Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-09-10
Seven weeks from next Tuesday,
md and election day will be here.

Seven weeks from next tuesday, NOV.
End and election day will be here.
Monday the offices at the court house,
the banks and the post Office we're closed
in observance of Labor Day-a legal
holiday.
With the thermometers registering
$50 and $50 on Monday and Tuesday,
real summer heat has been experienced
this week.
II. L. Parker, who has been engaged
as principal OF the high school for the
present school year, came down from
Dresden Saturday.
H. o. Storlie, clerk OF the district
,urt is back at the court house after a
Sen days stay in the southwestern part
of the county look after the threshing of
crops on his farm.
Arthur Foster was a passenger north
Friday to Wales, returning from a trip
east where he interested eastern buyers
in lands offered for sale by the Cavalier
Co. immigration association.
sProf" Thos. Little, who a year or so
ago played here with the Langdon band
and orchestra and was an accomplished
clarinetist is now at Park River, where
he has a music class and does piano
tuning.
Travelling Agent Arthur Foster of the
Cavalier Co. immigration association
went east on Tuesdays afternoon Itrain.
His destination was Leroy, ILL.,, and Mr..
Foster took along with him some fine
specimens of the county's 1908 grain
crop for the investigation of prospective
land buyers.
These days the harvest hands and
~threshermen are the lords of creation
Since the score or more of machines
operating in the vicinity of Langdon got
a good start with the fine weather of a
week or so ago, there is no longer a
surplus of men around town seeking
work and all coming IN On the trains are
engaged almost before they step onto
the depot platform. Tuesday five men
we're taken out to Hugh McDowalls in
J. McLauchlin's auto.
julie f. Switzer, familiarly known by
the playgoing public of Langdon, and il
fact over the state as "Old Switzer," is
dead. He had been an actor for up
wards thirty years, the past quarter of
century having been spent with "The
Crows Mr.. Switzer died on Septembel
LIST after a months illness at the homo
in Ray, n. D., of J. Earle Darlington
his associate in the theatrical business
He was in his tifty-sixth year and il
survived by a wife and their young sol
Max. The remains we're shipped t.
What Cheer, Ia, for interment. NJ
more popular or better known actor eve
appeared before the public in thi
locality, and his personal friends, t.
whom he was known as "Old Switzer,
are legion.
DR.. E. I. Donovan and Co. Auditor Jos
Power made an automobile trip Tuesda.
out north to Bac where d private eleva
tor is being built and townsite plated
This is the point at which the Canadian
Pacific railroad is building a spur acros
to the Cavalier county side of the boun
dairy line from Mowbray, Man, for th'
purpose of shipping grain under bond t.
Fort William, the 9. r. R'y terminal a
the head of the lakes. The first move
ment in starting a town at BAG is th
putting up of a private elevator. Alarg
general store is another projected enter
prise that is assured. The elevator it i
undertood will be in charge of Mr.. BY
field, formerly a we'll known grain buye
at Dresden.
Farm and Fire Insurance get Tow
est rates at the Mooney State Ban