Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-12-23

Tuesday of next week, the 18th
inst, the Langdon woman's club meet
at the home of Mrs. A. Schulke. The
hour of the meeting will be three
o'clock in the afternoon.
Cashier j. H. Balm and family are
now established in the Erickson cot
tage on Sixth street vacated by G.
w. Price, who now is a resident of
the Dorval addition on the hill.
Malcolm M. Darling returned on
Monday from his visit of a couple of
weeks at Painsville, Mimi, where he
has been visiting the old family home
and looking after business matters.
Miss Ruth Mahon, who is attending
school at Oberlin, Ohio, taking adj
vanced work in music and other
studies, arrives home today to join
the Christmastide family reunion.
Miss Bertha Alpstag is among the
arrivals during the week to make a
visit home during the holidays, COM
ing from Devils Lake, where she has
held a position during the past year.
Halvor Torgerson was in town Mon
day, it being his first trip to Langdon
since he was laid up with an attack
of pneumonia and pleurisy, which has
given him a serious time for two
weeks.
Miss Marie Dorval came up from
Grand Forks on Mondays train for a
visit home during the holidays. Since
leaving here in the fall Miss Dorval
has taken up nursing at St. Michael's
hospital.
Mrs. Ferguson arrived on yester-
days train from her home in Sas-
katchewan and is a visitor during the
holidays at the homes of her daugh-
tiers, Mrs. w. w. Mcqueen and Mrs.
H. E. Close.
Miss Ella Bleakley arrived home
Monday from Grand Forks, where she
is n of the staff of teachers at the
Wesley college conservatory of music.
She will remain for a visit during
the holiday vacation of two weeks.
Mrs. Frank Fischer went north to
Wales on Mondays train for a short
visit with her brother, Peter P.
Schneider, who went east this week
for a visit during part of the winter
at the old home in eastern Ontario.
Joseph Crawford was a passenger
Saturday to Neche, where he was
called to the bed side of his brother,
William Crawford, who lies in a criti-
cal condition, following an illness
dating back to the early part of the
fall.
L. D. Sweetman a former resident
of this county at Milton now located
at Mondak, Mont, was in the city
yesterday On business. He is still the
owner of considerable farm property
in the northeastern part of Cavalier
county.
Jas. Field, one of the old pioneers
of the Stilwell neighborhood, who
for some years past has been located
at Langham, Sask., is here for a
visit at the home of his brother, Jos.
Field, and a number of his old
friends. He was an arrival on Mon.
days train.
j. w. Haw returned on Friday
from Bottineau, where in company
with TIL. H. Kristjansen of Milton,
and DR.. Mcmahon of Calvin, he spent
the week in helping to conduct a
series of meetings at which farmers
clubs were organized in that county
under the direction of the better farm
ing movement.
Cecil E. Mahon, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Mahon, is home this week
for a visit through the holidays, COM
ing from Tabor, Sask., where he is
at the head of the business and farm
inter ests of the Mahon- Robinson Land
and Lumber Co., in the Can adam
northwest. 1t is his first visit home
in the course of the past two years.
States Attorney Crimson went
south on Mondays train, his destina-
ton being Winnipeg, Man., where he
represents the interests of Cavalie,
county grain shippers in an effort tc
see if the Canadian railroad authori.
ties cannot do something to relieve the
car famine at Windygates, Man..
which for the past week has threaten.
ed a blockade of the grain market al
that point.
Joseph Heapy was in town Monday
from his Perry township farm, taking
the afternoon train for a trip east,
which is expected to extend over g
greater part of the winter season.
Mr.. Heapy goes from here to Mt.
Clemens, Mich, and from there ira.
wells east for a round of visits with
relatives and friends. There are also