Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-11
Gossip al kstos.

All taxes become delinquent February
LIST and penalties attach. This is true
of both personal and real property.
Monday morning the mercury was
hnnched down in the bulb at the bottom
of the thermometer. The temperature
being % degrees below zero.
BOX car merchants have been doing
business on the side track during the
week And number, who will doubt
less be wiser by the experience have
bought their winters supply of groceries
of them.
The Ct. Northern is building round
house at Walhalla--which shows that
the extension of the branch to the Fish
Trap will merely be spur line for the
hauling out of wood for fuel and clay for
the manufacture of brick.
The Langdon Implement Co., has
placed portable windmill pumps at the
rear of the Boyd block and U. @. L.
hotel. The proprietors of these proper
ties will use them for the purpose of
supplying water to their steam heating
plants.
The Woodmen of Dresden contem-
plating giving a.masquerade ball on
New Years night. Carpenters have been
at work the last weel. raising the ceiling
and finishing up the inside of the hall.
and Dresden is now ready to join the flax
belt theatrical circuit.
The Milton Globe is inclined to view
with patience and good nature the state
ments of local alarmist to the effect
that gophers are still preambulating the
prairie. No captures have been reported
although the parties seeing them are
known to be reliable and strictly tenn
perate.
The tax levy for school purposes in
Cavalier county for 1902 was $40, 1853.
The average rate of school taxes for the
county will be about 10 mills on the
dollar, a slight increase over last year.
The newly organized towns and the
special district tax making the increase
in the levy necessary.
Milton secs brighter prospects fo1
future growth than ever before but does
not lose sight of Langdon's big line OF
improvements for. the year now drawing
to close. Last week the Milton Globe
generously remarked: 'The two new
store buildings, Boyd's and Schulkes
would command leading place among
the business structures of any city o.
10000 inhabitants, and the new hotel
about to open for business, is nam
moth, substantial and modern struc
turc.'
Residents of Trier township are petl
tionirg the postal authorities at WASH
ington to extend the mail route service
at present established between Langdol
and that point through to Cando, dis
tancc of eight miles further into Towne
county. The change is looked upol
favorably by the post masters along TN
route. The schedule is for trl-weekl
service each way leaving Langdon O.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday a
eight a. H., running through to Irle
where the hour of arrival will be flv
o'clock the same evening. The servlc
from Trier to Cando would be Monda.
Wednesday and Friday leaving at elgf
a. m. and reaching Cando at three cloc
in the afternoon. On the return trip tn
mail will leave Cando on Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday at ten n. m. gong
far as Trier, from which point it will
carried tn Langdon on Monday, Wedne
day and }'riday. The hour of departuI
being soy.a, arriving at five. "A ma
service ~ outlined above has been ag'
ated 10y ostmaster Schuler of Trer al
is receiving the endorsement OF pos
masters along the route. Both Cane
and Langdon would find it convenien
and the stage route service would ~
the public cross-county transport"t''
similar to TINT at present enjoyed
tween Langdon and Walhslla.