Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-01-09

Hannah's moving picture show is PROV
ing good paying Investment to the
promoters.
The Churchill family. we'll known resi-.
dents of Osnabrcck for several years,
have located at Seattle.
Wang has a live active working temper
ance society that holds monthly meet
ings inathe school house.
Wales now has three drays lines and
is doing a little better than living up to
the old adage that competition is the
life OF trade.
On the 9th ut, two days after Xmas
Lawrence Peterson and Miss Inga
4 Mostad were married at the groom's
home at Mona
/ Andrew O. Skutle, formerly a dray
man at Nekoma died Unexpectedly of
heart failure at Lake Mills, Ia, during
the holidays, He leaves a wife and four
children.
A little daughter of o. G. Miles living
near Newville had a narrow escape from
4 poisoning last week. The child took
strychnine, kept IN the home for gopher
poisoning.
Robert Robertson, of West Hope, and
U. S., mail carrier oyer the Langdon-
Elkwood route is sending his eldest son
to the mid. winter term at the state agri-
cultural college at Fargo
Hannah volunteers went to the aid of
their nelghboring townsmen at Wales on
the occasion Of the fire Christmas night
on one of Jim Hills hand cars, but
enroute got blockaded in a snow DRIFT
Milton was treated to Sunday after
noon socialist lecture during the holiday
week by A. r Bowen Jr., of Grand Forks,
who was the party candidate for cover.
nor OF this state at the November cleo
ton. His lecture was illustrated by
lantern views,
ri A Hannah party composed of Editor
8 Boyd, Druggist Dan McGruer, Dr. Law
i and Customs Inspector Myers are plan
ming trip through Washington, British
{ Columbia and other points on the Pacific
coast. They leave about the middle OF
= the month and will be away several
months.
D. A. Oakland one of Milton's veteran
pioneers has retired from active farming
y. anG 5Fith the coming of spring will
70 decide upon location on the Pacific
10 coast where he will enjoy his declining
years. He has been a familiar figure II
Milton public affairs for upwards {
. quarter of century,
John Oakland and wife living south
of Nekoma celebrated their silver we'd
a ding on Christmas Day. Two days
% latter, Friday the 9th ult., the couple
rendered wedding reception for thell
of son, Dan Oakland who had just been
to married to Miss Edith Wood, whose
home is in Montana.
IA Senator Plain closed up his large farm
J. located in Trier township just before
Ia the holidays, transferring the horses,
re- stock ETC., along with the working crew
to headquarters at Milton. The senators
entire acreage in the southwestern part
20 of the county is unthreshed and lies
20 under the snow, where it will remain
- until spring.
n Nick Helten one of the aged pioneers
of the south western corner of the county
:, some twenty years ago died on the 21st
~ ult., at the home of his son in low Mike
." Schroeder. Along with large number
y OF the German residents of that section
- he came to Cavalier county from south.
ern Minnesota and was generally held IN
le high respect.
'e Fairdale's consolidated school build.
e ing came near going up in smoke, a
n pile of coal in the furnace room being
is disco vered by the janitor to be on fire
The fire was at the bottom of the pile
"a and was only got at in the nick of time
,r 1t is supposed to have been started from
"a heap of ashes removed from the fur
,s mace CRATE short time previously.
Of Consolidation of schools carried by an
t. overwhelming vote at recently held
a election in Billings township and will
bring the total number of consolidated
schools in Cavalier county up tc
- ten. County Superintendent Helen j
- Sulliyan states that two other dis
! tricts, Banner and Huron, will adopt
- the consolidation idea of school work ir
- the spring.
le The marriage of Miss Bertha Nc
Gauvran daughter of Postmaster anc
j. Mrs. J ohm McGauvran, of this city, anc
ar Mr.. W. L. Cahill, of Fargo, was solemn
g. lied on Tuesday morning at half-pas
Or eight o'clock, performed by Rev
IS Father O'Driscoll, at st. Alphonsus
h churc. Miss Mary, O'Reilly and Mr.
IL C,,n, Lok f.,a H.,