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

nesday to Hannah visitors to the Grand
Forks fair.
Hannah tennis players are busy in
training for their annual fall tourna-
ment, which it is planned to play in
Langdon during the fair.
The Hannah Presbyterian church is
closed during the month of August
while the pastor, Rev. Kelly, is away
on a vacation through Western Can
ada.
Mrs. James Murray of Osnabrock
came up on Tuesdays train and while
a fair visitor in Langdon this week is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Will
kinson at their farm a mile east of
town.
Miss Nettie Hanson, field deputy
in the Office of the county superinten-
dent of schools of Walsh county, was
here from Grafton the early part of
the week to act in the capacity of
judge of the educational exhibit at
the fair.
Donald Mcdowell, who accompan-
led his mother on her trip to Banff
Springs and other points in the Can
adam northwest a month ago, return
ed home during the week. Mrs.
Mcdowell is also home having arrived
yesterday.
Miss Nettie Prinyer, who has been
i'll the past two or three weeks, is not
making the recovery her friends hoped
for and a message was sent yesterday
to her sister, Miss Florence, who lives
at Kingston, Ont, and is expected to
arrive the end of the week.
Peter Drocher and Ed REYNOLDS
escaped only by a miracle in an auto
upset near Calvin last Sunday. TRAY
cling at a speed of thirty miles an
hour they lost control of the car,
which turned over twice. The dam
age to the car includes two broken
wheels.
Miss Lillian Helgeson, daughter of
Congressman Helgeson, is spending a
month from Washington, D. c.. at
the Milton home of the family. She
has been visiting part of the summer
with her sister, whose home since
marriage has been at Minot, in this
state.
Clyde's big building improvement
for the season of 1914 will be a
$40, 900 Methodist church, the plans
of which have just been accepted and
approved. They were drawn by Haxby
& Gillespie of Fargo, the architects
who made the plans for the Langdon
high school building.
When the north bound train pulled
into Calvin last Tuesday evening, an
accident was only averted by 1.-THE
watchfulness of the engineer. The
section men had left the switch from
the main line to the side track open
and there was a narrow escape from
a collision between the passenger
train and a string of box cars stand
ing on the side track.
Joseph and Philip Klodt, cousins of
Anton Clodt arrived on Fridays train
from their home in Missouri and will
remain for a visit during the fall
season. The corr and wheat harvest
OF the section of the country where
their home is was through with before
they came north.
The Hannah Moon asks the peril
nent question: What is there about
an automobile that makes it so hard
to get it near a church on %Sunday?'
Landlord A. A. Scott, of the Han
nah hotel, is being visited by his two
sons, Cecil and Buell., who held posi-
tons in the Union depot at St. Paul.
The hail storm of Friday the 24th
ult., left quite a path of crop loss
through Trier and Seivert townships.
Among those who have bad losses are
Math Simon, Andrew Wize, John
Schiller, Mike Schroeder, Joseph
Goeser, P. E. Thinner, and Frank
Michels. Where there has been
insurance the loss through this neigh
borhood vas estimated at seventy-fve
per cent.
P. H. Kelly, one Of the older resi-
dents of this city, aged sixty-three
years, died on Monday afternoon about
three o'clock at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Hooey, after a
long illness of several months. He
was one of those who first came to
Langdon some twenty-five years ago
and in addition to his daughter, Mrs.
Hooey and n son, Ray, is also
mourned by his brother, M. Kelly and
sister Miss Annie Kelly, both of this
city. There are also other relatives
of the deceased living in Wisconsin.
The funeral this forenoon from St.