Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-09-03

nah for a couple of years, goes into
business this fall with his brother,
who recently bought out a store at
Lankin, N. D.
Millions flour mill is to be re-
opened, at least there is a rumer to
that effect. 1t is also stated Milton
parties are back of this enterprise and
have a miller from the east coming to
operate the property.
The Wales school board finds itself
without a principal for it's school
with the near approach of opening of
the fall term. The one secured dur
ing the summer revoked the contract
which he signed at that time.
One of the big show farms just ac-
ross the line from Hannah, on the
Manitoba side is that of ''Ike' Moth
erall. He has just completed the
threshing Of three hundred acres of
wheat in which the average ran from
II to Is bushels per acre
Editor Boyd, of the Hannah Moon
is being visited this fall by his sis
ter, Miss Nancy Boyd, from Vancou-
Yer, B. G.. Miss Boyd is a graduated
trained nurse, and for some time was
in charge of the hospital at Hannah,
before removing to the west several
years ago,
The marshal of Osnabrock, who is
also editor of the Independent, one
day last week seized two shipments
of booze brought to the town by tran
sients, who gave the names of Jack
Burns and H. M. Roberts. Both
seemed glad of a chance to clear out
of the town.
The Byron township school, of
which Miss Shepherd is teacher, bears
the distinction of being the one school
in Cavalier county to capture the
sweepstakes premiums at the county
fair this year for it's collection of
grasses and pressed weeds properly
labeled.
A man by the name of John Kelso,
who came up from Balwes, Pike coun-
ty, Illinois to work during the harvest
and %threshing season is at the Hannah
hospital, where for some time he was
in a critical condition with appended
tbs. He has been successfully operat-
ed on and his mother is at his bedside.
J. w. Pratten, the owner of the
Northwestern Hotel property at Mil
ton, has leased the same to w. S.
Duncan, of Appleton, Mimi, who
takes over the business on Septem-
per LIST, The new landlord is the
ta~ther-in-law OF Manager Buchanan,
OF the Northwestern elevator. No
announcement is made of what Mr..
Pratten's future plans may be.
People Of Osnabrock and vicinity
learn with great feelings of regret
of the death last week of the infant
son Of E. J. Moen and wife at their
home in Grand Forks. The child was
a year and five months old and had
been suffering for two weeks before
it died from %whooping cough and other
complications. The little one was
the youngest of three.
John kartes, whose farm lies
between Wales and Mt. Carmel is
able to report a yield Of twenty-five
bushel Of Marquis wheat on ground
that he has had under cultivation and
cropped to small grains the past
tWenty-four years. Other varieties
planted and growing under exactly
the same conditions on ground adjoin-
ing only showed a yield of from 10 to
II bushels per acre and badly shrunk-
en- and of an inferior grade.
One of the first cars of new wheat
to be shipped out Of Cavalier county
this fall is a shipment made last
Wednesday by Jas. Austin of Hannah.
1t was wheat of the Marquis variety,
which Melted him a yield of twenty
bushels per acre; tested No. 1 Hard
and for which he was offered a dollar
a bushel On the Hannah market, but
decided to ship. This is given as
being n of the best showings made
in the county since the opening of
the threshing season.
Thomas Sproat, a farmer northeast
of Hannah, sustained a bad fracture
Of an arm and leg in addition to
being generally shaken up in a run
away accident Wednesday of last
week when the spirited team he was
driving got beyond control. He was
near Mowbray when thrown from
the buggy. Found alongside the road
by a passing neighbor with a team he
was hurried to Wales where DR..
Backus set both arm and leg. The
accident is one that for a time to come
will cause much pain and the case will
have to be watched for other compli-
cations which may arise.