Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-12-28
Rye -four at Parsons.

~When you buy a SACK OF hour buy the
best. "Hannah's Pride" is guaranteed.
We have a large, and we'll selected
stock of toys. At MERGERS fruit and
candy store,
Cashier Henry Baker and wife drove
over from Irene for a Christmas day
visit with their Langdon friends.
Improved and decided land less than
down and half-crops. Cheaper
than state land. e. A. Wadsworth.
Rev. Father Bacher that
mass will be celebrated at Wales next
Sunday in the forenoon at ten o'clock.
There were only three deaths in North
Dakota this year among the D. of H.
memberships most remarkably low
death rate.
George Holmes, n of the pioneers of
Henderson township recently sold his
farm near Munich and will remove with
his family to Battleford, Sask.
Mr.. ]. Stuart Black left yesterday for
a business trip east, expecting to spend
considerable of the time during his alb
sence in Quebec and New York.
If you are thinking of making a first
mortgage real estate loan and want to
get cheap money at a low rate of interest
see the First State Bank of Easily.
Cheaper than state land! Improved
farm near Clyde, buildings and we'll,
$500, half-crop payments 6 per cent, no
cash payment required, d. A. Wadsworth
DR.. E. I. Donovan and son Eddie left
last week in company with Miss Louise
Donovan for a visit during the holidays
at the ~latter's home in Sturgeon Bay
Ont.
VIM. Heapy, son of County Com'r
Heapy will leave next week for Fargo,
entering the state agricultural college
at the commencement of the mid-winter
term.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. B. Price, who have
been here visiting with the families of
the sons, Geo. w. and H. j. Price left
today returning to their home in st.
James, Minnesota.
Messrs. Plummer & McNiven have the
contract for replacing the large heating
plant in the Opera House block. They
expect to have the furnace in readi-
ness for operation by the end of the
| week.
The Fitterman Bros, who moved to
Munich after operating a store at Wales
for some little time are closing out the
balance of their stock in Irene.
Auctioneer Wienecke is conducting the
sale.
Jas. Stevenson arrived Friday from
Saskatoon, N. W. T., and is making a
couple of weeks visit at the home of his
uncle and brother. He is expecting to
continue his trip east before returning
home.
Chief Da~yolneasala, the full blooded
Mohawk Indian healer is here giving
ten cen performances and selling
medicine this week at st. Alphonsus
Hall. The show put up by the company
has been drawing good houses since
opening Tuesday night.
Postmaster George Swinburn, of
Wales, is reported as having been very
seriously i'll with pneumonia all week
He suffered a relapse resulting from ex-
posture at the time of the fire early last
Saturday morning, when the postoffice
and considerable of the business por-
ton of Wales suffered in a confagration
bringing a loss of several thousand dol
lars.
A. I. Birtch, a Langdon man and wideE
ly known Cavalier county resident, who
for the past five years has been actively
identified with the sale of Canadian
Northwest and Manitoba lands to North
Dakota people, is this week concluding
arrangements that will necessitate his
leaving here for Springfield, Illinois
where he has accepted the general ma
nagement of the Illinois business of the
Saskatchewan Valley and Manitobs
Land Cos, business. Mr.. Birtch ha;
one OF the best positions obtainable witt
the company aud will have a score o.
more of subordinate representatives O
the company working under his direc
lions. 1t will be some time yet before
Mr.. Birtch's family will be leaving Lang
don for their new home in Springfield
but the announcement of their intended
departure will be received with regre
by friends who have known them since
a residence here which date back tt
1882.