Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-12-21
Making a Real Estate Loan?
See or write me about it. I
can make it to please you. Pre-
payment privilege allowed.
g. P. GETCHEL, Wales, N. D.

Monday for a short visit at the big
Northwest Land Show, expecting to
return home in time to spend Christ
mas with his family.
Peter Olson and Knute Jorgenson, both
former residents of the Wang settlement
and now owning fine farms in the west
ern part of the county near Clyde were
business visitors here Saturday.
Mrs. Baker, ST., mother of Mrs. M. L.
Sullivan, arrived on Saturdays train
from her home in Devils Lake and will
remain over Christmas visiting with
Langdon members of her family.
Miss Allie Dickson, who is attending
the state university came up from the
Forks on Monday for the Xmas vacation
il company with her father, Attorney
w. b. Dickson who was returning from
a trip to Williston on legal business on
Monday.
On Monday afternoon at his Office III
the court house County Judge Bleakley
performed the ceremony uniting two
Cavalier county young couples. One
couple being William Fl. Bergman, and
Mrs. Mary Woods, of Wales and the
other Frank A. Olsen and Miss Josephine
Berg, both of Nekoma.
TIE. Burke, the Langdon insurance
man was shaking hands with a nun.
Der of old friends here yesterday. Mr.
Burke has recently resigned the Office Of
police magistrate at Langdon which will
enable him to devote his entire attention
to his insurance business. He has been
engaged in the insurance business at
Langdon for the past twenty years.
Osnabrock Independent.
The haste with which the item was
produced last week just before going
to press relative to the Murie.S Smith
wedding of the previous afternoon may
be stated as accounting for the blunder
which would hardly require pointing
out, in which the groom was reported
as being "Mr. Harry L. Price, eldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Smith. The
DEMOCRAT apologies to the interested
parties fer its error.
William Herricks, one of the thrifty
old pioneers of the German settlement
north of Langdon has decided this year
to retire from active farming and has
about decided to spend at least a part of
the coming year in a visit to the old
country, leaving here in the spring to
visit the scenes of his boyhood days. His
farm of four quarters and an eighty of
the best land in Langdon township has
been leased for a term of years by his
son Fred Herricks who will operate the
entire place. AS will be seen in the
DEMOCRATS want columns a number of
desirable horses are offered for sale at
the Herricks farm.
L. Belanger, one Of the pioneer resi-
dents of Rosa Lake, who first moved to
North Dakota in the old territorial days,
Twenty-Five years ago died Tuesday
morning of this week at two o'clock,
aged sixty-three-years. His death fol-
lowed an illness extending over the
greater part of the time since early last
fall at which time he was taken down
with a severe cold, from the effects of
which he never completely recovered.
The family is one which has at all times
maintained the respect and esteem
of those among whom they have known
at Rosa Lake and Olga during the past
quarter of a century. The funeral will
be held today at ten o'clock in the FORE
noon, the services being held at the
Catholic church of Olga and the remains
laid to rest beside those of his wife in
the cemetery at that place. The
family left to mourn consists of two
sons, Frank X. and Louis and three
daughters, Misses Mary and Anna
Belanger, and Mrs. Lacialle, the latter
! residing 10 this city.