Courier Democrat., 1904-02-04
Sm,ke Weber Bros. cigars.

days due to the recent extremely cold
weather.
Typewriter ribbons s--Remington and
Smith -Premier-best kinds. At the
DEMOCRAT Office.
Lilly of the Valley -four at Parsons
Flour and Feed store. Baled hay for
sale. Phone So.
Chas. Hunter has been on the sick list
for couple of weeks but is now reported
as rapidly improving.
Mayor Fred Mclean is expected to
arrive home from his business trip to
w ashington, D. c., the later part of the
week.
Congratulations are being received
this week by Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E.
Price over the arrival last Thursday
morning of a ten and one-half pound
son.
Saturday afternoon the members of
the Perseverance club meet at the home
of Mrs. Geo. Nichols at half past two
o'clock. The hostess will demonstrate
cream pie.
Next week series of special services
will be opened at the Baptist church.
State Evangelist Frank Sprague comes
from Fargo to assist the pastor in con-
Quoting them.
Tomorrow night at the court. house ].
Frank Fouche, the talented Shake
spearean impersonator gives a classic
and dramatic recital under the auspices
of the ladies of the M. E. church.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Wold entertained
party of young people Tuesday even
ing at their home on north Third street
in honor of Mr.. Wold's neice, Miss Clara
Iverson, who left yesterday for st. Paul
to complete her apprenticeship in mil-
linery and dressmaking.
E. A. Shaw returned yesterday from
his two weeks trip east. Since repre-
senting the people of Langdon at the
funeral of Rev. j. H. Thomas, late pastor
of the Presbyterian church, he has been
making visit at Toronto, Ont, and
other points transacting business:
The auction sale of H. j. Goff's fur
niture and household effects. which is
to be held Saturday afternoon at the
ware rooms Of McP -Brosnahan Co.,
is likely to bring out big crowd of
buyers as the articles offered for sale in
cludes everything needed to furnish a
home. Sale begins at two o'clock in the
afternoon.
The published statement of the State
Bank of Dresden this week shows that
the banking business of our next door
neighbor up the line, is still up to the
average of lots of the big towns over the
state. Cashier N. Hayes appears to be
gathering in lots of the filthy lucre these
cold quiet days, even though the thermo-
meter does stay down around 30 below
zero.
B. Cooperman, of the Langdon cigar
manufacturing company tells the DEMO
GRAFT that he was successful in closing
the deal for a:purchase of2OOO pounds of
select tobaccos during his recent trip to
the Twin Cities. This big shipment to-
gether with 800 new boxes arrived this
week and the factory is working atover
time filling orders that keep coming in
from their out of town patrons as we'll
as the local trade.
John A. Dahl, one of the we'll to do
and pioneer farmers of Osnabrock, was
caller on the DEMOCRAT while in town
Tuesday and enrolled his name as one
of the PAPERS new readers for 1904. MIR.
Dahl has been farming here in this
county since 1888 and in the twenty
years that have gone by finds that there
is nothing in the land boom across the
line that would induce him to change
places with any of them.
The continual changes made in recent
years by the state legislature in the time
of holding annual town meetings has
been cause of much perplexity and un
certainty each year as to when the meet
ing should be held. Last winter our law
makers took another bat at the law re-
lating to township matters with the
result that the time of holding annual
town meeting has been changed to the
the third Tuesday in March and the
first meeting of the new town board &C.
ours on the last Tuesday in the month.
According to the law as amended the
last meeting of the old board is held on
the second Tuesday in March.
J.D. Salter was the recipient on Mon
day of draft for $1,000 the same being
in payment of life insurance carried by
Ben Eydt, deceased member of the
local lodge of the Maccabees ORDER
whose recent death will be recalled by
readers of this paper. The money in
payment of Mr.. Eydts policy was sent
to Mr.. Salter, as the latter is Sir knight
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