Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-01-18

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Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Scott of Wales,
visited at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
W. Pope Friday of last week, returning
to their home on Saturdays afternoon
train.
Miss lena Regner, the primary teach
er of the Langdon schools, who was
detained at her home IN Cooperstown
N. D., by illness after the holidays re-
turned on Mondays train.
Percy Abbey, who spent the Christ
mas season in Cando visiting with his
friends, returned on Thursday of last
week to Augusta, Mont. where he is en-
gagged in the banking business .-Cando
Herald.
The advertising department of the Ct
Northern railroad will cooperate with
the Cavalier Co. Immigration association
in the getting out of a lot of splendid
material for giving Cavalier county
farm lands a boost with eastern buyers,
E. D. Stewart, manager of the Lang
don sub-station experimental farm took
Saturdays train to Fargo, where he is
attending the sessions of the tri-state
grain growers convention and the annual
meeting of the faculty of the state agrl.
cultural college.
Attorney j. o. Plante, located at Penn
bina's new county seat, is a son of M. A
Plante, one of Olga townships best
known old pioneers. Attorney Plante
was appointed by Judge Kneeshaw as
counsel, for defendant in the Bathgate
wheat stealing case, tried in district
court at Cavalier last week.
H D. ALERT, Mrs. ALERT and their
daughter Miss Daisy ALERT we're pas.
sengers Monday for Eugene, Ore, where
Mrs ALERT and Miss Daisy will spend
some time visiting Attorney Fred B.
Smith and wife. Before the family re-
turn in the spring. Mr.. ALERT will
spend some time looking after invest.
ments he holds on the Pacific coast.
Six Langdon young men VIM. Price
Anton Rose Chester Denler, Sangster
Liebeler and Stanley Schneider, o. of
prominent farmers in the vicinity Of
Langdon left on Mondays afternoon
train for Grand Forks, where they will
spend the week in taking in the display
of gasoline engines and tractors which
is being made by the different manu-
features in hat city this week.
One of the DEMOCRATS readers hands
in the folio wing item for which no
doubt the cold spell of the past week
might haye somethingto do with: "What
may have resulted in a coroner's case
occurred last week, on the night when
the thermometer lowered around sc
below zero. A certain Langdon family.
consisting of a man, wife, two children
and a pet dog came very near freezing
to death. 1t seems that when it came
time to retire the head of the family
who by the way is noted for his soberity
and regular habits, turned the dog out
for an airing as was his wont, and fol
got all about him, and after attending
to the heater he rolled into bed. The
dog is of the sh%ort-haired variety anc
self preservation being strong in bis
makeup, after waiting a reasonable
l:... h. l.,-~ool an tho kifohnn I0C,
with all his force and as a result it flew
wide open. 1t seems that the latch OF
the door had been out of order for some
time. Well that door was open all nigh
and nothing was know of it by tn.
family until the next morning, whe1
hubby got up to start the kitchin 6r'
and felt a fearful chill in the house. IL
passing through the dining room h'
saw the dog shlvering and hugging the
heater, which had a fine fire in it ane
was doing good duty. In fact tina
heater was all that saved a tragedy. A:
it was the Towering plants all through
the house we're frozen stiff and tn
frigid blast SO attacked the bare; totsie
of hubby that he HE'D himself back int
bed, where he remained huddled u
with the two children, while the goot
wife was persuaded to tackle the job o
getting the house into a livable shap
The broken latch on the door has beel
fixed since.