Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-09-19

Mrs. Agnes Mcmillan is here making
a visit with her many Langdon friends,
arriving on Saturdays train from Saska.
toon, where she has made her home
with her neice Mrs. @. H. Stewart since
leaving the city about four years ago.
j. D. Salter a former we'll kno xn
Langdon resident is here from Lanni-
gan. Sask., renewing the acquaintance
of many old friends after several years
absence. He is visiting here with his
son Horace Salter of the G, Chisholm
store.
Remy Leonard for several months
head clerk in the grocery department at
the }. B, Boyd store left yesterday by
way of Walhalla for a trip through
points in Saskatchewan with a view to
locating at some business point on the
Canadian side of the line.
P. S. Schwartz, the Dresden con-
tractor and builder, came down the line
Friday on a business trip. His town is
badly in need of a first class general
merchandise store as since the fire some
time ago the only remaining merchant
Mr.. e. R. Rucker has removed to the
Northwest.
N. f. Charter, on Thursday last week
disposed of his pool room and lunch
counter property south of the ct.
Northern hotel to Oliver Lacaille, who
took immediate charge of the business.
Mr.. Charter made this deal in order to
be able to givehis undivided attention to
the rapidly growing patronage at the
New England Cafe.
Mrs. George Sturm took Tuesdays
train for St. James, Mimi, for a visit of
several weeks. Later, when the fall
harvesting and threshing operations on
the farm lands of Sturm & Price in
Cavalier county have been finished Mr..
Sturm will join his wife at St. James
They again intend going west to
| California for the winter.
Mrs. Ellen Mitchell for several years
deputy in the Office of the state treasurer
at Bismarck arrived on yesterdays
noon train and will spend some time
visiting here with her uncle Hon D. H.
Mcmillan, and relatives at Wales and
Hannah. Mrs. Mitchell and son are
planning to spent at least part of the
coming winter in California.
Rockwell G. Sayers, president of the
Farmers Trust Co., of Chicago, spent
part of the week in Langdon. Each
year be spends the harvest and thresh-
ing season in North Dakota, having large
personal farm property holdings. Mr..
Sayers has handled farm lands in this
state the past two decades at a yearly
increasing protit,and is a firm believer in
alfalfa and corn as crops hat tend to
advance the idea of diversified farming
in the west. He has a rating in Chicago
as a multi-millionalre.
Mrs. j. c.. McComb is making a fall
visit with her two sons Herbert and
Frank, who a couple of years ago home
steaded and are farming near Saskatoon.
Frank at present has a position with the
International Harvester Cox while Herb
is closing up fall operations on the farm
where they harvested a crop over 200
acres. The eldest son of the McComb's
Chas. is understood as having recently
cleaned up a small'sized fortune in a real
estate deal at Winnipeg where he has
been engaged in business for several
years.
On Monday night at five minutes
after ten o'clock death entered the home
of Mr., and Mrs. Thos. Brady of this city
leaving the sorrowing parents to mourn
the taking from the family circle their
eldest child, Eddie, aged six years. At
different times along through the past
summer the child had been ailing with
sickness that had been prevalent among
the little folks of the town but not In
a serious way until about a week ago
when symptoms Of spinal meningitis
were noted by the doctor attending, the
end slowly Thoughts teadily drawing near
despite the efforts of the parents and
friends. The funeral was held yester.
day forenoon from the st. Alphonsus
church.