Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-06

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OFFICES:-Upstairs in Schulke Block. F.:
Will not be in town Mondays and
Tuesdays,
Langdon n. Oak.
Mrs. Peter Naismith returned on
yesterdays north bound train to
Sarles, having been called to the
home of her brother Jas. Mirehouse in
Loan township by the unexpected
news of the death of his wife, which
occurred last Saturday.
Miss Mary WINNER, who recently
returned to this city after spending
the past year attending school at St.
Johns academy at Jamestown, has dur
ing the past week accepted the posi-
ton as typewriter and stenographer in
the Office of T. E. Burke, of the Burke
Insurance Agency, in the Boyd block.
D. F. Booth, father of Mrs. w. A.
Bolton, was taken with quite a serious
turn in his condition Monday. 1t is
understood that the heat of the past
week has resulted in a series of faint
ing spells that together with his
affectation of a weak heart, places
the patient in a very critical condi-
tion.
Finley Mcdonald headed a %contin-
gent of Milton visitors who arrived
here on Tuesday, the opening day of
the fair and Mac stated that in
spite of the rush Of an early harvest
there would be the usual representa-
ton from that end of the county for
the two real fair days-yesterday and
today.
H. D. ALERT, Attorney w. B.
Dickson, Mrs w. F. Winter and Mrs.
M. L. Sullivan left Monday to attend
the meeting Of the grand lodge of the
knights of Pythias order of the
Domain of North Dakota. Mr.. ALERT
proceeds from the Forks to Winnipeg
as a state delegate to the supreme
grand lodge meeting Of the Knights
Of Pythias of the world.
W. N. Wright, the we'll known Ere
mont township stock farmer, who has
his farm entered in the contest at the
county fair is here to spend the week.
Only for the distance to travel Mr..
Wright would have quite a showing
Of horses and pedigreed stock at the
fair, despite the rush of work in the
harvest field through the entire east
ern half of the county.
P. P. Kopriva and wife returned to
their Langdon home Friday from a
visit of a month to Hardin, Mont. :,
where Mr.. Kopriva's two oldest boys
are in the general merchandise bust
t ness. Business is reported by P. P.
as having been good through that
section since early in the spring with
a large influx of new settlers arriv-
!, ing from the east this fall to locate
+ in the Big Horn cattle country.
t The Munich browns were another
] ball team of this county to close the
season during the week. The wind
7 up was a double header at Clyde or
Sunday, July 26th, in which the
f browns suffered defeat in both games.
: The season ended with Munich having
won rs games, 8 games lost and z
! games tied. Not quite as strong 6
e showing as last year, but good enough
to again give it first place in the
y Cavalier county league.
Peter Oakland, son of M. Oakland,
: was brought over from Nekoma Fri
g day to receive medical treatment al
r the Langdon hospital for bad %injurie!
n received in a runaway accident while
h at work on the farm of his uncle,
John Oakland, one of the big farmers
d Of that part of the county. 1t SEEM
when he was thrown from the wagol
e by the runaway team he was driving
he fell so that the hind wheel of the
d wagon passed over his neckand tn
:. side of his cheek resulting in a frac
20 ture of the jaw. The affair occurre
" Thursday afternoon and at the advis
of doctors at Nekoma he was brough
re to the hospital here to have the frac
If ture properly reduced and see wha
E. other injuries he had sustained. H
left for Nekoma Friday evening.