Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-06-26
Gossip and Notes.

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The noxious weed law requires enforce
msnt in many directions within easy
reach of town. -.
Thermometers registered at 80 de-
grses, freezing point, Friday night and
nippsd young tender garden plants.
Osnabrock's latest boast is that it has
seven elevators and the largest gram
storage capacity or any town along the
line-with one single exception, OF course
Lots OF Langdon people go to Osna-
brock on Tuesday. Even Co. d is con-
templating the acceptance of an invita-
tion to help along IN the celebration
there on July 1st-a date observed by
Cannucks, we believe, as Dominion Day.
Farmers coming in from Wang and the
timber-skirted farms along the Penn
bina River near olga state that wheat
In those localities stands over a foot
high, is already in the shot blade and
promises an exceptionally early and
abundant harvest.
Lapgdon will have a good old fashion
ed celebration on the Fourth and will
do all in it's power to provide a pleasant
day for one and ALL The program OF
various races, games and attractions
show that the amusements afforded are
q feature that should draw IL big crowd.
New building excavations make the
work Of grading mp the streets all easy
and inexpensive task for the city this
summer over that OF year ago. The
clay subsoil is being used to bring up to
the grade level many OF the lower por-
tions of streets and will later be cover
cd withIlayers OF gravel and shale.
Cavaliers ball team, the tail-enders,
played a fast game Monday on the home
grounds in which they plucked the tail
feathers from the Winnipeg players, who
have held down the top place in the per-
centage column since the season began.
The score was 6 to 3, and this turn OF
events recalls something from somewhere
that says that "the first shall be last"
or something to that effect.
The drop in the temperature Friday
night, during which the mercury went
down to freezing point, prompted an old
timer to grow reminiscent and recall to
memory twenty years ago, the 18th OF
June, 1882, on which date he asserts
TO the DEMOCRAT that four or five inches
of snow FELL What little wheat there
was sown had grown to height OF five
Inches and where the tips showed up
Through we're frosted. FROM what can
be learned this seems to be the record
for late snow storms here in northern
North Dakota.
At Monday nights special council
meeting the marshal was given strict
orders to place under arrest all persons
caught discharging cannon fire crackers
On public thoroughfares within the city
The premature Fourth OF July bonn
bardment on Third street at a late
hour Saturday night led The authorities
to adopt extreme measures. Ihe boys
embedded the crackers firmly in the mud
along the edge OF the sidewalk and after
their explosion the buildings occupied by
T. B. BOYD and Sherwin'sfruit storewere
xiyen q shower OF mud that lett them
closely resembling the ruinsat Martinique
after the volcanic eruption OF MI. Pelee
Auditor Work: Recent correspondence
from the state land department at BIS
marck shows that the board conteM
nlatas another sale OF state and schoo
lands possibly this fall and in any even
not later than the spring OF the coming
year. The appreciation in farm 'ane
values in North Dakota in the past lev
months mikes the officials OF the 'ah'
Aenartmrn, nj Bismarck willing to ret
lie on them now. Iwould suggest ina
parties contemplating the purchase OF
quarter OF STAT or school land, list tn
description OF the same with me at tn
auditors office as il will insure the sam
being offered for sale. 1t will be neces
eary to do this as there is little prooa
hility Of tho land commissioner orderIi';
n saie Of nny state and school lands II
this sale that hove not been gwen Il
appraised valuation.