Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-02-20
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The performances of the Kelly Merry
Makers, billed to appear at the Donovan
Hall on Wednesday and Thursday of last
week failed to materialize owing to the
illness of one of the performers.
Barber Harry Wielend Is i'll with an at
tack of malaria, better known among our
soldier boys from Manila as the Filipino
fever. He has been laid up since Sunday,
but is today reported as much better.
Among the local real estate advertisers
in the Grand Forks Herald's big twenty
eight page North Dakota number pub:
lished last Sunday are noticed j. G.
Dickson, ALERT & Winter and George NJ.
Price.
County Treasurer John McGauvran
left Monday in company with his brother
Pa. McGauvran. of Osnabroek for De-
tyoit. Mich, where the later will take
| treatment for rheumatic ailment at the
sanitarium.
Twins are reported to have been born
to Mr.. aud Mrs. John Fitzgerald, of
West Billings on the 5th inst. What's
the matter with West Billings being a
good location-and by the way isn't
friend John Fitzgerald all right.
Com'r Ole I. Gjevre was in the city
Monday from Soper and says that the
building record in that settlement is be-
ing doomed by the crop of last fall. He
has recently returned from visit with
Minnesota and South Dakota relatives.
Business is good with the Langdon
Electric Light Co., the demand for lights
by new patrons this winter is overload
ing the capacity of their dynamo and
engine. Manager Gardner contemplates
installing another engine and other ma
chinery in the spring.
The Albion hotel, Osnabrock's pioneer
hostelry, will show evidences OF improve
meat this spring. An addition nearly
doubling its capacity, with fixtures for
steam heating are some OF the things
contemplated and on which the knights
of the grip will have no kick coming.
Word reached town last week that the
academy at Collegeville, Mimi, attended
by number of Langdon boys, is quaran-
tined owing to an outbreak of smallpox.
Friends of our boys will be glad to know
that all have thus far escaped and are
observing Lent by nursing sore arms.
The Hans 7. Ellenson store building
at Milton has been leased by Ed. Larson,
who until lately has been manager of
Simon McCanna's big store near Lari-
more. Tho new man briggs along big
string of Endorsements. and when the
fun begins buyers will get all they can
carry for their big iron dollars.
Il. F. MoHugh, brother of Postmaster
McHugh, and at one time prominent in
political affairs of Walsh county is now
living in Tacoma, Wash. Just now Il
striking likeness of our old friend Tom
is being given space in the papers
throughout the United States over
double column-testimonia advertise.
ment for Swamp Root" bitters.
Fire caused by the explosion of lamp
last Saturday evening at about $50
destroyed $4,000 stock of goods in the
store of w. Crawford of Neche. The
Crawford store is located in the brick
block occupied|also by the Bank of Neohe
the Hotel O'B1ien and the Donovan
drug store. A condagation endangering
the entire business portion Of the town
was narrowly averted.
H. Dunford president of Weber school
district was in from his homestead in the
south western corner of the county Fri
day. Two schools will be opened there
in the spring and a special election is
being held Tuesday of this week for the
purpose of bonding the district for build
ing third school house. President
Dunford and his colleagues in the Weber
district are showing the proper kind OF
spirit IN educational matters.
Genealogical data from Woodbridge,
Cavalier county furnished the North
Dakota number of the Grand Forks
Herald, gives that point as being 176O
feet above the sea level. The annual
mean temperature 800 degrees. Highest
temperature 800 degrees in the shade on
| Aug. 18th 1901; lowest temperature 800
degrees below zero on Dec. 18th 1901;
total rainfall for year 1898 inches, the
greatest downpour being during Sep
TENDER when the precipitation was 500;
unmelted snow fall for 1901 in this
county is recorded at laos inches.
Number of rainy days in the year, rs:
clear daye, 175; partly cloudy days, SO;
number OF cloudy days, 100. The obses-
vations reported at Woodbridge have
been taken for period covering nine
years.