Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-08-10

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Sunday. July Both, Mrs J. Kelland
presented her husband with fine little |
baby daughter Of the regulation weight |
DR.. W. II. Porter went down the line
last week to purchase the stock Of drugs
for the new store he is putting in at
Calvin.
Mayor Mercer and family We're Sun
day visitors over at Walhalla where they |
report having put in a delightful time
at Mayors grove
Ronald Martin and family went
through town last week from Dresden
to Walhalla where they are spending a
few daysln camp.
Mrs. w. B. Gordon returned home last
week from visit of month with rela-
tives and former neighbors near Cavalier
in Pembina county.
Parnell O'Brien went up the line to
Dresden last week where he will hold
down a clerkship in the State Bank of
; Dresden under Cashier Hodgins.
w. j. Malone returns this week from
; the Northwest Territories and will re-
; main through the fall looking after har
vesting of his Huron township crop,
which is now located nearby the Great
: Northern new extension.
Norman Macdonald closed the deal
this week for the lease of the store build
ing at present occupied by H. D. Par
sons feed and -four store. He an
: nounces his intention of opening up a
!. meat market about the first of Sept
!. ember.
!. Matt Schneider brought a fine bunch
!. of fax measuring over three feet in
] length; from his Perry township farm
!. last Saturday. He has large field of
!. it which will be ready to cut in couple
!. of weeks. The crop was only sown June
!. lst and is one of the finest to be found
!. in this part of the county.
I Langdon's junior ball nine were the
!. vctors in a couple of closely contested
!: games played here Monday with the
! junior aggregation from Osnabrock.
!. The boys have been successful in win
: ming a large percentage of the games
! they have played with the surrounding
: towns since the opening of the season.
! Tomorrow afternoon the local ball
!. team will cross bats with the boys from
!. Crystal, the latter coming here to play
off the tie game. Crystal won game
: from Langdon when our boys were
n down the line last week after losing one
here few days previous so that the
e game tomorrow afternoon ought to be
O we'll worth the price of admission at the
gate.
r News reached Langdon at about half
g past nine o'clock last night of a shooting
). affair at Munich in which it is likely
i that one of the parties received fatal in
h juries The information was brought to
+ town by Banker Z. L. Burdick. who
n came overin his automobile. accompanied
by Jno. r. Mahon to inform the authori-
e ties of what happened. The party was
+ accompanied on their return by States
# Attorney Price and Sheriff Reid, who
!. will proceed with preliminary hearing
+ and take charge of the parties implicat-
4 ed 1t has not been possible up to the
a hour of going to press to secure even
8 the bare facts although it is not now
considered that there are grounds for
the first impression formed that the
u event at Munich will add another
l. murder case to the catalog of crime in
! Cavalier county. The general coniec-
= ture is that it is bad shooting scrape
: with the scene of the crime laid in o"e of
: the numerous blind pig resorts of that
l town.
< Yesterday afternoon with the thermo-
meter registering S5 degrees in the shade
the lawyers of Langdon won five inn
; ing game of ball from nine made up
Il of the court house officials by a score of
L 7 to 1. The game may not have been
. made up of the glttering plays which
!. the fans at II professional game would
u glory to watch. but it was the good old
. fashioned style of base ball in which
) everything went with a zeal which
; showed that both sides We're playing to
WIN.
n Lawyers A. II. Wheeler pitcher F.
y e. Smith, catcher: Jos. Cleary, LIST base:
Il e. H. Gordon, 2nd base: G. E. Johnston,
3rd base; G. McCay, short stop: G. H.
+" Moellring, right tield: w. b. Dickson,
a center field: p q. Johnson. left field
II Court House Will Farrell, pitcher:
q Frank McGauvran, catcher; Correll
~ Shaw lst base: Allan Pinkerton. 2nd
y base: George Dunnigan. 3rd base: f. W.
k BlsaNley. short stop; Peter Reid. right
If field; JOS. Power center field: H. O.
- Storlie. left field.
- The score:
:, , Lawyers, rs,.,.........,,.3 0 0 0 7
III 1 ,