Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-07-16


the Boston bloomers to the tune of 4 to l.
The Boundary Telephone Co., is
building a line across the boundary line
at Hannah to connect with the Canadian
side.
Wheat was headed out in the vicinity
of Calvin on July 10th and farmers
there expect to start cutting their crop
by August 18th.
John Dobbie left Nekoma Saturday
for Northwestern Canada where he will
look over the country with a view of
locating or investing up there.
j. w. David and wife, we'll known
residents Of the Daniels settlement are
making a trip to last several weeks
through the Canadian Northwest.
Milton still is in line for a bumper
crop even if Jupiter Pluvius has been
away on a vacation since the first of
July. At least so says the Milton Globe.
Senator G. w. Plain of Milton wishes
to contradict the report that he will put
a department store in the new brick
block he is erecting at Milton this
summer.
George McComb, one of the progress
sive old timers who have made good at
farming in the south end of this county
is back from Alberta, Canada, where he
is now living, renewing acquaintance.
Ed. Matchan, who has been doing
relief work at the CT. Northern depot
this week during the absence of Baggage
Master Hytson, leaves here to take
temporary charge of the depot at Wales.
The six Cavalier county base ball
teams competing in the tournament held
two days this week at Milton and which
closed yesterday were Langdon, Cava-
lier, Fairdale, Milton, Osford and East
Alma.
Gallo this week reports the organiza-
ton of a large cooperative supply store.
Its members, some seventy in number,
are mainly farmers. They met this
week to organize and to choose directors
and business will begin soon.
Milton won a game from Osnabrock
last week with a score of 10 to 4 and
still finds grounds upon which to kick
on the fairness of the umpire, whose
decisions are said to have been so rank
you could have seen the smoke.
TIE daughter of Jas. Heating, who
lives between Iona and Langdon got a
bullet through her leg from a rifle in the
hands of a careless young We
understand that she is getting along
nicely, but it might easily have been
| worse.
Editor Rishoff, was down at Buxton on
the Fourth, where he played with the
local ball team against Hillsboro. The
Milton Globe editor shows a willingness
to put the same enthusiasm into the
national game that he did into politics
awhile ago.
The directors of che Northern Dakota
railway reports everything to be pro-
crossing nicely. Seventy per cent of the
grading on the q miles of line from Ed
inburg to the cement mines has been
done and a good deal of the material is
at hand there to complete the line. The
directors are sure the road will be COM
pleted by September l.
JIG. Penner of Munich, has returned
from Saskatchewan, and bought back
the farm in Henderson township he sold
about a year ago. Nothing can say
palmer than this does that Cavalier
county is still able to give cards and
spades to the Canadian Northwest and
those who can. and have the money
with which to do it, are coming back as
fast as they can get here.
Mrs. VIM. Smith, of Beaulieu, sustain
ed a peculiar and distressing accident
recently. She started to go down cellar
and someway fell, how, she does not
know. In trying to save herself she
threw both hands forward and lit on
both forearms, and being a very heavy
woman, she dislocated both shoulders.
She also received q semicircular scalp
wound on top Of the Observation-Disclosures.
The Walhalla Farmers Cooperative
Co., has decided to erect an elevator
during the summer. A cleaner and
feed chopper will be installed and the
grain received cleaned Immediately,
Farmers will receive a grain ticket for
the net weight of cleaned grain and will
also receive the foul seeds and dirt in
the shape of chopped feed. The com
pany has been carrying on a mercantile
business during the year and has done a
very profitable business.
Monday night last week a horse thief
entered the pasture of John Ems, whose
farm is near Munich and took two horses,
leaving in their place a team he had
stolen at Grand Forks the Saturday