Courier Democrat., 1916-09-28
= Local Happenings
Today's wheat-Sl. So.

Today's wheat-$1 50.
Wheat has ruled at Sl.53 during
the week with the outlook of the
price remaining firm.
Langdon appears to be the Mecca
of the local politician who is out cam
paigning for a job this fall. The
town was full of them last Saturday.
Local talk to the effect that the
market price of potatoes would rule
higher than So 90 a bushel before
another crop of spuds is dug is falling
off. Heavy shipments from all over
the northern part of this state and
Minnesota have ha! the effect of
quite visibly bearing down on the
market.
The rain guage of the local U. S.
weather bureau station showed pre-.
cipitation of an even one-half inch in
the heavy thunder show which passed
over this locality in the early hours
of Monday morning. 1t will take
considerable more of soaking of old
Mother Earth, before the ground is
in shape for fall blowing.
Donald MCLAUGHLIN and Robert
Work were among those from this
part of the county who were at Hamp-
den on Monday to attend the auction
sale of Ed. Losse. Mr. Losse is
retiring from farming and will re-
move from the state owing to the
poor condition of the health of his
wife for some months past.
A. Z. Lindstrom, who since retir-
ing from the newspaper business in
Langdon some three or four years ago
has been enjoying life on fruit farm
he owns at Orland, California, is here
this week looking after farming in
terests he owns in this county and
near Oberon, N. D. He expects to
remain in North Dakota most of the
time until it freezes up.
NJ. L. Sullivan has during the past
week had big force of helpers at
work on his farm south of town help
ing to gather in the twenty acres of
potatoes that formed part of his di.
versified plan of farming this season.
This is not much of a''spud' year but
Mike AYERS that he will have better
than a thousand bushels to put on the
market when he thinks the price is
about right,
The Langdon city council at its
last meeting gave time to much dis
cussion of the matter of providing a
suitable place for the parking of
automobiles that nowadays are form
ing quite an obstruction on the busi-
ness streets of the city. They also
expect to make arrangements for a
better control of the traffic of cars,
which will mean more strict obser-
vance Of drivers of the regulation of
drive to the right
Alex Robertson is noted az having
place in the lineup of the football
eleven of Macalaster college since
his return there at the opening of the
fall term. He is playing his old posi-
tion of right tackle and will be or
the field in a Macalaster uniform in
the opening game which will be play
ed on Saturday of next week with
Carleton college Langdon fans
Of the pig skin pastime fully expect
to find that "Al" will give a gooc
account of himself
On another page will be found the
reply of the school board to the oper
letter of Mr.. Peter P. kopriva re.
garding the teaching of bookkeeping
in the higher grades of the school.
Both parties would appear to have
made good as commercial subject:
have a value to both girl and boy
pupils as they advance in their studies
On the other hand Langdon people
cannot otherwise than give their ap
proval to the conservative manner il
which the work of the board Of educa
ton has been handled during a tim
when economy had to be the watch
word