Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-05-11

work done Fern Reynolds also :accom-
panied them.
Fred Borousky of Mimic was trans
acting business in our berg last Monday.
He reports wheat sowing practically
finished in his vicinity.
Jacob Gapp recently purchased abel
gian stallion which horsemen here say is
a beauty. He is four years old and
weighs a few pounds less than a ton.
j. j. Maloney who has been in the
Canadian Northwest was home Sunday.
MIR. Maloney expects to move to the
Northwest as soon as he gets his busl-
ness affairs here in shape.
P. p. Schneider was in town last Sun
day and reported that he had finished
sowing both wheat and oats. P. P. was
one of the few who got some wheat
sown before the early snow.
G. H. Johnston is the busiest man in
Wales nowadays planting garden
flowers fruits and other trees and shrubs
and If his labor is rewarded will soon
have the prettiest place in town.
There was a disgraceful street brawl
and fight on our streets again last Sun
day evening. If the parties who sold
the booze were made to suffer such
scenes would not be so common.
A. III Koehmstedt who is drilling a
we'll at the Catholic parsonage, when
down about twenty feet struck a rock,
which dynamite failed to effect and was
obliged to begin all over again in a new
place.
DR.. Backus was called out to Mr..
Willamson's to attend one of the hired
men who is down with typhoid fever
and also an attack erysipelas He is i'm
proving fast and hopes soon to be out
again.
Fred Baldwin of Langdon was up to
the ball game Sunday and while here his
auto refused to work so he was detained
until Monday. Fred is a jolly fellow
and seemed to enjoyed the delay i'm
mensely.
Prof. Davis of Dresden was a Wales
| visitor between trains Saturday, this
is Mr. Davis third year in Dresden and
he informs us that he will return to his
home in Wisconsin when his school
closes in June and that he does not ex-
poets to be at Dresden next year. Mr..
Davis has made a host of friends, not
only at Dresden, but all along the line,
by his close attention to his duties and
and jolly ways, who will regret to hear of
his decision and he will be greatly miss.
ed in educational, social and athletis
circles.
The base ball game last Sunday be-
tween Wales and Langdon was a hum
mer, from a Langdon view point. Really
the Langdon bunch acted like they
never had hit a ball nor made a score in
their lives and never expected to again.
They acted as though they were deter
mined to make up for lost time and store
up a few scores for future use. Nearly
everything our Mr.. George offered was
a two Dagger and what were not
two baggers were home runs. And that
Lothspeich was the most indecent of
the bunch and wouldn't let u boys
touch that measely ball. Some of the
Wales batters declared he was throwing
peas instead of balls, while others actual
ly struck at the ball when he threw to
third base to catch a runner, and nearly
got a hit at that-or came as near as the
first eight Wales batters..ups:did. But
just to show the Langdon outfit that the
Wales misfits were in it in one depart.
ment the Wales boys had eighteen errors
charged up to them-the same mum.
Der that Lothspeich struck out. But
the limit came in the ninth inning when
these discourteous fellows actually pu,
Scott out be tween second and third
when he would have been safe by a mile
if he hadn't broken his belt and 90,
tangled up in his baseball toys. He
simply had to stop to readjust hi>
falling trousers, but the unfeeline
"umps" NJ de no allowance whatever ano
the THIRD baseman actually chuckleo
with delight at his misfortune. The re
turn game is scheduled to be played or
on Wednesday of next week May 18th
and then Largdon need ask for no mer
Professor Davis of Dresden umpired tt
the satisfaction of all except a few O
the regular kickers.
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