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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
HELP UNCLE SAM GUARD YOUR
FLAG ON THE SEA!

The nation has called upon Mime.
sofa and North Dakota to furnish 800
men, by April 80, to Guard o., Glory
on the Sea. These men are absolute.
ly necessary to provide crews for all
the vessels of the navy. Unless
Minnesota and North Nakota respond,
some ship must swing idly at anchor
in time of the nations need.
Minnesota stood the test in '6l and
'93.
Join the navy now show the ma.
tion North Dakota's mett)e!
Recruiting stations in Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Duluth, Brainerd, Crook
ston, st. Cloud, Fargo, Minot, Grand
Forks, Dickinson. Every postmaster
has the power to enlist men for the
navy.
JAMES d. WILSON,
Lieutenant- Commander, U. S. NAVY,
Recruiting Officer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
WALHALLA WAS SCENE OF
A FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT
Alex. McGregor, Years Ago Rosa
Lake Farme Run Bown by, Auto
Thursday Evening

Alex McGregor, formerly resident
OF the Rosa Lake settlement east of
Langdon about six miles, was the
victim in a fatal automobile accident
which happened about six O'Clock last
Thursday evening on street crossing
in Walhalla, where Mr.. McGregor
and his family have been living most
at the time since leaving here about
nine years ago.
McGregor is stated to have been on
his way home to supper and in the act
of crossing the main street of the
town. He had only just left the side.
walk and stepped on the crossing
when car driven by a man named
Harvey approached from the opposite
direction. In what was intended evi.
IDENTIFY by both Mr.. McGregor and the
occupant of the car to be an attempt
to avert collision each turned in the
same direction. This caught Nc
Gregor under the front wheels and
fender of the car dragging him dis
tance of nearly fifty feet before Har.
vey could bring his car to standsti]l.
A hurried medical examination made
as soon as doctor could be brought to
the scene of the accident showed fatal
internal injuries had been sustained,
although it was not until the after
noon of the following day that he died.
The McGregor family are we'll known
among all the older residents of Lang
don. Deceased was about fifty years.
old and leaves widow and two grown
up daughters.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
FREE USE OF TOWN LOTS
FOR GARDEN PLANTING
Langdon Townspeople Now Able to
Take Active Part in Helping
Worlds Food Supply

The North Dakota Land & Townsite
Co. in offering to the townspeople of
Langdon the use of between twenty.
five and thirty vacant lots within the
city limits for gardening plots this
summer has made it possible for many,
who otherwise would be unable to par.
ticipate in the general movement to
insure that the United States will not
suffer a famine of food products ow-
ing to the war demands.
On their return to the city Monday
from California, where they have
spent most of the winter, D...H. Nc.
MILAN and j. B. Mooney gave it out
that the townsite company would al
low free use this summer of all va.
cant city lots to parties desiring to
raiae crops of potatoes and other gar
den vegetables, conditioning that the
land should be properly cultivated and
cleared off again in the fall. Ar.
rangements can be made and loca-
tion secured upon application to CASH
ier John Sheehan at the Cavalier Coun.
ty National Bank.
This enables Langdon people to do
their share in aiding their country to
meet an unusual condition, contribute
to the nstion's food supply, avert the
possibility of famine and at the
same time display a patriotism in
working to help the cause in which
this nation has joined to establish a
worlds peace. 1t is now up to every
Langdon citizen to do this part to
meet the threatened danger in the
worlds emerging of shortage in the
food supply.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
A TUESDAY WEDDING
OF LOCAL INTEREST
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey
Weds Groom from Minnesota at
St. Alphonsus Church

The marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Godfrey, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edmund Godfrey of this city, and Mrs.
Lewis Alfred Jutras, of Grand Rap
ids, Minn., was solemnized at st. Al.
phonsus Catholic church on Tuesday
morning at eight o'clock, the eere-.
mony being performed by Rev. Al. NJ.
Cory. The bride was attended bv
her cousin, Miss Lizzie Kartes, Of
Mt. Carmel; the best man of the.
groom being Mr.. James Kartes. The.
party in attendance to witness the
nuptial event was composed of the im-
mediate friends and relatives of the
contracting couple, all of the guests
afterwards repairing to the God frey
home where reception was given and
a sumptuous wedding dinner served.
The daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. God
frey, who on Tuesday became the
bride OF Mr.. Jutras, numbers among
Langdon's most popular and highly
esteemed young people and has grown
up to young womanhood in this com.
munity. The bridal couple left On
the afternoon train, the goodbyes of
throng of friends being accompanied
by showers of rice and we'll wishes
for future happiness. They go to
Grand Rapids, Mimi, where Mr.. Jue-
ras is the proprietor of meat mar
ket that enjoys thriving business
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
DRESDEN POST OFFICE EXAM.

Saturday, May 26th is the date on
which the U. S. civil service com.
mission holds an examination at
Dresden of applicants for the con-
templated vacancy in the post-office
at that place, an effieesin the. fourth
class, the compensation of which for
the past fiscal year was $428. The
qualifications of those who take the
examination require that the appli.
cants must be twenty.one years of
age and residents within the terri
tory supplied by the post.oftice. Ap.
plications should be filed with the
Commissioner at Washington, D. c.,
at the earliest practicable date and
the necessary blanks and full infor-
nation can be secured from the post.
master at Dresden.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
THE ARRIVAL OF KITTY"
WAS A GREAT SUCCESS
Local Theatrical Talent Scores Big
and Pleased Overflow Crowd
Friday Evening

An audience that filled the seating
capacity of the Opera House to over
tieWing was present when the curtain
went up for the first act of "The Ar
rival of Kitty a highly entertaining
musical farce comedy, presented un.
derh1ne auspices of the Ladies Guild
of the Episcopal church.
?; The verdict of the audience gather.
ed to witness the production by local
talent, Iof what proved to be one of
the most laughable farce comedies
ever staged here, was unanimous that
as play producers the young people of
Langdon can't be beat. The title
role of the piece was ably sustained
by M. l. Forkner, in the character of
William Winkler, gay bachelor from
little old New York, while his attrac.
tive neice and ward Jane was natural
ly portrayed with undoubted ability
by Miss Lorraine Koehmstedt. There
was also abundant room for clever
acting in the parts of Benjamin More
and Aunt Jane and it can safely be
said that in their Interpretation of
their parts Mr.. Cyril Radford and
EMts. Judd H. Kirkham, each rose to
the occasion splendidly. Others in
the cast who did full share in max
ling The Arrival of Kitty such sue.
cess and gave good account of them
selves were Wilbert Liebeler, the in.
dispensible negro hotel porter, Sam j.;
Miss Zilpha Stevenson, as the pc.
tite and sprightly French maid, Su-
zette, of Aunt Jane; and Alvin Pilot,
whose makeup and acting of the part
of Tinglepaugh, posing as landlord O!
the popular summer resort, the scene
of the play. Those given the spot.
light in the cast and taking those
parts in which the thread of the stor,
is unwoven were Rev. C. P. Drew, as
Bobbie Baxter, whose antics as Yale
student results in number of anus
ing situations, and Mrs. Fred L. Ober
" as Kitty, the actress well sus
tanned the part that brought to hap
py ending the final scene of the las
act.
Several vocal numbers were rend
cred and the progress of the play fur
ther enlivened by local hits that re
peatedly brought down the house witt
applause. The net receipts of the
evening are stated as amounting to up.
wards of 5000 after all expenses hat
been met. 1t has also been learned
that "The Arrival of Kitty" will be
put on at Park River shortly by the
cast of Langdon young people. who
gave the play such an excellent pro
! duction here on FRIDAY evening.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
A GOVERNMENT EXPERT
INVESTIGATES WHEAT BUG
U. S. Entomologist Here to Find Out
What Damage Threatens Wheat
Crop From Saw Fly

Professor C. N. Ainslie, govern.
ment entomologist from the U. S. de.
partment Of agriculture at Washing
ton, D. c., arrived in the city on
Monday evening from Nekoma in
company with Mr.. j. w. Haw. Prof.
Ainslie is conducting special inves-
tigation for the government on what
is known as the western wheat saw
fly. Damage to the wheat crop from
this insect has been wide spread in
Manitoba and last year saw fly dam
age to growing crops in Bottineau
countywas in several cases so great that
theattention of the federal govern
ment was called to the matter.
Evidence of the presence of this
insect is found just before harvest
when straws of wheat will be found
to be cut off slightly above or near
the surface of the ground. At first
it may appear similar to hail damage,
but upon picking up the down straw
and splitting it open, the inside is
found to be packed with sawdust
like material, the refuse from the
boring Of the worm. The life history
of this insect follows:
The fly is of wasp like nature,
about the size Of large mosquito
and having three or four yellow bands
around the body. 1t is found in the
wheat fields during the latter part of
June or July. Eggs are deposited by
this fly inside the wheat straw. In
few days this egg matches into a
grub which bores its way down
through the inside of the straw un-
til near the surface of the ground, or
a few inches above. 1t then turns
round and neatly cuts the straw off,
plugs the end with the saw dust and
inside the stub spends the winter as
a larve encased in silk tube. The
foll9wing year this lavre emerges as
the saw fly.
This spring Professor Ainslie has
found as high as 1877 per square yard
of these stubs containing the larve
of the saw fly in the wheat stubble
fields of Bottineau county and the
purpose of his visit to Cavalier county
was to ascertain if our wheat fields
were similarly infected. Due to the
snow on Tuesday morning Professor
Ainslie was only able to v7isit few
stubble fields and found only one af-
fected field and was compelled to.
leave without making further inves.
tigation. He states that he will be
here again in the course of few
months to look further into the mat
ter and says the outlook of the situa.
tion is not alarming for this year,
except as the condition is found to
exist in Bottineau county. However,
he bslieves that there is possibility
Of greater damage in few years
time. as great. possibly. as that
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
LADIES GIVE BUFFET SUPPER

The May division of the Ladies
Guild of the Presbyterian church an
nounce they will hold buffet supper
in the basement parlora Of the church
on Wednesday afternoon and evening
of next week. May End, beginning at
five o'clock and continuing until all
have been served. The menu on this
occasion will include the following I:
Hot meat pie, l0c; mashed potatoes,
l0c; baked beans, Be; rolls, &c; pie
DC; coffee. DC; ham sandwiches, Be;
Strawberries and cream, 10c; cake,
&c; doughnuts, Sc and tea. Sc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26
LANGDoN OLD TIMER RETURNS

=
R. F. jackson came up from Grand
Forks on Monday train and will help
the contracting firm of Jahnke &
Moore in the carpenter work being
done in Lapgdon and vicinity this
summer. Mr.. jackson and his family
were Langdon residents upwards of
dozen years ago. moving to Grand
Forks at the time his two sons, Roy
and Bruce, entered the state univer
sity The younger of the two sons is
now Rev. Bruce Jackson. pastor of
the Baptist church at Bismarck, while
the older, Prof. Roy Jackson, holds
the position of superintendent of the
city schools at LaMoure, N. d.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26

caused by the Hessian fly, unless con-
troll measures are employed. He is
taking back to Washington with him
several quarts Of these saw fly larve,
which he collected in Bottineau county
with which he will conduct expert
ments to learn if fall blowing or
other methods of control can be found
to hold them in check
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26

Sylvester Reeves, engaged in years
past in the building and contracting
business here and at Nekoma. left on
yesterdays afternoon passenger with
his wife and family for Scoeby, NJ ont. /,
to locate.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26

DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Towey, who
arrived in the city last Friday returns
ing from brief wedding trip east as
far as Chicago since their marriage
in Minneapolis on Easter Monday, are
for the present occupying suite of
rooms in the First National bank
block.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26

There ia some talk Of Langdon be-
ing the headquarters for q company
OF volunteers to be recruited from
different parts of Cavalier county.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-04-26

Try one Of Polie's specials.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-03-09
&dteT0pics

Missoula-First trains run electri-
cally, pass through St. Paul pass
tunnel on C. M. & St. Paul. Has
taken two years to concrete and pre-
pare for installing wires. Tunnel two
miles long cuts through Montana
Idaho divide.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. line planned
north to Big Flat country.
Red Lodge-Mining payroll here is
$4,000 monthly.
Butte-Davis-Da planning big
development.
Acknowledgements of Nettie mine
by Anaconda company shows large
deposits of silver and zinc Of great
value.
BilIings-Two new hospitals plan
ned to cost 100000.
Livingston-N. P. has $780, 600 pay
roll for month on this division.
Cut Banks-Coming wheat crop of
this district expected to be 20 per
cent greater than ever before. =
Butte-Postal Savings bank de-
posts here only exceeded by II cities,
expected to pass San Francisco, Cleve-
land and Milwaukee this month.
Butte-Mines distribute record
payrolls here in January of $685.
600. Anaconda heads list with ST.
733, 900.
Great Falls-Five hundred grocery
clerks and employees laid off on ac-
count of labor troubles.
Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph company has $1,000
monthly payroll in Montana.
Helena-Three hundred and fifty
million feet saw timber cut in Hell
ena forest this winter.
Scobey-$22,OOO theater building
planned here.
acknowledgements company will
build highest stack in the world, SO
feet in diameter and 535 feet high.
Great Falls to build $4,000 mod
ern isolation hospital.
Livingston-Park County Milling
company to build flour and feed mill
here at once equipped with most
modern machinery.
Livingston to have new lighting
system. Much paving planned pres
ent year.
Terry to have new 10000 bushe
elevator and coal shed.
Observation-Disclosures Life Insurance
company makes business increase dur
ing 1916 Of S4,535,89O.
Billings-"Business is good ant
prosperity rules in Billings, but thu
growth of the city has not assumed
the proportions of a boom. New
concerns are coming in nearly ever!
day"
Terry-S4O,O 900 pressed brick hote
to be erected i'll spring.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20
NEW HAVEN.

School was resumed again last Mon
day.
Russell Everest has the measles,
There are also few other cases,
Mrs, Kate Cove and son Walter have
moved from Ripton to New Haven,
Miss Belle Sherman has returned from
Pinehurst, N. O., where she spent the
winter,
Ralph Emo has gone to Boston where
he has a position with the Jordon Marsh
company,
Mrs Minnie (HalD Sprague from the
South, a sister Of Mrs, Roscoe will pass
the summer with them here.
Mr.. and Mrs, Henry c, Roscoe who
have been passing the winter in Burling
ton, expect to return to town to pass the
summer here,
Mrs. Beatrice Sturtevant was taken to
the hospital in Burlington last week to
undergo an operation, Her mother is
with her
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shepard who were
recently married in Panton will make
their home at his fathers place in town.
Mrs. j. O. Bottum and Mrs, A. L.,
Roleau entertained the Ladies' Union on
Wednesday afternoon of the present
week at the home Of the former. The
annual meeting will be held in May.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20
WEST CORNWALL

Miss Ethel Munger is home from Bran
don for few days.
Mrs. Laura Spaulding is ill., DR.. Eddy
is attending her and at present writing
she is better
Miss Pearl Farnham of Cream Hill,
Shoreham, is teaching the spring term
of school in No 5.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Hornsby are
settled in their new home recently pur-
chased of Mrs. Kate Taylor.
Mrs. Edward Peet and daughter and
Miss Lucretia Redfield were visitors of
Mrs. Anna Bingham on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H, w. Trask of Kewanee,
III, are guests of Mrs. Anna S, Bingham.
Mrs. Trask will be remembered as Agnes
Stowell, sister of Mrs, Bingham.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dolan of Wey-
bridge and Mr.. and Mrs. Philo Elmer
were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs. L. c.
Drolette.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20
WEYBRIDGE

Representative G. NJ. Baker returned
from Montpelier last Thursday,
Word was received here Of the death
of Mrs. Howard Austin of MiddIebury.
MIR. and Mrs G. NJ. Baker were bust
ness visitors in Middlebury last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs, w, b, Child went to their
summer home at Lake Champlain Tues
day,
Miss Arle Brittel and Miss Nina
Sampson are confined to their homes by
illness,
Several from here attended the funeral
Of Mrs. Howard Austin in Middlebury
Wednesday.
While rambling in the woods last week
Harold A, Baker picked large bunch
of May flowers.
Mrs. b. NJ. Hayward of Montpelier
came last Saturday for a few days stay
with her mother here,
Rev. d. w. Reid will hold services in
the local church Sunday as he does not
intend to 90 to conference.
Miss Lura Twitchell arrived home last
week from trip to Washington, d. c.,
New York and other places
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Brttell motored to
Vergennes last Sunday and visited Miss
Lucy W. Harrington, finding her more
comfortable.
Rev. D. w. Reid preached a forceful
and interesting sermon last Sunday morn
ing, it being the last one for the confer
ence year In all probability Mr., Reid will
be return ed here for another year.
Mrs. b. NJ. Hayward of Montpelier
spent the weekend with her mother,
Mrs. Addie Thompson Mrs Thompson
has the measles also her brother, Charles
Hanks, and sister, Miss Lydia Hanks.
Miss Hanks now has bronchitis.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20
she underwent an operation at the Mary
Fletcher hospital.

she underwent an operation at the Mary
Fletcher hospital,
The Brandon Musical club met Mon.
day evening at the home OF Myrtle
SeveTy on Carver street, Subject-Rus'
sian Composers and Music.
There was patriotic meeting under
the town hall Tuesday night and a large
number signed for home guard, Near
ly 20 have already signed,
Mrs, G, +, Knowlton who has been
spending ten days Mt the home of ID, A,
Mallory has returned TO Brandon and In
stopping ut Samuel Growers,
II, H. Bartram arrived in town Satur'
day night from Bridgeport, Conn, where
he has been all winter. He will remain
in Brandon this summer and carry on
his farm.
The Rutland Railroad are tearing up
the old wooden platform at the depot
and replacing it with broad, modern
concrete platform which will prove to
be far more convenient.
The body of Ford Capen was sent from
Burlington Monday and the funeral and
interment were at Forestdae Wednes'
day at 9 o'clock p, M, Rev. l., NJ. Hayes
of the Wesleyan church oiliciating,i
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20
LEICESTER

Mrs. Porter and son of Ticonderoga
were guests last week at Woodland.
Miss Inez Aver returned to the teacher
training class in Brandon on Monday.
Every vacant tract of ground in Leices-
ter ought to be garden this summer.
Mrs. Ted LaDam of Fernville is con.
fined to the bed with an inhamed foot.
Mrs. Austin johnson entertained her
father and Mrs James Wilbur last week.
A. L. Waite Of Benson recently spent
the day with his cousin, Alice Jennings
Fiske.
Miss Chastina Person is ill with the
measles as are the children of Warren
Blair.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Leno of East Mid
dlebury were guests at their sons, Clay.
ton Leno, on Sunday.
Donald Bachelor is improving. He
is still in the Mary Fletcher hospital, but
is now able to sit up a very little.
Miss Grace johnson of Fernville re-
turned to her duties in the Fletcher store
in Salisbury on Monday.
Miss Gladys Jennings will be unable
to return for at least another week. The
other Brandon students have returned.
Executor Audas Person and Commits.
sioners Williams and Jennings of the
estate of the late NJ. b. Person met Sat.
urday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reginald Hooker, who
have been visiting relatives and friends
in Pittsford for two weeks, returned on
Saturday.
Leroy Mayhem is much improved
since he returned from the Mary Fetch
er hospital, where he underwent an oper-
alton for adnoids
Ray LaFountain has moved from tn
Arnold district in Brandon to the G. P.
Brown farm at the Corners recently
vacated by Mrs. Foley.
Mrs Moses Dudley is seriously ill with
measles at her home. DR., Baker is her
attending physician and nurse from
Forestdale is in attendance.
Miss Nettie Thomas and Will Freer of
Schenectady, N. Y, who have been the
guests of Miss Thomas sister, Mrs.
Charles CARRIER, have returned.
1t is an old proverb that the weather
Easter Sunday indicates the weather for
the following seven Sundays. If this is
true there is pretty rough shedding
ahead.
The patriotic service at the Brick
church Sunday evening was very much
appreciated. 1t was an evening of pat
riotic and Christian worship long to be
remembered.
Laura Hooker entertained the Willing
Workers on Thursday. There was a
large attendance. The appointments
were in keeping with the society. Lunch
was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Rickert of South
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1917-04-20
TELLS ON The KIDNEYS
Middlebury People Have Found This
To Be True.

The strain of overwork tells on weak
ened kidneys. The hurry and worry Of
business men, the heavy lifting and
stopping of workmen, the women's house.
hold cares, tend to wear, weaken and in
jure the kidneys until they can no longer
filter the poison from the blood and the
whole body suffers from the waste mat
ter that accumulates. Weakened kidneys
need quick assistance, Doan's Kidney
Pills are prepared especially for weak
ened kidneys; tired, WORKOUT backs
have proven their merit IN thousands of
such cases. Convincing proof of their
worth in Middlebury woman's state.
ment
Mrs. E C. Ryder, Seymour street, Mid,
dlebury, says: "From overwork | suf
fered from a severe backacke which was
very dull and annoying. When l bent
over the ache changed to sharp, shoot
ing pains. learned of Doan's Kidney
Pills and had used about six boxes when
| was helped so much that have had no
return of the complaint. 1t is about
eight years since l was cured and have
a good word for Doan's Kidney Pills all
the time. got this reliable medicine at
Shedon's Drug Store"
Price SOC. at all dealers. Don't simply
ask for kidney remedy-get Doan's
Kidney Pills-the same that cured Mrs.
Ryder.
Foster Milburn Co., Props, Buffalo,
N. Y.-adv.