Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-08-08
Langdon juniors Monday and won the
game Z to 4. The seniors will play
Langdon Wednesday.
AROUND 4E2 County.

Fairdale has an orchestra.
The Sarles Advocate is making a big
boost for good roads.
Calvin is putting on a big line of town
improvements this summer.
Robert Hammond of Calvin lost his
barn by fire a week ago last Saturday.
A six week term of Norwegian paro.
chial school closed at Fairdale last We'd
nesday.
Haying is now going on at full blast
and the crop is fine but help exceed
ingly scarce.
1t is claimed that the Farmers Eleva-
tor Co., at Hampden declared a ninety
per cent dividend.
There are some splendid lucky barley
crops near Munich which have been
sowed in the stubble.
Great Northern detectives haye been
investigating the disappearance of rail
road ties at Calvin lately.
A daughter of Senator Henry Mclean
of Hannah has secured a position in a
banking house at Wilke, Sask.
Sarles has a four piece orchestra
which made its debut at a dance given
by the Eastern Star order last week.
Today the big attraction at the Penn
bina county fair at Hamilton is an ad-
dress delivered by Gov. John Burke.
Trier township reports that haying is
about finished and that some barley is
being harvested in that nelghborhood
this week.
Game wardens over the county are
carefully guarding big coveys of prairie
chickens which will be ripe after Sep
TENDER 7th.
Hail is reported as having done con-
siderable damage southwest of Sarles
in Towner county, running up close to
the county line.
John Helten, one of the big farmers of
Trier township has built a big machine
shed for his farm implements which is
52x78 feet in size.
The state railroad commissioners we're
at Walhalla one day last week looking
over the site of the proposed loading
platform at Walhalla.
Considerable machinery for the
harvesting of corn is being sold at
Calvin and other western Cavalier
county towns this fall.
j. G, KERN, the Dresden grain buyer
and machinery dealer, has this week un-
loaded a car of Plymouth binding
Irvine. Best quality at lowest price.
The Gallo News is one the papers of
Cavalier county that has been a con-
sistent and persistent booster of the
fair that has been held in Langdon this
week.
Van Holm, who attempted to kill
himself at Fairdale some time ago, has
sufficiently recovered to leave the
hospital at Grafton and has gone to
Wisconsin.
Trier township farmers are reported
as paying $2.75 and $500 a day for men
to work through the harvest and thresh-
ing season. Help is scarce in that part
of the county.
Miss Lillian Jefferson, the registered
lady pharmacist at Doc Porter's drug
store at Calvin, is enjoying Il two week
vacation at the home of her mother at
Ambrose N. D.
John Rorvik for a number of years a
we'll known resident of Osnabock town
ship is putting up a two story farm
home, 28x32 with steam heat and every
modern convenience.
The Ssrles base ball team will be one
of the contestants in the international
tournament to be held at Crystal City
Man, on Friday of this week. A purse
of 500 is offered for the winners.
A. j. Hettwer, whose parents and
several brothers and sisters are resi-
dents of Trier township is the editor
and proprietor of the Burke Co. Bull
letin, which is a new paper printed al
Ignite, Nd.
H. A. Helgeson, of the Helgeson
Realty Co., at Osnabrock has sold 5000
acres of Cavalier county land since the
fifteenth of June. Recently he made
three sales to Illinois parties which
age regated sl00,710.
The Sarles State Bank, which took u1
other banking interests of that town
few months ago held the semi-annua
meeting of its directors last week. It il
shown as being quite a profitable invest
ment to the stockholders.
Last week while the six-year ole
daughter of j. H. Sunderla nd, VIII
lives near Fairdale, was walking behinc
a moving mower she accidentally step