Courier Democrat., 1904-05-12

Perhaps the good old summer time
will reach here in the sweet bye and bye
The local telephone line has been ex-
periencing much trouble today with
crossed wires and broken connections as
result of the heavy downfall of snow
last night.
There is some talk of the ADVISABLE
4 ty of the purchase of the opera house
property by the city, of course the idea
has not as yet assumed any practical
form. What do you think of it?
Wales got another boost in its popula-
tion on the 9Th inst. when son and
heir was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Mike
Flynn. Congratulations are reaching
here from the furthermost parts of the
earth and Mike is the happiest man IN
Wales by long odds.
William Barry is being removed from
the Langdon Jail to Grafton today in
compliance with an order received by
Sheriff Pinkerton from Judge Cowan.
Barry's new trial is set for Tuesday,
May 31st, and with the probability that
Barry will be given penltentiary SEN
tence there were many of his friends at
the depot to see him off.
Mrs. McHugh received telegram
from st. Paul yesterday to the effect
that her youngest son Rod had success
fully undergone an operation at the
hospital for appendicitis. 1t will be re-
membered that he was laid up with an
attack of the same trouble last fall be-
fore leaving here to attend school in st.
Paul.
Miss Ella T. Gogin is one of the out
of town contestants for the free trip to
the St. Louis fair, which has been
offered by the Evening Press, of Grand
Forks in popular voting contest for the
purpose of boosting its circulation. Miss
Gogins opponent is Miss Ruth Tassell,
of Larimore, each of the young ladies
have already over 1900 votes, with
Miss Tassell only thirty seven votes
ahead. The contest does not close until
June 3Oth and we look to see some sub
stantial gains in the vote cast by friends
of Miss Gogin, who will naturally take
pride in seeing Langdon win out.
Spring being little late it may be of
interest to know how late it is safe to
plant different crops without danger of
frost catching them. Consulting the
records of the Experiment station at
Fargo we find that the dates of last
killing frost in spring 1898 occurred
May IL; IN 1897, June Z: in 1900, May
8, 1899. May IL: in 1901, April %: 1894,
April Is. While the earliest killing
frost in 1898 occurred Sept. 8; in 1897,
Oct. 9; in 1900. Sept. Il: 1895, Sept. 30:
1901 Sept. 18: 1894, Sept. IL. So that
the average latest spring frost for seven
years was May 10. While the average
earliest killing frost for seven years was
September 12. This makes an average
of 136 days between killing frosts. This
is long enough to mature early varieties
of corn, and millet, either of which can
be matured in 100 days so that if the
seeding is little late there is time to
mature the crop. 1t will not do SO we'll
sown late though, as wheat especially
does best in cool weather. At any rate
the grains if sown later than May 25th
will run scme risk of being caught by
fall frost. When sown late the time
required for ripening is longer.
Five students of the Langdon high
school, Jno. Mcknight, Parnell O'Brien,
Horace Salter and Jos. Halloran will
participate in the annual inter-scholas-
tic athletic meet which is to be held
Saturday at the park grounds of the
state university at Grand Forks. The
boys have made twenty-three entries
altogether in the twelve events that
comprise the program of the day on the
track and field and may be expected to
give a good account of themselves.
Grand Forks is the only town that ex-
ceeds Langdon in its number of entries.
the state high school oratorical contest
which occurs tomorrow, Friday evening,
is another event at the Forks in which
Langdon will feel keen interest, hav-
ing candidate in the person of Miss
Belle McPhall, who with the repre-
sentatives of ten other high schools
over the state will strive for first hon
ors. The field day sports and oratorical
contest are events that have attracted
much attention from pupils of Lang
don's high school lately and many be-
sides the active participants are ex-
pected to accompany them to Grand
Forks tomorrow and give them such
encouragement as is possible to main
tain the honor of their town.