Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-12-16

siausocIlhs puoiuesS III tnls city frlday.
Ladies! Buy your husband a smoking
jacket for Christmas at Simon Schefters.
Ronald Martin, the Dresden black
smith was a.business visitor in the cit,
Friday.
Mrs, w. F. Winter took Fridays after
noon train for a visit with st. Paul
friends.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Adam Witzel of Mt. Carmel on Sunday,
the 18th inst.
|. Dawson and Duncan McEwan were
court spectators from Dresden a couple
of days this week.
Mrs. Jos. Il. Schneider is down from
Wales making a few days visit among
her Langdon friends.
Mrs. r. l.. Foy Is at Grand Forks
making a visit of II week with a number
of old friends and former acquaintance.
John A. Wang who opened a general
mercantile store at Nekoma. when the
town first started is a court visitor here
this week from Grand Forks.
VIM. Stevenson spent Friday down
the line at Osnabrock, checkin g up the
years business of the machinery firm
of Hunter a. Stevenson at that place.
T.. w. Bleakley and eldest daughter
Miss Alma, go to spend Christmas at
Killarney, Man. where the two younger
daughters, Misses Ida and Ella, have
been going to school since the death
of their mother last May.
Jno. T. McNeill has been quite seri-
ously i'll for over a week past, when he
was seized with a slight paralytic stroke.
Although an improvement is noted in
his condition Mr.. Mcneil is stated as
still confined to his bed with peneu-
monia.
Mrs. Robert Meiklejohn left Satur-
day for Mt. Clemence, Mich, accompani-
ed by Mrs. Alex. Mcdonald. During a
stay there of some length Mrs. Meikle.
john will take the mineral water bath
treatment at the Mt. Clemence sani
tarium.
The st. Alphonsus church choir Is
holding a number of special practices
this week for the rehearsal of the music
al program to be held on Christmas Day
In addition to the regular members OF
thn ,lr;, , -,-al.. e r -
nent vocal s~oloists will take part
Among others Mrs. DR.. Smith.
The Pythian Sisters announce that
they will give one of their popular mid
winter dances on New Years eve. Fri
day, December 31st, in the knights OF
Pythias hall. More details of this
fashionable function Will be given ir
next weeks issue of this paper.
A happy social event OF Monday mex
week that will be attended by the wei
} wishes of many admiring friends will
occur at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs
Hugh Dougherty when their daughter
Miss Lille Ellenore. becomes the bride
of MIR. Frederick S. McGunigal. The
Dougherty family number among the
earliest pioneer residents of Cavalier
county and are highly respected by al
, who know them.
The full-page advertisement of Price
/ u johnson. the exclusive furniture
j dealers, does not say anything about the
r fine line of baby buggies. Owing to ,ht
> strike this shipment was delayed il
transit and got here after the adv't was
in type. If you are interested in
. Christmas gift of this kind they will b,
pleased to show you this new line o
+ matrimonial fruit baskets.
Miss Freda Kaser, who made Re
home in Langdon with the Trua:
family while engaged teaching school a
t Dresden, Osnabrock and other points il
Cavalier county some years ago, has
number Of friends who will be interested
o in learning that she has recently return
ed sfrom a years trip to Europe. At tn
present time she IL engaged as
language teacher of English, Frenc'
a and German IN New York city.
. Upwards of thirty Langdon friends O
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Woolner made las
Friday evening an occasion that will fo
l. all time to come prove a pleasing rem,
q n%escence in rendering them a surpris
party on the fifth anniversary of thei
wedding day. The affair was most &C
mirably planned and was a genuine SUI
. prise sprung upon the unsuspectin
host and hostess. Tokens of the celt
bration of a "wooden wedding" we're lei
behind by the parting guests and il
cluded most everything from a rollin
pin in the culinary end of the house t
a handsome half dozen of dining ROOF
chairs. Both the mementoes and tn
occasion will be long remembered an