Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-02-25


The $4,000 fire which devastated the
business section of Crystal last week,
damaged but did not totally destroy the
drug store of H S. Dickson, whose
brothers here are States Attorney w. b.
and Mr.. Jas. G. Dickson.
Those who attended tho Washington's
Birthday invitation dance given by the
Rathbone Sisters in the knights of
Pythias Hall on Monday night will for
the ensuing year at least have pleasant
recollections of February %, 1909.
The funeral of William T. Hewitt,
whose death occurred at the home of
his son in this city Monday the 18th
inst, took place Tuesday this week at
Hannah, services being held from the
Presbyterian church. He had been a
resident of Hannah for seven years.
Loynes & Moore state that the skating
rink, which they have recently sold to
Mr.. John Boyd, will change ownership
with the beginning of next month and
that Saturday night, this week, the 9th
inst, will be the last occasion when the
rink will be open to the public under
the old management.
The large workshop building of Loynes
& Moore, the contractors, is being
moved by its new owner, Blacksmith Il.
Schoenbechler, to his lots east of the
city hall. This spring Mr.. Schoenbech-
Ter will enlarge and remodel his black
smith and repair shop, putting in con-
siderable new machinery.
A picture postal card from Matam oros
Mex, under date of the 18th inst, tells
of the fine time that Mr.. George Plain
and his bride are having in the south
land while on their wedding trip. They
return north with the advent of spring
and will make their home at Osnabrock,
where Mr.. Plain has lately established
extensive business interests.
The DEMOCRATS want adv'ts bring
results. sLast week one owner recovered
a gents pocket book containing s125; an
other a lady's gold watch; and another a
lady's hand bag containing money. The
cost is only a cent a word and you get
results. If you have lost anything, want
to sell anything, or buy something place
a want adv't in the DEMOCRAT.
Sheriff W. L. Drury returned Satur-
day from his trip to the Canadian North
west bringing with him Frank Janzen,
who was an accomplish of Jacob H. V,
Spenst in the theft of eighty-fou1
bushels of wheat from the granary on a
farm owned by DR.. Donovan in Gordon
township. The grain was sold at Munich
to Agent e. A. McCay Of the Cargill
elevator, this fact assisting in the theft
being traced to Spenst and Janzen. The
latter made his escape to the Canadian
side of the line on learning that Spenst
was arrested. Janzen will be brought
into court when it r~e-convenes in March
Spenst has already pied guilty.
An instance of what is really being
done in the way to bring northern North
Dakota out Of the rut of being consider
ed nothing else than a wheat growing
state has come to the attention of the
DEMOCRAT this week. Today James
Mulligan, who is farming north of towr
is shipping his second car load of Cava
liver county raised horses to Grinnell
la. One of the teams, which he bought
of Jas. MCLAUGHLIN he paid $3.50 and {
bunch of seven others also purchased
from Mr.. MCLAUGHLIN, he paid 81, 1851
for. Horses are not cheap in Nortt
Dakota. but the class of horses raised
and bred here are greatly in demand il
Iowa, which state not SO very man,
years ago was doing it's full share to
wards supplying the demands of tn,
horse market in North Dakota.