Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-14
st. Patrick's day, March 18th, this

st. Patrick's day, March 18th, this
year falls or Sunday.
Ten teachers from the vicinity of
Osnabrock wrote at the examination in
Milton last week.
Osnabrock will take up the question
of fire protection at its village election,
which is held next Tuesday.
Send in your orders at once for the
new session laws. The price is only 81
acopy and It's a book that will be worth
twice that amount of money to you.
No n passing along Third street
this week overlooks stopping to admire
the Hastily arranged Easter display of
iewelry in the show window at the
Donovan drug store.
The principal activity in the grain
market during the past week has been
the shipment of considerable barley.
The best samples of which have sold
here az high as Sc cents a bushel.
The monthly report of the city schools
published this week shows the best all
round general attendance of any report
made during the present winter term
The present total enrolment is 346.
The Maccabees will meet on the first
and third Thursdays of each month in
the Forester Hall over the Ferguson
restaurant. Members of the order will
please note the change in place of meet
iag.
Township elections next Tuesday,
March 10th and the city election for the
election of aldermen follows on Tuesday
April lst-the fact that the latter is All
Fools Day is not supposed to carry any
especial significance.
City improvement and progress is
something we'll worth while talking
about with the advent of springtime,
and we commend to every Langdon
reader some facts of vital import con-
tanned in a leading article on our
editorial page under the caption of
"Langdon's Future Welfare.
The present dangerous and slippery
condition of the sidewalks and crossings
around town require the attention of
property owners and the street com
missioner pretty frequently nowadays,
with the milder and more spring like
weather lately experienced. Several
parties have met with bad falls during
the week.
Nj. T.. Hummer returned Tuesday to
Cold Springs, Mimi, where he has held a
position as book keeper with a brewing
company since leaving here last fall.
While he was here he disposed of the
Ackechnie property on Sixth street, to
Dr.. w. w. Mcqueen. The DR.. and
Mrs. Mcqueen expect to move into
their new home in about a month.
M. Rabenovitz is back again at the G.
Chisholm general store after an absence
of a month, during which he visited his
family in Minneapolis and made a trip
to Cheyenne Wells, and other points in
Colorado, looking over land with the
intention of buying if suited. He came
home without investing, the fact inn
pressing him most being that the lands
that are OF any good at all are in the
hands of the Spectators.
j. S. Gogin of Osnabrock. had quite a
lengthy article in a recent issue of the
Fargo Forum showing how the farmers
of North Dakota could make quite a
valuable saving in their fuel bill by burn
ing in their stoves the screenings of
the wheat, oats, barley and other grain
crops. The foul seeds that every fall
are burned at the threstling settings,
have been found by Mr.. Gogin to make
a hot, lasting and economical fuel during
the coal famine of the past winter.
The management of the Opera House
announces that the Chicago Concert
Co., are booked for a performance here
on Saturday night of next week, March
23rd. This IS one of the attractions
secured through the Columbian Lyceum
Bureau, which has a high reputation for
sending out nothing but first class
musical and literary entertaining com
panies. Their photographic and other
advertising paper will be posted and
distributed around town in a day OF
two.
Osnabrock suffered another heavy
loss OF property by fire on Friday even
ing of last week when the CT. Northern
Hotel and residence property owned
by w. j. Storie were destroyed by fire
as the result of the explosion of a lamp
in a room of the hotel annex, which at
present is being run as a restaurant
The loss is confined almost entirely tc
the buildings destroyed as much of the
furniture and household effects had
been removed from the hotel by Land.