Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-02-07
GOSSIP and NOTES

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Sarles is taking steps for the ~organiza-
ton of a Masonic lodge.
Munich's creamery is beginning to get
things into shape for a big seasons bust
ness.
Sunday, Feb'y 3, 1907, at eight o'clock
a. M, $50 below zero. Is that what YOU
call a February thaw?
st. Valentines Day, the 14th inst, is
the date of an elaborate ball planned by
the Woodmen at Sarles.
Edmore has a potato famine and until
the corner on the market is broken
''spuds' are quoted at 50 a bushel.
The city schools are taking an enforc-
ed vacation this week owing to the fuel
problem, there being no coal or hand
with which to operate the heating plant.
Two train crews were snowbound at
Union for a whole week and almost ate
the people in that town out of house and
home.
Next Wednesday Langdon people will
end their festivities it being the first
day of the Lenten PERIOD of forty peni-
tential days.
Citizens of Sarles we're in terrible
straits for coal last week until the CT.
Northern divided up two cars among
those in need.
The Osnabrock school house had a
narrow escape from fire a few days ago.
The furnace became overheated. ignitlng
the beams of the floor.
The fuel famine is responsible for a
story in the Milton paper that poplar
wood was selling here in Langdon at
$3.50 a cord last week.
Hannah felt that the last link connect
ing it with the outside world had broken
when its long distance telephone line
went out of business a few days ago.
The CT. Northern express company is
making a special low rate on shipments
of provisions owing to the inability of
freight trains to break the existing
blockade in traffic.
Langdons hockey team had engaged
to cross sticks with the club UP at
Hannah last Tuesday, but was COMPEL
ed to postpone the date owing to the
irregular train service.
Near Milton there is reported to be
several inches of open water in the
coulies under the immense drifts of
heavy snow. Teams get mired in the
mud as in the spring, the ground hardly
being frozen.
Fairdale is better off for fuel than
many of the towns to the west on the
500 line, there being several cars of coal
on the track consigned to western
points But as spring is still a long way
off there is considerable un~easiness
among Fairdale people.
The CT. Northern is unable to operate
it's rotary snowplows on this branch be-
cause many of the depot platforms are
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a month ago a rotary pillow was started
up the line, but only got as far as Ink
ster, where it ripped the depot platform
into shreds.
Walhalla has been acting as distri-
buting point for Langdon and Offices
north of there in Cavalier county, a
part of the past week. Tuesday morn
ing about half a tor of mail was sent
across under Contractor Gillies' charge,
while a couple of hundred pounds were
received from Langdon alone on one &C.
casion.-Walhalla Mountaineer.
Snow blockades are not altogether
confined to this side of the line. The
Mowbray branch of the G. p. r. in
Manitoba, running from Snowflake to
Larivere has been put out of business
by the storms of the past month. No
trains have been running for ten days
n there are four engines reported as
being dead and buried or off of the
track.
The passenger train derailed at Han
nah on Jan'y 10Th, went south yesterday
morning after having been eighteen
days out of Grand Forks. The train
was got back on the track last week.
The coaches, mail car and other equip
ment have been sidetracked at Dresden
until the line was cleared through to
Larimore, The engine was damaged to
an extent that will necessitate repairs
before it can be operated again.
Evidently this winters fuel famine is
not confined to the snow bound North
western States. Letters from Los
Angeles, and San Francisco, say that
coal is selling for $18 per ton and oak
wood SIG per cord there this winter.
Residents out there, however, don't have
the mercury in their thermometers bob
bling from 800 to 4O0 below zero during
cold spells lasting from a week to ten
days without a let-up.