Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-09-07
4 Local Happenings &
IN a.
School opens Monday.

School opens Monday. Il
Chicken season opens today,
The agriculture college at Fargo will
open Sept. 18th.
Monday being Labor Day things we're
quiet around the court house, post Office
and the banks.
Tuesday, Sept, 10Th is the opening
date for the fall aud winter term of
the::state university at Grand Forks,
Barley reached a top price of SO cents
on the local market Saturday afternoon
but fell off two cents at closing time.
The board Of county commissioners
have been in session since Tuesday, dis
posing. of an accumulation of business
since their last monthly session.
Another freight crew has been put on
the Larimore-H Hannah line. This gives
daily freight service. The train is in
charge of Conductor Billy Lyons-one
of the Great Norshern's best.
A lamp too close to the ceiling caused
some excitment in Dave Fishers res
taurant at Nekoma last Saturday even
ing about eleven o'clock. The blaze
was put out with a chemical e%xtingush-
er before any damage was done.
Thomas Mccoy, the Grand Forks
aviator, is noted as having made a very
successful ten minutes flight last Satur-
day at the Stearns county fair held at
Sake Center, MINI. His airship is a new
machine bought since his appearance at
the county fair held in Langdon about a
month ago.
The Ct. Northern's car repair crew
with special train pulled into L%angdon
Tuesday forenoon and have been busy
since doing carpenter and .other
work on freight cars that are being put
IN proper repair before the rush Of
business, when the crop begins to
move this fall.
Mondays excess of moisture, a rainfall
of O.69 inches, was merely a repetition
of the weather experienced exactly a
year ago on the same date. A large
- acreage of crop harvested and ready to
thresh has received a set back that will
continue throughout a greater part OF
of the present week.
DR.. G, F. Rudiger, the state public
health officer spent part of last week in
Hannah and different Cavalier county
towns along this line making an analysis
and inspection of water from wells
used for drinking purposes. 1t will be
of local interest to learn that the doctor
reports the water from the we'll lately
drilled at the new school building in
Langdon is a good drinking water.
though perhaps a little hard.
In the DEMOCRAT Office may be seen q
sample of what can be done in the way
of raising an alfalfa crop in Cavalier
county this year. The sample we have
on exhibition was brought in last Satur.
day from the farm of G. W. Mcbride
out north near the boundary line at Elk.
wood. The sample was in blossom and
stands about 3S inches high. 1t was
sown June 9th and when cut last week
showed an average yield of about three
tons per acre. Alfalfa is rapidly finding
a place as a fodder crop on the farms o.
of those who are going into stock raising
and find that diversified farming pays
The next theatrical attraction at the
Langdon Opera House is billed for Tues
day. night, September 18th. The
piece will be "My Wife's Family" The
story of a spendthrift, who in order t.
comply with the terms Of an aunt's viii
leaves a fortune contingent upon hi
marrying; is compelled, after deceivine
the administrator to produce a wife ane
family uron short notice. An obligine
friend impersonates bis wife in a way tt
make you scream. All the latest song!
and dances are introduced by competen
artists. The date is Tuesday, Septem
Der 18th and the prices are rs, so, and Z;