Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-01-20
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Today's wheat-$1.2 20.

Today's wheat-$1.2 20.
August Moritz was a Dresden visi.
tor in the city Tuesday attending to
business.
j. A. Terhaar, cashier of the State
Bank of Dresden, was a business visi-
tor in town Tuesday.
William Stranger, of the auto firm
of Mclaughlin & Stranger, returned
on Tuesdays train from a business
trip to Grand Forks.
Jos. F. Heille, manager of the
farmers cooperative elevator at
Wales, was in the city Tuesday fore
moo returning north on the passenger.
A license to wed was issued yester-
day afternoon by Judge Bleakley out
of the county court to Mr.. David Gen.
dreau and Miss Helen Regembal, both
of the parties residing in the vicinity
of Olga.
]. J. Myres, the state organizer of
the A. O. U. w. order, is spending
the week here looking after prospec-
tive additions to the membership of
the l.angdon lodge, which was re.
organized by Mr.. Myres during his
visit here last summer.
Monday the price of oats reached a
figure Of 4Oc a bushel on the local
market, but owing to road conditions
and the fact that the bulk of the sur.
plus crop here having been marketed
in the fall, when the price was only
23c the benefit to producers was hard
~ noticeable.
The meeting of the Cavalier County
Breeders association to have been
held last Thursday afternoon, owing
to the extreme cold weather and bad
condition of the roads had to be post
poned. 1t is now arranged to be held
on Tuesday, February 9Th, the second
day of the farmers mid-winter conven-
ton, at the close of the conventions
afternoon program.
]. E. Watson was a Milton visitor
in the city Thursday, coming here to
attend the stock holders meeting of
the Cavalier county fair association.
The meeting, owing to existing condi-
tions of both the roads and weather,
was given a postponement until a date
during the mid-winter farmers con-
v%ention, in February. Mr.. Watson
was a guest at the H. E. Close home
while in Langdon.
Tomorrow, Friday evening, there
will be a game of basket ball played
here between the boys teams Of the
high schools of Inkster and this city.
The game is called for eight O'Clock
and will be played in the gymnasium
of the high school. The admission
will be twenty-five cents and the boys
on the Langdon team hope to see a big
attendance of loyal supporters to hell
win the game for the Langdon high.
Co. Com'r R. B. Laing is the heac
of the fire department at Milton anc
alCQOUSQ lie Was ueIc dCCeluluS q
meeting of the county board at the
time the mysterious fire started in
lumber yard at that town Wednesday
morning last week is satisfied that
Milton fremen did good work in head.
ing off what might have been a disas'
trous conffagation for the town, de.
spite the fact the thermometer regis.
terde 46 below zero while they were
working.
Friday Of last week Langdon made
at least an even dozen carload ship.
'ments of snow over the Ct. Northern,
the point to which the shipments were
consigned, however being less than 6
mile outside of the city limits. Road
master Skudal and a force OF fifty
men were busy in the Langdon yards
of the railroad company clearing
tracks and improving traffic conditions
all day Friday. He states that the
condition along the line gave the
company more work to shovel snow
and operate snow plows than he hae
known since the winter of 1902.