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

Friday evenings open air concert was
a cracker jack, but out in the country
the farmers we're waiting for achance to
say that it rained to beat the band.
The proceedings of the county can
wasting board published this week con-
tains a complete abstract of the party
vote cast for every candidate on the
ballots at the primary election. A list
of precinct committeeman is also includ-
ed and should be filed away for future
reference.
The North Dakota state fair opens
Monday at Fargo, continuing through
out the remainder of the week. In
addition to a number of visitors from
here it is understood that quite an ex-
hibit of Cavalier county's agricultural
resources is being made under the
direction of the Immigration a%ssocia-
ton.
The half-inch rain yesterday broke a
drouth continuing from the 21st day of
June until July 18th, period of twenty
three days. Much relief was brought
by the showers of yesterday to growing
crops that had begun to show evidence
of suffering for want of rain. especially
caused by the intense heat expert
enced during the first week of July.
Saturday afternoon after having been
out six hours the jury in the case
against DR.. j. j. Reilly, of Milton,
brought in a verdict of acquittal. The
charge against the doctor was that of
illegal sale of liquor at his drug store.
The case had been in progress since
Thursday forenoon and considerable
interest was manifested in it's progress,
twenty-five Milton people had been
~subpoened as witnesses. The doctor
had no druggists permit, but the ques-
ton of the lease of the premises and
other points in which the evidence left
room for doubt are understood as hav-
ing much to do with the jury bringing
in the verdict of acquittal.
The Munich blind pig cases, in which
William Anderson and George Kruze
were the defendants were disposed of
yesterday afternoon, both pleading
guilty. Anderson has been out under
bonds since the time papers were served
on him in May and as the evidence in
his case does not show him to have been
a fagarent violator of the law, he is ex-
pected to get off with the payment of a
line. With Kruse things don't look so
good, this is his second time up for trial
on the same charge and although he
has put in nearly ninety days in Jail
awaiting trial 1T is quite likely he will be
taken down to the penitentiary at Bis
marck after Judge Kneeshaw has pro-
nounced sentence.
Can Langdon play base ball did you
say? Yes, and plenty of it. Langdon
beat Fairdale tuesday by a score of l to
0 and yesterday afternoon vent up
against Millions array of hired talent
and handed them a bunch of 8 to 2,
which made a pretty complete clean up
of the Milton base ball tournament.
There is one thing that shouldn't be left
unsaid and that is the boys of the neigh
boring towns are gentlemen compared
with the Picketts at Grand Forks, the
latter team being dead ones when it
comes to playing a square game. The
Pickets don't need to seek information
from Langdon about how with the aid
ofthe umpire the game was stolen, plenty
of Grand Forks people have already
expressed themselves as disguised with
the rotten work done by the umpire, Mr..
Hugh McIlraith, who no doubt has a
price, and the Pickets, know what the
consideration was for the game they
bought Sunday.
Farm and Fire Insurance act low
estrates at the Mooney State Bank