Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-09-27
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Duck hunters at Rush Lake are 81
numerous that many flocks of the
hunted birds have left the Lake.
Dan McAllen, the Osnabrock pioneer
in the mercantile business, has opened
at store at Wolf Point, Mont. this fall.
The Red Cross supper at Alsen,
has been given a ~postponement from
the 22nd inst, to Saturday Of this
week, the goth.
Huron townships consolidated school
was opened last week with Miss
Blanche Murphy and Miss Kathleen
McLaren as teachers.
The loss of a large barn with horses
grain and hay, by fire is reported to
have occurred during the night at the
farm home of Paul Higgins, west of
Sarles.
Alsen is represented in the U. S..
military forces in France by George
Bochsen a former townsman He has a
good word for the organization estab.
lished there by the Y. M. CA.
Chas, Tapp has returned to Osna-
brock from his Montana homestead
and will be among those who leave
for Camp Dodge with Cavalier coun-
ty draft next week.
John Brown, a painter at Alsen, who
went to Camp Dodge, Iowa, with the
first five per cent of the Cavalier
county draft, is with Co. K of the
352nd, Infantry, N. A.
The new manager of the Farmers
elevator at Hannah had a narrow es-
cape with his life when he got caught
in the betting of the machinery last
week.
Hannah banks show 1915, SIS. SO
deposits in the statements printed last
week. The showing secures their
position among the solid financial in
situations Of Cavalier county.
Several of the far sighted farmers
around Munich and Gallo are adding to
the numbers of their focks of sheep
this fall. Two carloads were shipped
to Munich from Montana last week.
Munich friends presented DR.. Under
with a wrist watch when he left the
town last week to join the medical
corps Of the U. S. Army, at Fort
Reilly, Kansas.
Peter Schreiner, of Alsen, who was
operated upon last week in a Grand
Forks hospital for a gall bladder
trouble is now expected to recover.
1t was considered to be quite a criti-
cal case.
j. H. D. Janzen has gone from
Munich to O'Neil. Nebraska, for a
fall visit and writes that watermelon,
grapes, CHI rries and apples make
great "pickings 90" there now a days.
Threshing is practically cleaned up.
Just a machine or two is to be found
at work at scattered points over the
county cleaning up the odd jobs left
at the wind up of the season.
Martin Korb, of the immediate vi.
cinity of Munich, had his neck, arms,
face and chest, badly burned in an TX.
p%losion of gasoline, which he had
mistaken for coal oil in filling q
lantern.
The United States circuit court has
set November 18th as the date for the
hearing of the petition for the dis.
charge of c . j. Holton, of Clyde,
who has had his business affairs ad.
Indicated as a bankrupt since last
April.
Iona had a shooting accident al
the opening of the hunting season
when a shotgun in the hands IF Hell,
mer Solberg went off, the contents
seriously, though not fatally injur
ing a companion out with him in ques
of chickens.
Hannah claims to have furnished
ninety per cent of the crowd in atten
dance at the wrestling match a
Wales. 1t says the mat game was
fine exhibition, but says that mex
time it should be staged in a spor
town.
The town boards of township
through which rural mail routes trav
ell out of Hannah are taking earl.
precaution this fall in having all weed
5 alongside the roads cut to emove tn
insurance of snow drifts during tn
winter season. Good idea.
!. D. Klein, Sr. living in the vi
cinity of Munich, was held up Will
walking across a field on his farm
A young man in the darkness of tn
evening leaped out from behind a ha
, stack. In the encounter Klein wa
stabbed with a knife.
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