Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-09-17

CIoyeu SOIle Jour nunQTeQ bushels OIL
wheat on the farm of w. H. Smith of
Beaulieu, Friday night last week.
The setting of the afternoons thresh-
ing had been set afre and got beyond
control with the result above stated.
Rev. S. j. Arsenault, who resigned
charge of the Catholic parish at Wal
halla, owing to poor health, has
resumed church work at Calgary,
after an extended stay at his old home
at Prince Edwards Island. He will
be assistant to Bishop McNally at the
cathedral there.
After Monday next week, when IN
election will be held at Gallo for the
purpose Of that towns incorporation,
Gallo will be on the map and officially
known as the Village of Gallo. The
people there take thismove in order to
enable them to take proper legal steps
to bond for school and other municipal
improvements.
Robert Griffith, an Osnabrock old
timer now engaged in fruit farming at
Cashmere, Wash, was in Langdon
Friday preparatory to leaving for his
home in the west after a months stay
here looking after business. He re-
ports the sale of seven car loads of
apples to dealers in Langdon and other
Cavalier county towns.
From Calvin quite a number of good
crop yields are heard since the thresh-
ing season started, one Of the best
being the result on the Alfred Larson
farm east of Calvin. He got 1000
bushels of wheat from sixty-fve acres
and 1910 bushels of oats from fifty
acres. His Macaroni wheat averaged
twenty-one bushels per acre.
The wind-up of the contest of the
Wales Progress, which is being parti-
cipated in by ten popular young ladies
of that vicinity is rapidly growing in
interest as the finish grows near.
The three leaders are Miss Mary Schu-
Ter with 80, 325 votes; Miss Anna
Schmidt with 36, $50 votes and Miss
Auroea Scheistel with 81, 500 votes.
The society column of Fridays
Grand Forks Herald intimates that
Mrs. 0. T. Rishotf, whose husband
preceded Editor Peterson as publisher
of the Milton Globe, is one of the
executive committee of the Votes for
Women league in that city, which
b%anquetted DR.. Anna Howard Shaw
on the occasion of that lady's visit to
Grand Forks last week.
A fire alarm at Hannah last Tues
day afternoon was occasioned by a fire
discovered on the feeder of the Mont
gomery separator, threshing the crop
on the Albert Thompson farm, which
adjoins the town. The crew managed
to pull the outfit from the mass of
flames which surrounded it when the
straw pile caught fire. Several acres
of grain in shocks were also destroyed
by the fire.
A young mar who had been working
on the farm of H. Green near Wales
through the harvesting and threshing
season, was ovetaken at Dresden last
Wednesday after having decamped
from the home of his employer with a
gold watch, twenty five dollars in
money and a gun. All the property
was recovered and it was decided to
let the culprit go after a severe repri-
mand owing to his youth.
Joseph F. Foster, a successful
farmer and real estate mar from
Clyde, was here Saturday, taking the
noon train for a trip through the
states of Illinois, Missouri and Kan
sas. The sections of country he in
tends visiting have experienced good
crops this year and Mr.. Foster has in
view several prospective purchasers of
farm lands through the western part
Of Cavalier county in the neighborhood
Of Clyde.
Walter Frederickson, who left a
job in the print shop of the Hannah
Moon some years ago to locate at
Scott, Sask., is heard from as having
enlisted with the Canadian volunteers
for active service in the European
war. Another boy from Cavalier
county who has gone to the seat of
VAL is "Jimmy'' Holland, who with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Hol-
land, removed to the Canadian North
west from Langdon some years ago.
The northern baseball league closed
last week with Duluth winning the
seasons pennant, Winnipeg was a
close second and Grand Forks finished
in third place. Among those who
made good in the fast company Of the
northern league was Fayette, who
pitched for Clyde, up to the time the
Cavalier county teams disbanded last