Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-01-03

RED IN Minneapolis on n lOtn ulC.,
to MIR. M. L. Dinsmore. They will
make their home in the Twin Cities.
Clyde, out of a total population of
24O has a signed up membership of
! 221, with junior Red Cross workers
to the number of forty school children.
Clyde's campaign was engineered by
DR.. Branyon.
The manager of the interests of the
Robertson Lumber Co., at Milton is
resigning the first of the year and
moves to Saskatchewan with his
family to go into business for himself
The basket ball quint of the Munich
high school has re organized for a
series Of mid-winter games and wants
to arrange dates with teams repre-
seuting ether high schools of this and
adjoining counties.
1t is noted that Gordon Waterford,
of O%snabrock is registeed in the mill
tary draft from Lakota, in Nelson
county. He has recently been loca.
ted there in a position with the Ct.
N. Railroad Co.
A holiday week event in the vi
cinity of Milton was the twenty-ffth
wedding anniversary of MIR. and Mrs..
VIM. Sollitt. Nearly a hundred of
their old neighbors were present on
the occasion.
Miss Kelly, who is spending the
Christmas vacation in Langdon with
her brother, Mark Kelly, of the Ct.
N. depot, formerly taught in the pri.
mary department of the Grey town
ship consolidated school.
The Hannah Moon states that the
international boundary line, located
one and one-half miles north of the
end town is quarantined for small
pox, and Cavalier county residents
forbidden to cross the line.
On Christmas Day the summons of
death was answered by John O'Laugh.
lin, one of the pioneer old settlers
south of Milton, who had reached his
eighty-seventh year. The end was has.
tened by a v attack of pneumonia.
The fire department at Walhalla
now has a code of signal fire whistles,
which give the townspeople a lot of
useful information in case of a con.
f%agration. The whistle can be heard
at a distance of from six to eight
miles from town.
{ Milton lays claim to the largest
gain in Red Cross membership Of any
town in Cavalier county during the
Christmas week campaign drive. with
1853 new members added during the
week. The Globe gives the total mem
bership of the county as being 1 ,941.
Avilla Pleeitiere, recently sold his
farm north Of Osnabrock and in ex,
change has purchased a 24O acre
property from the Helgeson Realty
Company near Olga. The family
moves to its new possessions in the
spring.
The Milton NJ. e. church received
fro the widow of the late Rev. New
love an individual communion set as
a memorial gift to the church of which
he had been pastor up to the time Of
his enforced retirement, owing to i'll
health, upwards of a year ago.
Munich was able to show a gain of
sixty-five in Red Cross membership
after the close of last weeks cam
paign drive. There were also twenty.
one juniors added to the enrolment.
Practically everyone in the town and
surrounding community now have
4 joined the Red Cross.
States Attorney VIM. McMurchie,
h of Pembina county, will have the con.
\ CALCULATIONS of many Langdon people
4 or the event of his marriage on the
21st u]t., to Miss Runa Torgardson.
4 He is one Of the old time residents
of St. Thomas. The event took place
] in Winnipeg.
There are thirty six North Dakota
young girls who have enlisted in the
g. Red Cross as trained nurses for ser
vice with our soldiers during tbs
period Of the war. Miss Lillian Nc
Knight of Hannah, is one of the nun
I Der of Red Cross nurses going from
this state.
Mrs. Musjgerd of Osnabrock, re
ceived a Christmas day letter from
her son, liver, who is at Petrograde
Russia. At the time of his writing,
the International Harvester Co.. will
whom he has a position, contemplate
the removal Of its headquarters tt
Moscow, owing to conditions occa
stoned by the war.
With a number of neAnames addee
during the Christmas week campaig,
drive the Sarles branch of the Re