Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-05-19

Jolly 1~3-14-15-County Fair at Langdon
Langdon was to have played a return
game at Osnabrock with the ball team
there on Sunday had the right kind of
weather permitted.
Jack Frost was again in evidence
Tuesday morning when the thermometer
registered as low as 25-which means
seven degrees of frost.
Next Friday and Saturday, the 9th
and 28th inst, examinations of ap-
plicants for teachers, certificates will be
held by Co. Sup't Rldlington in Lang
don and at Munich.
Co. Sup't Ridliugton went to the
Forks today along with the Langdon
high school track team which takes part
in the inter scholastic meet on the
university athletic grounds tomorrow
and Saturday.
Yesterday was Inspection Day in
Langdon and the Civic League inspectors
with scarcely an exception we're able to
have the work in their district o. KID. by
the head inspector, Mrs. G.. W. Price,
when she made her round of inspection
through the city during the afternoon.
The light showers of Saturday even
ing and during Sunday only resulted
an a rainfall of about a half-inch in the
vicinity of Langdon, but the conditions
were just right and every drop did twice
the amount of good a rain of the same
extent would do under the usual con-
ditions. South and east of here, around
Osnabrock, the rain is reported as having
been much heavier.
Langdon's high school track team,
that is three of them, Dick Boyd, AL
Robertson and Tom Lindsay take this
afternoons train to the Forks, where
they are entered in a number of events
in the inter scholastic meet tomorrow
and Saturday on the state university
grounds. After the splendid showing
already made 10y Boyd and Robertson at
Fargo last week they have lots Of
admirers who expect to hear of their
winning out in quite a number of events.
Tomorrow, at, the Office of their sec
rotary, Mr.. F. W. Bleakley, the board OF
directors of the Cavalier Co. Fair
association open bids for the erection OF
a hog house and an addition to the
horse barn at the fair grounds. The
fair management is getting busy early
this year and it is their ambition to make
the exhibit for 1910 one that will be so
large and so varied that it will attract a
crowd of visitors from all over Cavalier
and adjoining counties. The DEMOCRAT
will take a special pleasure in making
announcement of what is being done
along this line from week to week.
Friday evening June 3rd is the date
that has been selected for the graduation
exercises of the grammar grade pupils
of ithe Langdon public schools. Ad-
-dition to the evenings program at the
opera house will be composed of a little
play, entitled, ga Box of Monkeys
On Monday evening following, June 9Th
is to be held the commencement of the
high school class. The class of 10 is
composed Of four girls and the diplomas
will be presented and the address tc
the class delivered by Or. Kroeze, presi.
dent of the jamestown college, The
program of these two events and other
details will be given in our issue OIL
next week. Two of the teachers who
have been engaged to fill vacancies or
the teaching corps during the coming
school year are Miss Gilbertson, a Valley
City normal graduate, from Hickson, N
D., and Miss Tena Regner, who is also {
normal graduate from Valley City and
has been teaching during the past yeal
at Pembina. The latter is a niece of Mr.
and Mrs. Allan Pinkerton of this city.