Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-06
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months visit.
Miss Blanche Green of Milton, is
a visitor for a few days this week at
the w. A. Monroe home.
Leslie j.. McGauvran was home
from Mowbray enjoying a weeks vaca-
ton at the home of his parents,
Register of Deeds and Mrs John Nc
Gauvran.
P. P. Kopriva left Monday for
Fargo, having been drawn for service
on the jury at the term of U. S.
federal court, which convened there
this week.
w. j. Storie, the postmaster at
Osnabrock and editor of the %Indepen.
dnt, made a round of New Year calls
on his county seat friends and &C.
.quaintances Tuesday.
Robert Schoenbechler was among
the number of Langdon young people
leaving the city Tuesday, returning to
Collegeville, Mimi, where he is a
student at st. Johns university.
Miss Ella B~leakley, who since her
graduation of two years ago has been
one of the staff of instructors in the
conservatory of music at Wesley col.
lege, returned on Mondays train to
Grand Forks.
E. J. Donovan, left Monday return
ing to Washington, D. c., to continue
his studies in the law school of the
Catholic university, after visiting
here since Christmas with his father,
DR.. E. 1. Donovan.
Miss Connie Hunter left Monday
returning to Minneapolis to resume
her work at Macallister college after
the holidays. Miss Hunter is one of
the graduating class at the COM
mencement exercises to be held there
the coming summer.
County Commissioner Alex Russell,
who is over from his Fremont town.
ship home to attend the January
meeting of the county board, states
that Mrs. Russell and their son,
Archie, returned in time to enjoy
Xmas from their visit of six weeks to
points on the Pacific coast.
Morris Orion brought his holiday
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. Orion, to a close this week, leav-
ing on Mondays train for Red Deer,
Alta, where in company with N. F..
Charter, another Langdon man, he is
operating the Arlington hotel, the
leading hostelry in that place.
Among the Langdon business
changes taking place with the ap-
proach of the New Year was the re-
entering the local field as restau-
ant caterer of Clement Tourand, who
has purchased the business of Chef
Riley, whose popular stand is located
in the real of the LeBrun & Matthew
bowling alley and pool room.
Letters received in the past few
days from Gull Lake, Sask., tell of
another disastrous visitation by fire
which the business section of that
town recently experienced. Details
are lacking as to whether any of those
who were Langdon residents before
locating at Gull Lake number among
those who suffer loss by the fire.
Attorney Fred w. Mclean left
Monday returning to Fargo after a
ten day visit with old Langdon friends
during the holidays. Mrs. Mclean
did not accompany her husband, but
extends her stay WITH her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. Orton, and her
sister, Mrs. w. F. Winter, for an.
other week or so before returning tc
her Fargo home.
Langdon city property owners who
have already made a visit of enquiry
at the court house are finding that the
amount of their 1915 tax will range
twenty to twenty-five per cent lower
than it was in 1914. The change is
one that cannot otherwise than be
appreciated as Langdon city property
v taxes since 1911, when the new schoo.
was built, have necessarily been above
normal.
The board of county commissioners
I when it convened for its January
meeting Monday afternoon selected
Com'r R. B. Laing of Milton, as the
new chairman of the board for the
ensuing year. After the organizing
of the new board, Com'r S. G. Erick'
son, the retiring chairman, was com
PEELED to return to his home at Elk.
wood, owing to the death of Mrs.
Erickson's father, Christ Olson, whose
funeral was held Tuesday afternoon.
Ole C. Olson was an arrival from
Drayton, N. D., on Mondays train t.
attend the funeral of his father, the
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