Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-02-27

Langdon's vital statistics for the month
of February recorded another birth this
| week when she stork left d little girl
baby at tbs home of Butcher Henry
Windemutk; who now has a family OF
five, all girls.
Adam and Platz Hettler left Tuesday
by way Of Hannah and Snowflake for
Saskatchewan where both will spend. the
summer on their Canadian homesteads
in the neighborhood of Chinook, Sask.
Mrs. O'Brien and daughter, Miss
! Tessie, who have been spending a couple
OF weeks in Chicago With, Mrs. O'Brlen's
fson, Parnell, who has spent the past two
! years there in a seminary, returned home
Friday.
Cornelius spenst who recently dis
posed of his farming interests near
Langdon will enter into a partnership
with Cornelius KrahH IL tie farm machi-
merry and hardware business at Munich
this spring. =
| Go. Com'r Elias Porter came over on
Thursday from Gaivin, accompanying
Miss Christina McHstdy and sister Miss
| Margaret, the latter being taken to the
asylum at Jamestown for treatment on
Fridays train.
Rev. Patrick ORiordan, who hlaaNsT been
associated with the parish work Of st.
Alphonsus church during a stay of neaF-
ly three months in Langdon left Tues.
! dav for Devils Lake, where he has been
located by Bishop OReilly for pastoral
| work.
Mr.. Bimler, ST.. who moved to Lang
don from their farm at Wales last fall
with his wife, occupying one of the cot
tages at the north end of Third street, is
reported as being quite seriously i'll. He
is far advanced in years and has been in
poor health for over a year past.
Halvor B. Nelson, the Numedahl mer-
chant and retired farmer was q business
visitor from the northeastern corner Of
Fremont township during a couple of
days last week. Mr.. Nelson is the post
master at Numedahl and has quite a line
of business to look after in that locality
as a notary public.
Frank johnson, who'has been operat-
ing the lunch counter and restaurant in
the rear of the LeBrun s. Matthew pool
room and bowling alley, has left during
the week with his family to relocate at
their former home down in Minnesota
The restaurant is now in charge Of
Clement Tourand, who is Quite we'll:
known to the public of Langdon and
the immediate vicinity.
Boyd's department store auction is
still drawing the crowd to that store
daily and big inloads are being made in
the mammoth stock of goods by the sales
which Auctioneer Joe Kelly is securing.
j. B. Boyd has an entire new change of
advertisement this week. The sale will
not last much longer and the opportuni-
ty will then be gone to get big bargains
in general merchandise at actually your
own price.
Adam Witzel and wife of Mt. Carmel
we're returning passengers on Saturday
from Hagermann, New Mexico, where
they were called a little over a month
ago by the illness and death of Mrs.
Ogden Quigley, mother of Mrs. Witzel.
The Quigley family are we'll known for
mer residents of this part of the county
but removed to New Mexico about eigh-
teen years ago. Mr.. Witzel brought
back with him anything but a favorable
impression of the country where no crop
can be successfully grown without irri-
cation and it costs from $500 to 5000
to drill a we'll with a sufficient flow Of
water with which to irrigate.