Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-08-02

3rahd FORKS where business matters
will detain him until the end of the
week.
T~hirty-fve from Hannah and vi.
city hold numbers in the first 500 of
the draft that will probably be call.
ed up in order to furnish Cavalier
county's Quota of IT'S men.
Matthew Ramage, father of j. F.
Ramage, left on Tuesdays after
noon train returning to his home at
Chatsworth, Ont, after a visit at the
nome of his son here during the great
er part of the summer. Enroute it is
his intention to make a stopover at
Sandstone Mimi, where he will visit
for a short time At the home of a
daughter.
Miss Manowiski, of the domestic
science and arts departments of the
Langdon public school the past year,
left Monday returning to the extern
sion department of agricultural COL
lege at Fargo after a tour of two
weeks demonstrating methods of ian.
ming vegetables and fruits for white r
use. Miss Manowski has been en-
gagged in this work through the sum-
mer vacation.
Magnus Snowfield went north on
Thursdays train to Hannah, return
ing from Denver, Colo, where he
had been called by the critical illness
of his daughter.in law, Mrs. Barney
Snowfield. Two of Mr.. Snowfeld's
sons, Mundi, who is with his father
on the farm in Byron township, and
Joe, who this spring graduated from
the law school of the University of
North Dakota, have been drawn in
the selective draft.
j. B. Boyd and son, Richard, now
occupy a conf ortab]y furnished suite
of rooms on the second floor of the
Boyd department store block. The
Boyd residence on Seventh street has
been leased to c. Mcdonald, who is
removing from Clyde to accept the
position of grain buyer with the Lang
don Elevator Co. succeeding, M. c..
! Campbell, who retires from active
: management of the >company's bust
ness to give a closer attention to per-
sonal affairs.
A. Schuike left Wednesday for a
three weeks stock buying trip east,
intending to make extensive purchas :
es OF fall lines in the markets of Chi
| cago and New York as we'll as the
d Twin Cities for his department store
here in Langdon and the branch house
e at Nekoma. Mrs. Schulke, who has
been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Fabe], at Grand Forks, accompanies
a her husband to Chicago for a ter
v days visit while Mr.. Schulke is il
the east.
Y Frances w. Rowe, who a couple
n of weeks ago resigned the .formanshif
IS of the Democrats job department,
n is now with the U. S. marines at
y Port Royal, S. c., where Roy L. Hor
gan and Albert B. Drnry have beer
" since their enlistment. Mr.. Row,
left St. Paul last Friday after a brie
q visit at his home near Rochester
q Mimi, and states that he had no trou
= BILE in passing the examination TO
# his enlistment at Fargo the day fol
lowing his leaving Langdon.
The baby voting contest, in whic]
a silver loving cup and other prizes O
: value are being offered by Langdo.
merchants, closes next week. Tn
(: contest has been in progress fou
weeks and photographs of these juve
!: nile contenders in a prize beaut.
:: show are to be found on exhibition a
a number of the places of bushes
$ around town, where they solicit tn
n vote and influence of the tradin
e public.
% Superintendent E. l.. Kuhnes, G
/. the Langdon public schools, who a
the close of the past school year lef
to psend the summer vacation perio
at the parental home at West Union
= Iowa, has been heard from by friend
= in New York City, where he is spenc
ing a part of July and August wit
~ friends. 1t is noted that he expect
8 to return to Langdon some time thi
month to look after preparation.
matters for the opening of the VAR
Gus departments of the Langdo
~ schools for the approaching fall an
' winter term.
From Plainview, Rochester AM
other southern Minnesota points frol
which Langdon parties have returne
d during the week grain crops, includ
ing corn, wheat barley oats are re
,s ported as giving record break in
yields. Wheat averages are report
is ed as averaging as high as go to z
# bushels. To the west. through Mon