Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-08-28
Gossip and Notes.

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Teachers examination tomorrow and
Saturday.
Easily is to have new depot and
station agent this fall in time to maui
the big crop shipments out from there.
Reports that have been received dur
ing the week from threshing machines
at work-contirm early rumors OF q
bumper.
The present seasons crop will beyond
question keep up the activity in real es-
tate circles during the next twelve
months in elegant shape.
Wages for harvest hands have adj
yanced to $3.50 day. There are a
number OF men in the country but all OF
them are not looking for work.
1t is quite generally observed that tar
mers are needing the popular piece o!
advice handed around by the papers OF
the state telling them to stack their
grain.
Work was begun Tuesday afternoon
on the annex to the First National Bank
block which is being built 10 order to 'nr
crease the floor space OF c. j Ael)y's big
brick store.
The loca! telephone exchange company
is this week furnishing itr subscribers
with newly revised phone cards and is
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one hundred phones operating in the
business residence portions OF the city.
While many Langdon people were un-
able to enjoy the pleasures OF the Cali
fernia trip, from which party OF
our townsfolks are expected to return
home tomorrow, it will be found that
the letter we publish on another page
pictures the journey across the continent
out in highly entertaining manner.
Chief OF Police McDermott: Sayin your
paper this week that the city authorities
have done their best to place the streets
in the residence portion OF the city in q
tidy and presentable condition by cut
ting the weeds growing along the side
walks and we should feel better satisfied
that our efforts were appreciated if some
OF the property owners would remove
the rank growth OF weeds from the front
OF their lots SO that it is possible to see
ii their houses are still there.
The first threshing around here this
fall was done last Friday by John L..
Robertson rig, the crop being barley on
the Wentworth place south OF town, and
now owned by Frank Moran. The crop
had been cut two weeks previous and
was in excellent shape for threshing.
The yield is stated as being about As
bushels per acre and was bought by
Agent j. j. Souch, OF the Cargill Co., who
paid 80 cents bushel. The crop will
clear Mr. Moran something like SIG pei
acre. Since leaving there the machine
has threshed barley on the adjoining
farms OF N. O'Shaughnessy and NJ. l.
Sullivan with results very much the same
as those above stated. 1t is not out o
the way to draw attention to the fact
that there have been few seasons in pas
years when the thresherman has beer
getting in his work as early as Aug. %
Osuabrock announces through tn
columns OF the Independent that it will
have upwards $4,000 bushels more Q
grain storage capacity in it's elevator
this season than Langdon. Well no
just knowing what amount OF elevate
improvements have been made there thi
summer we have not the authority Il
hand to deny the statement But Lang
don has been doing some elevator build
ing to and may be depended on to b
at the head OF the list anyhow when til
totals OF the season shipments in thi
county arr, figured up. II half what TIL
Independent Claims for Osnnbrock is S
it is not likely to tnke n buck seat irol
any OF the towns along the line, Lang
don excepted OF course. 1t takes the II
dependent to shake things up, when
boost isneeded to help along the hustln
little burg down the line.
Smokeless shells, sixty-tive cents q
Dedrick' corner hardware.