Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-06-25

| left on yesterdays noon train for the Be-
mldji and Cass Lake region of Mime
sofa to make homestead filings on tim
Der claims
Fred Aipstag, proprietor of the -four
and feed store has during the week
placed car load shipments of flour and
feed in his storerooms for the extra ruu
!of business this fall
Will Falconer left yesterday to re-
sumo work on his governmental ditch
ing and drainage contract in the swamp
lands of Michigan after months visit
with the folks at home
y f. j. Fox returned Saturday from his
trip to Mohall, N d., where his two
Ihoys, Charlie and Lawrence, will visit
during the summer at the home of their
aunt. Mrs. j. r. Power.
H, Il. Parker, former teacher of the
! Langdon high school, who now holds a
responsible position with the Swift Pack
ing Co., at Sioux City, Iowa, Is here
This week for few days visit
"A. Seeley went on Tuesdays train
to Bemidji, MINI, to look over the va
| cant government timber lands of north
ern Minnesota that have recently oeen
opened for entry by settlers.
| Robert Meiklejohn and c. j.. Taylor
| lett yesterday by way of the 500 for an
overland trip to Fish Lake in Rolette
county where they propose to camp and
! ish during two weeks outing.
/ Eugene LeBrun, confined at the Lang
don hospital since the auto accident of
two weeks ago which laid him up with
injuries to the knee cap, was removed to
| his home south of town Saturday.
Albert M. Thorson and bride, nee Miss
Mae Foshay, returned Saturday from
! their wedding trip of d week to points
| over the state since their wedding a
! couple of weeks ago at Devils Lake.
Supt. and Mrs. M. IL. Aygarn, accom-
i panied by their daughter Shirley, we're
guests at the home of Supt and Mrs j .
Il. Stautf during a stay of few days
here from Park River the past week.
i Il. B. Morrison, who is postmaster at
| Beaulieu and one of the best known
early day residents of the frs, noun
! tain, was here Monday to attend polt,-
zeal conference of his republican friends.
| Miss Annie Hoffman, u sister of Miss
Josephine Hoffman of this city, and Mrs
Robt Schill of Mowbray, arrived on
yesterdays train from St. Agatha, Ont,
to remain for the summer and possibly
make her home permanently in this
| county.
Frank j. Schwartz and family enjoy
ed trip Monday in ther auto to Hoople
where they spent the day visiting with
Peter Shredder, formerly a Langdon
resident who now owns meat market at
Hoople: one of the prosperous little
towns in Walsh county.
Manager Baldwin, of the Cavalier
County Implement Co., now has his
family with him in Langdon. Mrs.
Baldwin and the children arriving from
Grand Forks during the week and are
comfortably domiciled in the Dougan
house on the Dorvall hill.
The DEMOCRAT Acknowledges the re-
ceipt of Il communication from a CORES
pondent near town, which although it
bears the name Of the writer, is not Civ
en- space owing 10 the local personalities
it deals with as we'll as being entirely
lacking in public interest.
Now that the primary election. the
Langdon boosters auto tour and the
teachers institute are events of the past
everyone will get brief breathing spell.
The next big attraction is the Chautau-
qua for five days during the week of
July 14th to 18th, On the 18th, just as
gigantic side show. Gollmar Bros, big
three ring circus comes to help swell
the crowd of visitors But it will be on
August 4th, 5th and 9th that Langdon
will for three days have to take care of
its greatest throng of visitors, these being
the dates of the Cavalier county fair,
M. Close, who expects to return about
the end of the week to his home near
Milton after stay here since his opera
ton for appendicitis two weeks ago,
numbers among the few in this county
who cast their ballot by mail at yester-
days primary election, County Auditor
j. K. Hamilton furnished four ballots
of this kind to the away from home voter
who mails his marked ballot to his home
precinct to be cast. The law providing
for enfranchisement of the away from
home voter on election day was enacted
by the state legislature of 1913 and is a
good thing.
BENEFITS APPEAL TO REASON