Courier Democrat., 1903-08-20

visiting . TOW days with her sister, Mrs.
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A. o. Void spent several days during
the week in attendance at a meeting of
the state board OF optometry.
Eugene Chase has returned this week
from visit of several weeks with re-
latives down in southern Minnesota.
Jas. W. Phinn, tho travelling tailor from
Grafton, was business visitor in Lang
don couple Of days the present week.
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| Carpenter Jno. A. johnson has this
week completed frame barn for E..
Sherwin and is now putting up granaries
for the johnson Land Co.. on the Muhs
farms, north of town.
Miss Hannigan, of the abstract office
of the Cavalier County Abstract and
Title Guaranty Co., left on Tuesdays
passenger for visit of a month with
relatives in Wisconsin.
The telephone crew, which put in the
long distance line to Hannah, completed
the connection last Thursday and ship
ped to Lisbon where they have months
work in extending the line.
OsEabrock's Presbyterian divine, Rev.
Sykes, is visiting different parts of
Manitoba and the Northwest while talk
ing his summer vacation. He has a
brother at Brandon, who he visits while
away.
Threshermen cannot consider the crop
outlook very discouraging after all. The
Leader Implement Co. have sold eleven
Leader threshing outfits, five to parties
in Cavalier county and the balance in
adjoining counties of .he northern Part
of the state.
Dave r. Milne, who has been visiting
some time in Ontario with his parents,
returned last week and we predict there
will be some funmaking when he inter
views the writer of his obituary and
denies the allegation and defes the
alligator. There won't be any banker
ing after funerals after Dawes visit to
the end town.
The makers of the 'Cremo" cigar are
hustlers, they have got advertising down
to fine art. So fine in fact that they
can utilize anything from the side of
barn to the blue canopy of heavenin ad-
vertising their money producing smokes.
Their signs of circus-like proportion
and rainbow tint have made a con-
spicuous showing here during the past
few days.
The tennis championship of North
Dakota in both doubles and singles was
won at Fargo last week by our former
townsman, Attorney j. G. Monnet of
Cando, whose companion in doubles was
DR.. Wheeler of Fargo. Mr.. Monnet was
a visitor here over Sunday and had along
with him the silver cup that goes to the
holder of the championship.
1t is understood that quite number
of the more sedate and highly respect
able denizens of Hannah now spend
their Sundays and divers evenings dur
ing the week across the line at Snow
flake. Whether or not this fact has
anything whatever to do with the going
into effect of the Shiels law July first
deponent-that is to say, the Moon
sayeth not.
Neil Beaton one of the early day
pioneers of the western part of the
county is reported as being near death,
after an illness that has left him bed
ridden invalid at his home near Hannah
for nearly two years. There are few if
any of the old pioneers of Cavalier county
more widely known than Mr.. Beaton,
and many will regret to learn that the
serious turn his illness took couple of
weeks ago, leaves little if any hope for
his recovery.
There is no occasion this fall for the
solicitation of handouts by the ''Weary
Willie men, who flock in along with the
harvesters and threshers. For all who
come there is plenty of work, and the
fellow who won't work should not be
encourage to stay by giving. There
should be one reason, If no other, why
the wife in the home does wrong in
giving to those who frequent the back
doors, and that is because it causes the
hobo element to hang around in idleness,
and will eventually result in depreda-