Courier Democrat., 1904-09-01
Gossip and Notes.

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Hannah sports are out with big
stick after illegal chicken hunters,
Every advance in wheat sends the
nrice of sack of -four notch higher
up.
Thursday, Sept. lst. Today the open
season for chicken and duck shooting
commences.
Osnabrock is now assured of Catholic
church among its building improve
ments of 1904. 80
Langdon city schools reopen for the
fall and winter term one week from next
Monday, Sept. 18th.
The management of the big fair at St:
Louis has designated Tuesday, Sep
tember 9th as North Dakota day.
Last Friday and Saturday twenty one
teachers we're here in attendance at the
regular examination of applicants for
certificates.
The newly equipped barber shop Of
BERT" Elliott has opened up for busi-
ness this week. The bath rooms will
be in operation the latter part of the
week.
If you own or expect to operate
threshing outfit this fall you need to
have one of the DEMOCRATS thresher-
mans account books. Orders filled by
mail the same day as received.
The Ct. Northern has begun to enjoy
the fall rush of traffic. Towns along
this line now enjoy daily freight, and,
the passenger train has found it neces-
sary to bring three coaches into service
instead of two as heretofore.
Co. Auditor Work reported yesterday
that the number of hunting permits
issued up to yesterday afternoon had
reached 293, which is largely in excess
of last year and outreaches the record
of any of the adjoining counties.
Auditor Work has received request
from the office of the State Land Com'r
at Bismarck for list of state and
school lands in this county to be sold
this year. 1t is intended the sale will
occur in December and parties intending
to make purchase should lose no time
in fling the description of the quarter
wanted at the auditors Office.
Nothing could better suggest the
high respect in which the late Miss
Mary Eva McDougall was held by the
people of Langdon than the long pro-
cession of carriages which followed her
remains to the cemetary last Thursday
afternoon. Several hundred people at
tended the funeral there being ninety
two vehicles in line as the procession
wended it's way throughHthe city to the
cemetary.
Tuesday, Sept. Goth, is the date Sc
lected by the executive committee of
Cavalier county republicans for holding
their convention to place county
ticket in the field. There was quite a
roundup of party leaders here Tuesday
to attend the meeting and the campaign
is now we'll on with chances of warming
up some when the ginger is taken out of
those given tickets on the swearing
train after the convention reaches the
sine die number on the program.
John Robertson who disposed of his
farm north of town last fall has re-
turned during the week from an ex-
tended trip through Oregon and num-
ber of localities through the Northwest
Territories. What he saw of the ceun-
try effectually disposed of any idea he
had of fleaving Cavalier county. Oregon
was quite disappointment to him and
the land in the Canadian Northwest did
not have the effect of hurrying his de-
parture from here. Mr.. Robertson has
about decided to move his family into
Langdon for the winter and may de-
eide to locate here permanently.
The drawing for homestead entries at
the opening of the Fort Totten Indian
reservation lands took place at Devils
Lake last Wednesday. six hundred
names being drawn. Among the for
tunate ones were few Cavalier county
people and others we'll known here,
whose names we give below. They will
be permitted to file homestead entry
in the order Indicated by their respec-
tive numbers:
3O1-Ole j. Olson, Langdon.
j 441sJohn p. Trnax, Langdon.
484 Faith A. Agar Langdon.
506 a. r. Davidson, Osnabrock3