Courier Democrat., 1904-09-08
Gossip and Notes.

School opens next Monday.
More rain-and not needed.
There's bountiful supply of harvest
hands this fall.
A few days more and the fax crop
will be safe from FROST
Mondays top price for cash wheat on
the local market was s1.0015.
Mondays heavy rain interfered with
harvesting operations until yesterday.
Did you get your hunting permit :?
Your dog and gun won't be much good
to you without it.
The state university at Grand Forks
reopens for the fall and winter term
Tuesday, September Goth.
A trick bicyclist gave an exhibition
on Third street Thursday afternoon and
evening and had large audiences.
The shortening days and falling
leaves from the trees tell us how rap
idly the summer season is fading away.
Langdon hunters complain that the
large portion of uncut grain over the
county makes chicken shooting almost
impracticable.
Langdon is agog with excitement this
week with the escapades of the horse
thief. Sheriff Pinkerton has been hot
on his trail since Saturday morning.
Co. Auditor Work has issued upwards
of 39l hunting permits. This is quite a
visible growth in the tribe of hunters
since the issuing of permits to hunt
went into effect in 1902.
The DEMOCRAT would like to have
regular correspondents at Dresden,
Olga and Mt. Carmel. Can'twe have a
volunteer? Start in by sending some
items for next weeks issue.
If you own or expect to operate a
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.
Where's Carrie ? Milton is opening
up its second bowling alley this week.
The bowling habit appears to be grow
ing but, if maintained without the long
thirst and short bottle attachments
should be perfectly all right.
Threshers IN Weber, Storlie and
Trier have started pounding out
wheat-and we receive reports of
eighteen to twenty four bushels to the
acre averages. This doesn't seem to in
dicate that the crops have been visited
by rust-not much.
Farmers will be interested in the new
wheat grades adopted by the elevators
for the handling of this years crop.
The elevator companies agreed upon the
new schedule after passing upon the
earlier shipped samples of the crop from
south half of the state
A member of the surveying party on
the Edmore railway extension was in
town Saturday and stated that he
thought the road would be built as far
as Klein this year. A crew of men are
in camp near Klein and expect to go to
work on the grade. Land for the right
of way is being bought at prices ranging
! from $40 to $50 per acre.-Starkweathe
| Times.
The DEMOCRAT is in receipt of circu-
lar from the Great Northern railroad
in which it advises the farmers to stack
their grain and to plow frebreaks.
Stacking of grain preserves it from the
effects of unfavorable fall weather, and
gives the man who stacks his grain q
chance to do more and better fall plow-
ing. The blowing Of firebreaks is al
ways good idea, especially in year
like this when the vegetation has been
80 rank.
The call is issued for the democratic
county nominating convention, to be
held in Langdon, on Tuesday, Sept.
9th. The Eighteenth legislative con-
vention meets ct the same place and
date at a later hour. The Fortieth
district holds it's legislative convention
ut Osnabrock on Wednesday, the 18th.
The caucuses for both legislative and
county conventions will be held in the
various voting precincts on Saturday
evening, the 34th inst. Township COM
mitteemen should start in early to make
ure that the representation from their
precincts isi properly taken oare Of.