Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-07-23
: !eee! Happenings s
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How's your wheat crop.

How's your wheat crop.
Wheat still holds firm around the
dollar a bushel price on the local marke.
Quite a number of Langdon people are
at DevilsLake enjoying the Chautauqua
these days.
To-day Langdon is being we'll repre-
sented at the picnic given by the Odd
Fellows at the Jennings grove in Harvey
township.
The term of district court which adj
journs this week has been of more in
terest than any held in Langdon for
several years.
Gophers are reported as getting in
their deadly work among the growing
crops during the period of dry weather
which has prevailed since July LIST.
Munich had fine rains two days last
week as a result crops are looking we'll.
In fact the rain visited arear of the
western part of the county extends
north to the boundary line.
The July 18th call statements of the
First National and Cavalier Co., ma
-tional banks, both of which are printed
in this issue of the paper go to show
show that Langdon has financial institu-
lions that would be a credit to towns
five times its size.
Our serial story 'The Man of the
Hour closes this week and in our next
issue will appear the opening chapters
of E'In the Fog" a newly written popular
novel of the day, fully upto the standard
of the story which most of Jul readers
nave been enjoying the past couple OF
months, although the plot deals more
with adventure.
Bishop Stanley will make official
visits to the Catholic churches in Cava.
lier county during the month of Sep
TENDER on the dates given below: Osaa-
brock, Sept. 10Th; Nekoma, Sept. 18th;
Olga, Sept. 18th; Langdon, Sept. 10; Mt.
Carmel, Sept. Goth. During the visits
of Bishop Stanley to Nekoma and
Osnabrock he will dedicate newly built
churches and hold confirmation. There
will also be a class presented for
confirmation during his visit at Mt.
Carmel.
Langdon has been keeping up It's
record of playing winning ball this week.
AT the Hampden tournament they play
ed two games winning both. Each time
it was with Hampton they crossed bats,
although the arrangement had been that
they should meet Munich in one of the
games. In each case it was u shut out.
The game Tuesday closedwith a score of
4 to 0 and the final yesterday afternoon
10 to 0. Both are reported as we'll play
ed games and 500 of the money hung
up for winners at the Hampden tourna-
ment was carried home by the Langdon
/ team.
y The purity evangelist, Miss Ruby
n Wheeler, who held a union Sunday even
lng church service in Langdon last fall,
at which she sold a lot of books and took
" up a big collection, is still being listened
to by audiences of North Dakota people
who rather like to view the haunts of
sthe denizens of the red light district
from the safe distance of a comfortable
1Mschurch pew. Miss Wheeler doesn't
seem to have missed many of the
Towns in her tour over the state, and If
her talks about gilded vice and its temp
s@gatatlons to the young have brought in the
ssSss heckles elsewhere to the extent of the
8a contributions of her Langdon hearers,
then the date of her return to the slums
aSs#sof the big cities in the effete east is like
S#SAsly to remain indefinite for some time.
looks as if Ruby is out after the long
green and getting lots of it dead easy.
1M Farm and Fire Insurance get low
"a est rates at the Mooney State Bank