Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27

Ole Christofferson, a former Linden
township resident, has returned from
Cabri, Sask., and with an outfit of
horses he brought with him will oper-
ate a threshing machine he own in
the western part of the county.
M. Brillon, the father of Mrs. E.
Clairmont of North Olga has returned
from a stay through the summer at
his old home in Montreal. He is
eighty-fve years of age, but made the
trip alone and enjoyed it as though he
were but sixty.
The first load of wheat of 1914 to
be marketed at Walhalla came from
the farm of Herman Campbell, west
in Fremont township. 1t was of the
Marquis variety, tested sixty pounds
to the bushel and is stated by Mr..
Campbell as being a good crop.
The total rainfall since Friday, at
which time threshing operations were
practically suspended until today,
measured one and one-half inches.
This is more than has fallen at any
one time during the entire crop grow
ing season of the present year.
Around Hannah the threshing sea-
son is estimated to continue about two
weeks if the weather continues good.
The first wheat of the season was
threshed and marketed on Friday, the
18th, by Abe Croft, who has a fine
sample and average crop for this year.
Tom Spiker, an ex-Hannah resident
is down from Pennant, Sask., for the
%threshing season. He reports that
section of Western Canada as being
dried out through the lack of rain
during the summer season and cattle
are being shipped east by the train
load owing to the lack of fodder.
Otto Olson, returning to Osnabrock
for the threshing season reports the
crop in the neighborhood of his home
stead at Spalding, Sask,, as being so
poor hat few farmers will harvest it,
even as fodder for their stock through
the winter season.
Barney Janowski of Trier and DR.. I.
M. Law and John Neidhart of Munich,
number among those of the southwest
ern part of the county. who have this
year found in harvesting and t%hreshlng
their crops of fall rye they had some
thing like an average of 16 bushels
Calvin's consolidated school, which has
a standing of being one of the best in
the northern part OF the state, is being
equipped with a consignment Of new
seats and desks in readiness for the open
ing of the fall term. Its outside appear
ance has also been considerably improv-
ed by a coat of paint.
Around Calvin and vicinity, where no
hail was experienced the thresher is tel
ling of a slightly better average yield of
crop than has so far been heard of from
other sections of the county Wheat is
averaging from u to Is bushels: barley
about 20; oats from 50 to 40, and flax.
some of which is not yet cut. will be a
fair yield. There are some excellent
stands of corn and alfalfa through that
sect on, With the present indication of
good prices the outlook from the 1914
crop is much better than it promised to
be two or three weeks before it was cut.
Joseph Waltner, who shipped from
Munich to Montana last spring to locate
on a homestead is back again, his ex.
perience being that the country there is
all dried out, while perhaps the worst
feature that confronts the new settler is
the inability to find water, There is
; not a vestige of crop or even fodder for
stock, and the all summer drouth ex-
{ perienced is forcing all settlers who are
able to join in the exodus back to the
l homes they left when they were lured
westward by the bait of a half section
homestead on the dry sage brush plains
of the arid lands In western Montana.