Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-05-02
Courtenay is growing.

Jamestown wants to collect poll and
dog tax.
The dog poisoner is at work at Coo
perstown.
| Logan county is to have $4,000
court house.
A bridge is wanted over the river at
Donnybrook.
I A jamestown man is shipping garden
seeds to Manila.
The De Lamere creamery is in sue.
cessful operation.
The gun-fghters at Buford have
patched up truce.
Dickey county will pay bounty of 5
| cents on gopher tails.
The Northern Pacific depot at Dray-
ton has been enlarged.
| Aid. Cummings is the new president
of Fargo's city council.
There is no Presbyterian pastor at
either Peche or Pembina.
Jamestown reports all the smallpox
patients cured except one.
The fish in Lake Traverse are mi
grating and fishermen are busy.
The w. j. Howe ranch near Sheldon,
has been sold to Will Mcintyre.
The farmers are being roasted for
sending dirty eggs to the stores
Mayville people will have the library,
even if they don't have sewer.
The Forman Telephone company will
build branch to Havana in July.
Emmons county stockmen are agi-
tated over the great loss of calves.
At an auction sale at Brinsmade
farm, teams brought from $3.50 to $500.
At Walhalla the boys catch fish by
| hand as the finny fellows go over the
dam.
Melville has banished smallpox and
diphtheria. and is ready for the next
malady.
Work will be begun on the new Cath
Ole church building at Lidgerwood on
July Is.
Northern Dakota dessicated potatoes
will be used by the North Pole explor-
ing party.
The creamery at Ransom, Richland
county, will be consolidated with that
at Cayuga.
Ransom county is arranging an ex.
hibit to be placed with that of the state
at Buffalo.
Tom Griffling denies that he has re-
signed his position as bookkeeper at
the asylum.
The department of public instruction
will be kept busy when the summer
schools begin.
DR.. Critchfield of Hunter has pur-
chased DR.. Fisk's interests in the Cas-
selton hospital.
Thieves stole a team and wagon from
Canadian Mennonite, and were ar
rested at Milton.
Gilbert Torgerson of Davenport will
remove to his claim, near Granville,
McHenry county.
States Attorney Blackwell is in the
East on a visit, hobnobbing with the
political dignitaries.
Senator Hansbrough may visit the
Philippines this summer, in company
with other senators.
Senators Hansbrough and McCumber
have donated 200 volumes to public
library at Enderlin.
c. F. Merry, who achieved quite
Operating in Idaho.
Eighteen new townships in the Minot
land office have been surveyed and
thrown open to settlement.
In Emmons county corn is such
successful crop that hog-raising is be-
coming a popular industry.
A boy struck match at Perth, and
George Powelson will build new barn
and buy new team Of mules.
Kidder county people do not believe
in the seed grain law, as only eighty
five people signed the petition.
Agent Jennings of Medina is said to
have disposed Of a hundred head of
cattle recently at fancy price.
In the southern part Of the state
prairie chickens are said to be more
numerous than usual this spring.
Rev. Reech, recently from Austria,
has been placed in charge of Walsh
county parish by Bishop Stanley.
The club house at Spiritwood lake
was entered by thieves, and about ev-
erything movable was carried oft.
Along the Jim river, it is said, there
are many fish, who were caught in the
small lakes when the river went down.
John Parks Of McHenry county, aged
seventy, is selling off his stock. that he
may go out to Washington and grow
up with the country.
1t is reported that the state UNIVERSE
ty foot ball team has already begun
practicing, to be prepared to beat the
A. c. team next fall.
In Nebraska jack rabbits are killed
and shipped East at s1.50 per dozen.
In Eastern restaurants they masquer-
ade as Belgian hares.
State Supt. Devine has issued an Ar
Dor Day manual, containing some care
fully-selected matter for use in the
public schools on May 1. ..
A false report that Cathay had been
visited by fire brought many visitors
to view the ruins. They saw only
pretty little town instead.
The Walhalla village election takes
place on the first Monday in May, ana
If ic said there will he numerous