Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-07-10

Hannah's crowd of Fourth of July
visitors is estimated as numbering not
less than 5000 people.
| Syver Berger. the big farmer east of
Osnabrock, was the purchaser of Ford
automobile last week.
Nekoma is putting in cement side
walks this summer and IN this and
other ways is rapidly becoming quite
metropolitan
David Schmies and Frank Loewens
are two substantial farmers Of Gordon
township who are building fine new
homes this summer.
| Joseph Helten, of Trer township is
home from stay of some length at a
hospital IN Devils Lake, where he was
operated on for appendicitis.
Hannah, Calvin and other towus in
the western part of this county are all
sending their full quota of campers to
Rock Lake, Man. again this summer.
| Filing T. Sanstegaard, who quite re-
Gently removed from Osnabrock, return
ing to his former home in Iowa, is re-
ported as very i'll and probably dying.
Wahalla is sending quite bevy of
its fair school marms to attend the sum-
mer training school which opened last
week at the state university at Grand
Forks.
Alsen has built new Norwegian
church this summer. the dedication OF
the editice in the fall is hugured on as
quite an important event by the people
of Gordon township.
Miss Mabel Bocan, a Cavalier county
teacher, we'll known in the Iona neigh.
borhood has decided to spend the sum.
mer on half section homestead filed on
some time ago near Malta, Mont.
Daniels will hold it's big annual Yeo.
man picnic on Friday of next week, July
18th. Daniels has the distinction oil
having the largest and most hourshing
lodge of the Yeoman order IN the north.
ern part of the state.
Miss Violet Stewart, we'll known
school teacher of this county, whose
home is at Milton, was operated on in &
Grand Forks hospital last week for ap
pendicitis. The operation is reported as
having been entirely satisfactory.
Farmers IN Trier township are sue
cessfully operating a telephone line in
hvich the messages aretransmitted ovel
l the barb wire fences of their pastures
5 Reported as working alright although
the conversation of course gets little
jagged along the edges once in awhile.
, Peter Schwlnghammer, Jr the young
est son of MIR. and Mrs. Peter Schwing
hammer, of Mt. Carmel township. is re
ported as slowly recovering from 6
very serious attack of rheumatism ir
which the heart was for some time at
fected and his life despaired by the
family and attending physician.
According to the Mounta'neer, the
newly appointed postmaster OF Walhalla
Joseph Deschenes will resign the job OF
travelling salesman that he has filed
since retiring from business some years
ago, and now settle down and enjoy life
in one of the most picturesque towns to
be found in the northern part Of this
state.
Cornelius Spenst, who since retiring
from farming IN Waterloo township has
been engaged in the hardware and farm
machinery business at Munich duringthe
week returned from an auto trip OF
several hundred miles through the
western part of the state as far as the
Montana line, where he reports that
recent rains have greatly enhanced the
cropes outlook.
Nekoma relatives received news last
week that brother Jacob Lieberbach
while on his way from the old home IN
Austria to Nekoma stopping in Chicago
last week was overcome by the heat and
died from the effects. He is understood
as leaving a widow and three small
children in Austria, who were to have
joined the father and husband in this
country later on.
Mrs. e. @. Magnuson, of Mona, was
called last week to Preston, Mimi, to see
her brother. Martin Alfsen, who lies
seriously i'll as the result of complica
tions following an attack of sunstroke
from which he suffered some years ago
Mr. Alfsen conducted a clothes cleaning
repair and pressing shop here in Lang
: don several months until compelled by
i'll health to give up work this spring, al
which time he left for his former home
in Minnesota. 1t is understood there is
little if any hope of his getting better
On Sunday of this week the dedication
of the new Norwegian church a,
Nekoma was largely attended event
The people of Nekoma and vicinity have
seen to it that their new place of wor