Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-07-26
T. B. Hankev ia HAVING

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concrete workers from Crookston,
who have been putting up the new gar
age of MCLAUGHLIN and Stranger.
Mrs. Harden, who has been visit.
ing at the M. E. parsonage for some
time with her daughter, Mrs George
G. Lee. left on Tuesdays afternoon
train for Minneapolis and will also
visit for some time with a dau ghter
ut Logan, Iowa.
Mrs. George Lothspeich accom-.
panied by her sister, Miss Dena Doh.
man, was a returning passenger yes.
terday from Rochester, Mimi, where
Mrs. Lothspeich has made a three
weeks stay in the Mayo hospital since
being operated on for appendicitis.
Dewey Pierce and John B. Halo
ran, the latter a brother of the groom,
autoed to Grand Forks and attended
the wedding of Mr.. Joseph Edward
Halloran and Miss Eva Poupore, an
event of yesterday forenoon at St.
Mary's Catholic church.
The rains at frequent intervals dur.
ing Tuesday night and throughout
yesterday have done wonders toward
bringing the crop situation around to
a prospect much better than for seve.
raj weeks past. The result is also
noticeable in the attendance at the
fair.
j. c. Kelly and wife were visitors
in the city yesterday for a short time
enroute from their home at Devils
Lake to points cross the line in
Manitoba. Mr.. Kelly will be recall
led as some years ago being a Lang
don business man, the family remov-
ing from here to their former home
in Minneapolis.
Miss Annie Mary Witzel return
ed Tuesday to Minneapolis, having
been called to the family home
some three weeks ago by. news of
the condition of her mother, who
has been a sufferer for the past three
months from a chronic rheumatic trou.
BILE. Mrs. Witzel is reported as some
what improved in condition.
A meeting is called for Monday af.
%ternoon, July Both, at the home of
Mrs. j. D. Fischer at three O'Clock
when all the married women of South
Langdon are invited to participate in
organizing to take part in the knit
ting contest that has been started by
the women OF the Langdon chapter of
the Red Cross society.
Owing to the present condition of
the proprietor. Fred Alpstag, the
Daisy roller feed mill and flour and
seed business remains closed this
week and next. Last Wednesday
afternoon Mr.. Alpstag underwent an
operation for hernia and is now re.
ported as improving in condition and
regaining strength as we'll as can be
expected.
Second Lieutenant Kessler of Com
pany E is spending a part of the
week at Grafton looking after the de.
tails connected with his transfer from
Company c, with which company he
and others from Langdon enlisted be-
fore the opportunity was given Lang.
don to organize a company in. the
Second Regiment. 1t is expected that
four other boys who enlisted in the
Grafton company will also apply for
their transfer to the Langdon COM
pany.
Two of the Robertson boys, John.
who is attending the Jamestown col
lege, and Alex, who is at Macales-
ter, are now in the service of their
country for the period of the war.
John Robertson is engaged in Y. M.
G. A. work at Bismarck with the
First Regiment of the North Dakota
national guard while Alex. since his
enlistment at St. Paul at the close of
the school year is stationed at one of
the training camps of the U. S. Ma
rines at Norfolk, Va.
Joseph Heapy, who NOWADAYS is
active in his capacity as weed COM
missioner of Perry township, reports
that much of the best crop to be
marketed in Cavalier county this fall
will come from the southwestern part
of the county. Both Gordon and Hen
derson township he says will be found
to have a more even and better aver.
age of crop than most sections of
Cavalier county. Take the south.
westernh part of the county as Z
wole the rains have given it a decid.
ed advantage over most other section,
of Cavalier and adjoining counties.
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