Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-01-17
GOSSIP and NOTES

The Late Northern is what Langdon
people call Jim Hills trains nowadays.
Hannah ice rink has a skating carni-
val billed for Friday of next week, the
25th inst.
Lack of railroad transportation facili-
ties has compelled the Milton -four mill
to shut down.
Langdon's hockey team plays a return
game at Park River just as soon as the
train service will allow.
Langdon schools show an enrolment
of 332 pupils, an increase of q over the
report of last month.
The ladies guild of the Presbyterian
church, meets tomorrow: Friday, after
moo at the home of Mrs. Peter Reid.
A mid.winter improvement at Hannah
is the rebuilding of the CT. Northern
round house, recently destroyed by
fire.
The lid is on at Sarles and a number
of arrests have been made for operating
gambling devices contrary to city
ordinance.
Monday morning 270 below zero and
Tuesday 81 mark the record for cold
weather since the beginning of the
New Year.
Langdon got seven cars of coal Fri
day night. 1t cam in mighty handy
preparatory to the cold spell of zero
weather which set in Monday.
Coal hauled from Sarles and Wales
is all that helped to keep Hannah warm
last week. Towns across the line in
Manitoba are also reported as experience
ing a fuel famine.
The town of Gallo on the 500 has
added one to its population since the
beginning of the year 1907. A Ia pound
boy was born to Mr.. and Mrs. II. Raster
of that place on Tuesday, Jan'y Sth.
The Woodmen order added twenty-six
to it's membership at Milton last week.
Camps at Fairdale aud Osnabrock
participated. The new lodge hall in
Senator Plains concrete block being
used for the first time.
Langdon readers are requested to
note the call for a special school election
to be held for the purpose of bonding
Langdon city school district for the our
pose of refunding maturing bonds and
meeting other outstanding indebted
ness.
The boss of the colored vote in Hen
derson township, who has put in the
winter so far in setting up pins in a
bowling alley at Munich, the other
day got into a muscular alteration
with a party of players-got the worst of
it and was arrested. He got legal adj
vice secured a jury trial and was ad-
judged not guilty, The case is said to
have resulted in helping to kill the
monotony if nothing else.
500 railroad officials at the company's
headquarters IN st. Paul have been
given notice by the government de-
partment at Washington that their line
running between Thief River Falls,
Mimi, and Kenmare, n. D, must be
opened at once and kept open. No
passenger or freight trains have gone
over that line for three weeks. The
towns of Nekoma, Iona, Alsen and
Gallo, in the south western part of this
county and on this line, are short of
provisions and fuel.
Letters from the Mt. Carmel rarity of
Canadian excursionists, who are spend
ing the winter at their old homes in the
neighborhood of Formosa, Ont, report
them as enjoying what is known as a
greenChristmas. No snow on the ground
but instead they have occasional rains
followed by light frosts. Fall sown
wheat is up and gives the field quite a
green appearance. There has been very
little sleighing down there. All O
which is very different to what has beer
experienced here with over four feet Of
snow on the prairie and roads almost
impossible for travel.
"Hannah's Pride -four takes the lead