Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-01-22
Z Leea! Happenings &
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The proceedings of the board OF county

The proceedings of the board ofcounty
commissioners will appear in these
columns next weed,
23o below zero this morning-just as
a wind up to the cold spell we have en-
joyed since the snow storm and young
blizzard of Monday.
:. Automobiles made their last run for
'the season on Monday, January 10Th,
the heavy fall of snow, which drifted
considerably during the night seudlng
them into cold storage until spring.
VIM Shelley, wife and children re-
Aturned Saturday from a visit over the
holidays to their old home at Darwin,
Mimi, where they have been visiting
relatives of himself and Mrs. Shelley
and having a good time.
Township boards will require blank
forms for reports of their officers and
other blank forms before the annual
town meeting in March. The DEMOCRAT
carries a full line of township blanks
and fills mail orders the same day they
are received.
The Burns birthday anniversary,
January Goth, will be the occasion of a
concert and dance at Mowbray, gotten
up by the Scotchmen of southern Mani
toba and which will no doubt be partici-
pated in by quite a number of their
clansmen from the Cavalier county side
of the boundary line.
Mondays heavy fall of snow, the first
real appearance of winter so far this
season, occurring on January 10Th, was
five days later in putting in it's appear
ance than it was in 1888. the open
winter which has been quite frequently
compared with this, when the ground
remained practically bare Of snow until
January 18th. Last year, by way of
contrast, the snow covered the bare
ground with its white mantle in October
and was somewhere about three months
earlier.
The proposed new Interstate SEIZED.
ule Of express rates gives quite a de-
crease on the rate at present in force.
In place OF paying a charge of SIS cents
for express weighing Is pounds between
Langdou and Grand Forks the rate will
be "A cents; for so pounds it will be de-
creased from 80 cents to CT cents; for IS
pounds, from $1.OO to 81 cents. On 100
pounds of express the rate increases
from S1.OO to sl.15. Charges on larger
sized express packages have evidently
been raised in order to allow of a de-
ductlon in the rate of smaller sized ones,
where the express companies tind active
competition IN the parcels post service
Sheriff Kelland and States Attorney
Crimson have information as to where
they can lay hands on Herb Sullivan
who with Joe Dumas broke Jail here in
December while district court was in
session. Dumas was rounded up on the
Templeton farm at Hannah and is o
safe at Bismarck serving his senten CO il
the pen. Sullivan, who is credited with
the head work in effecting the jail de
livery, is now out west in Washington,
where he used to railroad as a 'locomo
tive engineer and fireman. 1t is now
certain Sullivan had friends on the
outside who furnished the saws, with
which he cut the bars Of the outer
window of the jail. Sullivan had less
than a month to finish his Jail sentence
for smashing up the Donovan threshine
outfit and his big hurry to get out ne
doubt was because he was afraid of be
ing grabbed by the police for something
that would send him up for a term O
years.