Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-01-31
GOSSIP and NOTES
Saturday is ground hog day.

slider the problem one of vital interest.
Railroad officials claim that there is a
hundred miles of snow drift between
Larimore and Minot which must be
ploughed through every day in order to
move trains.
The contractors having the job of
%excavatlng the big reservoir for the Ct.
Northern adjoining this city have been
blasting the frozen ground with dyna-
mite this week. 1t is frozen to a depth
of about four feet.
Lent begins on Wednesday, February
18th this year-a week from next
Wednesday. This will bring Easter on
Sunday, March 3lst. An early Easter
is supposed to bring an early spring and
so this spring should be early.
AS the Great. Northern had not
started out a train on this branch yes
terday a deal had been made by Lang
don people to have the letter mail for
this town transferred at Grand Forks
to the Walhalla train and brought over
land from that point by the stage mail.
w. H. Speckmann was down the line
Saturday from Dresden transacting
business and told us how a large num-
Der of the heads of families in that town
are sitting up late nights nova days
reading their bibles and teaching their
hard coal burners to eat, smokeless,
P~ocahantas, Ignite or Jim Hill soft
coal.
Five dead" engines, one at Langdon,
two at Hannah and two others at points
between Park River and Larimore, all
dead because they lacked water and
coal with which to make steam, was the
demoralized condition of traffic on this
branch of the ct. Northern during the
greater part of the past week, during
which we have been totally without
train service.
care WI going to have a train today?"is
the question that has taken the place of
the one that one was propounded of the
depot agent earlier in the winter, when
it was usual to merely ask How
late is the train?' Kicking about the
train being late is also out of date. Now
we are thankful and willing to wait any
length of time if there is only a likeli-
hood of it ever reaching here.
The First National Bank of Osnabrock
is rendered the apology of the DEMOCRAT
for an error in the published report last
week of the proceedings of the county
board meeting. by which it was made to
appear that the amount of their deposi-
tory bond was only $4,000, instead of
$4,000. The same apology is also ten
dered to the individual bondsmen, Messrs
Trotter, Tillisch, Paulson, Ellenson, and
Musgjerd.
In one of the Cando papers last week
a local item stated that a former ex-
Langdon resident, A. L.. Bradley, has re-
turned from Boulder Colo. where he
spent three weeks with his family who
are s%oiourning there. Link" reported
that his young son, Baker, has much i'm
proved in health generally since being
removed from Cando to the Colorado
springs. The weather he says is fine
down there, everybody going around in
their shirt sleeves.
Comrade Zach" Gordon, who left this
county five or six years ago for the
Canadian Northwest, is back again on
American soil, as shown by a letter
from Petersburg, Va, under date of
the goth inst. He sold his Saskatoon
farm and is back among the scenes OF
the civil war in Virginia and expects to
find the change an agreeable one after
many years spent in the far north. Mr.
Gordon and his family desire to be re.
m%embered to all of their old friends in
Langdon and vicinity.
On February 18th, one week from
next Monday, an election of the special
school district of the City of Langdon
will be held at the city hall, for the pur-
pose of voting on the bonding of the
district for the amount of $4,000, for the
purpose of retiring of $4,000 of maturing
bonds and the taking up of outstanding
warrants that represent $4,000. The
new bonds will only draw four per cent
while the old bonds and outstanding
warrants are drawing eight and seven
per cent respectively. 1t should there
fore readily suggest itself to the taz
payers of Langdon on the day Of election
that their own interests demand they
should turn out and vote in favor of the
bonds.
r. T. Kargel of Huron township re
turned last week Milbank, s. Oak, where
he went three weeks ago to attend the
annual business meeting of the Evan
gelical Insurance Co., which he has rep
resented as agent in this county for
number of years past. Down in South
DoI,oto lo coDorfc tho uyoathar warn