Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-05-04
AROUND 4s2 Count.

Sarles schools re-opened after the
Easter vacation with an attendance of
155 pupils.
Calvin's high school play, put on
last week, Melted $5l. 90 for the
library fund.
Sunday a baby boy was born to Nels
Restad and wife, who reside in the
vicinity Of Calvin.
Mumps seem to have gotten a fresh
start among the school kids at Milton
since the opening of spring.
Sarles plans to construct several
blocks of cement sidewalk as a public
Improvement this
Senator C. w. Plain is erecting a
group of buildings for his lumber
yard and farm machinery business at
Milton that cover an entire block.
The steel bridge at the Naismith
crossing of the Cypress river neal
Sarles was badly damaged by the ice
and high water in the spring breakup.
Contractor S. N. Reeves at Nekoma
is building a blacksmith shop for
Alex Borho, who has recently remov-
ed over to the 500 town from Now
bray.
Munich at a special election last
week voted to build an addition to the
school and enlarge the basement.
The latter to be equipped as a gym
nasium.
Hannah has organized at auto club
with a membership of thirty-five.
They have engaged man for the sea-
son who will surface the roads lead.
ing into the town.
Gallo and Nekoma are two 500
towns in the southwestern part of the
county that have reached the stage in
base ball development where practice
games are being played.
Henry Wederman, who operates an
800 acre farm in Osnabrcck township,
purchased about five years ago of Nels
Ottum and E. j. Moen, died last week
at his form er home in Illinois.
Rudolph August, depot agent of
the Ct. Northern at Calvin until
recently has been transferred to
O~snabrock. The new agent at Calvin
was formerly located at Sarles.
The Smith Telephone Co., with F.
c. Leppert IS manager, has Incorporate
ed at Sarles and proposes to build
twenty-five miles of telephone lines
north and west of Sarles during the
summer.
Elmer Skene of Byron township
sustained a broken collar bone that
puts him out of commission through
the seeding season. 1t was occasion
ed by the slipping of a rack which he
was loading INTO a wagon.
Superintendent of the various high
schools throughout the county are
planning for a track and field meet oil
the high school boys of Cavalier
county to be held in Langdon the lat.
ter part of May or early in June.
At Wales j. w. Mowbray is having
a big spring opening in auto sales anc
the last week placed two new Over.
lands with purchasers at that place,
Mrs. George Lachner being one of the
buyers and VIM. Lynch the other.
Hannah's base ball diamond ha:
been put in shape for the seasons
schedule of games. In fact the end.
town is in a better state of prepared
ness to play the national pastime thar
any of the towns in the county so fal
organizing.
Hannah's spring epidemic of faint
ing spells continues undated. Las
Monday morning the waitress in the
Hannah hotel collapsed and the follow.
ing day al attack ''faints'' was sue
cumbed to by one of the pupils of thu
high school.
William Brown and Fred Gilbert
. old residents in the vicinity of Wales,
who removed to Saskatchewan sixteel
+, years ago are back looking up ole
%neighhors and friends. The forme,
came to attend the funeral of hi!
mother. Mrs. Ellen S. Brown.
Millions civic league has planned
busy season of improvements. Ii
addition to a week to be devoted to
t clean up of the town there will b,
t tree planting on an extensive seal,
and municipal fly traps are to be givel
the place of the swat the fly brigad
in exterminating these disease breed
ing insects.
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