Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-09

Wild oats.
A complete line of up to date hard
ware at right prices. Mercer & LAWN
Orders for soft water promptly de-
livered by r. B. Falconer, the water
man. Phone go.
Rev. Alexander Thompson, recently of
Princeton university, has accepted a call
to the passionate of the Presbyterian
church at Milton.
HI. E. Close, who some time g dis
posed of his drug business at Milton, is
understood to have decided to locate at
Harvey, N. d., on the 500.
The vote was SO to IS in favor of
bonds at the recent election at Sarles,
and now the $4,000 new school building
can be considered a sure thing.
Two young lady pedagogues, Misses
Katie and Olive Hewitt, graduates of
the Hannah school. start teaching this
spring in schools located in Langdon
township.
Clyde's new hospital is completed and
a trained nurse is in charge. These new
towns in the western part of the county
keep right along showing the older
towns now to do things.
Banker U. L. Burdick and family of
Munich narrowly escaped meeting death
through poisoning a week ago by eating
the contents of a can of stringed beans
that had been imperfectly sealed.
Hannah sports report that ducks and
geese donned skates when they arrived
at Rush Lake this spring. Consequent
ly the boys had little use for their hunt
ing permits, which expired May LIST.
Munich's band is not developing as
fast as some of the unsteady inclined
over that way would like to see it.
Possibly the b~ackwardness of spring
may have had something to do with this.
Western Cavalier county farmers are
finding help scarce this spring. Men
demanding $50 a month and board.
The Hannah Moon assigns the heavy
emigration to the Canadian Northwest
as the cause.
Calvin authorities have ordered the
slot machines to be taken out and the
boys expect 10Y to save up money and
back their base ball team, which they
consider to be one of the sure things
during the approaching season.
E.Ellenson and wife, we'll knownOsna-
brock people, are leaving the middle of
this month to spend part of the summer
visiting in Norway, where they have
relatives and a large number of old
friends whom they have not seen for
years.
In the justice court case of Henderson
vs.. Atchison, before Judge Templeton at
!, Hannah last week, the plaintiff failed to
, appear. The suit was brought as the
result of a disagreement over a wagon
deal and is now expected to come up for
trial in district cour next month.
The report of the secretary of the
state board of health for March shows
$40 deaths in the state, 1862 births and
263 casesof contagious disease. Ofthese
} Cavalier county makes a record of %
births, with nc deaths and no contagious
diseases. In Pembina county not a
single death or birth was reported.
The Banner township farm of Amund
johnson found a purchaser last week in
Andrew Shetland who paid $4,000 cash
r for it. 1t is only a few years ago that
Banner, was one of the unorganized
: townships and all vacant government
t land. This is what the new railroads
have done for the southwestern part OF
Cavalier county.
Wales this week bids good bye to DR.
L. w. Lynn, who is leaving there tc
locate in Colorado, after a short visit
with friends at Grand Forks. The pool
health that the doctor has experienced
since recovering from his long illness Of
typhoid fever, has resulted in his deter
mining to try what a change of climate
will DO for him.
Senator G. w. Plain was clear in the
lead of his competitors in the south enc
of the county in commencing seeding
this year, He had wheat sown on the
last day of April. Other farmers in the
western and southwestern part of the
county have got part of their crop in the
ground during the warmer days of the
past week.
The building which housed the famil,
of the Munich Herald Leader man dur
ing the past winter months is now doing
duty as a morgue for the undertaking
establishment of Yves. Mahon, who was
L%angdonite in the days before Munich
appeared on the county map. 1t is no
to be assumed, however, that Edito
Scott and his family are now domicilet
in the cemetery. The Herald is to live
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