Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-04
Local Happenings :

Fairdale is said to have sufficient
wheat to load 14O cars.
Do you want a copy of the new session
laws? Call up phone two-one and order
it-now.
If Langdon's interests are your in
forests be at the meeting to be held to-
morrow, Friday night at the Court
House.
Tomorrow, Friday eveningth the Chicago
Concert Quartette give a high class
musical and literary program at the
Opera House.
Quite a handsome donation was made
toward defraying the expenses of the
funeral of the victims of Mondays fire
by a number of travelling men who were
in the city Monday.
Abe Cranston, who for some time was
U. S. mail driver on the Stilwell route,
has bought the Jno, Walker property in
South Langdon and will fill a position
with Boyd & Holland.
Assistant Cashier j. H. Balm of the
First National had as broad a smile
Monday as any of our newly elect alder
men. 1t was all about that new arrival,
a pretty little baby girl at his home that
day.
d. b. Docksteader was another Lang
don citizen who had opportunity Mon
Gay to welcome a new arrival at his
home. This time it was a son that helps
to increase the population of north
Fourth street.
A. Schulke has an interesting an
nouncement to customers in his change
OF advertisement this week. Every
body dealing at his big department
store will now carefully ave their cash
register coupons.
The first meeting of the new city
council will be held on Monday evening
the 18th inst. The council meeting
held Tuesday evening at the city hall
was for the purpose of %canvassing the
vote cast at Mondays election.
On the first page we print the third of
a series of interesting letters written to
the DEMOCRAT by Banker w. j. Mooney,
who with a party of American tourists
is making a three months tour through
Egypt, Palestine and other historic
countries of the Orient.
Last night Langdon business men
and real estate dealers held a meeting
at Gordon & McIntyre's law offices to
arrange the preliminaries for the mass
meeting of citizens tomorrow night,
when the project for locating the sub
station of the state agricultural college
here.
The Langdon Woodman camp asks
all those who signed applications for
membership to be sure and be on hand
Monday night at the Opera House hall
for initiation. The class on that occasion
will be composed of upwards sixty
candidates.
ID. A. Pennock's many Langdon friends
will feel greatly relieved IN learning
that reports received within the past
day or two from Cheyenne Wells, Colo,
state that his attack of typhoid fever
has passed the danger point and that he
is now we'll along the road toward re-
covery.
The first day of April, or Monday of
this week, the work of the assessor be-
gan. 1t is the date On which the prop
erty of the tax payer becomes subject to
taxation. A condition particularly
noticeable this year is that for the first
time in a long while nearly all the ele.
vators have found themselves with more
grain on hand than they wanted to have
assessed.
"Walt" Gould, who a few years ago
was a we'll known Langdon boy, writes
in quite an interesting way from Battle
ford, Sask. He says that since leaving
here he has travelled considerable
through the Pacific coast country and
the Canadian Northwest. For nearly a
year past Walt has been holding down
good paying position with one of the b1e
firms in Battleford, but is expecting tc
move early this spring to Saskatoon
where he has a farm that he home
steaded soon after leaving Langdon
Out at Battleford he says there is
scarcely a day that passes but what he
meets people who have gone out there
from this part of the state. On thu
Wednesday of the week he wrote a part.
of ten homesteaders arrived from Crane
Forks. AS nearly rs he is able to judg'
from reports, the winter conditions Their
have been very similar to those ex
perieuced here. Now that spring i
opening they are looking for one of tn
biggest rushes Of q settlers that ha
ever headed into the Saskatchewan dis
trict. He has been there long enough
to have got the idea that it is the hes