Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-05-29
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A scarlet fever quarantine caused Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Mccullough, of Milton,
to abandon elaborate plans for the cele-
bratien of their crystal wedding this
week.
A nephew of Peter Dahlem arrivedfrom
Germany the latter part of the week and
will make his uncle Il visit that is likely
to continue indefinitely into the future
il he likes the country.
School vacation will begin next week.
Some of the grades wind up the years
work Tuesday, while the teachers and
scholars in other rooms will continue in
session until the end of the week.
4 wire was received Monday from San
francisco by Judge Dorval brings word
that j. P. DUNCAN has been taken
with typhoid fever. He is being treated
at a hospital and is quite seriously iii.
Geo. j. Price, representing the Plain
dealer bindery, Of Grand Forks, was here
the first of the week was awarded the
contract for furnishing the county with
blank books by the county commits
sioners.
VIM. Spiker and family are expecting
leave Langdon about June LIST for their
new home in Oregon. Mr.. splker dates
among the old residents of Cavalier
county, coming out here fifteen years ago.
Best wishes accompany the family.
During the week A. o. Void has plac.
ed handsomely flushed standard time
clock i'll his iewelry store. 1t has an ele
CANT antique oak case, stands nearly
eight feet high from the floor and as a
tilnepiece regulator is guaranteed to tie
perfect.
TIE Milton Globe starts the ball roll
ing with boost for Co. Supt. Macdon-
AIDS reelection this fall Wants to take
the office out of politics and thinks we
ought to make it unanimous. The efforts
OF MCCARTHY ought to give Neil an even
break on the start-o off anyway.
We note tie fact that residents of Sam
Haight's recently plated addition to o.
nabrock have given it the name of East
Osnabrock. The next thing will be to
move the soda water dispeasaries over to
the east side. Osnabrock is progressing
and keeps the rest of the towns around
I, wi, al; 20
The Mountaineer of Walhalla says that
it has been getting complaints from
up this way that many readers
are not getting its paper us prompt
ly as they ought to. The Mountaineer,
however, does very foolish thing in try.
ing to place the blame with tine Langdon
post office, as the Mountaineers semi
weekly is frequently a day or two late in
arriving here-same as elsewhere.
Paul Williams, who in years gone by
was Cavalier county teacher and at
present is county auditor at Pembina, is
having his efforts for denomination again
this fall tbwarted by the ST. Thomas
Times and other republican papers for
hobnobbing with democrats. tits only
necessary to 60 back to the political
campaign Of two years ago GO note that
only two Of the nine republican papers in
Pembina county gave the party ticket
support in its entIrety-and the Times
wasn't one of those two either.
j. R. Mears. an ex-Miltonite, writes his
friends in this county from Arcola, N. w.
F.. where he has been for "a couple of
years past. that he figures the product Of
$50 acre crop last year at S4.59S 20,
from which we are led to think, that IN
his case anyway, the Canadian Northwest
didn't turn out disappointment. Still
there's lots of Cavalier county farmers
that harvested over SIS worth of crop
per acre last season-and it wasn't all
fax either. Mr.. Mears writes that among
bis neighbors he can count upwards seven
ty of bis old acquaintance from this
county. We are glad he finds things all
right and hope COED results may be
attained by the balance Ut the colony.