Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1915-12-02

August Korb, the Gallo merchant,
last week closed a deal with a Grand
Forks party for the purchase of a half
section adjoining his Trier township
farm. Andrew eau, a farmer of the
same neighborhood, has bought a
quarter section from the same party.
Walhalla school kids will have a
skating rink made by flooding one
corner of the play ground. There IS
skating for the older folks on the
river, but the rink on the play ground
at the school will avoid the chance of
accidents among the children.
Chas. Driver died suddenly Sunday
at noon last week from an attack of
apopleXy at the Joseph Mead home,
southwest of Calvin. He leaves a
wife and four children and in a resi-
dence in that neighborhood Of several
years was well sknown and highly
thought of.
Calvin's board of health has issued
an edict making mandatory the killing
of all stray dogs and cats as a means
of prevention of the spread of disease
at the present time. Calvin has an
epidemic Of diphtheria and the board
of health is taking what are con-
sidered to be the proper steps to
prevent further spread of the disease.
According to the Grafton papers
j. S. Brosnahan has rendered his
resignation with the International
Harvester Company as travelling
salesman and collector to accept a
position as accountant and bookkeeper
in the large department store of w.
w. Reylock & Co. at Grafton. The
change is one which obviates the
necessity Of Mr.. Brosnahan being
away from home the greater part of
the time.
B. B. Mason, of the department of
agriculture at Washington, D. c.,
has spent most of the week in Lang
don and other points along this branch
furnishing the various grain elevators
owned by farmers cooperative COM
panies with a system of bookkeeping
the department has drafted for the
needs of cooperative companies. Mr..
Mason installed the system in the
elevators at Milton, Osnabrock,
Wales and Hannah, as we'll as Lang
don.
The Fischer opera house at Wales
is having a complete new set of
scenery installed, also a new drop
curtain and stage settings. The
curtain, in addition to being quite a
piece of art work will also carry the
business advertising of mercantile
firms of the town. The work, which
is being done by the Dorval Scenic
Company of Fargo, is being person
ally looked after by Mr.. Hercule E.
Dorval, son of H. E. Dorval, of this
city.
Manager James Gordon, of the
Langdon branch of the Independent
Harvester Co., has during the week
moved his stock of wagons, sleighs
and other lines of farm machinery
from the old Clarke building next to
the Cavalier County Lumber Com
pany's office to the new quarters with
the Langdon Wood and Transfer Co.,
where he will have more room for
display and storage. Mr.. Gordon
says there is an outlook for a big
business being done with the opening
of the spring season of 1916.
j. w. Toews, while in town Mon
day stated that himself and family,
his son in law, P. T. Fast, and family
and Peter Penner Jr., expected to
leave the first of the coming week for
%Littletown, Texas, where each of the
families locate in new homes in the
south purchased last summer. Each
retain a part of their farm land hold
ings up here. but in removing south
with their families only do so after
giving the south land a thorough in
vestigation. When they get straight
ened around in their new home in the
Panhandle region of northern Texas.
Mr.. Toews promises to write the
Democrat a letter which should be of
considerable interest to his old friends
and neighbors Of Moscow township,
where he has been a resident for
nearly thirty years past.