Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-06-04
COMING EVENTS.

May 25-Meeting of County Commissioners
May 27-Teachers' Examination
May 30-Patriotic Juvenile Entertainment.
June ANNUAL School Election.
June 24-Primary Election
July democratic National Convention.
Read the DEMOCRAT and get the news.
Three weeks more and the primaries
will be over with.
Wear sox guaranteed six months. Get
them at Simon Schefter's.
Merchant John Trotter from Osna-
brock transacted business in the city on
Monday between trains.
Miss Luella Betchel is a visitor in the
city for a few days at the home of her
aunt, Mrs. Frank Moran, this week.
The grounds surrounding the Presby-
terrain church are being filed in and
seeded down with lawn grass this week
The past week the interior of the old
city hall has been undergoing a change
which considerably improves its appear
:ance.
The third and seventh pages contain
the proceedings of the meeting of the
board of county commissioners held last
week.
Robert Slater returned to the city on
Monday from Williston, where he has
been spending a couple of weeks visiting
with his family.
Martin G. Olson and wife were IN the
city Monday from Hannah, in their new
automobile going north from here to
Elkwood for a short visit.
E. A. Wadsworth the land manleft on
Monday for points in Iowa and Illinois,
expecting to be away about two weeks
looking after the interests of his real es-
tate business.
Mrs. McGrath and the children we're
visitors a few days last week in the city
with her parents, Postmaster and Mrs.
John McGauvran. returning Monday to
her home at Hannah.
Carnival prices and a whole lot of
other matter of more than usual interest
to bargain buyers will be found in the
'half-page advertisement of the Schulke
Department Store this week.
Elsewhere in this issue the board OF
county commissioners advertise for
tenders to build five bridges in the
eastern part of the county, the contracts
for which will be let at the July meet
ing.
School reports for the present month,
which closes the term, are unavoidably
crowded out owing to the big batch of
county commissioner proceedings which
take up seven columns of space this
week. They will appear in next weeks
issue.
Miss Lucy Burgess and Miss Sue Dig
by, teachers of the city schools left Mon.
day for the summer vacation. Miss Sue
Digby intends to put in the holidays on
her homestead in the Mandan land dis.
trict and does not return here to teach
in the fall.
Mr.. j. S. Braytield, a lay reader of the
Episcopal church from Manitoba, who
is being placed IN charge of mission work
in the Cavalier county field by Bishop
Mann will meet the congregation of the
Langdon church for the first time at the
services held here Sunday.
The city council at a meeting hele
last night decided to advertise for bids
for the construction of a culvert bridge
across the coulie at the west end Of
Spruce street. 1t being decided tha1
the old bridge is no longer in a safe
condition. The improvement will cos
in the neighborhood of 500.
The next regular meeting of the Lang
don Woman's club will be held Thurs.
day afternoon June 18th, instead OF
Tuesday, the usual day of meeting, the
hostess being Mrs. j. G. Dickson. AS
it is the annual business meeting a
full attendance of the members is re-
quested. Miss Lucy A. Gordon, Secre
tary.