Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-04-18
Z Local! Happenings &
Today's wheat-$2. 03.

Today's wheat-$2. O3.
Help our boys in France by buying
a war savings stamp.
And now there's an extra hour in J
the evening for the war garden.
The street commissioners job is a
cinch compared to what it will be
next summer.
German measles at Calvin. One
would think that this never could hap
pen with Doc Porter in the town.
1t should be possible to pull.of All
evening game of base ball this sum.
mer of the nine innings variety under
the new daylight schedule.
Fridays passenger from the south
arrived nearly five hours late, owing
to the derailed cars of a north bound
freight train on the main track not
far from lnkster.
Sarles mer chants started in on
April first on a new business basis.
! The terms to patrons of the stores
being thirty days net cash. or eight
per cent on accounts running for
longer than that time.
Auto drivers coming to langdon
after night fall want to be sure and
keep a sharp look out for the red
light signals of the constructor ccm-
pany's outfit putting in the city's
waterworks aud sewerage system.
Coal dealers are asking their pa.
irons to sign up for the quantity of
hard coal that will be required for
the next winter. This is n of the
latest requirements laid down by the
federal and state fuel administrators.
The Democrats new serial story,
"Rainbow's End," opens next week.
The writer, Rex Beach, as a novelist
has no peer in the rank of favorites
with readers of adventure and wes-
teri life. Don't miss the opening
chapters in next issue.
The Elkwood school in West Hope
township had an entertainment last
Friday evening in which the pupils
under the direction of their teacher,
Miss Hester Sparkling, of this city,
rendered a most excellently arranged
patriotic program of drills songs and
r%ecitations.
Civil Engineer Arnold, who is 81
pervising the work of putting in the
city's system of waterworks and sew
erage says that favorable weather a,
the opening up of the spring season
would indicate the possibility Of the
completion of the job by July LIST al
the very latest .
On May 7th, the State Highway
Commi ssion will NEE; with the boart
of county commissioner for the pur'
pose of letting the contract for the
construction of seven miles Of state
highway in the western part OF this
county, near the town of Clyde. Thu
road is one that eventually will extent
from the western to the eastern
boundaries.
Harold S. Snyder. the Municl
Herald printer, who left for CAM
Dodge with the first quota of drafte'
men taken from Cavalier county las
fall, sends cards to a number of hi
friends from Omaha. Neb., to whic
place he accompanied the Camp Dodg
Band to participate in a Libert,
Loan Bond drive held last week. The
have a band of fifty instruments.
Be sure and attend the High Schoo
Entertainment at the Auditorium to
morrow, Friday evening There viii
be a patriotic program of songs
choruses, drills by the grade child
rem. The fea ure Of the evening
however, being a one-act play, en-
titled 1.-THE Girls Over Here 70
can obtain a seat reservation 8
Closes drug store
John Lindsay returned on Friday
train from points in Texas and Ne,
Mexico, where he has interests. H
expects to spend at least a part c
the summer visiting here 1T the HON
of his son, JAS. Lindsay. adjoir
ing town. The tip north he state
took nearly a week, ewing to tt
heavy railroad traffic at this eeaso
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