Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-07-19

threatened with the outbreak of an
epidemic of war rheumatism"
Several of Hannah's big boys and
girls are in attendance at the summer
school being held at Rock Lake, Man.
James Austin of the Poplar Grove
stock farm at Hannah is in receipt of
a $3.50 check for his 1917 wool clip.
C. H. Lee, editor of the Wa]halla
Mountaineer, is reported as now on
the mend after quite a serious illness
of nearly two weeks.
The Epworth league convention to
have been held at Walhalla last week
has been given a postponement until
July Oath and 25th.
The war is one of the contributing
causes to Killarney, Man., abandon
ing the holding of it's annual fair for
the first time in years.
There is a serious case of typhoid
fever in the vicinity of Hannah at the
home of Donald Mcintosh, whose
daughter is seriously i'll.
Sarles school board let's the con-
tract Monday next week for a new
$35, 600 school building to take the
place of the one lost by fire a short
time ago.
The H. G. Waldron electric shows
is filling dates with a program of mo-
vies at a number of Cavalier county
towns this week, starting in Mo-day
night at Wales.
Yesterday a monster sports day eel.
ebration was held at Snowflake, Man.,
in aid of the towns Red Cross fund.
Hannah furnished one of the teams
that played for a purse of 500.
Grey townships consolidated school
at Daniels is making a number of ad-
ditions and improvements. The new
]y erected teacherage also is to re.
ceive a number of alterations.
The ladies' aid society of the Cath
Ollie church at Osnabrock have a lawn
social at which ice cream and cake
will be served Saturday, the proceeds
going to the Red Cross fund.
The wife of Phil Klai of Osnabrock
has been taken to a hospital in Grand
Forks to be treated for dropsy. from
which she has been a sufferer for a
considerable while back.
H. o. Fitch, for a long time asso.
ciatei with the Thomas & Co. store
at Calvin, has gone to Grand Forks,
where he has been offered a position
as head clerk with Coulter & Wilder.
Five Calvin boys, Bert Thomas,
Willie Porter, Lawrence Padden,
Stacy Daniels and Oscar Lethridge
were here last Thursday to take the
examination for enlistment in Co. E.
of the national guard.
George Fassler, of 0 8 nabrock,
states that a letter that got through
from the old home in Germany tells
that a cousin of his has been a prison.
er in France since the first outbreak
Of the war.
Miss Anna Wood, a Red Cross nurse
at Seattle. Wash, and sister of Mrs.
A. D. McMurray, of Walhalla, ha.
orders that call her for active service
in northern France. Miss Wood il
quite we'll known by the people O
Walhalla.
Wales claims eight volunteers fo
enlistment in the rank and file o.
Compay E. Included in the Vale
contingent of the company are Bar
ney Kjose, Henry Joachim, Adolpl
Roch, John Elliot, Billy Rooey, Har
old Gamble and Alonzo and Wayn
Scott.
Ex-Hannah residents back for
visit after several years absence ar
Mesdames w. E. Adams and w. Y
Corey, of Vancouver. The occasio
of their visit was to attend the funer
al of their brother, John Jameson
who was killed by lightning at hi
home near Edinburg on the Fourth O
July.
The closing day of the c~hautauqu
at Walhalla there is reported as hav
ing been 400 automobiles on tn
grounds. Farmers day, the proceed
ing Friday, 80 autos took a crowd O
492 chautauqua visitors on a IS mil
sightseeing trip through the Memo
mite villages out through the noun
tains along the Pembina river.
Fred Peterson, who has held dow
the foremanship in the printing ofic
of the Milton Globe the past three Q
four years, is among the Milton youn
men who have applied for enlistmen
in Co E during the week. The mum
Der who have recruited from Milto
in the ranks of Company E since IL