Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-05-23
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Today's wheat-$2. O3.

Today's wheat-$2. O3.
Nomination petitions for candi
dates at the June primaries are on
ga e at this office.
O~snabrock's two banks show de.
posits of 1904, GILL; OIL in their pub
lished call .sstatements of May 10th.
The MAZDA Red Cross will meet at
Mrs. Hamilton Howatt's Friday May
81, and they are going to organize.
Everybody invited.
Langdon coal dealers are urging
local to lay in their win.
ter supply of coal now-and by so do.
ing help win the war.
The Stilwell Live Stock and Ship
ping association made another carload
shipment from this point to the St.
Paul market on Tuesday mornings
stock train.
Since yesterday afternoon Cashier
j. H Balm, of the First National Bank
he's been congratulated upon the ar
rival of a young son at the family
home On North Sixth street.
Crop growth is reported to have
suffered a ten day set back in the vi
cinity of Hannah on Saturday night,
May 18th, at which time the ther-
mometer registered twenty.oae de-.
grees of frost.
Saturday is the last day for the
filing of petitions by candidates seek
ing both legislative and county office
nomination at the primary election to
be held in June. The time limit does
not expire until the 26th but as that
falls on Sunday, candidates had better
have their petitions filed on Saturday.
The south end of the county is sure
holding up its end in the Red Cross
drive this week in splendid shape.
Henderson ard Trier townships are
apportioned 1926 and $3.50 respec.
lively, with an additional $3.50 for
Munich village. aggregating practic.
ally a thousand dollars for what in
area comprises two civil townships.
The ties, rails and bridge timbers
are now on the track at Windygates,
Man., for the spur line of the C. P.
R., line of railroad to be built a
MAZDA on the northern boundary line
of this county. Track laying and thu
surveying of the new townsite it i
stated will start this we elk. 1t is re
ported that the new town is to hav'
two banks as a starter.
Agent W. A. Bolton of the CT
Northern depot. asks that the pape.
Of Langdon give notice of the fac
that under a new ruling, going int
effect at once, the business hour
when the Offices at the depot are ope'
will be in the forenoon from $50 t
1890 and in the afternoon from 3
to $50. The public are requisite
to please govern themselves accord
ingly.
Saturday nights downpour, accom-
panied by thunder and lightning. an
the first real spring rain since tn
opening of the season, gave a pre-
cipitation measurement of IL
inches around here. But what is NOR
to the point, it soaked into the groun
to a depth of nearly five inches an
the weather which has followed mad
it the "irst aid' to growing CROP
the most beneficial thing to he de
sired
This is the week for the 'hom
brigade to get into lire and kee
step in the Red Cross drive. The boy
we have sent to fight are now at
doing their part. Remember that i
isn't Uncle Sans army and nav
alone that is at war, but the who!
people of the United States. The boy
at the front are depending upon US t
do our part. This week every tru
hearted loyal American man and VIC
maj is in line for the hundred mil
lion dollar Red Cross war fund drive