Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-31

1. aWson was IN the city Monday
for a short time from Dresdeni giving
business matters at the court house
his attention.
Miss Clara Janeck was among the
out of town shoppers in the city Sat-
urday, coming down from Dresden
between train.
M. E. Wentworth was down from
Dresden a day or two the forepart of
the week visiting with his brother
Jeweler Wentworth.
Two carloads Of hard coal arrived
on last nights freight to relieve the
stringency of the fuel problem during
the cold spell of the past week.
Martin Penner and son, Matt BIN
er and Sangster Liebeler were amone
those from Langdon to attend the
Avery tractor school held last week
in Grand Forks.
Government thermometers in this
city and at the experimental farm
east of Langdon showed a low tenn.
perature on Tuesday morning of thir-
ty.-eight degrees below zero.
P. Burke left on Tuesday for his
home at Scobey, Mont, having made
a visit of several days during the
week here at the home of his uncle,
Manager R. 7. Burke, of the tele.
phone company.
Miss l.. A. Davis was a passenger
Thursday up the line going to Han
nah, having made a stay of a few
days at the home of Mrs. Finerty
while visiting a number of old time
Langdon friends. .
Henry Raf1enbeul, who a few
months since purchased the Dresden
mercantile interests of the A. Schulke
Co., was down the line Friday on a
business mission between train.
Miss Tena Kuenemann who has
been holding a position in Grand
Forks since last fall arrived on Tues.
days passenger and will make a short
holiday visit at the home of her par.
ents in this city.
You can help Langdon make its
second big winning of the season at
next Friday evenings basket bal
game when Grand Forks comes here tc
!. play Langdon. Attend the game
and %"root'' for the home team.
Mrs. Henry Hytson returned to the
city last Thursday from Grafton anc
Cavalier, where she was engaged TO,
several days during the week in he1
official capacity as court stenographel
of Judge w. ]. K%neeshaw, of the
: Seventh judicial district.
Mrs. w. W. Mcqueen and son,
: Allen, r expected to return home
during the latter part of the weel
/: from stay of some length will
: friends in Fargo. While there a spe.
: %cialist was consulted regarding an cyl
trouble of their son.
T Lorne Daugherty and wife, who
have been visiting their Langdon rela
tives and old friends since the koli,
n days left on Tuesdays train return
n ing to their home at Vanguard, Sask.
where Mr.. Daugherty has been in the
auto business since removing from
this county some time ago.
: Tomorrow night there is a home
! talent basket ball game to be played
I on the floor of the high school 'gym'
in which the two line-ups will be
e composed Of the Seniors and Freshmen
against the Sophomores and Juniors.
This should make a pretty we'll mat,
e ched game and worth the money to see.
e Next month, or rather four days
| of the second week of March, the 9Th
l to the 9th inclusive, the Langdor
chapter of the Scottish Rite Masont
will hold their regular spring reun'
ion, at which classes will be advanc.
ed to the degrees of the Lodge Of
Perfection and the Scottish Rite
work.
George A. Williams, who up tt
e last fall was IN the general merchan'
disc business at Dresden, left the fore
part of the week for Calgary, Alberta,
: where he has the option of filing on
e choice half section of government
land, which adjoins farms that hi!
n sons have been farming for a couple o;
years. 1t is probable that Mr.. Will
liams will move his family to the ives
n in the spring. -
e Frank ]. Schwartz got quite a sur
prise one day last week when a let
: ter from his brother Tony Schwartz
reached him with a. London, Eng
, land, postmark. sit is nearly three
t years since he had any news o.
f him, at which time Tony had en-
d listed with one of the. Canadian con-
tingents in Saskatchewan for servict
q with the aliea 0verseaa.. THE lette