Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-08-02
casselton has a diphtheria scare.

| heteu DIT INdpOlcOu ldSL week.
Summer schools are rival attractions
to the political conventions.
| Many of the Jim River valley people
are talking Russian thistle.
| Sixty two teachers are attending the
| state summer school at Cakes.
The Masonic offices in Fargo are be-
| ing moved into the Masonic temple.
Several thousand bass and croppies
are to be placed in Maple lake at
once.
Polk county has just sold $4O,5OO
| ditch bonds at i ID per cent and $50
premium.
Game wardens are publishing the
usual call-down notices to prevent pre-
mature hunting.
Agricultural machinery is still being
shipped into the state, Notwithstanding
the short crop.
During a storm at Wilton lightning
struck the hotel, and a number of the
| guests were stunned.
A pair of bootleggers, who tried to
operate at the LaMoure races, were
chased out Of the county.
Farmers are so busy around LaMoure
!
| have time to come to town.
1t is said that more improvements
are noticeable around Buxton than al
most any town in the valley.
Owing to the repairs at the Bismarck
pumping station there is a temporary
shortage of water at that place.
The three Icelandic congregations at
Akra, Pembina county, will combine
this year for Sunday school picnic.
John Davidson of Stutsman county
reports hustling hen. All her chick
ems died. and she cared for two kittens.
The barn of Walter Rogers, five miles
from Walcott, Richland county, was
| burned and eight horses We're cremat-
| ed.
The feeling of the farmers for Presi-
| dent Hill of the Great Northern, seems
to be changing from hatred to admira-
| ton.
From various sections come com.
plants of typhoid fever, due to ban
drinking water and drouth. Boil the
water.
Prospective hunters are being urged
by the state papers to secure permits,
before the prairie chicken season be-
comes ripe.
The increase in the personal valua.
ton of Burleigh county property was
$4,OO4. The real estate valuation was
reduced $4,000.
| Warren reports considerable damage
by the Hessian fly, and the prospective
average of five bushels per acre is con-
siderably cut down by it.
The youngest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Charles Miller Of Mandan drank
a cup of fy-poison and died. The little
one was fifteen months old.
Peter G.. Thompson, living mile and
a half north of Lee. in Nelson county,
dropped dead while helping one Of his
neighbors unhitch team Of horses.
Many fields of wheat in LaMoure
cvounty, which would otherwise pay
for cutting will be plowed under be-
cause of the presence Of Russian cacti.
A Bowbel1s attorney and a divorce
who didn't want to pay for his legal
services had lively scrap in the street
that furnished amusement for every
body.
An attempt was made to burn the
barn of Erick Skauge, in Richland
county, but the blaze was discovered
and extinguished before it had made
any Roadway.
Harvey imagined it had an Indian
outbreak last week, at least one family
did, and sat UP all night, to find the
hired nan the cause of all the trouble,
and asleep in the barn.
Valley City has a firm of gardeners
who don't care whether it rains or
not They have irrigated their truck
farm and, are said to have the finest
vegetables in the state. y
Hay sells for SIS per ton at Bagley,
and the people so out on the country
roads carrying bouquets and other
things to get on the soft side of the
farmers coming in on their loads
Aneta people are about convinced
that P. T.. Wilberg. who left there to
commit suicide. was more inclined to
create sensation than to present
new face in the celestial realms.
Miss Helen Schmidt of New Rock
ford was horseback riding, when the
animal ran into a wire fence in the
dark and threw her to the ground with
such force that her collar bone was
broken.
In the list of those who have been
granted pensions recently appears the
name Vi DOlu-du 4OdAu"l Ill VI
Grand Forks. Mr.. Dorman is granted
a pension of SIS per month for wounds
received in the Philippines.
Cattle shipments from the West are
beginning a month earlier than last
year, but the early output will not be
as heavy, as July shipments are al
ways soft and do not bring as good
prices as the frmer cattle.
Hans Oldsted of Lidgerwood broke
his leg and it was improperly set. At
ter being about half-knit he had the
bone chiselled away and the pieces at
tached with a silver wire, and is watt
ing for it to grow together.
The Northern Pacific has secured q
contract for moving an immense guam
tity of oats to Puget Sound points for
the United States army. The oats are