Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-21
:: Local Happenings :

Sarles is agitating the question of
organizing a band.
A $4,000 school house will be built at
Sarles this summer.
Up at Hannah the town board of
health have four cases of small pox
Iuarantined.
Milton school board at a meeting last
week're 70 elected all of its staff of teachers
for another year.
The CT. Northern agent at Munich
quits his job to tax a position with one
of the banks of that town.
Money always on hand for first and
second mortgage loans on Cavalier
county lands. Best of rates and con
ditions. o. E. Thompson, cashier.
d. L. Dutton and family are leaving
their Cavalier county home near Clyde
this week for Seattle. The buttons
numbered among the first to take up
land in the western part of this county
back in the early days.
Bruce township called a special meet
ing for Saturday the 9th, inst, at which
it was unanimously agreed to issue
bonds for building a new school house
at Clyde this spring. Bonds are certain
to carry without a dissenting vote.
The observance of st. Patrick's day
this year was largely confined to wearing
g knot of green ribbon and going to
church. st. Patrick was not one of
those fun-loving, rollicking Irishmen that
many of his present day ardent admirers
would have you believe anyway.
Tuesdays bad weather would natural
Iy tend toward a light vote at the town
ship elections, especially in precincts
where there was no opposition ticket in
the field. The same cause doubtlessly
had something to do with the delay in
the arrival of returns of the election
The new teacher of the second inter
mediate room of the city schools is Miss
Grace Iddings, who succeeds Miss
Louise Nelson as teacher. Mrs. L. II.
Devaney has been acting as substitute
teacher during the two months that
have elapsed since Miss Nelson tender
ed her resignation.
Mondays stormy weather brought the
prediction of Jim Reed, the local weather
prophet here a few hours ahead of
schedule time. Jim isn't altogether
furnishing a made to order sample of
weather lately, but it will be generally
admitted that he has scored a few bulls
eyes and several ringers.
Fairdale, Nekoma and Iona, along
with other 500 line towns, are again
getting their mail by star route service,
from towns on the ct. Northern, as that
road has once more been compelled to
abandon its train service. Residents
through that part of the county have
given up hope of traffic being resumed
before spring.
Supt. r. Heyward: Our first primary
teacher, Miss Leta V. Gilman, will form
a class next Monday, March 25th, for
pupils who are six years of age and who
have not attend school as yet, or who
have attended a short time only. All
such pupils are requested to come next
Monday, if possible, for those entering
lster will do so at a disadvantage.
The new end-town of Sarles, in the
western part of the county, can be de-
pended upon to furnish a base ball team
in case that the "fans" conclude there is
any possibility of a Cavalier county
league being organized this season.
Now is the time for other county towns
to fall into line with pennant winning
teams to play the national game this
summer.
Saturday evening the Chicago Con.
cert Trio will present a high class pro.
gram at the Opera House as the fourth
number of the Lyceum course. This
number is substituted for the Beilharz
company that could not reach this city
for their date in February. 1t is a high
class attraction. The program will con
sist of musical numbers, duets, solos arc
trios in vocal music and violin solos anc
readings. Mention was made of this
last week and since issuing that paper
the advertising matter for this event ha:
arrived and the company is highly re
commended by the press and by thu
people of the towns where they hav'
appeared. Do not miss it if you appre
= ciate a high class musical entertain
gment.
Tuesday night about eleven o'cloc
fire was discovered in the vacant hous
in South Langdon owned by Mrs. Nelli
Flynn that if not gotten under contre
in it's incipient stage would have 500
threatened the destruction of mucl
other valuable residence property i
that part of the CITY. The building.