Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-05-31
AROUND 4!9 County.

John S. Gogin of the Nora farm at
Osnabrock, was the purchaser of a
run.about Ford car last week.
Clyde's population got another cen.
sus boost last week. 1t was a girl at
the home of Charley Mosolf's.
A speed limit of ten miles an hour
on the streets of Calvin has been ad.
opted with the usual penalties.
The Osnabrock Independent tells of
two heavy looses Of hay in stack by
prairie fire in Osford township.
Miss Fanny Powles, from New Lon.
don, Pa, is visiting Milton, the home
of the family up to about nine years
ago.
Miss Myrtle Berdahl, of Rugby, is
] the new ''hello" girl at the switch
board of the telephone office at Mu.
mich.
l The evening of Memorial Day was
I the occasion of a May Festival given
by the grade pupils of the Milton
schools.
, Milton women have organized for
(; the making of hospital supplies and
doing other work during the period
of the war.
The wife of w. H. Wilson, of Clyde,
was last week taken to a hospital in
Devils Lake to undergo an operation
for appendicitis.
Last weeks Independent announced
Osnabrock's patriotic residents had so
far subscribed for 81, 500 worth of IL
berty loan bonds.
Joseph Slama returned to Milton
last week from his winter home in
Florida to look after his extensive
farming interests here.
DIR. w. H. Porter and wife accom-
panied by Mrs. Weir, mother of Mrs.
Porter, spent Thursday with friends
in Langdon and vicinity.
Hannah has a recruit responding to
Uncle Sans call to arms in Henry
Scott, who has been working on the
Balfour and Refs farm.
The first c%hautauqua assembly that
will be held in Cavalier county this
summer opens at Hannah June 9th,
continuing to the 18th.
Miss Belle Mcknight went north
Saturday from Grand Forks to Han
nah for a visit over Sunday at the
home of her mother.
Sidewalk owners in Osnabrock have
only until to morrow. June lst, in
which to make needed sidewalk re
pairs since their two bad fires of the
past few months.
H. W. Buchanan, Chas. A. Olson
and j.. W. Pratten are Milton horse
owners who will have several entries
in the trotting and running events at
Langdon's county fair in July.
Lots west of the State Bank of
Hanna from now on will be one of
the beauty spots of the end town.
Banker Mcmillan is having it planted
to trees, flowers and shubbery.
A mass meeting of the people Of
Hannah has been called for Saturday
night, when plans will be discussed
regarding the new 500, 900 school
building to be erected this summer.
Hannah workers of the Red Cross
now have a membership of Ill, while
the contributions to date amount to
$2O5. Headquarters have been 10.
Gated in the old Central hotel building.
The ten year old son of Peter
Schreiner died at Osnabrock last
Thursday after a weeks illness.
The remains were shipped to St, Cloud.
MIMI, the former home of the family,
Lloyd Reilly. son of Postmaster VI.
T. Reilly, of Milton, is among those
of the state university students who
have enlisted in the service of their
country. He will serve in the U. S
cavalry.
Miss T. V. Jefferson, the lady
pharmacist at Doc Porter's drug dis.
pensary at Calvin for a number OF
years, is back on the job after put.
ting in a year on her Montana home.
stead.
Calvin held Memorial Day exercises
yesterday. Frank Ross, who has
charge of the GRADER lumber yard
there, is a Spanish-American war vet
eran and saw that the day didn't &c
by without a patriotic demonstration.
Cavalier county with a school pop
ulation of SILT receives $40, 3S7. 81
as its share of the May appropriation
of the state tuition fund. The pc,
capita is So. O3 and is the largest ap
portionment made in the past fou,
years.
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