Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-10-04
AROUND 4E2 Count.

Last week five carloads of sheer
were unloaded at Munich by John
CROUCH and Banker P. j. Antony.
Alsen depositors in the Farmers
State Bank have a wealth to the
amount of $1O2. 1876. ~.
The public school at Munich is
now able to offer its students a full
four year course in high school
work.
A new Sarles residence being built
this fall is a modern up to date home
with every convenience for DR.. Geo.
F. Erskine.
Several carloads of cattle are be.
ing shipped from sarles each week
this fall owing to the scarcity of
fodder this fall.
Sarles note quite an exodus Of men
at the close of the threshing season
moving across the line to the grain
fields Of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
This week the state federation of
woman's clubs of North Dakota is in
session at Dickinson, quite a repre-
sentative delegation from the Lang
don woman's club being in attend.
ance.
For baby's Group, Willie's daily
cuts and bruises, mothers sore throat.
grandma's lameness-Dr . Thomas
Eclectic Oil-the household remedy.
Price 80 and 60 cents.
According to the Munich Herald
the aggregate deposits of the two
banks of that town are we'll over
the $500, 900 mark, and almost with
in reaching distance of half a mil.
lion dollars.
Milton Red Cross workers have to
their credit since organizing a couple
of months ago the furnishing of some
sixty comfort bags for men who left
with the draft and boys who had en-
listed in Co. E. This was in addi-
ton to the work they have been do
ing upon strictly Red Cross lines.
Miss Constance Stable took Thurs.
days afternoon train for Hardin, Mon.
tana, where, she has accepted a posi-
ton with the Hardin Mercantile Co.
which expects shortly to move into
their new brick building, in course
of construction during the past sum.
mer.
The sextette of 'kiltie' dancing
girls, of the Milton high school, was
a feature at the farewell extended
to the boys of Company c. at Craft
on during the past week. Like Lang.
don, our neighboring town, Milton,
is quite largely represented in the
rank and file of Co. C.
Incidents that have come to light
in connection with some of the fires
in which farmers of different parts of
the county have lost barns and other
building, would almost Justify the
Home Guard being called into action
to investigate the cause, as quite
strong suspicious of incendiarism is
apparent.
The wheat and rye averages,
through most sections of the west and
southwestern parts of the county, are
varying from ten to fifteen bushels tc
the acre. The yield and price on the
fall market would appear to have
greatly improved the business con.
ditiou and future outlook, when com.
pared to how things were sizing ur
before the crop was harvested anc
threshed.
Three deaths in the vicinity of AL.
sen last week cast a pail of gloon
over the ne%ighborhood. The death
of Mrs. Jacob Warkentine and Mr..
Jacob Arens, occurred at almost the
same hour of the same day, and were
the occasion of a double funeral hele
Sunday at the Rosehill cemetery of
the church of the Mennonite Breth'
rem. On Tuesday following the re
mains of a little baby daughter O.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. D. Derkson wer,
given a fna ] resting place in tn
same cemetery.
Calvin is this fall rapidly develop
ing into one of the most attractive
grain markets in the western part o
the county. For grain other thai
wheat the market at Calvin is payin,
over the list price. Last week barle,,
was quoted at Calvin four cents abov
list price and it is understood tina
as a result upwards of SIT, 900 wa
required to cash the grain checks O
those who sold to the elevators. Tn
crop through that section of the couu
ty is better than the average of thi
year and an idea of the average tina
is being sown to rye this fall can b
gathered from the fact that one eleys
tor in that town alone has sold q. 90