Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-09-25
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An elevator trust at Kuhn is al
legged.
There is G ban against blind pigs at =
Denhoff.
Barlow is erecting a Congregational
church.
Prairie fires are reported from Bur-
leigh county.
Orphan babies are advertised at
Grand Forks.
Laborers are reported to be scarce
around Bisbee.
The enrolment of the Grafton
schools was GIL.
Minot is proud of the opening of a
wholesale house.
There is a row at Courtenay over a
dcg-shooting case.
Cooperstown people are laying in a
supply CT Ignite.
An alleged blindpigger at Wi1nble-
don was acquitted.
A Barnes county farmer is success
fully raising tobacco.
Plans are being made to hold an al.
pual fair at Larimore.
Foster county wheat is yielding bet
ter than was anticipated.
Kids with air-guns are getting to be
dangerous at Davenport.
There are few wild grapes along the
Missouri this summer.
Bike thieves at Darlington were Ste.
cessful in getting away.
Williston got in under the wire with
| the first report OF snow.
Flax around Minot averages about
eight bushels per acre.
Richland county blind pigs are said
to be expensive luxuries.
Bathgate business men want more
side tracks at that point.
The hotel dining room at Courtenay
was closed for lack of help.
| The city tax levy at Dickinson is
only $4,000, or about mills.
| Late flax is reported damaged by
the frost around McHenry.
Ballotstuffing continues to be an in
teresting subject at Bismarck.
There is said to be a scarcity Of
wild plums all over the state.
J. R. Hutchinson Of Bottineau coun-
ty will locate in South Africa.
There will be 10000 acres of school
lands sold in Barnes county.
The county seat scrap in McHecry
county seems to be warming up.
P ]. Bye, formerly of Grand Forks.
has gone into business at Harvey.
A pair of Great Northern work traits.
collided at sand pit near Devils Lal:dss>
A display of Stutsman county prod
ucts is on exhibition at jamestown.
w. S. Wolfe of Minor is successful
(y raising plums from nursery stock.
Leeds boasts of a new bowling alley.
Walhalla demands daily train SER
vice. v
Eight sections of unimproved land
in Mcintosh county were sold for $780,
900.
Some of the grain around Reynolds
did not yield as large as was antici-
pated.
Bathgate people send to Fargo to
have their catering done for fancy par
ties.
The people of Renville county are
holding lot of meetings to reorganiZe
the county.
Col. Creel has big flax yield.
Druggists permits at Souris were
cancelled.
Michigan City is one of the latest
counties to join in the cry for more
residents.
Grand Forks people are discussing
the free text book system for the CITY
schools.
There have been number of thresh-
ing machine fires, with several rigs de-
stroyed
Justice Young, of the supreme court.
| had a good time duck-shooting in Lo-
gan county.
Another poker game at Tower City
broke up in row. 1t was being played
in barn.
The rivaly between the Donnybrook
elevators is resulting benedcially to
the formers.
Ransom county is getting another
batch of investors from Wisconsin, Illi-
rois and Iowa.
,I.udden is rejoicing because a steel
bridge is to be built across the James
river at that point
A. D. Smith Of Silverlcaf. Dickey
county, is selling North Dakota crab
apples at 50 per bEshel.
Bootleggers. who are selling whisky
to threshing crews arc getting them
selves badly disliked.
Frank lish OF Dickinson is endeay
oring to locate the mdrderers Of lis
brother in ST. Louis.
The success of many farmers in
raising barley this year is attracting
more attention to that crop.
Rev. ]. w. Mahin has removed from
Foreman to Paramount and engaged il
the real estate business.
Cando people are looking for man
who took orders there some time ago
for a fat iron arrangement.
Col Viets, formerly Of Grand Forks
and now Of Galesburg, I'LL. is greeting
North Dakota friends
A threshing crew in Pesnbira couA
to made q blind-pigger believe they
were government agents, and took the
beer.