Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-03-08

The new. movie picture show of
Walter Nelson at Osnabrock opens
next week.
The Wales home of MIR. and Mrs.
William Lynch welcomed the arrival
of a son on the 18th ult.
Easily has a sub.agency for Dodge
automobiles, the salesman in charge
being ]. j.. Stremich.
An epidemic of humps at Calvin is
likely to lower the attendance per-
centage of school kids this month.
Ed. Thibedeau. one of Olga town.
ships highly successful early pioneers,
has been confined indoors all winter
by illness.
Since the tie-up of the 500, the
town of Gallo has been getting it's
mail via Munich over the Great
Northern.
The disease of lumpy jaw has be.
come epidemic in a choice herd of
S%horthorn cattle on the Mcknight
farm at Hannah.
The lambing season in the fine flock
Of sheep on the Jas. Austin stock
farm at Hannah started early this
year, on February 21st.
Fred Philippi, an early day Olga
resident, known all through the east.
ern halt of the county, is here from
Saskatchewan for a visit.
Hannah has under consideration the
installation this spring of an electric
light plant. ]. H. Mccullough, of
Milton, is the promoter.
Two additions added by visits from
the stork in the past week around
Wales are daughters at the Gust
Fiske and Earl Scott homes.
Rev. Kersten and wife, whose home
at Dresden was lost by fire a few weeks
since. are the happy parents of a
daughter, born on the last day of
February.
John Fischer and wife, of Mt. Car
mel, are making a two weeks visit at
the Sanborn, N. D., home of the ir
daughter, Mrs. Geo. Stroh.
There is a coal famine in sight at
Munich and other small towns over
the county. Dealers are out of hard
coal and it is reported that the supply
of soft coal is getting low.
The large farm near Hannah of the
D. McGruer estate has been rented by
O. Medstekle, of Ada, MINI. He is a
son.in.law of O. c. Boren. a we'll
known Linden township resident.
The new rural mail carriers ex-
animation held at Osnabrock last
week was taken by Henry Strand and
p. K. Douglas who are applicants for
the joe of carrying the mail over the
new route north of Osnabrock.
liver Iv%erson, a brother of County
Commissioners Sam Iverson, last week
sustained a leg fracture, the break
being both bones below the knee. He
got a bad fall in Strengthening out the
tackle of a hay sling in his barn. The
horses started up and he was carried
to quite a height before he got loose,
falling on the bare floor of the barn.
The 500 line has found the snow
blockade through the past winter has
reduced their daily train service to
one train a week. Last week a cattle
train vas showed in west of Nekoma
for several DAYS owing to the blizzard
of February 18th, the stock, with
difficulty, being kept alive until the
line could be opened up.
Osnabrock is not expected to re-
build all of the business section of
that town, the scene of the fire a
week ago. Dan McAllen has temper
airy quarters across the street in the
old drug store building. Druggist
Francis will reopen if he can secure
similar quarters. Paul Otto will re
build on a smaller scale. The fire
is thought to have had its origin in
an overheated furnace in the base.
ment of the McAllen store.