Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-07-14
AROUND 4t? County County.

"Kwitchergrowlin."
Hannah has a football and baseball
team.
Pilot Mound, Man, has a fair, August
| 4th and 5th.
Nekoma a a box ball alley and
everybody is having fun.
Cavalier county Orangemen will cele-
brate at Morden on the 18th.
Sarles congratulates herself on having
a July 4th celebration unmixed with
accidents, booze or fights.
Editor Sam T. Scott of the Lawton
Republican says that black eyes seem to
be a fad in that town these days.
Religious services are being held each
Sunday at Iona and Nekoma by a lady
preacher, Miss Shinn, who is identified
with the Congregational denomination.
Philip Schafer, a farmer living near
Calvin had the misfortune to step on a
rusty nail while climbing over a fence
and a hammer had to be used to remove
the nail from his foot.
Langdon and other Cavalier county
towns were represented IN the crowd
that gathered across the line at Morden,
Man, on Tuesday for tho purpose of
enjoying the Orangeman's Day cele-
bration.
The Nekoma News reports that there
was a fight in town the same night as
the Jeffries-Johnson, go the Fourth OF
July. 1t is stated as only having gone
one round, although from appearances
it might have been run through twenty
rounds.
Any ball team in this section of the
country claiming the championship
will have the Hampden team to reckon
with. So far they have won Is out of
the Is games played and no game lost
was lost to the team representing
Hampden Reporter.
rhe Milton Globe says Halley's comet
is to blame for the prolonged dry spell.
Grandpa Lariviere, the Olga centenarian
distinctly remembers the last visit of
the celestial wanderer and says there
was an unusual drought that year,
resulting in little or no crop.
The name of Harold Whitmore a pupil
of the consolidated school of Grey town
ship at Daniels, was through an over,
slight omitted from the list of those pub.
llshed in the columns of this paper last
week as having received diplomas upon
completion Of the common school course
of..study. The DEMOCRAT take a plea
sure in making this correction.
Cy Doherty Of Sarles had a narrow
escape from sufocation by foul gas il
a we'll on the Stait farm east of towr
this week. Doherty was digging a vel
> on the place aud struck a large rocl
: which he blasted some three hours be
, fore v%enturing down the we'll again
: The gas had not gone out however ant
. had it not been for Billy Stats timel.
appearance on the scene Mr.. Dohert,
would now have been a corpse. Dr.
= Law was summoned and the man is nov
. fully recovered
@. w. Ar drews and W. F. White
> have concluded the purchase of tn
, August Huff farm of $40 acres, six mile
south of Walhalla, together with tn
thoroughbred stock, cattle and hogs
. horses, machinery. They will keep th
. stock for their own use but the farm
= like the rest of their lands, will be pu
on the mArket-and it is one of th
. finest farms in North Dakota with it
modern stables comfortable house, etc
q They were out taking an invoice of tn
i. property Thursday Of last week
- Walhalla Mountaineer.
d Robert Higgins OF Sarles has just re
celved word that the Weyburn cyclon
70 of June 23rd did great damage in til
vicinity of his homestead in Saska
chewan. He had a house, barn an
granary on his farm. The wind pickle
them up bodily and carried them int
IS the coulee-a mass of kindling WOO
No one was living in the house at tt
time or a tragedy would have been Il
I result. AS it was Mi. Higgins is IL
n loser to the extent of over $1,000. 81
e farm is about 30 miles southwest
,e Northumberland Moon.
Is Mrs. Bernard Mulligan died Thur
sr day evening at the home of her daught'
Of Mrs. P. Flynn, at Osnabrock, at th
advanced age Of 10 years. Her hHsbau
ID died some 10 years ago in Dublin, Ont
to which place Mrs. Mulligan's remail
g wsre shipped On Friday for intermsn
I She had been inthis country only abol
two years and for the past year ha
made her home with her daughter. 81
Of leaves to mourn her loss FIVE daughte
and four sons. The daughters are Nj