Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-04-11
\ Local Happenings &
Today's wheat-$2. O3.

Today's wheat-$2. O3.
Help our boys in France by buying
a war savings stamp.
Potatoes are being shipped into
Munich in carload lots.
School children at Munich are hav.
ing three weeks Easter vacation,
Southwestern Cavalier county esti.
mates nearly twenty per cent of the
early crop sown when last weeks
cold spell came.
Munich's fire department had its
chemical engine out last Tuesday
to dampen down a blaze that got
started in the attic of Mrs. Fitzger-
AIDS home.
Mt. Carmel school district is letting
the contract this month for the erec-
ton of a new one room school this
summer IN the site of what is known
as the Boesl school.
Langdon correspondents of the boys
in the 10th Trench Mortar Battery,
Somewhere in France" are again
looking for letters. It is two weeks
since the last batch of news reached
here.
Two SOM of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred L..
Newbern of this city have passed the
physical examination and sent in their
applications fol enlistment in the navy
The younger of the two is under the
age of eighteen years but has the con-
sent of his parents to serve.
One of if not the largest Individual
contributions received bv the Langdon
branch of the Red Cross was received
during the past week from Mrs. Henry
Kartes of Mt. Carmel, consisting of
twenty-five pairs of socks, the knit
ting being all her own handiwork
Jas DeBerg last week resigned the
position of j%anitor at the city schools
that he has held for the past six years
to accept a similar job offered him by
the board of county commissioners at
the court house. Andrew Bostrum is
his as %janitor at the city
school building. ~
Oliver Mausten is another of Lang
don's boys who are wearing khaki in
training for service with the purpose
of going to France in the aviation corp
branch of the service, home on fur
Tough this week, His brother Carney,
who is at Camp Pike. is expected here
the end of the week.
An order from the office of the
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
as a wal emergency measure, permits
of women being eligible for positions
as rural mail carriers in all parts OF
the United States. The first exami-
nations under this ruling will be hello
on Saturday, April 81.
Fire started in the office of the
Monarch elevator at Milton, during
the early morning of one day last week
but luckily, the bremen were able tc
confine it to the building and the ele.
vator was saved. The damage was
principally books showing the business
of the elevator that were destroyed.
Either the first or the third week
of May will witness the production by
home talent at the Auditorium of
"Tae Arabian Nights, or The Prince
of Liars" The play is to be put or
under the direction of Rev. C. P.
Drew, the pastor in charge of the
Episcopal church of this city. In the
cast he will be supported sby tile besr
dramatic talent that Langdon has. 1
is for the benefit of the church here
and promises to be an event vel
worth looking forward to.
A report is current that Rev. H,
G. Markley, who went with tn
Second North Dakota regiment t,
Camp Greene, S. c., when it left tn
state last summer, and latter accom-
panied it to France in the capacity O
its chaplain, is quite seriously i'll il
one of the overseas hospitals. At tn.
time of his enlistment he was tn
pastor of the M. E. church at Ham
ilton and naturally had quite an &C
quaintance with Langdon people a
being along with the boys of Com
pany E. What the the nature of hi
illness may be has not been learned