Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-04
Gossip al Notes.

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Each warm day is coal saver.
Milton is preparing for more street
lights.
Milton farmer threshed 483 bushels
of spelt from four and half acres OF
land, and the value of the crop is over
1880 per acre.
IF Won have news item that you want
published or any friends visiting you,
call us up on the phone and tell us about
it. The DEMOCRATS number is Il.
The merchant who wants and expects
a large holiday trade should get his an
nouncement before people in thecolumns
of this paper right away if ne doesn't
want to be disappointed.
Col. Creel is making his annual in
spection tour of the various militia COM
panies in the state and the boys OF 20.
E had better spruce up and get their
arms and accoutrements in order.
Home talent theatricals should not be
allowed to remain dormant all winter
long. Langdon has plenty OF histronlc
ability to draw as big house as any
company that ever came up the pike.
Grain shippers and elevator men at
Osnabrock have suffered greatly from
the thieving by light fingered night
hawks who have left tracks behind them
leaving their identity easily discovered.
Here it is December and building
operations are still going ahead in Lang
don. New business blocks, residences
and other improvements for the year
now closing crowd up mighty close to the
100000 mark.
A change in time is noted in the run
ming of the G. P. R'y. trains between
Snowflake and Winnipeg. The trains
now leave Snowflake at 500 a. M, on
Tuesdays and Saturdays, arriving in
Winnipeg at 2:30 p. m.
Hannah sports INDUCED in little bear
dance of their own the other night at
the performance of Dizzy Jubilee Singers
and the last issue of the Moon hands the
gang bunch of solar plexus roasts that
ought'cr make 'em wish they hadn't.
Have you tried a want column adyer
tisement in the DEMOCRAT? There art
many ways in which this department o
the paper can serve you. Perhaps you
want to rent room, hire girl, buy
farm or sell piece of town property. l
has also been found success in tn
finding of estrays and securing the return
of lost articles.
Over at Devils Lake the business mel
are complaining that the Farmers Rail
road. which runs twenty-five miles north
ward from that place to Starkweather,
cutting off considerable trade. Con
paratively little grain is being markete
at Devils Lake this fall and the elevate
men as we'll as merchants are complain
ing. Starkweather, the terminal OF tn
Farmers Railroad, is within eight mile
OF the county line between Ramsey an
Cavalier counties and residents in tt
extreme southwestern corner OF Cavall'
lind it handy market.
Langdon already has on its card
building improvements for 1903 at -
OO0 opera house, two and possibly thr
new churches besides plans drawn
another fine brick block on corner
Third Street. In face of this contel
plated growth of the city why can t ii
Hill promise Langdon new depot ne
summer? The present quarters cou
conveniently be transformed into
freight warehouse or something OF tn
Kind. AT the present time Agent Shi
and five assistants are cooped up IN
office about SX14 with couple OF wa
ing rooms for patrons of the road
which The sign standing room onl
has to he hung out at the arrival n
departure of every train.
Smokers will find that w. j. Mere
has all tho best brands of tobaccoes al
and cigars at his new stand, next &C
TO the hardware store,