Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-12-28
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Today's wheat--$1. CO..

Today's wheat-$l. go.
Contracts have already been let for
four new residences to be built at
W~alllalla. just as soon "a spring opens
up.
Ole 7. Axvig vas in town Friday
and did not miss extending to his host
of county seat friends the wishes of
the season.
The low temperature and condition
of the roads, owing to drifted snow,
did not appear to prohibit the Ford
cars of the Ramage garage being out
and autoing around town as usual on
Christmas day.
LAST Thursday, as shown. by the
calendar, was the shortest day of the
whole year, but to those Of the "show
me- variety, there is little if any
difference as yet in the length Of the
period of daylight.
Prof. Mcclellan is practically the
only n of the corps Of teachers of
the city schools to remain in Langdon
during the Christmas recess. DR..
Kuhnes and about fourteen of the
teaching staff left Thursday afternoon
for a trip home until the re-opening
of school.
The drifted condition of the roads
since the continuous snow storm that
has prevailed since Sunday evening
has made the task of the U. S. mail
drivers over rural routes out Of Lang
don an almost impossible one. 1t has
also proved to be an impeachment to
out of town trade.
The holiday season sale at the Boyd
department store was brought to a
successful climax Saturday night by
a s~alesat auction OF their entire stock
of Christmas toys and other novelties
of the season. Santa Claus had sew
eral representatives on hand who
made the buying spirited.
The Langdon woman's club makes
announcement that its next regular
meeting will be held on Thursday
afternoon, the End proximo, at the
home of Mrs. Thos. Finerty, COM
mencing at the usual hour. The pro-
gram is for a social afternoon and
the ladies are asked to bring with
them their unfinished Christmas work.
Hannah has organized a band with
an Instrumentation of fifteen pieces,
the first practice or rehearsal Of which
will take place January 18th. The
end.town has a number who used to
be "wind tanners with the Lang
don band boys in the years ago, who
if not inclined to "tcot' can at least
give the band their moral and financial
support.
Tuesdays heavy drifting snowstorm
from the north resulted in the snow
pillow of the Great Northern making
its first trip over this branch line for
the present winter season. The fact
of the matter is that Langdon was
filled UP with drifted snow more the
day after Christmas than it has been
after any storm that we have eXper.
fenced in several years past.
A. A. Scott, the Hannah hotel man,
% was among the visiting Woodmen who
attended the monster gathering hello
by the Langdon camp last Thursday
evening, when some twenty odd new
members were i~naugurated into the
mystries of the order. Mr.. Scott ha:
been a Woodman for a number O.
years but had not affiliated with any
of the local camps since his coming tt
this county from South Dakota.
Miss Helen j. Sullivan is home fo'
a vacation visit arriving from Fargo
with the home coming crowd Of Sat
urday. Leaving here next Wednes
day, Miss Sullivan goes to Bismarcl
to take up her new educational worl
as assistant to State Superintendent
of Public instruction N. C. Macdon
aid, to accept which position she ha
resigned the work she has had ii
hand for the past two years in tn
extension department of the Mort
Dakota agricultural college.