Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-11-22
Continued From Last Week

Continued From Last Week.
Chino business; played cards
with Bob Baird
7th. homestead filing for
Peter Stewart and citizen papers for
Miss Stewart.
9Th. a letter and went to
Doyle's with Mr.. ALERT and Mr..
Stewart.
9th No business; hi Nj. M Don.
ey and Mr.. Stack for dinner.
lOth.-No busiess; went for bread
Mr.. Crawford here.
18th. No business; read Natural
Philosophy; Mr.. Crawford here build
ing store.
12th-Made citizen papers for De-
loi B%russeau; read Wells Natural
Philosophy.
12th-.No business; read Don GU
%ixote; played cards with Barney Keat-
ing.
l3th.-John Lindsay over; blizzard
all day: wrote letters; read Raganrok.
18th. -Blizzard; over at Jackson's
l6th-Wrote letters and recorded
a mortgage. Total eclipse of the sun
today it gave the appearance of moon
light.
18th. Made citizen papers for the
Prinyer girls; read Natural Philo-
sophy.
18th.-Made citizen papers for
George and William Agar; read
Natural Philosophy.
10TH. for bread Tom Nc
CURE here from Ardoch. Tom and l
going to souch's dance.
2oth.-No business; Mr.. Mooney
and Mr.. McHugh come.
21st.-Wrote letters; made chat
tel mortgage for Mr.. Lindsay; filed
chattel mortgage for Mr.. Baird; made
filing for John He'll.
22nd. -Wen over to Keatings and
O~'Grady's. No business.
23rd. Blizzard; VEN for bread
and north for oats; read mildred. "
24th.-No one here and flashed
reading Mildred.
25th.-Made fling and citizens pa
pers for Nicholas Perius.
Goth Made filing for john Pad6e,.
9th. Made filing for John Brow
mel and a chattel mortgage for Sch.
neider and Demel.
2S-Measured some wood FOR the
county indexed some mortgages.
29th-Went over to Doyle's with
Mac.
3Oth. Went to Mu]ligan's dance.
3lst. -Naturalized three Canadi-
ans from the northwest; made a tree
claim filing for Peter Murchie; went
over to Rockwell with Mac for a
dance at Grants
Perhaps this is eaough Of the diary,
as fear that this will be tiresome
to you, and so will hurry along. 1
suspect, however, that you have found
the diary somewhat novel, in both
matter and form, and you will have
observed that the days of the week,
were not noted, but you see there were
no Sundays or Mondays, only fair days
and stormy days.
Early in the spring Mr.. Crawford
got his store finished and ready to
open, the goods having been hauled
from Neche by Mr.. Grey and I was in
stalled as manager and thus became
the first storekeeper at Langdon. l
sold pepper and pork and prunes,
plows and print, boots and shoes and
in fact nearly everything that could
be asked for. Along with the store l
continued the Office work and also had
some outside work to look after. Mr..
Mooney came up and together we built
a kitchen onto the house. When it was
finished l painted the house white,
and thus became the first housepainter
in Langdon. Tie painting was done
little, as l had the store and office to
by little attend to and some garden to
make, but the job was finally COM
pIeted.
At about this time Mr.. Mooney
moved from Bathgate, bringing Mrs.
Mooney and baby, John, with him and
Mrs. Mooney was the first woman to
live in Langdon. She was another
woman that it was a pleasure to meet
in those days and soon adjusted herself
to the new conditions here. Her early
death only a few years afterwards was
one of my early sorrows at Langdon.
When Mrs. Mooney came l moved
to the upper floor of the store,
although | then had another residence,
for on April 18th. l built a claim shanty
upon what has since become known
as the "Fox Corner and began my
residence as a homesteader. This claim
shanty / moved to Langdon when it had
served it's purpose on the farm and it