Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-03

Miss Mary Cosgrove, n the grade
teachers of the city schools visited from
Friday until Monday at her home in
Devils Lake. Miss LaBelle Mahon
substituted as teacher for Miss Co.'S
grove until her return.
Benz Koehn and family were arrivals
on Fridays train coming from Okla
homa to locate on a farm in the Toews
settlement in Moscow township, They
leave the southland country owing to
the frequent crop failures occasioned by
drouth.
Amos Schweitzer, who has held a
position as travelling salesman with the
International Harvester Co., since dis
posing of his hardware business at
Iona, was a caller on Langdon &C
quaintances Friday. Since going on
| the road he has made Grand Forks his
home.
The supply of men to operate thresh-
ing machines in the vicinity of Langdon
and other points IN Cavalier county still
remains unequal to the demand. Tween.
ty-fve men got off yesterdays train and
we're all taken out by owners of thresh,
ing outfits, who are now offering S3.5O
per day.
Fred Borusky vas a visitor IN the city
part of Tuesday and yesterday from his
farm in Mimic township. Mr.. Borusky
is the democratic nominee for legislative
representative in this district and his
candidacy this early in the campaign is
receiving such encouragement that his
chance of election is quite good.
The Langdon potato warehouse open
ed up for business yesterday the market
price ranging from 20 to IS cents per
bushel according to grade. There is
still some work to be done on the in
terror of the warehouse and the elevat.
ing and loading machinery to be in.
stalled. The Langdon potato warehouse
yesterday installed phone No. 100 in its
Office for the use of it's patrons.
Mondays mail brought an announce
ment of the marriage of Miss Katherine
Lillian Dellinger, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John P. Dellinger. of Cleveland
Ohio, to Mr.. Wood Millbourne of the
same place. The event which occurred
on Saturday of last week, the 18th ult
is one that has a personal interest fol
the publisher of this paper, who way
back in the SOS held cases alongside o.
sack" Dellinger while working at the
trade in Cleveland.
Rev. T. Dougan threshed the whea'
on his farm north of town the early par
of the week and finds it averaging abou
"a bushels per acre. This of course doe'
not necessarily mean that the whea
crop of this vicinity will average up tt
this figure as there will be quite a larg'
acreage that will not run more than l!
to 10 bushels per acre when threshed
The best yield promised this fall is tn
oat crop which is very abundant and fin
sample; the weather during harvest ant
threshing has wrought the creates
amount of damage to the barley CROP
which up to a month ago promised to b
a record breaker. Mr.. Chas. Lothspeict
whose farm north of town was quit
badly hailed out the latter part of Jul
in threshing his wheat finds it yields l
bushels per acre. T%hreshing is bein
rushed ahead at this late season unde
the big disadvantage of every machin
being short handed as many of the me
who came here a month ago to thresl
have become discouraged with the con
tinued wet spell of weather and left o
the trains of the past week for the luu
Der camps in Minnesota.