Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-08-22
Gordon 4 Lamb always have
Cash for farm toans.

IL you are in need OF job work or hav'
business Of any kind with the DEMocRA1
ring up phone No. 81.
Postmaster P. MoHush and wife re
turned home Tuesday from their visit K
the Pan-American exposition.
Oorrell Shaw, eldest son Of Agen'
Shaw at the Ct. Northern depot 10 il
with q severe attack Of perltonites.
Mrs. Lamb left yesterday for her home
IN Illinois. Her son. Attorney Butler
Lamb, accompanying her as far as Fargo
Attorney Geo. M. Prices father ar
rived Tuesday from his Iowa home and
is Investigating the merits Of Oavalie,
county at harvest time.
A. Reid is back from his summer visi,
to the coast of Labrador. Mrs. Reio
will follow in few weeks, stopping en-
route with Ontario friends.
Dentist Fred s. Smiths new quarters
on the first floor of the Smith block, op
posite the court house, are being fitted
up in strictly up to date style.
Landlord Frank Sim of Osnabrock, ad
vertises the Hotel Albion for sale. Nc
reason is assigned for thiswell known old
timer in the hotel business retiring.
Alex. Lang has sold his Manitoba
lands in the vicinity of York. Man, and
returned to this county. Ga the Other
side he found the land too low and vel
to suit him.
Friends will find interest in learning
that a former Langdon boy, George @.
Charter, has succeeded to the manage.
mont of the Lunde Herald, the pioneer
paper Of the new railroad town.
F. Fl. Stoltz was in town Monday
He is largely interestedsin real estate at
the new towns south west of here and
the sale of lots, placed on the market
last week, is reported 40 being big.
Mrs. Finlay is battling with q relapse
of typhoid fever this week, the complica.
ton il rendered more serious by the
presence of heart trouble. Mrs. Finlay'a
condition is reported as somewhat better
to-day.
There is very general complaint this
year Of the common yellow mustard weed
in fax. Very few pieces are free from
the pest. The greatest care should be
exercised in destroying the weed, or il
will prove to be serious evil in tho near
future.
A. George and F. Heidgerken were
at the new railroad town Of Ed.
moro last week in company with II. J.
Haskamp. The latter will invest ia
extensive mercantile interests there,
which it is und srstood will be under the
charge Of Mr.. Heidgerken.
During the week Game Warden Meikle.
John has been Investigating reports made
to him of parties who have been shoot
ing chickens in the scrub along the
Penbina River. He is making every
effort to have the new law protecting
prairie chickens until September Lei
strictly enforced.
The Milton Globe states that the
authorities are investigating case Of
suspected poisoning in the western part
Of the county. The wife Of man named
Spertel, formerly OF Osnabrock. died
lately in manner that aroused the
suspicious Of their neighbors. Since
her death two weeks ago an lnvestiga.
ton has been in progress.
Tuesday afternoons rain interfered
with barn raising at the farm of John
Robertson, north of town. The stone
work on the building was completed last
year and the frame, an eight cornered
structure, ia which the stalls are in q
circle and the center retained for the
storing of fodder, is likely to prove one
of the most complete barns in the county.
Sneak thieves left traces of having
entered tho residences Of DR.. F. S. Smith
and r. E. Elford on Saturday night. Al
neither places has anything of particular
value been found missing, but 1t would
be prudent for everybody to exercise
care at this season to fasten windows and
doors securely on leaving the house.
Among the strangers who come here
every fall looking for work there is
bound to be more or less dishonest
vagabonds. The police and property
owner both need to exercise constant
| vigilance at this time.
Otto Rundberget, who has worked for
a number of farmers in the vicinity of
Osnabrook for eight years past, goes to
jamestown asylum for insanity treat
ment. His mental trouble has been get.
ting steadily worse since first noticed in
the spring. Lately he has been working
on the farm Of Ole Molbsrset and within
the last couple of weeks the condition OF
the man has alarmed Mr.. Nolberget az