Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-08-31

The open season for hunting prairie
chickens and wild ducks begins one
week from today-Thursday, Sept 7th.
Judge Kneeshaw will be in Langdon to
hold court Tuesdays September 18th. No
jury cases will come up for trial at the
that time however.
Langdon's high school football team
we're out on the grounds back of the
court house Monday afternoon for their
first practice game of the season. AS
in years past Sup't. Dan J. Ridlington,
was on the coaching line with them.
Monday mornings minimum tempera-
ture of a. degrees was tempered
to such IN extent by the dampness and
moisture of the preceding tw%enty-four
hours that no damage to crops was &C.
casioned by its dangerous proximity of
just two degrees above the frost line.
Another inch of precipitation was
added to the rainfall for the month of
August last week by the showers of Fri
day afternoon, during Saturday and con-
tinuing at intervals until Sunday even
ing. AS a result little if any threshing
was done until the following Tuesday.
S. H. Wilson, of Bott.neau, who re-
Gently received the appointment of de-
putty state examiner at the hands of
Gov. Burke, has been spending a part
of the week here checking over the
court house officials. The DEMOCRAT
acknowledges a pleasant call from Mr..
Wilson during his stay and does not
mind letting Its readers know that he
found everything o. k, in the different
Offices at the court house.
Friday night a cold wave bringing
with it a "killing frost" swept over por-
lions of Western Manitoba and Saskat-
chewan doing considerable damage to
standing crops, much of which will not
be ready to cut until about September
18th to 10th. The thermometer register
ed $50 and quite a thickness of ice form
ed on horse troughs and all other exposed
surfaces of water. Millions of bushels
of crop all through the Canadian North
west are practically ruined.
In reading in the paper from Antler
N. D., the story of death, injury and
destruction resulting from the cyclone
which passed over that town a week
agoSunday there is relief for the feelings
of many Langdon people in learning
that Customs Officer Jim Mcintosh,
Druggist Harold Collins and W. D,
Keenan,, all former we'll known resident
here, escaped from injury and we hope
from any serious property loss. Mr..
Keenan,, whose name will not be re-
called by those who have come to Lang
don of recent years, was one of the old
pioneers OF twenty years ago, occupying
at the time he left here the position
as bookkeeper in the j. b. Boyd store.
The Langdon city school board at a
meeting held Friday afternoon decided
that a tuition charge of So rer month be
required of all attending pupils whose
homes are outside the limits of the
Langdon city special school district, they
also wish that it be distinctly under.
stood that in all cases the tuition charge
must be paid three months in advance
as no pupil will be started for a less
term than three months, payable strictly
IN adv ance. Another matter. the school
board would particularly call the atten-
ton of the parents of all children attend.
ing school is to that text books must be
settled for with cash at the time of pur,
chase as credit will positively be extend,
ed to no one
Red School House Shoes for boys anG
:girle at Simon Schefter's.