Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-08-04
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Harvest help promises to be plentiful

Harvest help promises to be plentiful
this fall.
Teachers examinations will be held
here at Langdon and at Munich on
Friday and Saturday, August 26th and
9th. The official notice of Co.. Supt
Ridlington will be found IN another
column.
The weather predication is made by
Jim Reed that we will find the rainfall
for the month of August n that will
to quite an extent make up for the de-
ficiency of the preceding months of the
summer season.
The annual statements of the Mt.
Carmel and Iona school districts are
printed in this weeks paper. They will
be of a particular interest to readers
residing in those respective localities.
Both make an excellent showing of
financial standing relative to school
affairs.
Tomorrow the republican county GEN.
treai committee is scheduled to meet in
Langdon for the purpose of perfecting
its organization for the campaign this
year. The new committeeman elected
at the primaries appear to be pretty
evenly divided between the two factions
which compose the e. O. p, in nearly
every section of this state and there is
predicted to be quite a strenuous time
at tomorrow's meeting to see which will
control the organization for the ensuing
two years.
And now the grasshoppers are at the
gardens, Langdon gardeners have
another complaint besides that of the
drouth and many of them report that
the grasshoppers, which seem to have
conn with the continued warm weather
are doing considerable damage to the
vegetables. The little pests have been
multiplying rapidly during the past few
weeks and in some sections of the state
have worked havoc on the crops. Recent
complaints however, are the only ones
that have been heard regarding damage
to garden truck. Fortunately, however
it is late enough in the season that the
hoppers can do no great amount ofharn
unless they increase in numbers during
the next week OF two.
The weather report, which closed TO
the month of July on Sunday last shows
q total rainfall for the thirty-one days o
only l. 80 inches, marking it as the dry
est July that has been experienced i
either this county or the state during th
years that observations have been takel
here at the Langdon station of the o..
weather bureau. The nearest approach
to a similar dry spell was ten years ag'
when the total rainfall was l.57 inches
That the average July rains are con
:siderably more than this is shown by tn
fact that the averaged in this vicinity ha
been 2.69 inches. The month of Jul,
last year totalled up to 1923 inches, bu
it will be recalled that the rainfall Q
the summer months Of last year was i
excess of that of several previous years
The maximum temperature for July c
this year was SO on the 18th, and tn
minimum ~ onNthe 18th.
The Langdon city school board have
practically decided to open a down tow
school in the opera house block thi
fall for the pupils of one or more of tn
lower grades. They deem the move wis
and %expedient in more ways han one
Nearly if not all of the room are nov
,oyercrowded, and with the taking u,
of the new subject of manual training
now a part of the course of study in hig]
schools of the frst-class, more room i
badly needed for school work. Th
teaching corps of the schools it IS ais
expected will be increased from nine t
ten teachers and the return of Sup
Meyer from his vacation trip to Chicag
is expected during the week, as there
considerable preliminary work to b
arranged before the r%e-openlng, the frs
week in September. A change is state'
as having occurred in the corps of teach
,ers engaged for the year, owing to tn
resignation rendered by Miss Vivian
ALERT, a popular teacher of the primar
grade of recent years.
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