Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-08-05

Barley harvest started last week be-
tween Nekoma and Fairdale.
A Munich autoist ran over a dog last
week and killed it. Less haste and more
care.
A Trier township quarter section of
land was bought last week by Benz.
Thinner for $500.
A typical old time barn raising took
place or the farm of Matt Mcknight last
Monday afternoon near Hannah.
Thos. Spiker of Hannah broke three
tires on his auto Sunday while on his
way to Clyde. Guess that's going some.
Arthur j. Chapman, telephone line
inspector was married last week to Miss
Clara Innis of Crystal, N. ID. They
will make their home in Sarles.
a huge specimen of tarantula meas
on a bunch of bananas at Walhalla last
week.
The Clyde baseball team made a tour
last week into Manitoba, going first to
Crystal City and iourneyed from there to
Killarney, where they participated in the
base ball tournament.
Quite a number of Cavalier county
people are taking in the Seattle fair and
incidently registering for homestead
lands in the three reservations to be
opened for settlement.
In a very severe electric storm at Wal
halla Monday last week: the Great
Northern depot was struck by lightning.
1t melted out a switch and set fire to
the curtains, but the fire was soon
stopped.
Matt Lehpen"s father an old mar
eighty eight years old living with his son
near Munich, was kicked by a horse last
week. -Four ribs on the right side we're
broken. Although old he is strong and
doing we'll.
e. H. Roseberger, who lives west of
Sarles. had his house nearly burned to
the ground while he was absent from
his farm. The fire started from q defec-
tive chimney and by some hard work Of
the at home the building was
partly saved.
Alaska wheat, the kind you read so
much about and the kind that yields 200
bushels or more to the acre. is just head
ing out in a field on the lot back Of the
First National Bank at Osnabrock.
That q field sow with this kind of
wheat would yield from 200 to $50 bu.
, to the acre, we do not doubt. as the heads
are the SIZE OF a small ear of corn.
j. T.. Mayer of Walhalla has received
= two carloads OF telephone poles and over
eighty miles of Wire, which he will use
in the construction OF the line to Con
crete, Beaulieu and Olga. He has also
made arrangements to use the local be-
!. tween Olga and Langdcn, thus giving
Concrete, Beaulieu and WalhaLla oppor-
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5 the old style long distance. Mr.. Mayer
( hopes to have the line III first class order
before the snow flies.
I Th. Thorarinson, who used to farm
7 near Alsen and who is still interested in
i land there, came up from St. Paul Sat.
urday to Munich. He has worked there
: in the wholesale grocery house of Griggs
& Co, for the last two months and is
now on the road for them. He reports
that his brother Swain, who formerly
, worked here was recently operated on at
Rochester and treated by DR.. Gillette OF
st. Paul, for an old hurt to his leg that
has been bothering him for years. He is
: now much improved. Mr.. Thorarinsor
is much pleased over the crop OUTLOOK
o here and says that while Minnesota may
/ be a little ahead in time, the crops look
t much better here.
= Mrs. Erick Wedwick died Monday
= last week at the home of her daughter
Mrs. j. Il. French in Osnabrock. A,
the time f death Mrs. Wedwick was II
a years of age. She had been in poo
: health for a number of years having suf
1 fered a stroke of paralysis some years
n ago from which she never fully recover
k ed. Funeral services where held from
f the French home at two o'clock and
from the Drove church at three o'clock
Rev. Aarthun of Milton, officiating. She
leaves to mourn her loss three sons anc
two daughters The sons are J.E. Wed
wick, S. r. Wedwick and e E. Wedwick
y all of Osnabrock, and the daughters are
. Mrs. j. r. French, Osnabrock, and Mrs
4 Marum of Mcintosh, MINI.
John Gibson and wife and fourteen
children have just arrived in Hampden
They came all the way from Oregon il
y an emig rant wagon, a prairie schooner
!. drawn by two we'll worn horses. Thu
trip took them two months. At nigh