Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-10-05
= Local Happenings &
Today's wheat-Sl.6 60.

Today's wheat-$1. go.
Monday night the city council dis
posed of considerable routine business
at their October monthly meeting.
The board of county commissioners
are here this week for the purpose
of holding their regular October quar-
terly meeting.
L. A. Weed was in the city a
couple of days last week from Han
nah in the interest of his line of life
Insurance, the New York Life.
The past week the warehouse.
tanks and storage quarters of the
Bartles-Northern Oil Company have
been given an improved appearance
with new paint.
inst another month and the cleo
ton will be here. The approaching
fonr weeks will see many of the can
didates exceeding the speed limit as
the campaign draws to a close.
A complaint, alleging poor service
against the Walhalla telephone com.
pany is being heard at a quarterly
meeting of the state board of railroad
commissioners being held at Grand
Forks this week.
Il. d. ALERT, state committeeman,
John Mahon, chairman of county COM
mmittee and Donald MCLAUGHLIN can.
didate for county treasurer, were
among the prominent democrats from
Langdon who numbered among the
thousands who heard Hon. William
Jennings Bryan speak at Grand Forks
last Thursday evening
Allan Mcdonald was here Saturday
from Milton in the interest of his can
didacy for sheriff on the democratic
ticket. Mr.. Mcdonald has within the
past week returned from a months
trip through Saskatchewan and from
now until the election in November
will make a thorough campaign over
the county in behalf of his election to
the office of sheriff of Cavalier county.
Congressman H. T. Helgeson came
up on Fridays passenger from Milton
where he is spending the month that
intervenes between now and the gene
raj election on November 18th. Mr..
Helgeson has been assigned dates for
a tour of the northern part of the state
during the last two weeks of the cam
paign in behalf of his own candidacy
and that of tho republican non-parti-
san state ticket,
Grain prices visibly stiffened up
since the first of the week. Wheat
advanced five cents on Monday making
the local figure ST. 81; the advance in
Durum was yer sharper, the quota
ton at the close of the market that
day showing an advance of ten cents.
Flax, however, had the center of the
stage, going up with a bound to the
1927 mark, a figure seventeen cents
in advance of the previous days
price. There "a little activity in
either oats or barley, both remaining
firm at the prices of the day before.
A fire, the alarm of which was
given shortly before eleven o'clock
Tuesday night, left the little home of
Mrs. Broderick on Second street,
wrecked by the %devouring flames,
nothing but the charred walls remain
ing to tell of the intensity of the
fierce fire that was gotten under con-
troll by the department in less than
thirty minutes. The fire is under
stood to have been caused by the over
turning of a lamp, standing on a sew
ing machine at which Mrs. Broderick
was doing some dressmaking. The
overturned lamp in almost an instant
had the room in flames, and being
the sole occupant of the house the
fire had made its way to the attic
overhead and had crept out through
the roof before the department arriv-
ed. The salvage from the wrecked
home is only a few pieces of furniture
and trunks that were hustled out into
safety. 1t is not known that Mrs.
Broderick had any insurance on the
property to cover her heavy loss.