Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-01-24
GOSSIP and NOTES

Mr.. Weather Man says the weather
is going to be moderate. When?
Langdon has a lid, and so far it ap-
parently fits tight enough to satisfy the
most exacting of "prohibs."
Train service? Well, there isn't any
to speak of on this branch of the CT.
Northern at the present time.
Twenty years ago wheat was selling
at 60 cents a bushel and coal S12 a ton.
1t was also a winter of unusually heavy
snow falls.
-Four columns of proceedings of the
board of county commissioners. the
balance of the report of the meeting
which closed Thursday of last week
takes up considerable news space IN this
issue.
Langdon people don't exactly appre-
bend that the blockade of train service
will end in their starvation and freezing
to death, but provisions in all lines are
running short, particularly sugar and
flour, in addition to fuel of all kinds.
Saturdays storm was the nearest ap-
proach to a North Dakota blizzard ex-
perienced here this winter, and those
who took the trouble to read the Jan
uary forecast of Hicks will note that he
had a bad storm of Just such character
dated for Saturday, January 10th.
Friday mornings freight which reliev-
ed L%angdon's fuel famiue to the extent
of seven cars of coal and a couple of
cars of wood had been six days in reach
ing here from Larimore. Considerable
of the delay was occassioned by part of
the train being derailed in attempting
to "buck" through snow drifted in the
cuts near Milton.
Reports from Weyburn, Sask., and
other points in the Saskatchewan re-
gion of the Canadian Northwest, state
that settlers in that COUNTRY are having
a time of hardships this winter. Govern
ment thermometers on the 10th inst,
registered 460 below zero and the snow
averages three and one-half feet deep on
the level. The severe winter there has
found many of the new settlers badly
prepared to withstand the rigor of such
weather.
The celebration of the anniversary of
the birth of Scotland's favorite poet,
Robert Burns, which had been planned
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society, to have taken place in this city
tomorrow, Friday evening, January 25th''
has been abandoned. Poor roads for
travel and the inability of outsiders to
reach Langdon by train are sufficient
reasons of the society for abandoning the
idea of giving our Scottish friends a
chance to spend =" a NIGHT wi Burns
Two partial eclipses of the moon will
be witnessed by Langdon people in the
year 1907, n coming mex week. on
Tuesday, January Doth. The second
will occur in the middle of the summer
on July 26th. The exact time at which
the January eclipse can be seen has
been given out. The moon will first
begin to go into the shadow at Cos in
the morning, SO that the passing of a
shadow from the moon will not be visible
There will be four eclipses this year, two
of the sun and two of the moon. The
partial eclipse of the moon seen here,
July "a, will begin at 8 o'clock in the
evening.
Last nights attraction at the Opera
House, the pictorial play OF Hiawatha.
was compelled to cancel It's date here
owing to the irregular train service
caused by snow blockaded traffic. The
Grows, it is learned closed their winter
season prematurely at Larimore after
concluding their engagement here. All
theatrical companies on the road this
winter are finding the season one of
disaster, financially. Manager Finerty
is expecting that few if any of the shows
he has billed to play here during the
balance of the winter will be able to fill
their engagements.
The Langdon band may disband. The
idea of retiring from business has been
under consideration by the band boys
since learning the action of the city
council at its last meeting when the an
nual appropriation of the band wa cut
from $500 to $3.50. The soreness on the
part of the band boys toward the city
authorities has been intensified by
the fact that the present administration
at the time of the spring election is
understood as having gone on record on
this question. The money the band has
been receiving yearly from the city has
been devoted to the purpose of instruc.
tion for the band. The boys pay their
own personal expenses out of engage.
ments to play. The band is not asalari,
ed organization and the members have
; between 81 200 and $1,000 invested in
instruments, uniforms, music, etc., all
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