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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Veteran w. j. Ross came from Wales
on business Tuesday.
Painter A. j.. Petit was a passenger
up the line to Wales on Tuesday where
he is doing some painting and interior
decorating this week at the DR.. Backus's
home.
The DEMOCRAT prints auction sale bills
Our silver ware stock comprises a
large and we'll selected assortment of
table ware of all kinds, silver toilet
articles and sterling novelties, etc. All
of which we are offering at most attrac-
tive figures. A. o. Void Co.
Services held at them. E. church next
Sunday as usual. In the morning at
Hoo o'clock. The pastor, Rev. D. S,
Scadeng will preach from "The Blessing
of the Pure in Heart and in the even
ing at 7-3O from "a Notable Reform;
The Sunday school will meet at moor in
the basement, and the Epworth League
at6:45. The League meeting will be
led by Miss ELLA Seeley.
Read the DEMOCRATS want ads.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

The bankers ard business men of
North Dakota have started d movement
to make a demonstration farm out of
each farm in a community. They have
secured Thomas Cooper who is recog-
nized as the best expert in the business
end of the farm in America. His salary
of $4,000 indicates that his abilities are
of a high order. He is now securing
the co untry of assistants, men who are
trained in the science of better farming
and experienced in putting it into
practice on the farm under conditions
He is anxious to learn of communities
who desire to cooperate in the work:
They want to have a farm;expert demon
strate on the farms the best that the
experiment station and agricultural
college have worked out. The work
will be in cooperation with these in
situations. Mr.. Cooper will have his
Headquarters at Fargo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Wm. Dew has added to his big acre
age of farm property near Wales by the
purchase this week of the 24O acre farm
of Arlie Moore which lies one and one
half miles north of wales. The price
paid is reported as being $332 per acre.
Mr.. Moore is leaving this county to
locate in the Northwest.
Langdon young people are to quite an
extent interested in the Thanksgiving
Day wedding which occurred this fore
noon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
Delvo, near Easily, when their daughter
was wed to Mr.. Arthur A. Barker, one of
Langdon's well known young men and a
popular salesman at the Boyd Depart
ment Store.
W.. A. Ferguson returned home on
Saturday from his stay of several weeks
at Excelsior Springs, Mo-, where he
underwent medical treatment in a
sanltarium with beneficial effect. P.
McGauvran, who has also been at the
springs under treatment is we'll along
the road to complete restoration to his
former health and expects to leave
there this week.
On Saturday, December 9th, the
primary department of the Langdon
city schools have a candy sale at the A.
o. Void Co store. The money which
they expect to make at the sale goes to
buy pictures and other suitable wall
decorations for the rooms they will
occupy in the new school building after
the beginning of the new year. The
sale is being effectively advertised by
hand painted and lettered posters and
the sale of home made candy by the
primary children it is hoped will be
given q liberal patronage by Langdon
people,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

The Langdon lodge of the Eastern
Star order will elect its new officers for
She ensuing year at a meeting to be held
in the Masonic Temple.
Andrew Peterson of Mt. Carmel is the
happy father of a bouncing boy baby
that Mrs. Peterson presented him with
on Thanksgiving eve.
A little baby boy is reported as being
a Thanksgiving morn arrival at the
Langdon home of Paul Ludwig, of the
firm of Ramage & Ludwig, at the north
end of Third street.
Another of the Thanksgiving week
weddings to be chronicled is the mar.
riage yesterday at noon of Frank D.
Stantield of Lake City, Ia, to Miss
Maude Caves, daughter of Francis
Caves, of Mowbray, N. D. The couple
we're united at the Presbyterian manse
by Rev. Hubbard and go to Lake City,
Ia, to make their home.
=. w. IoeWs was IN town yesterday,
closing a deal whereby he becomes the
purchaser from Peter Penner of the old
Cornelius Veer homestead in Waterloo
township, which he secured at a bargain
of 1927 per acre. Mr.. Toews now has a
half section farm in one of the rapidly
growing wealthy sections of Cavalier
county.
Friday night at eleven o'clock fire was
discovered by Chief of Police Vessey and
Phil Thibo at the barn of Harlan & Ma.
honey in the old yard of the Langdon
Eumber Co., on Second street. The fire
was discovered about eleven o'clock
and with but one exception all of the
niue head Of horses in tho barn were
saved. The building was a total loss
but the effective work of the fire depart.
ment prevented tho fire from spreading
The confiagration is supposed to have
been caused by u smouldering pile OF
ashes that had been thrown out by the
side Of the barn, There was q small in,
a covering the building.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30
DRS. KERR < Smith
DENTISTS Donovan Block
DENTISTS

NJ. Liebelers' threshing outfit was in
operation Friday and Saturday of last
week IN thler farm adjoining the city
engaged in thleshing fax that had been
hauled in from the Price and Nuella
farm a few miles southwest of Langdon.
The crop was :late in being harvested
and only partly ripe when cut. The
yield was fairly good, but much snow
had been loaded in with the flax as it
lay in the field making the job of thresh-
ing one of considerable difficulty.
August Slngbeil since disposing OF
his farm property near Dresden has
moved into town and purchased the
blacksmith shop of Ronald Martin at
that place. In opening up for business
at Dresden Mr.. Slngbeil announces
that be will also handle a complete line
of farm machinery and run a feed mill
in connection. He is we'll acquainted
with the trade in the vicinity where he
has farned for several years past and
should enjoy a good trade right from
the start.
John Wild was here Friday from his
Poplar Grove stock farm at Milton at.
tending to business matters and was &C.
companied by Mr.. p. r. Johnston, oi
Grand Forks, general manager of the
CT. Northern life insurance company, q
North Dakota institution, which since
its organization already makes a strong
showing and has bright visions of out
CHASING it's old line competitors in the
near future. Nj. l.. Sullivan OF Langdon
aad John Wild OF Milton are two Caya.
lier county financial heavyweights who
are on the company's board OF directors.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Today is Thanksgiving Day. We of
this section have much to feel thankful
for in bounteous crop and a general
condition OF good health among our
people. The day will be observed in
proper form and services will be con
Quoted in various of the churches
throughout the county. Dissapoint-
ments. sorrows and troubles are with
some, but even with these there is the
bright hope Of the future and many
things Of the past year which lend q
bright tinge to DARKER clouds. Let US
all observe this day, IN unison with the
people all through the land, in a real
feeling Of thankfujness for the good
things which the Great Creator has
gwen us.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

"As Massachusetts goes, so will the
nation go in 1912 This was the slogan
IN the Massachusetts campaign. And
the democratic candidate, Foss won,
The issue was the tariff, the same one
that the 1912 campaign will be fought
out on. If the high protectionists can
not carry Massachusetts, the people of
which state are supposed to reap the
tremendous advantages of protection
how can they expect to carry the middle
and western states, in which regions live
the people who pay the excessive prices
caused by the tariff and reap none of
the benefits of protection.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

George Ryan and wife returned Tues
day to their home at Inkster, having
visited two weeks with their relatives
and old neighbors in Harvey Center.
Chas. Damoae, who left here early
in the summer for Montana where he
has a half-section homestead is back in
Langdon and will probably remain to
spend the winter. He has been at
Regina, Sask., where in company with
Mark O'Reilly he operated a threshing
outfit for w. J. Welsh.
The wedding of Austin Krautz of
Dresden and Miss Title Kruger, of
Waterloo township occurred on the 9Th
inst, at Winnipeg, Man. The bride is
a daughter of Fred Kruger who has
farmed for some years west of Langdon
and is moving across the line into the
Northwest this winter to liye.
In the M. e. church last Tuesday was
performed the marriage of David j
Wiens of Herbert, Sask,, to Miss Anna
F. Harder, of Wales. The bride was
attended by her sister, and her mother
and step-father, Merchant =. j. Nickel,
and wife of Wales also present. The
young couple are returning to Herbert
Sask,, where they will make their
home,
VIM. Shelley returned home yesterday
from his trip to Darwin, MINI. While
away he was at the Great Northern's
head Office in st Paul regarding the ad-
justment by the company of his loss of
of a car of stock in a railroad accident
which wrecked a freight train on this
line at Conway on the 18th inst. A set
Element between Mr.. Shelley and the
railroad company is pending.
Monday at ten o'clock in the forenoon
Miss Anna Pearl Jordan daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Cornelius Jordan became the
bride of VIM. H. Diamond the ceremony
being performed at st Alphonsus church
The couple left On the afternoon train
for Davidson, Sask., where they will
make their home and take along with
them the we'll wishes of a large number
of friends in Langdon and vicinity.
At a preliminary hearing in this city
last Saturday before Justice r. E. Burke
Knute Olson was remanded for trial ir
district court upon the charge of may
hem, the complaining i witness being
Fred Peterson. The case resulted out O.
the nose biting scrap that occurred il
Hope township at a dance some little
time ago. In default of a $500 bal
bond the defendant was remanded tt
the county Jail pending his trial. Judge
Halvor Torgerson of Homen appeared al
counsel for the defendant.
Yesterday forenoon at St. Alphonsus
church in tho presence of quite an rs
semblage of neighbors and friends the
wedding ceremony was performed by
Rev. M, Dougherty which united Miss
Wayne L%othspelch, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Lothspeich living NORTH
of town, to William Dohmann, eldest
son of Mr., and Mrs. Herman Dohmann
The couple represent two Of the best
known and most respected families il
the vicinity of Langdon. The,
will make their home on the Dohmann
farm north OF town.
Job printing the DEMOCRAT,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30
SHERIFF'S SALE.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
County of Cavalier. 80
Fred Brnsseau,
Plaintiff.

4 Z
Plaintiff.
Mayo-Brick and Tile Co. 'hEnlff . SALE.
"a corporation
Defendant.
Notice Is Hereby Given, That by virtue of an
execution to me directed and delivered and now
in my hands, issued out of the Clerks office of
the Seventh Judicial District Court, State of
North Dakota, in and for the County of Cava-
lier, upon q Judgment obtained in the Justice
Court Of w, n, Wright, q Justice of the Peace,
IN and for said county and state on the 18th day
OF July, 1911, in an action IN which Fred
Brusseau is plaintiff and the Mayo-Brick and
lille Company, a corporation, was defendant,
and docketed in the District Court of Cavalier
county on the 18th day of November. 1911 1
have levied upon the following described per-
sonal property of said Defendant. to-wit:
Forty Thousand Brick and Five Thousand
Building Blocks, and that I shall on Monday,
the 4th day of December. A. D. 1911, at the hour
of two o'clock r. m, of said day, at the front
door of the post Office in the Village of Olga,
in said county and state, proceed to sell the
right, title and interest of the above named
Mayo-Brick and Tile Company, a corporation.
in and to the above described property to salts.
fY said judgment and costs, amounting to
Eiahty-TWo Dollars and Fifty-Six Cents, to-
gether with all accruing costs of sale and in
terest on the same, from the 18th day of July,
1911. at the rate of seven per cent per anuum, at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash,
W. L.. DRURY,
Sheriff of Cavalier County, North Dakota.
BY FRED ~TEMBREULL, Deputy.
Dated Langdon, N. D. November 22nd, 1911.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30
Scranton coal does not clinker, Cava-

Scranton coal does not clinker, Cava-
lier County Lumber Company.
Simon Schefter quotes some attractive
prices on furs and furlined coats.
ALERT & Winter have plenty of money
to loan on first and second mortgages.
The new furniture store, H, Hay, can
save you dollars Visit his place before
you buy.
If you are thinking of taking a trip
see Simon Schefter about a trunk or
suit case.
Mrs. Mcknight entertained the teach
ers of the city schools Saturday after
moor at her home.
Don't miss reading A. O. Void Co.'S.
holiday week announcement which ap-
pears in this weeks issue.
Miss Ella Bleakley has accepted the
position of organist at the M. e. church
since her return to the city.
Miss Hazel Prom was a visitor from
Milton in the city a couple of days last
week returning home Thursday.
A number of good secondhand sewing
machines for sale. Prices S. to $40.
Thos. Dunford, agent for Singer Co.
Mrs. w, f.. Winter returned home
Monday from a visit of week, at F argo,
with her sister, Mrs. IL, w. Mclean.
Mrs. koerner, returned on Tuesdays
train to her home at Roundup, Mont,
after visit of a couple OF weeks with
friends here,
Hon. Ole T. Axvig and Judge Finley
A. Mcdonald, a pair of Millions political
heavyweights, we're taking in the sights
here Thursday.
Judge and Mrs. Halvor Torgerson of
Homen were passengers on Tuesdays
afternoon train for a visit with friends
down the line at Milton.
Boyd's department store has another
half page adv't this week giving parti-
culars about the big voting contest
which will closes MAS eve.
VIM. Stevenson, who was called to
Fargo last week as a U. S. federal court
juror, was granted an excuse by Judge
Amidon and returned home on Mon
days train.
a. b. Croft, one of Grey townships
substantial old pioneers and a big land
owner in the Daniels settlement was in
city Tuesday and made this office an ap-
preciated call before returning home.
Our So No. 16 size Waltham Is jewel
watches with a 20 year guarantee case
Will tit more pocket books and tastes
and give more all around satisfaction
than any other watch on the market.
A. o. Void Co,
Jack Gillespie and his brother closed
a contract with Iceman Haugh while
here Monday for a shipment from Mil
ton of a seasons supply of their 1911
ice crop which they are now harvesting
at Spring Water lake.
Mrs. AT LeVesconte and children
were departing passengers on Fridays
train and will make stop over visits at
LeSeuer, Mimi, and the Twin Cities.
while Mr.. LeVesconte is closing up his
business affairs in Langdon. The Le-
Vescontes expect to go as far south as
Florida to spend the winter.
T.J. Thorson, former manager of the
Nekoma band is now located at Wimble.
don, where he is leader of a newly
organized band of thirty-three pieces.
The band gave a concert on Tuesday of
this week and those here, who knew
Mr., Thorson have visions of a bright
and successful future for Wimbledon's
l~--
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Many Canadian farmers have suffer
ed a great hardship this year. They
succeeded in growing Il cropof grain that
promised a profitable yield and part of
it was caught by frost beforeit ripened
and much of it is now under the snow
and nothing can be done with it until
spring. Perhaps then it will be found
that much of it is spoiled and its mar
8et value gone.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Congress man Helgesen comes out in
the open for LaFollette for president
and makes some pretty strenuous re-
marks regarding Mr.. Taft. But say
Mr., Helgesen, how about Mr.. HANNAH
Bathgate Pink Paper,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Published every Thursday morning at Lang
don, Cavalier county, North Dakota.
Entered at the Post Office of Langdon as mail
natter OF the Second Class.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-11-30

Subscription S1.50 per aunum Canada 500
per annum. Advertising rates on application.
Communications must be received by Tuesday
noon to receive prompt attention.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-05

The wonld's quinine market is soma.
thing about which the world doesn't
know great deal. The source of 1ui.
nine has usually been considered thu
corner drug store, where 1t grows In
little glass bottles or gelatin capsules.
But there Is quite a disturbance In the,
quinine market.
Thirty years ago the principal SUD.
ply of qusnine came from the western
coast of South America. A small.
amount was obtained in India and Csv-
lon. The average quinine content of
the cinchona bark was two to three
per cent. Better methods of handling
the cinchona bark, however, have re-
suited In recent years in yields of from
5.5 to even IT per cent Monthly sales
of Quinine bark are held in Amster-
dam. Java, which was scarcely in the
market at first, now sends from 35 to
70 tons Of quinine sulphate a month
there. These enormous increases In
production have brought down the
price.
1t is thought, however, that the con-
tinued opening of dark places and the
increase In the population will succeed
in causing the demand to meet the
supply.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-05
When spItzbergen Was TropIo.

Swamp expresses that grow In Flor.
ida today once fourished in Spitzber.
gen, says Count dc Geer, the leader
Of a Swedish geological expedition
which has just returned from an ex-
ploration trip to that bleak and ice
bound island. The expedition found
geological strata which are described
by Count de Geer as one colossal her
barium In fossilized state. They arc
said to justify the assumption that In
early periods the entire north polar
region was one vast low lying plain
covered with dense forest. Evidences
of the early vegetation now present
themselves In extensive coal deposits
which newly formed company Is be-
ginning to work. 1t is expected that
$4,000 tons Of Spitzbergen coal VIII
be shipped next year. Today no plant
grows on Spitzbergen taller than an
inch or two.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-05
JUST BECAUSE MAN PROPOSES
IL RenaIns Only for Woman to Prove
Herself Adaptable tc Cir
oumstances.

II q woman could have the same lib
erty OF choice In the acquiring Of a
husband as a man has in the selec'
ton of wife, consider the change 1t
would make in the marriage problem
and In the divorce court. 1t by no
means follows that because man
loves q woman she loves him. But
he may be the only man who loves
her, or he may be the only man who
is eligible. or the only mau her people
want her to marry, or any one Of 100
'onlies you can easily think Of for your
self.
And what then? There may be some
unattainab1e man the woman really
does love, but what can she do? All
most nothing! She is bound to choose
from the men who come t, her. True,
she can stay single, and many women
do 80, and on this very account--that
they never have happened to love
the men who loved them. But to stay
single, Is not solution of the question,
and it does not appeal to the major
ity of women.
Nine times out of ten the woman
locks up in her heart the ideal Of q
husband she has formed, or the pref
erences she has inherited or 40
quired, or the thought Of the other
man, and takes the man who wants
to marry her, whether or not Re is
the man she wants to marry, II she
Is woman Of character she persuades
herself and others that he is the man
she wants to marry. She lends her
self to whatever form his wooing may
take.
II he 10 blond and bearded, though
she prefer dark eyes and shaven face,
yet you would never guess 1t from
word OF hers She may have assured
herself every day that she viii marry
only man Of dignity, but she will re-
cant when her sutton proves clown.
She may adore spontaneous merri-
ment and not only marry a straight
laced prude but swear that It Is tae
only kind Of a man she can endure
Margaretta M. Tuttle In Golfers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-01-05
LIFE OF A TIKEPIECE
AVERAGE WATCH GOOD FoR
ABOUT SO YEARS.
Depends Largely on Person Carrying
1t and Care Taken of it-Should
Be Wound Same Time
Daily.

The life of watch, jewelers. say,
depends largely on the person carry
ing it. and the care taken of it. As
to the care Of watch some jewelers.
say that it should be oiled once a
year. some once in two years; per-
haps once In IS months would be
about the right thing.
All jewelers. say that q watch
should always be wound at the same
time daily; this is essential to make
1t give the best and most uniform re-
suits. If watch Is permitted to run
down 1t may on rewinding keep diff
ferent time and require regulating.
With the watch wound regularly and
kept running there is set up and es-
tablished in the handspring a certain
tension. II this strain is wholly re.
leased by letting the watch run down
the spring may on rewinding take on
a somewhat different tension. This
difference may be extremely slight.
but 1t may De enough to affect the
running OF the watch.
While some watches ais long lived.
many are short lived, the long lived
watches being of course those OF fine
quality that are also well cared for.
But there is limit to the life of any
watch that is kept constantly in use.
The best Of watches, like the best Of
anything, will wear out In time.
A matchmaker had lately brought
In to him for repair a watch 1875 years
old that had been running practically
continuously. It might be difficult to
say OF Just what duration its intervals
OF rest had been, but it was supposed
to have been run practically continu-
ously, and though it had stopped at
least once, 1t was still in fairly good
condition and good for some future
use. But this was an extraordinary,
case. Most watches, however excel
lent they may have been originally,
would with constant use wear out in
far less time.
Sometimes there are brought in to
jewelers. fine old and once valuable
watches whose owners, desiring now
to buy new watch, wish to offer the
old watch at some price In exchange;
but 1t is of no value except for the
weight of the metal contained in it's
cases. Every jeweler has an accumu,
iative collection Of such old works.
which are of no value whatever, ex-
cept that at long intervals there may
be found among them a wheel or 8
part that may serve in some other old
time watch brought In for repair.
So watches do wear out; and as to
the life Of watch, 1eweler SAID, q
good average watch, with fair care.
ought to wear from 80 to 90 years.
and fine watch 30 years: 1t might
last rs, but so years would probably
be nearer the figure.
1t may be thought that a superior
watch would last longer than that. but
really the wonder is that this delicate
piece OF mechanism running year after
year ceaSelessly should run SO long.
And as a matter of fact, comparative
ly few watches are put to the I1naI
test of their endurance. Fashions
change in watches as they do in ev
erything else, and men tire of their
old watch and want another. and they
are more than likely to buy a new
watch before the old one stops.-New
York Sun.