Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-06-18
Nev Rockford continues tn grow and

The farmers are seeding an unusual
amount of corn.
The Merchants hotel at Washburn
is to be remodeled
Kenmare is to have telephone con-
nections before July l.
There is said to be a big row over
the :ownsite at Wheelock.
The Bottineau postot!ice has been
moved into new quarters.
The Cando sports want the sidewalk
extended to the race track.
The lakes in the Turtle mountains
are favorite summer resorts.
There is complaint at i-angdon about
the destruction of shade trees.
Mayville contributed $40 for the
North Dakota chi!dren's home.
A Ward county man warns fisher
men to keep off his private pond.
Farmers around Hunter are well
pleased with the crop prospects.
Henry Lubke. who was sent to the
asylum from Portal. has escaped.
There is row at Lakota over un-
sanitary conditions on certain lots.
Murdoch Mckenzie of Bismarck is
a new United States commissioner.
A lot of new settlers are filing on
Williams county land around Tioga.
The artesian we'll fever seems to
have struck the southern part of North
Dakota.
After July brands of all stock
taken up must be furnished the county
auditor
An attempt was made to burglarize
the residence of Mrs. Bartholomew at
Bismarck.
Some wheat in Pembina county was
so badly blown out that the land Was
re-seeded.
The measuring worms seem to be
raising Hail Columbia with the shade
trees again.
At Alice it is claimed that preacher
got all the best OF a boss snapper in
recent deal.
More brick houses are being built
than ordinarily. On account of the high
price of lumber.
At Bismarck a man named Smith
was welding a knife too carelessly
and was arrested.
A brewery collector at Donnybrook
was surprised to find his patrons in
Jail, and didn't collect.
Richburg is to have mill and an
electric light plant as soon as the ral!-
road reaches that point.
| The Great Northern has filed tho
right of way for the new extension
from Granville to Gordon.
A supposedly insane man has been
seen several times in Ward county,
and the officials are after him.
The country around Ray is being
settled by actual farmers and the
transient claim holders are scarce.
A travelling man kicked a Great
Northern conductor in the face at
Grand Forks and was fined $50 for
his fun.
n is expected the extension Of the
Washburn road will cross the Great
Northern in Williams county about
Tioga.
There are thirteen townships in one
school district in Ward county. With
each six miles square. it makes quito
a district.
Robert Colvin, who has been con-
nected with the Portland schools for
some time, will be principal of the
Cando schools.
The prairie lands in the western
part Of the state are said to be in ex-
cellent condition for breaking since
the recent rains.
County Supt. Molyreaux of McHenry
county will have charge OF the farmers
excursion from there to the North Da-
kota agricultural college.
The county superintendent OF
schools over the state report beneficial
results from the meetings OF the presl-
dents OF the school boards.
There are not many settlers along
the Missouri who fear an outbreak OF
the Indians, even if the soldiers are
removed from Yates to Bismarck.
Billy Frost and Mark Nelson are to
fight at Bowbells July for the light
weight championship of the state
Both men are said to be welterweights.
1t is said that some Cavalier stock
raisers were buncoed by receiving lot
of low-grade scrub hogs when they had
paid high prices and express for some
thing high bred.
A drunk at Hamilton made soft
bed in a mudhole and was doing right
we'll breaking into kingdom come when
stranger dug him out before sufoca'
ton was complete.
John OIeary of Sawyer was called
to Fosston to the bedside of his moth
er. She died before his arrival and
the next day his father died, making
his mission doubly sad.
E. C. Tolley of kenmare was cross
ing the Mouse river in a rig with a
prisoner. The rig upset and the occu-
pants were thrown out, but Tolley neld