Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-07-26

Twenty eight took the excursion
train from Hannah to the North Da-
kota state fair at Grand Forks.
Albert L. vickstrom, a Spanish.
American war veteran at Calvin, was
called to Devils Lake the early part
of the week to take the examination
of the officers training corps.
Mrs. Sam V. Haight, a former o.
nabrock resident, now a resident at
Wapella, Sask., has the distinction
of being the first woman elected to
the provincial parliament of Saskat.
chewan.
Ben Shortridge, a member of one
of the pioneer families of Grey town.
ship has lately purchased a 200 acre
farm in Grand Forks county near Ink
ster, which he and his family will
move onto this fall.
Walhalla has organized a local
auxiliary of the Pembina county chap
ter OF the American Red Cross society
with something over a hundred mem.
bers. N. Wood is president and the
wife of DIR. Landry, vice president.
j. Reilly is among the old timers
who are operating on the fair grounds
again this year, coming over from
Munich to run a lunch stand. He has
lately returned from a trip through
Montana and other points in the west.
liver Musgjerd is at his home in
Osnabrock from New York making a
visit before leaving in August for
Russia, where he has been assigned a
position with the branch house of the
firm he has been employed with seve-
raj years.
David Lyle, who has been visiting
with old friends in Harvey Centre,
left during the week returning to his
home at Stetler, Alta. 1t was his
first visit here since leaving Cavalier
county for the west about seventeen
years ago.
Lewis l.. Casey is another who has
gone to the front from the vicinity of
Calvin. For the past three years he
has worked on the DeVries farm and
e%nlists in the U. S. Army, intending
first to make a visit at his parental
home in Iowa.
Albert Vickers of the 9th Winni-
peg Regiment is making a visit at
the Elmer Skene home in Byron town.
ship. He has fourteen wounds as the
result of she'll explosion. Since be.
ing wounded he has spent a year and
three months in hospitals before being
sent to his home overseas.
A brother of E. B. Robson, of
Hannah, died in a hospital at Ottawa
about a week ago. The deceased, Rev
}. B. Robson, was nearly seventy
years old and for the past forty. three
years had been engaged in ministerial
work. The home of his family is at
Beachwig, Ont.
Tuesday afternoon of next week a
meeting will be held in the domestic
science room of the high school build.
ing at two o'clock when the Com
mittee on Sewing for the Red Cross
society asks the presence of all the
women of Langdon who are interest.
ed in helping to sew for the soldiers
and sailors.
Frank South, six miles east of
Hannah, had his crop completely
hailed out in the storm that crossed
the boundary line between Hannah
and Mowbray on Wednesday after
noon last week and brought a heavy
loss to grain crops in an area six
miles square between Hannah and
Wales.
William Daniels, from Argyle,
Mimi, is the successor of Captain
Frank F. Ross as manager of the St.
Hi]aire Lumber Co., at Calvin, a posi-
tion which the later held for upwards
of five years up to the time of his
again offering his services to Uncle
Sam.
A caravan of gypsy horse traders
from Florida on their way to the
Peace River country were turned back
at the Canadian boundary line as
'undesirables' and deported back
into the United States at Hannah
last week, despite the fact they had
: unlimited money and credit with them.
1t is understood that a Sarles mer.
chant has decided to make a test case
! of the Sunday closing law of this
state. He was arrested within the
past week for a sale of general mer-
chodiaa on S,,ndau and L. L. a4a4al