Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-08-27
Teachers examination tomorrow and
Saturday at Langdon and Munich.

-ooonoi eAanlnaIlon tomorrow and
Saturday at Langdon and Munich.
This week will complete harvesting of
all except late sown crops. Threshing
has started in earnest.
September lst-Tuesday of next week
is the opening of the hunting season for
prairie chickens. Have you got your
license?
Friday nights low temperature of $50
gave a bad scare to all with uncut crop,
Little if any actual damage, however
has been reported.
Wheat took a drop of eight cents this
week, the market went off three
cents Saturday from Sl.OO to 81 cents
and Monday went down another shimp
of five cents, leaving the top price for
wheat 80 cents.
Tuesday wheat took another drop of
two cents, making a slump of ten cents
in price since Saturday noon and bring
ing dollar wheat to 80 cents. The prices
of cash and September wheat are now
practically the same.
Thirty young boys and girls partlci-
pated in the first communion service held
Sunday morning at st. Alphonsus church
Following the service the young commu-
nicants were served with breakfast in
in the old church building.
Coal shipments to Langdon dealers
have been heavy the past couple of
weeks. The Atlas Lumber company
alone having shipped in upwards of $50
tons. Other dealers have coal in transit
that will fill their entire storage capacity
with a winters supply offuel. The out
look now is that Langdon is not likely
to see a repetition of the coal famine of
two winters ago-not this year at any
rate.
Three hundred licenses to hunt will
be issued to Cavalier county sportsmen
between now and September 1st. on
which date the chicken shooting season
opens. To date the number already
issued is 257 and the office of Co.
Auditor Power is busy trying to keep
pace with the demand for licenses.
From all over the county reports are
received that the number of chickens
seen is larger by far than in several
years past.
Ellenora, the second daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. William Shelley, we'll known
residents of Iona township, passed
peacefully away on Saturday forenoon Of
last week, The little one, aged five and
one half years had been critically ill only
a week, but had been ailing and enjoy,
ing but Indifferent health since the
opening of spring. The sympathy ex-
tended to the family in their bereave.
ment was shown by the large attendance
of friends at the funeral held Monday
forenoon from st. Alphonsus church.
Attorney +. w. Mclean, recently APP.
pointed by Governor Burke as a member
of the board of trustees of the state
agricultural college was at Fargo &
couple of days last week comforting with
President Worst and other members Of
the board relative to the new buildings
which are to be erected this fall on the
sub-experimental station here at Lang
don. Mr., Mclean brought back from
Fargo with him the accepted plans fol
the house, barn and other farm build
ings which will be figured on by con
tractors here. The bids will be opened
with as little delay as possible so as tt
get work started on their erection
President Worst is expected here from
Fargo this week to make a final in
spection of the site.
farm and Fire Insurance get low
est rates at the Mooney Stale Bdnl