Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-09-12
wheat is reported clean and bright


bner Is at work near Bowdon.
The new vault for the Mcintosh
court house has just been completed.
The first oats threshed in Ward
county yielded sixty bushels per acre.
Lightning destroyed a setting Of
wheat in Dickey county early in the
week.
Harvey hos voted to ircorporate-S9
to SIS. The little burg is bound to be
up to da,e
Thomas Moore of Hanneford was
thrown from his buggy and had his
urn broken.
A. A. Piper agent of the Great North
ern for five years, has been transferred
to Hamilton.
Geo. L. Stroup Of Mayville owes $500,
and applies for a discharge under the
laws.
A. c. ALERT, formerly of Hankinson,
the 500 at Enderlin.
The tomato crop in this state promis-
es to be excellent if the frost keeps off
another week or two.
A minister has been engaged to teach
the Bowdon schools. His name is Rev.
A. M. Wiley of Cathay.
Mrs James A. Douglas of Grafton,
took carbolic acid by mistake, and her
condition is dangerous.
The cool winds have driven mosque
toes into their hiding places, for which
all are devoutly thankful.
The Pisek roller mill is offered for
sale by the receiver. The property is
said to be an excellent one.
Two grain buyers will he on hand in
Donny brook and the town may have
chance to live up to it's name.
j. N. Nash of Rugby is said to have
corn ten feet high on eleven weeks
growth. 1t has no ears yet.
Reports of the crop yield in the
mol thern tier of counties are about the
most satisfactory in the state.
Dickinson seems to be proud of her
sidewalks. 1t is something many places
ought to be proud of that aren't.
Seats for another room have been Or
dered for the public schools at Bottin-
eau. The city is growing rapidly.
The busy season for grain elevators
has begun and nearly every paper con-
tains reports of men taking charge.
The matter of establishing uniform
text book system in tie public schools
is being discussed in Bottineau county.
Engineer Rramble, of the Mayville
light plant, has resigned, and an effort
is being made to get him to reconsider.
The construction train on the 500 is
said to have already passed Ventura,
one of the stations OF the new extern
sion.
The first car load of wheat shipped
east from the state over the Northern
Pacific main line went from Valley
City.
The nomenclature of the stations on
the new 500 extension is matter pro-
voking considerable discussion on the
slope.
b. Prom succeeds A. c. o. Lomen as
meteorological observer at Milton, and
will regulate the weather there here
after.
A we'll Is being dug on the right OF
way at Washburn, six feet in diameter
and 100 feet deep, for water tank for
that road.
owns large tracts of land in Ramsey
county, is in Devils Lake looking after
his interests.
Smallpox is quite prevalent in the up
per James River valley, but the au-
thorities think they have rounded up
all the cases.
The completion of Bismarcll's tele-
phone system is delayed by the nom
arrival of poles ordered from the west
some time ago.
The law and collection firm of Styles
e. Steen of Mayville has been dissolved.
Both gentlemen will Continue in busi-
ness in Mayville.
Gov. Whites coal mine in Washing
ton is so good that he and his company
have bought 10000 acres Of land and
are prospecting for more.
Rev J. A. H. johnson of Grand Forks
has accepted the call to become Pastor
Finwalls successor of the Norwegian
Baptist church at Fargo.
Bottireau is proud of it's new band.
Tho members seem to be making an
earnest effort to give first-class music.
and are evidentl succeeding.
The reports of smallpox at Bowdon
appear to have been slightly eXagger-
ated, though it is said pest house is
in existence in that locality.
An effort is being made to secure
IS, 900 in q: shares, with which to estab-
lish hospital at Cooperstown. DR..
Platon is at the head of the enterprise.
A Valley City man says that about
all the benefit the people of his ward
get from the payment of taxes is the
fun Of hearing the curfew whistle
blown.
Judge Pollock decides that while cat
tie may lawfully run at large in the
winter time, under certain conditions,
the owner Must pay for any damage
done by them.
A city employer Of Valley City went
into a cellar to read the water meter
and fell into a .,istarn, the cover Or
which had been left off for ventilation.
He carries light into cellars row.
Russian thistles are complained of IN
many sections of the West. The early
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