the Northwest Terri
tory
John Yoplng's home, at Berlin, La
!, Moure county, was struck by light
ming.
County Commissioner George Of Oil
YER county, was drowned while bath
ing.
Despite the bad crops, the Jim River
Valley Racing circuit did a good bust
ness:
Rev. Charles A. Downs is the new
Congregational pastor at Michigan
City.
New buildings are being erected at
Harvey, despite the bad crop pros
poets.
The Thirtieth District Populists NOM
mated L. Wadeson and George Platter
for the house.
The Barnes county sumner school
will begin July 20.
L.S Stafford, one of the most success"
full farmers of Trail county, is an en-
thusiastic biker-at seventy.
Michael Brown Of Cannon Ball is
SHY three fingers as a result of a can
non crackers premature explosion.
Miss Clara Hauge has been engaged
as teacher of music at the Bruhat acad-
envy, Portland.
The auditor Of Cavalier county re-
Gently leased forty-four quarter sec
lions Of state land.
II there was a section of the state
not visited by the recent rains it has
not been discovered.
Cavalier voted 81 900 to better equip
the fire department in the matter of
new paraphernalia.
'ldlt Ou Nullltllltu dlC SCuuluso SIoNh
to the western part of the state, where
there is plenty of forage.
The seventh annual convention of the
Trail county W. C. T. U. will be held
at Hillsbcro July 10 and II.
A waterman at Valley City fell IN
der a water pipe and was nearly
drowned before he could be rescued.
The Cargill elevator, at Portland is
undergoing extensive repairs. and Il
new engine house is to be built.
The inspection trips of the railroad
con missioners seem to have been free
from complaints on the part Of anyone.
The Sargent county commissioners
counted and destroyed about $4,000
gopher tails at the last session of the
board.
Joe Sundie. proprietor of the Head
quarters hotel at Cogswell, is reported
to have left the country without leav-
ing an address.
The foundation Of the new Congrega-
gational church at Wahpeton is near
ing completion, and the corner stone
will be laid in short time.
The black potato bug brings back to
the old settler recollections of the good
old days down East, before the Colora-
do beetle was heard Of
The population of Toilette. Pembina
county, has ben reduced. The North
ern Pacific cut the section crew down
from eleven to three men.
New Rockford is said to be booked
for a visitation from the enforcement
league spoilers. who assert there are
all kinds of pigs there.
There was a bad wreck on the 500
near Kuhn last week. 4 heavy train
broke in two, and when it came togeth-
er there was bad smash-up.
A number of explosions We're ar
ranged at Milton to secure rain.
few drops fell. but not enough to pay
for the powder that was burned.
CELSIUS Enumeration Link. who has
the biggest territory in the state out
west in the cattle country. is not anX-
ious for another job of the kind.
Beer socials are the popular fad now
in Valley City. Mayor McPherson's
500 bluff may be all right. for they say
kegs are more popular than cases.
Dick Smith an old-time Northern Pa
cific conductor, bigger nor D. NJ. Ste
yenson or Finn eLech, has been inau-
.urated postmaster at Mandan.
Near the 500 depot. mile and a half
from Valley City proper, a wide-open
saloon is in operation. and the enforce
ment leaguers are said to have it on
the list.
Mayor Mcpherson of Valley City is
being joshed for his statement last fall
urging farmers to sell fax at IS cents.
claiming that the price would be no
higher.
Halliday & Hood have been awarded
the contract for a new barn on the
farm of Dr. AIcLain at Grandin. to
take the place of the one burned some
time ago.
A Jamestown man advocates Sunday
ball playing by the kids as better
amusement than learning the back
door route to blind pig or other tough
resort.
A. G. Shepard of Harvey has added a
contrivance to an ordinary bicycle
whereby it can be used on the rail-
read. II is said, to work very satisfdc-