Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-04-13
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ing after his professional duties his
week with his right arm in a sling.
His hand being under treatment for
blood poisoning.
Donald Work returned to his home
in Langdon on Saturdays train from
Chicago, where he has just completed
his first years work at the Chicago
School of Veterinary Surgery.
= Fred Borusky was here from his
farm near Wales for a couple of days
the end of the week for a visit with
his daughter who is attending the
Langdon high school and to look after
business matters.
No trouble to locate the post office
since that new sign was put in place
the first of the week. To a stranger
coming to town and hunting for the
place where he goes for his mail it
sure must come handy.
yesterdays heavy fall Of snow is
what may be taken as n of the sure
signs of a late and backward spring
and at the same time one of the fore
runners of the harvesting of a bumper
grain crop next fall.
Mrs. Fleming r. May and her
family ask that an expression of their
feeling of thanks to friends of Lang
don for the sympathy extended at the
time of Mr.. Mays death, be extended
through the columns of this paper.
Rev. f. j. Hubbard was up the
line Monday as far as Dresden, at
tending to matters connected with the
holding of a regular order of Sunday
services in the Presbyterian church
at that place, which has been closed
during the winter months.
Mr.. Thos. Stevenson, who has been
located in Saskatchewan since remov-
ing from Langdon about twelve years
ago, was an arrival on Fridays train
and is a guest at the home Of his
brother, VIM. Stevenson, and family
during a stay that will extend over a
couple of weeks.
M. Kelly is the purchaser of the
A. C. McNiven residence property on
Fifth street and is moving in this
week. 1t is understood that Mrs.
McNiven and the family are leaving
shortly for Calgary, Alta, where her
husband has been located since leaving
here last fall.
Hon John Balsdon, of Osnabrock
and Hon. Ole T. Axvig of Milton,
two of Cavalier county's legislative
representatives at the last assembly,
were here Thursday to take in the
gathering of republicans who talked
politics in the opera house basement
that evening.
On the Friday and Saturday before
Easter, April 21st and 22nd, the
guild ladies of the Episcopal church
will have on sale Towering plants and
cut flowers at the Spellman drug
store. The ladies ask that friends of
Langdon and immediate vicinity kind
ly bear this in mind. *s 4
Hon. F. ]. Cuthbert, who is to be
Congressman H. L. Helgeson's oppon-
ent at the June primaries when the
latter seeks a nomination for re-elec-
ton, will this evening at the court
house address the first political meet
ing to be held in Langdon. The
speaker is Ramsey county's states
attorney and over there at Devils
Lake is stated as cutting quite a
figure in politics.
Col. Fl. e. Burritt is back again
among his old Langdon friends, arriv-
ing on Thursdays train from Fargo,
where he has been making a stay dur
ing most of the winter at the home of
his daughter. The "old SOLDIER is
apparently in much better health than
when he left here before the holidays
and glad to mingle with acquaintance
formed during a residence here cover
ing more than thirty years.
Senator Mclean, of Hannah; Chas.
A. Olson, of Milton; H. c. Otteson,
of Calvin; T. L. Tillisch, of Osna-
brock; Samuel Cross, of Olga; ano
G. P. Getche]l, of Wales, numbered
among the gathering of republicans
from various part of the county who
c~ongregated here last Thursday tc
dis(cuss) the features of the political
campaign of 1916, which have de.
veloped here and elsewhere over the
state since the league convention hello
recently at Fargo.