Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-01-09
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DIR. Black, q son of Maj. Black of VAL
ley City, is in Vienna.
Wahpeton has 1854 school children
407 males and 447 females.
Some smallpox cases are reported in
the vicinity of NIcHenry.
Darlington investors have a lot Of
lands along the Canadian Pacific.
The Shain divorce case at Sanborn is
attracting considerable attentica.
A Burleigh county man claims his
potato crop yielded him $50 per acre.
Some people w:nt the state to have
corn palace at the st. Louis exposition.
William Curren was struck by an en-
CINE ct Mardan and had a narrow es-
cape.
Courtenay has two cases of smallpox.
which are, all like the rest in the state
mild.
A number of scarlet fever cases have
Teen reported around Walcott and Kin
dred
The rumor that Attorney Featllan: Of
Grand Forks would remove to Minot is
denied.
Zen Gray formerly Of Harlem who
removed to Alberta a year ago, is re-
ported dead.
Emil J. PepI1e will soon leave foi
mond rings.
Paul Havens. who resisted arrest az
Jamestown, was discharged on A tech
nicality.
A twelve-year-old Mayville girl had
a leg broken While catching on to
bob-sled
Trail county people are said to be
specializing on what the grand jury
will DO.
The ti.irty-fve- belowzero weather
at Dickinson was the coolest for a num-
ter Of years.
c. H. Merry and party Of Dickin-
son hunters killed twenty-siX wolves on
recent hunt.
The bondsmen of the 5efunct North
WOOD bank settled with the county III
full for deposits.
Mayor Mcpherson of Valley City has
celebrated the twenty third anniversa-
ry Of his marriage.
Devils Lake and Lakota are both be-
ginning to get a trifle chesty over next
summers ball teams.
Bismarck and Jamestown officials are
looking for a man who is beating
board bills along the line.
North Dakota was nineteenth in rail-
way construction in the United States
in 1901-with 12O miles.
George Inkster, from whom the VIII
lage in Grand Forks county was named,
is very i'll at Grand Forks.
st. Thomas people complain of the
mail service. ard the postmaster says
the trouble is due to two new railway
crews.
Father Conaty of Grand Forks, an
nounces that a man who has been pos
ing at Grand Forks as a priest, is an
imcoster.
Auditor Stevenson of Richla1d coun-
ty will keep mis- Office open until 10 p.
m. during January, to answer inquiries
Of taxpayers.
Attorney Purcell of Wahpeton and
Attorney Divet of Sargent county nave
purchased a lot of tax-title lands in
Sargent county
Cando people are after dog poison
er, who is said, next to a wife-beater
to be about the scrawniest specimen
that walks upright.
The Northern Pacific express Office at
Bismarck may be changed. as the in
terror work does not harmonic with
the rest of the new depot.
Miss Zerlina Eakin has resigned her
position in the Darlington school to
take charge of her official work as
county superintendent of schools
J. w. Edwards of Cando lost a pocS-
etbook containing S1s5 in bills He was
probably no relative of the Ed'rds OF
Fargo.-as he habitat much money
20 lose.
The Fargo College Glee club reached
Cando in three sections, the first enter
tanning the crowd until the others ar
rived. and the audience was we'll
pleased.
Mai. Hamilton of Grand Forks in
jured the stump of his amputated arm
in fall on the sidewalk in Washing
ton. An operation was necessary to
repair the damage.
Private John Woorsteson. who served
with Company B in the Philippines. is
now at the soldiers home at Lisbon for
the winter. He has been giving illus
trated lectures over the state.
Two men We're arrested at Wyndmere
on the charge of running blind pig.
After giving bonds for their appearance
they located the man who made the
complaint, and smashed his counter
ance into several shapes.
Ex-Auditor Scott of Grand Forks
gays; the small creemeries are out OF
date. and favors the large central es-
adjustments. which can be operated
with slimming stations at surrounding
points.
Farmers claim there is good sleighing
except where the country roads We're
graded up, and some suggest that the
bitches on the roadside be made
sn oother and broader for winter
sleighing.
President Master. of the North Dako-
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