Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-07-30
Additional Local News.

Major j. H. Frame from Grafton
fraternized with members of the Cava-
lier county. bar while in the city yester-
day.. 5:Ee
Senator ]. D. Bacon and wife ii Grand
Forks have. been visiting in the city at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Hayward
during the week.
Services will be conducted on Sunday
at the Presbyterian church. both morn
ing and evening, by Rev. Samuel Brown.
of Chippewa Falls, Wis.
| Misses Helen Sullivan, Viola Truax
and Jean Mcmillan returned on today's
noon train from an outing of three
weeks at the Yellowstone Park.
Mrs. VIM. Widmeyer came over from
Rolla last week and is visiting for few
days with her brother. j. G. Irvine, and
other Langdon relatives and friends.
VIM. Brown, ALT Padden and Stewart
Smith were trio of Harvey Centre
farmers who spent the past week taking
in the fair at Winnipeg, returning home
Monday.
Will Hodgins, of the Mooney State
Bank, was laid off duty a day or two
last week. owing to bad fall in which
he narrowly escaped the fracture of
several ribs.
John Bidlake of Park River an old
friend of many Langdon residents spent
several days here last week talking up
machinery in friendly way here and in
the adjacent neighborhood.
Miss Emily Smith will leave Saturday
of this week for Chicago to visit during
the balance of the summer. During her
stay there Miss Smith purposes taking
course of advanced studies under the
eminent pianast, Emil Liebling.
c. E McEuen got one of his fingers
quite badly pinched yesterday while
assisting the workmen on the opera
house block to put in place couple of
large pieces of stone on the front walls
The injury was quite painful in it.
nature but not expected to be serious.
Mr.. and Mrs. HcKinnon, of Olga, we're
down on Saturday to see to the erection
of a monument over the grave of Mrs.
Mckinnon's mother, Granny" Nc
Donald, we'll known to all the early set
tiers who had to travel the road from
Pembina to Hamilton. Cavalier, Bath
gate and the western country. She
kept stopping place near Weeks point
in Carlisle from 70 to 'S3.-Bathgate
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Prof. Babcock and family and Presi-
dent and Mrs. Merritield. of the state
university, were Langdon visitors day
or two last week: stopping for couple
of days at the Mahon home before re-
turning to Grand Forks. They had
been looking over the cement works on
the Tongue river. where Prof. Babcock
has been arranging a display of their
clay and cement deposits for the world
fair exhibit at St. Louis next year.
Langdon still continues to add to its
laurels in the line of furnishing the
material to fill the grand lodges Offices
of fraternal bodies in North Dakota. At
the grand lodge meeting of the knights
Of Pythias order at FarlSo last week
the Office grand prelate was filled by
the unanimous election of Attorney
w. B. Dickson, of this city. The two
local delegates to the grand temple of
the Rathbone Sisters. Mesdames Mclean
and Dickson were also among the chosen
few and will participate in the delibera-
lions of that body during the ensuing
year.
]. B. Beauchamp, the leading mer-
chant of Olga, accompanied by his wife
was in Bathgate last Saturday and Sun
day visiting with friends. Mr.. Beau
champ is one of the old settlers In the
early eighties when all of the travel to
and from the second mountain in what
is now the northern half of Cavalier
county had to go through the Olga pass,
he was assistant at the Beaulieu store,
at the foot of the pass. Since that time
he has built up a large general merchan-
disc business for himself at Olga and is
one of the most prosperous and best
known of Cavalier county citizens. In
speaking of the Cavalier county crops
he said the eastern portion of the county
has nearly two thirds of an average crop,
west of the railway the general oondi-
ton is not SO good, perhaps half crop,
while that of the southwestern part is
said to be very fair. 1t is probably
about right to estimate the average at
half of normal crop, excepting fax,
which promises much more. With pre-
sent prospects for higher prices all
around there is no reason why Cavalier
county business men and farmers should
feel at all Observation-Disclosures Pink
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