Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-06-07
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A son born to H. 6. Renfrow and
wife was a Sunday event at Wales.
Park River high school graduates q
class of thirty-one at the commence.
ment exercises held this evening.
Calvin is planning to, do consider.
able in the way of putting in cement
walks and other town improvements
this summer.
H. G. Waldron's road shows are
giving the people of Sarles and other
towns in the western part of the coun-
ty a treat in movies this week.
Wales extended the time limit of
its cleanup campaign to Tuesday, this
week and intimated to a number of
delinquents that this last call meant
business.
Wales gave its registration day a
fitting wind-up with a dance in the
evening at the Fischer Hall, the music
being furnished by the Lorraine or.
chestra of Langdon.
= The Masonic Temple at Calvin was
given a position on the front page of
the owe of the last issue of "The
New Age" a monthly publication at
Washington, D. C.
To-day the 1. o. O. F., cemetery
at Milton is the scene of a cleanup
campaign in which all to%wnspeople re-
sponded to a request for help or finan.
cial aid.
The baccalaureate address to the
graduating class of the Inkster high
school was made by Rev. w. Ewart
Dudley, of Forest River, and former
ly quite we'll known here in Langdon.
Osnabrock's meat market, one of
the scenes of the big fire that recently
visited the Brock, is being rebuilt
and expects to reopen for businessathe
middle of the month.
A Wa]halla building improvements
of this summer is a fine concrete block.
being erected for occupancy by the
telephone exchange company. Wall.
halla is to have a twenty-four hour
telephone service.
The Generalization of the grain
market this spring is stated as hav-
ing given ON of the grain buying
concerns in nearby towns financial
knocks that have pretty nearly made
them take the count.
Milton public schools will not re-
open for the fall term until October
LIST in accordance with the recommen.
dation of State Superintendent N. C.
Macdonald as a war time emergency.
The juniors of Calvin and Hannah
played the opening game of the seasesss-
Decoration Day at the former town.
The visitors from Hannah took home
with them the Overwhelming defeat of
Is to 8.
G. A. Kellner, of Easily, was call.
ed to the former home at DeLand. ILL.,,
on Tuesday last upon receipt of news
of the unexpected death of his wife's
father at Davenport, Wash, the re.
mains being SEN east for interment.
Walhalla merchants Monday of this
week start a baby contest to run thru
to the end of the month. Three val
liable prizes are offered, the first be-
ing a solid silver loving cup. Votes
are given with all cash purchases at
Walhalla.
Judge Kneeshaw convened a term
OF district court at Cavalier yester-
day. AS there are quite a number of
cases on the docket, including a MUIR
der trial, it is expected the June term
in this county will have to be given a
p~ostponement until about the middle
of July.
Sarles holds a special school cleo.
ton Friday next week when voters
will act on the question of bonds for
$ll, 600, the money needed for a
school building to take the place of
the n destroyed by fire two weeks
ago.
Henry Clay Anderson, sergeant Of
Company c at Grafton. who recent,
enlisted four Langdon recruits. has
gone to the officers training camp al
Fort Smelling in Minnesota. He is Z
son of Druggist John F. Anderson,
and was born at Milton.
Prof. Saterlie, of the Calvin publ,
schools, mourns the death of a cousin
killed in the trenches in France. He
enlisted with a Canadian contingen,
last summer and had only been at the
front a short time.
A Calvin party, made up of DR.. H,
W. Porter, Edward Porter, Franz
Dawson, Archie Campbell, C. F. SmitI
and Frank Norton, have been spending
the week looking over land in tn,